ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Applebee's announced this month that more than 130 of its restaurants will close by the end of the year. The reason - millennials. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The casual dining chain rebranded itself in the past few years as a modern ba...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Over a year ago, I got a message from a friend of mine from high school. She was taking it upon herself to plan our 25th reunion in the summer of 2017. And she wanted to know if I could try to come. Many months later, she got bac...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Last November, Columbia University historian Mark Lilla wrote a post mortem of the 2016 election for The New York Times. Writing as a liberal, professor Lilla criticized his fellow liberals and Democrats for leading their party i...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The MS-13 street gang is behind a string of grisly murders on Long Island, N.Y. The gang started in Los Angeles, but it has roots in Central America. It often looks for new members by targeting immigrant teenagers. Today, NPR's Joe...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: When you get up in the morning, do you hear a snap, crackle, pop? We're not talking about cereal here. We are talking about your knees. Well, if you reach for the painkiller before that cup of coffee, you are in good company. There...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: It wasn't that long ago - right? - when we thought bookstores were dying. No more strolling bookshelves, chatting with staff about their favorite reads. Just go buy online - well, not so fast. Many independent bookstores, once thr...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: It wasn't that long ago - right? - when we thought bookstores were dying. No more strolling bookshelves, chatting with staff about their favorite reads. Just go buy online - well, not so fast. Many independent bookstores, once thr...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The photos that have emerged from the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va. are powerful - I mean, sometimes frightening - bodies flying as a car hits a crowd, torch-lit faces twisted with anger. Over the past couple of...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Starting tomorrow, the U.S., Canada and Mexico will begin renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. And despite very tough talk about NAFTA during the campaign, it appears the Trump administration is backing away from...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A jury has ruled in favor of pop superstar Taylor Swift in a high-profile case in Denver. A radio DJ sued Taylor Swift, her mother and her manager for falsely accusing him of assault and getting him fired from his job. Swift coun...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Our bodies change over our lifetimes. Those changes can be dramatic and unsettling after an illness. NPR's Rebecca Davis introduces us to a woman whose cancer diagnosis forced her to think differently about her body and how she c...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For the last week, one of the biggest stars in pop music has been in court. A radio DJ sued Taylor Swift, her mother and her manager for falsely accusing him of assault and getting him fired from his job. Swift is countersuing fo...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And now, how one family found a way to stay in their neighborhood, even after their rent doubled. They moved into someone's backyard. This is the latest from the NPR Cities Project. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: I was a part of the commu...
STACEY VANEK SMITH, HOST: We're talking with someone now who knows a bit about the anger and divisiveness on display yesterday. Christian Picciolini says he was lost and lonely when he was recruited into a white supremacist group as a teenager. He im...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Back in January, we introduced you to the Rahimov family. They had immigrated from Uzbekistan, and we met them on the day they became U.S. citizens in Kansas City, Mo. In that story, we heard 16-year-old Murad Rahimov talk about...
