MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now, if you follow the history of the civil rights movement, then Dolores Huerta is a name that you likely know. She was one of the co-founders of the group that became the United Farm Workers working with the late Cesar Chavez....
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump made an eyebrow-raising claim yesterday. As part of an effort to make America more business friendly, the president said he thinks his administration can eliminate 75 percent or more of government regulations. Thr...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Heroin and prescription painkillers are fueling a rise in overdoses around the country, and research shows rural areas are particularly at risk. From Colorado, Luke Runyon of member station KUNC has this on the connection between r...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump signed several executive orders yesterday. One of them was related to abortion. His order restored something called the Mexico City policy, which bars U.S. funding for any international aid group that provides abo...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: There are more than 100,000 broadcast and cell towers across this country. You use them every time you make a cellphone call or turn on the radio in your car. They're a problem, though, for migrating birds. Every year, millions o...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Affordable Care Act includes special provisions that make it easier for coal miners to get black lung benefits. If the ACA goes away, obtaining those benefits could become harder. Kara Lofton of West Virginia Public Broadcast...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The future of the Affordable Care Act means a lot to the people we're about to meet in Ohio. Republicans in Congress are moving to repeal the law and have not said what they want to replace it. One part of the law known as Obamac...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There was a gathering here in Washington, D.C. last week that had nothing to do with the inauguration or with politics. It was an occasion for matchmaking, although not a romantic kind. Here, farmers got set up with chefs in an e...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The nominations for the 89th Academy Awards were announced this morning. NPR arts correspondent Mandalit del Barco joins us now from Park City, Utah. That's where the Sundance Film Festival is taking place. She joins us to talk a...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Time, according to a couple of studies, is the most commonly used noun in the English language. I learned that from reading Alan Burdick's new book, Why Time Flies, a study of time that he calls a mostly scientific investigation....
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Kangaroo mother care, it's a technique for mothers to bond with their newborns immediately after delivery. And the name kind of gives away what this is all about. Naked newborns are placed on their mother's bare chest, a little l...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: After a momentous week in news, let's tune out of politics for just a moment and tune into The Puzzle. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GARCIA-NAVARRO: Will Shortz is the puzzle editor of The New York Times and WEEKEND EDITION's puz...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A secret diary, a hidden history. Julia Alekseyeva discovered her great-grandmother Lola's memoir, and she turned it into her debut graphic novel. It's called Soviet Daughter. It tells the story of Lola, a barely educate...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Margaret Wise Brown's children's books are some of the most loved. Here's a hint to help you think of one - just two words - Goodnight Moon. There are countless others, including Runaway Bunny, which happens to celebrate...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Here's an idea that sounds pretty obvious. Before you spend lots of money on an aid program, wouldn't you want to run a test to make certain the program actually works? If you want to help farmers, should you buy them seeds or just...
