KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Ann Beattie has been a voice for her generation, the baby boomers, for 40 years. Her stories were published in The New Yorker regularly and helped pull back the curtain on the love lives, hopes and confusions of the boomers in th...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: How old were you when you learned the basics of physics or rocket science? Or maybe you never did. Well, if there's a toddler in your house, you can refresh your memory or maybe learn something new. As part of our series on k...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Farmers in parts of the South are fighting each other over a weed-killing chemical. Some are using it in combination with a new generation of genetically engineered crops. Others are angry because it's blowing in the wind and dam...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Ezra Pound, a major American poet, and John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Reagan - both men had something in common - St. Elizabeths Hospital, where those with mental illness were housed. NPR special correspondent Susa...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has been in the news lately even though he died 10 months ago. His estate has turned down a multiracial production of Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? It has put his contemporary art...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Randall Mann captures the San Francisco of his youth in his new poetry collection, Proprietary. Our reviewer Tess Taylor says he does it while also reinventing the city for the dot-com age. TESS TAYLOR, BYLINE: Randall Mann's chi...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Dr. Seuss, the best-selling children's author in the world, finally has his own museum curated in part by his own children. Theodor Seuss Geisel died in 1991. Now his hometown of Springfield, Mass., is letting visitors learn abou...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Most of us remember our status in high school. You were either in the, like, theater nerd, yearbook editor, band camp, or you were more in the world of cheerleaders and prom queens and quarterbacks. And we like to think that none...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Five years ago, the U.S. Justice Department concluded that juvenile courts in Memphis were failing to give children due process. Investigators uncovered significant racial disparities. And they reached a deal with the federal gov...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: There's a place where older people can go to upgrade their computer skills, make art and play games. You're probably thinking senior centers. You could also think the library. NPR's Ina Jaffe covers aging, and she went to Brookly...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The Star-Spangled Banner will be playing all over the country tonight while fireworks go off. Few people know there are actually four official verses to the song. And even fewer know the one unofficial verse that was written a ha...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now that President Trump has announced his intention to pull out of the Paris climate accord, more cities around the U.S. are looking to cut their own carbon emissions. Hundreds of American mayors say they're committed to support...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: North Korea now claims it can send a nuclear missile anywhere in the world. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: (Speaking Korean). KELLY: That's the way North Koreans heard the news from an anchor on stat...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: And I'm Mary Louise Kelly with a document from a deeply divided time. It was a time when Americans turned against each other. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A man in Philadelphia declared the rich, the poor, the high professor and the...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Twenty years ago tomorrow, a plucky little NASA probe called Pathfinder landed on Mars. Actually, it didn't so much land as bounce down to the surface. Its final descent was cushioned by giant airbags. Pathfinder carried with it...
