LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The Trump administration caused an uproar with its plan to overhaul the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called food stamps. Instead of some benefits, people would get a box of nonperishable, not fresh fo...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: At fancy pet stores across the country, pieces of antlers and horns are flying off the shelves. And they are sold as a healthy, all-natural chew toy for dogs. But as Alaska Public Media's Zachariah Hughes reports, some hunt...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This past wildfire season, there were unprecedented amounts of wildfire smoke in communities across western Montana. Instead of just issuing warnings, public health agencies tried something new - actually making the air cle...
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: In his latest book, The Undressing, poet Li-Young Lee explores the beauty and violence of human relationships and connection. LI-YOUNG LEE: (Reading) I loved you before I was born. It doesn't make sense, I know. I saw your eyes...
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: We're going to continue the conversation about guns by looking at one of President Trump's latest policy proposals - to arm teachers in schools. Earlier today, the president tweeted, quote, armed educators and trusted people who...
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Food waste is a global problem. In developing countries, grocery stores are responsible for a lot of that waste. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports on how France is trying to change that. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Speaking in French). E...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: What would our schools really be like if teachers carried guns in their classrooms, if, as President Trump suggested at this week's White House meeting with families who have suffered through school shootings, 20 percent of teacher...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: President Trump has touted the idea of teachers carrying concealed guns in classrooms. The response has been sharply divided. But it's already happening in a handful of states, including Ohio. From WCPN Ideastream in Cleveland, Ann...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The technology that drives science forward accelerates all the time, but science communication - not so much. The basic process still holds many vestiges from its early days - the 17th century, that is. NPR's Richard Harris reports...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: As we interact more with machines, smart speakers, self-checkout kiosks, I wonder if we'll even start to have relationships with machines. As part of her series on how artists and criminals use technology, NPR's Laura Sydell introd...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Wildfires in the Seeley Lake area of Montana this summer were longer and more intense than any in recent memory. Though they didn't reach B.J. Leiderman, who writes our theme music. Nora Saks with Montana Public Radio reports that...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Olympic sports have their own special vernacular, slang terms that NPR's Melissa Block has been collecting throughout the games. MELISSA BLOCK, BYLINE: Seems a lot of the lingo has to do with disaster, which strikes often in these...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Michelle McNamara was a writer engrossed with true crime. She worked on Hollywood pilots and screenplays and created the website truecrimediary.com. She connected the dots of blood and evidence of a series of as many as 50 sexual a...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: As the teenage survivors of last week's high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., speak out and demand tighter gun control regulations, the young victims of the 2011 massacre in Norway still struggle to find their voices. A new movie...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump's former deputy campaign manager is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller. In a courtroom in Washington today, lobbyist Richard Gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lies. The plea is the latest advance i...
