SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Over the last several years, more than 200,000 Venezuelans have settled in South Florida. They've come to the U.S. to escape political and economic upheaval and brought their children with them. From Miami, NPR's Greg Allen has the...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Edward Snowden has written a book. It is a memoir, a coming-of-age-with-the-Internet story, a spy tale and, his critics would say, an attempt to try to justify betraying his country, by a man who was charged in 2013 with two counts...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Students holding signs that said denial is not a policy and raise your voice, not the sea chanted today outside the White House. (SOUNDBITE OF PROTEST) UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: Business as usual is not enough. Business as usual is...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Today the Trump administration is facing a new lawsuit over its efforts to compile citizenship information. This legal challenge comes after federal courts blocked a question about citizenship from being added to the 2020 census. N...
Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Regulate us, please. That is the unexpected message from one of the country's leading tech executives. In his new book, the president of Microsoft argues that gove...
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, HO HEY) THE LUMINEERS: Hey. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The makers of this song... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, HO HEY) THE LUMINEERS: (Singing) I belong with you. You belong with me, my sweetheart. INSKEEP: ...A huge 2012, hit are back. The Lumi...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: One issue that may well come up at tonight's debate is trade. President Trump came to office as a fierce critic of U.S. trade policy, saying it's cost jobs for American workers, and he has upended many of the most important U...
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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The owners of Purdue Pharma are just about ready to surrender it. The company that makes OxyContin reached a tentative deal that would settle thousands of lawsuits stemming from the opioid crisis. How's the settlement work? Let's...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: College is hard enough, right? Raising kids and trying to get a degree is a whole other level of hard. And this is life for a lot of people. Twenty percent of all college students are also parents, and they are more likely than o...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Federal health officials went to the White House today and got the go-ahead to banish flavored vaping products from the market. The Food and Drug Administration action is aimed at an epidemic of teenage vaping. NPR science co...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: On this anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in American history, the men accused of plotting 9/11 are awaiting a trial that is set to begin in January 2021. But the place they're being held as they await that trial, the...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Washington Post writer Christopher Ingraham made a fateful comment in an article he wrote back in 2015. He called a certain Minnesota community, quote, the absolute worst place to live in America. Now he lives there. The communit...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: 1963 was a turning point for the U.S. And as much as it was complicated for the country, it was all the more intense for one particular 13-year-old girl. Her name is Sharon Robinson. She is the only daughter of the legendary baseba...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Robert Frank changed the way we see photography, and that photography changed the way we see the world around us. His 1959 book The Americans showed a country at odds with the optimistic views of prosperity that characterized...
