LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Thousands of unauthorized migrants travel by boat each year to Italy. Their journeys from North Africa across the Mediterranean can be perilous. As NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, there's a top security naval compound on the ou...
Talking about empowerment is odd, because when we talk about empowerment, what affects us most are the stories. So I want to begin with an everyday story. What is it really like to be a young woman in India? Now, I've spent the last 27 years of my li...
The Ebola virus has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa. But it also threatens wildlife, like the severely endangered western lowland gorilla. VOAs Steve Baragona reports that the spread of Ebola shows how animal diseases spill over the barr...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The journey of the USS Jeannette in 1879 came out of the dreams of a lot of wise men who might have known better. It set sail from San Francisco in July of that year with 32 men to find what they hoped would be a kind of unspoiled...
All humans share two life events birth and death. However, people deal with death in many different ways. Culture, religion, personal beliefs and fear all influence our reactions. Sometimes death seems so sad that we look for help, for comfort, somet...
ARUN RATH, HOST: One hundred years ago tomorrow, on July 28, 1914, Austrian troops invaded Serbia. It was the start of the First World War. The conflict would last four long years - taking down empires, creating new nations and killing millions by th...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And as we've been reporting this week, Pakistan is one of the last places in the world where children are still getting polio. Vaccine programs face intense and sometimes violent opposition. Of course it's crucial for health wor...
Last month I was in Sarajevo reporting on the 100th anniversary of the assassination that started the first world war. Although I'd shown up to talk about World War I, I was surrounded by scars from the Balkan war and World War II, layers of tragedy...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Spying is dangerous work but it has some perks, as 007 knows - high tech gadgets. (SOUNDBITE OF JAMES BOND FILMS) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Stun gas. X-ray document scanner. A typical leather belt. Smoke screen, oil slick, A standard iss...
ARUN RATH, HOST: While attention in Washington stays fixed on the Texas border where tens of thousands of migrant children wait in limbo, thousands more children living in America who are legal citizens also face an uncertain future because their par...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The U.S. isn't the only country struggling with migrants from Central America. Mexico's president recently announced plans to crack down on the illegal flow of people into his country. He wants to strengthen security along Mexico's...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Romanee-Conti is one of the most famed vineyards in the world - in history, really - where they produce one of the most elegant and extravagantly-priced wines in the world. In January of 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed propriet...
Twenty-three years ago, at the age of 19, I shot and killed a man. I was a young drug dealer with a quick temper and a semi-automatic pistol. But that wasn't the end of my story. In fact, it was beginning, and the 23 years since is a story of acknowl...
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Thirty years ago, Ted Conover wrote Rolling Nowhere: Riding The Roads With America's Hobos, an account of his time hopping freight trains across America. Asa, his teenage son, read the book last year, and asked his father if he'd s...
