LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: President Obama has granted clemency to more than a thousand prisoners. Now in his final days in office, some activists, celebrities and politicians are asking him for one more pardon. Oscar Lopez Rivera has been in fede...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: When Noel Anaya was just a year old, he and his siblings were placed in the California foster care system. He has spent his life in foster care. He just turned 21, and in California, that's the age when young people exit the syst...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: If you're familiar with the band Disturbed, you're probably used to hearing them sound like this. (SOUNDBITE OF DISTURBED SONG, INSIDE THE FIRE) GARCIA-NAVARRO: But last year, the band softened its sound when they covere...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: White nationalists were among the first to embrace Donald Trump's candidacy, and they celebrated after his election. Since then, the so-called alt-right has splintered. As Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports, the movement...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Since President Obama came into office, the Supreme Court has legalized same-sex marriage, and Congress ended the military's don't ask, don't tell policy. Well, now a very different leader is about to be sworn in, and many LGBT p...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now a story about some of the oldest stories in the world and the people who tell versions of them today. The Assyrian Empire dominated the Middle East thousands of years ago. Millions of Assyrians are alive today trace their roo...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: When did you start to write poetry? HENRY MORGENTHAU III: It's a very delayed vocation, I would say. I was in my early 90s when I started. SIMON: (Laughter). MORGENTHAU: And now I'm - I've hit the three-digit line. SIMON: Well - an...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Veronica Roth wrote her first best-seller when she was 21 years old. Divergent for young adults was instantly and wildly popular. It was a best-selling trilogy and made into popular films. Veronica Roth has now written her first ne...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: During these first few weeks of the new year, we're meeting a series of people who are trying to pursue their American dream through the most basic part of life - food. Today, two young women who've struggled to leave their parents...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Gregor Hens does not smoke anymore. He reminds us of that fact many times in his memoir Nicotine. It's kind of like the more times he says it, the more true it becomes. Hens joined me from the BBC in Berlin. And he said he starte...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: And now it's time for a last call on the Commercials for Nicer Living project, version 2017. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This is an update of a project that Susan Stamberg ran 45 years ago on this program. She asked listeners to write c...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Sam Barsky of Pikesville, Md., has turned sweaters into a statement. For the past 17 years, he's knit sweaters that show places that he's seen around the world, including the Golden Gate Bridge, Stonehenge and Jerusalem's Wailing W...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The practice of blackface is as old as entertainment itself white - actors putting black makeup on their faces and acting like buffoons. British broadcaster Sky TV has been accused of a kind of blackface by hiring a white actor t...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The practice of blackface is as old as entertainment itself white - actors putting black makeup on their faces and acting like buffoons. British broadcaster Sky TV has been accused of a kind of blackface by hiring a white actor t...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One week from today, Donald Trump will become the 45th president of the United States. We're going to take a look now at one group who will play a feature role during his swearing-in ceremony. The six members of the clergy will o...
