MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Last week, Time magazine announced the silence breakers as their person of the year, referring to those who helped create a greater awareness around sexual assault and harassment. Terry Crews is one of those silence breakers. He...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: For the next few minutes, we're going to hear about people who are expressing political opposition through art and protest. In Miami Beach this weekend, an art exhibition encourages visitors to lie in freshly dug graves to experi...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Just off a Houston freeway, in a strip mall with an Indian tailor and a South Asian grocery store, is a small restaurant with an outsized reputation. It's called Himalaya, and its chef and owner is a Houston institution. KA...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In central Montana, drones are dropping peanut butter pellets on prairie dog colonies. As Yellowstone Public Radio's Nate Hegyi explains, it's part of an effort by biologists to save North America's most endangered mammal....
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: History is written by the winners. So when power is shared, there's often a tug of war over the past. That's what's happening in Hong Kong, which has enjoyed a degree of political autonomy since Great Britain returned control of...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now I need to warn you that this next story is a slight bummer if you celebrate Christmas and you happen to celebrate with a freshly-cut evergreen. It turns out that you might be getting a Charlie Brown tree this year - you know,...
'Fight For Rights Will Continue' In Zimbabwe, #ThisFlag Movement Pastor Vows MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to Zimbabwe, where, for years, the mantra from opponents of the country's longtime leader was Mugabe must go. Now that Robert Mugabe has gone, what'...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Maude Julien's childhood was so horrible it's difficult to read about in her new memoir. Her father wanted to turn his daughter into some kind of superhuman, so he treated her in a subhuman way. He forced his daughter to stay in a...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Here's an idea for a musical. The end is near. It was just a day for the inhabitants of Bikini Bottom to figure out how to save themselves from a powerful volcano that's about to explode. Who can we count on to come through? Well,...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The tax bill that's now being crafted in Congress is huge. It's more than 400 pages. And we're going to look at two parts of it. First, Republicans call the bill the Tax Cut and Jobs Act. Critics say maybe it should be called the...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Social media platforms can connect people across the globe - and terrorize people next door. Ricky Graves is a young man just coming to terms with his sexual orientation in a small New Hampshire town. He's tormented by a jerk named...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Shed at Dulwich was the hottest new restaurant in London for about six months. It had entrees named after moods, like lust and contemplation, pick-your-own chickens, wine served in kitschy coffee mugs. And boy, was it exclusive...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Hurricane Harvey was hard on Houston's art and culture community. Four days of torrential rain nearly drowned the city's opera, ballet and theater companies - along with their revered mural. As NPR's John Burnett reports, they're d...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Steven Rogers and Allison Janney, welcome to the program. STEVEN ROGERS: Thank you for having us. ALLISON JANNEY: Thank you, Ari. SHAPIRO: So Steven, can you recreate the conversation where, Steven, you first told Allison, I've wri...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: If you were live in 1994, you probably remember hearing a lot about Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding. There was a media frenzy when Harding's ex-husband was implicated in an attack on her main competitor, Nancy Kerrigan. The m...
