RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Police will remember 2016 as a grim chapter in what some of them started calling the war on cops. As NPR's Martin Kaste reports, the ambush killings this year led police to feel like they were under siege. MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: T...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Responsibility to Protect is a doctrine in the United Nations calling on world powers to step into countries and stop atrocities. But in places like Syria and South Sudan, it is clear the concept is just an aspiration, as NPR'...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's taken years, but in 2016, wages finally started to go up. NPR's Yuki Noguchi explains. YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE: The Great Recession ended seven and a half years ago, and job gains have been steady since. But the greater demand...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: As the nation prepares to inaugurate a new president, we've been getting glimpses of some of the communities he will soon lead. Our series is called Finding America. Today we go to Richmond, Va. FREE EGUNFEMI: When people come to R...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Next, a New Year's toast from a bartender in the most populated city of the most populated country on the planet. NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Shanghai. ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: The bartender's name is spelled M-O-E. (SOUNDBITE OF T...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Some of this year's best-selling writers are better known for their way with tools than words. They are stars on HGTV, the network that shows us how to buy, sell and fix up our homes. NPR's Lynn Neary looks at their transition from...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In 2016, Italy took over from Greece as the primary landing spot for migrants and refugees entering Europe. Nearly 180,000 people arrived in Italy, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa. That's left Italy trying to manage a surge in asy...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Chicago passed a grim milestone recently. The city has seen more than 700 homicides this year, that's more than any other major U.S. city. Of course, that startling number does not begin to tell the whole story. As we're about to...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Earlier this year, you might remember the Zika virus was spreading through the Americas, and the situation looked dire. Brazil was reporting more than a thousand cases of microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with ext...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Carrie Fisher died this morning at the age of 60. She had suffered a heart attack Friday while she was onboard a flight from London to Los Angeles. Fisher was an actress and a writer. She was best known by far for her role as Pri...
'Paterson': A Love Poem To Poetry, From Director Jim Jarmusch ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Director Jim Jarmusch treats cities like characters in his films. He did that with New Orleans in Down By Law and Memphis in Mystery Train. Jarmusch's latest film, Pater...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK, let's hear now how a Trump presidency could remake one federal program. Medicaid provides health insurance for the poor and disabled. To run the agency that oversees Medicaid and also Medicare, Donald Trump has nominated the a...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Half a century ago, one of the best debate teams in the Northeast didn't come from an Ivy-clad private school - far from it. They were inmates at a Massachusetts prison. By 1966, the Norfolk Prison Debating Society boasted 144 wi...
New Jersey Banking On Shift From Bail Money To Risk Assessment RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: More than half of the people being held in U.S. jails have not been convicted of a crime. Many defendants are awaiting trial behind bars simply because they can't aff...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: As President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, the federal ethics laws are showing their age. They were written for an earlier time, when rich politicos invested in commodities like paper or just stocks and bonds....
