I am a Hazara, and the homeland of my people is Afghanistan. Like hundreds of thousands of other Hazara kids, I was born in exile. The ongoing persecution and operation against the Hazaras forced my parents to leave Afghanistan. This persecution has...
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. In her new work of nonfiction called American Ghost, writer Hannah Nordhaus investigates a haunting as well as the lost world of 19th-century European Jews who emigrated to the American Southwest. Book critic Mau...
Act One. Takes One To Know One Ira Glass Act One, Takes One to Know One. So after 11 months of stalling, Ben finally headed out to get himself the good guy discount wearing a microphone hidden underneath his shirt. I went with him. Ben Calhoun First...
Hello Antony Funnell here, and welcome to Future Tense. Like many people I know, I catch the bus to work. And this is my stop, one sec... Thank-you! Okay, come this way while I talk. Travelling on the bus is pretty straightforward. But getting from t...
The United States has almost a fourth of the world's prison population -- more than two million people, to be exact. That number comes from the International Centre for Prison Studies in London. Among the groups working to improve conditions for pris...
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. And this is For The Record. There was good news and bad news for the FBI this past week. A congressionally mandated report says the agency has made major improvements since 9/11 but still need...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Despite heavy rains, tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Singapore today to say goodbye to the country's founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. Lee was one of the most influential leaders of the last 100 years. He wa...
We need to change the culture in our jails and prisons, especially for young inmates. New York state is one of only two in the U.S. that automatically arrests and tries 16- to 17-year-olds as adults. This culture of violence takes these young people...
Robyn Williams: One of humanity's first innovations was an alliance with dogs, 40,000 years ago at least. Just look at the article on wolves in this week's New Scientist magazine. One great advantage of wolves and dogs is they are smart, as Stanley C...
You're looking at a woman who was publicly silent for a decade. Obviously, that's changed, but only recently. It was several months ago that I gave my very first major public talk at the Forbes 30 Under 30 summit: 1,500 brilliant people, all under th...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This is For the Record. The White House welcomed foreign dignitaries, national security experts and community leaders to Washington this past week for what was billed as a summit to counter violent extremism. The administration t...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Muslims in Germany are under increased scrutiny after several recent threats and fatal attacks that have been linked to Islamic extremists in Europe. And that has sparked criticism from German Muslim leaders, who say that such scru...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This Sunday marks one year since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared. DAVID GREENE, HOST: It was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it simply vanished. A massive international search was launched covering a vast stret...
Meanwhile, back at the AAAS, ET has not phoned Earth. SETI, situated near San Jose, has not found alien intelligence. So they are, controversially, going for METI, sending messages out instead. Doug Vakoch from the SETI Institute at the press confere...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Emojis can be a whole lot of fun - you know, those little pictures on our phones that seem to express sentiments when words fall short. Sometimes we need to punctuate our thoughts and phrases with a sad cat, floating hearts, mayb...
