SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Harold Evans sees a lot of fog all around us - a fog of murky words, qualifiers and subordinate clauses that clog a sentence and route an expression into obscurity - puffed up phrases, passive voices, misused words and words with n...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There's a new show on Amazon that breaks a lot of rules. It doesn't even seem to know there are rules. It's called, I Love Dick based on a book by the same name. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, I LOVE DICK) KATHRYN HAHN: (As Chris Kraus)...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: War movies don't get much smaller than The Wall. It's from the director who made the first Bourne movie, and this new film is stripped to absolute essentials - men, guns, desert. Critic Bob Mondello says as small as it is, The Wa...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: For people who are a step away from homelessness, getting a housing voucher can feel like a way to a better life, but it isn't a guarantee. NPR and the PBS show Frontline have been examining the billions that taxpayers spend to h...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Colleges around the country are seeing an unprecedented increase in white supremacist activity. Alt-right groups are aggressively trying to recruit students, and schools and students are struggling with how to handle it all. NPR'...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: YouTube and streaming services help world music reach more of the world than ever, like B.J. Leiderman, who writes our theme music. But NPR's Tom Huizenga thinks we also need to salute the composer Lou Harrison, who was born a hund...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: America is the most dangerous place in the developed world to have a baby. And the rate of women dying from pregnancy complications has been rising. Women here are three times more likely to die in childbirth than women in Canada,...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We have said this more than once this week. After James Comey's firing, there are still more questions than there are answers. Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska is still asking, why now. Our co-host, Steve Inskeep, sat dow...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Trump administration is making new moves to combat a national health crisis. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental death in our country. And opioid ov...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A cartoon frog died on the Internet a few days ago. His name was Pepe. You might remember him over the course of the 2016 election. He became one of the most recognizable symbols of the alt-right. NPR's Sam Sanders tells us how P...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So if you haven't heard of the self-described dirty trickster Roger Stone, you might be missing out. And it is not just Stone who says so. MORGAN PEHME: We thought that Roger being a pot-smoking bodybuilding dandy and that he and...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, so there's a new Texas law that bans sanctuary cities, and it has outraged Democrats, immigrant advocates and also police chiefs. This measure overrides local laws and empowers police to ask anyone they detain if they a...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: And that music means it is time for StoryCorps on this Friday before Mother's Day. Today, a daughter who wanted to thank her mom for not giving up on her. In 1972, Sarah Churchill gave birth to her third child...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Voters and activists have been lashing out at members of Congress over health care for months now. Add the anger, particularly on the left, over the president's firing of FBI Director James Comey, and you get this scene that unfo...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Rebels in Colombia have stopped fighting a civil war. Some have not stopped the techniques they have perfected over the years for making a living. During the war, the rebel group known as the FARC earned millions of dollars by ex...
