KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: Here's a number that shows just how bad the opioid crisis is in Huntington, W. Va. The rate of babies born there with a drug dependency is 10 times higher than the national average. We're going to meet two people in that communit...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Gun rights groups, including the NRA, have seen a rise in membership since the school shootings in Parkland, Fla., in February. But one group in particular has had a major increase well before that - the National African American G...
KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: Menlo Park, Calif., was a sleepy bedroom community until Facebook came to town. One unexpected thing Facebook has brought to Menlo Park is complaints from all over the world about Facebook. As Jake Warga reports, those complaints...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: As Women's History Month comes to a close, we're going to take a closer look at a place where women say they are still fighting to be seen as equal in the most basic ways, even as they are fighting for their country. We are talki...
JOHN LEGEND: (Singing) John Legend on NPR. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Yes, that was John Legend, and this is ALL THIS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. And he is here with us today because tomorrow, Easter Sunday, the Grammy, Tony and Oscar-winn...
KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: Carol Beasley is at the center of a new movie Outside In. She's a middle-aged high school teacher trapped in her mundane job and marriage in Washington state. And that all changes when her former student, Chris, who is played by...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Depending on where you are right now, it might be drizzly. It might be chilly. There might even be snow here and there. But fear not, no matter the weather, it is almost April. And you know what that means, it's almost time for N...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Depending on where you are right now, it might be drizzly. It might be chilly. There might even be snow here and there. But fear not, no matter the weather, it is almost April. And you know what that means, it's almost time for N...
KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: We've been covering a surge in black lung cases across Appalachia. That's the disease that destroys the lungs of coal miners like Mackie Branham. MACKIE BRANHAM: I'm in bad shape, man. I mean, I can no longer provide for my famil...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Barbara K. Lipska got up one morning, as usual, in the spring of 2015, dyed her hair and went jogging in her suburban Virginia neighborhood - all as usual. So why was her husband, Mirek, so alarmed to see her? BARBARA K. LIPSKA: He...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So the federal government has revealed the questions for the 2020 census. And for the first time, couples living together will be asked whether they are in a same-sex or opposite-sex relationship. NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports on wh...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Every day, judges around the country decide the fate of criminal defendants by trying to strike the right balance between fairness and public safety. A new progressive district attorney in Philadelphia is asking his prosecutors to...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson shocked the nation when he announced he would not seek a second term as president. It was a decision that would change the course of the Vietnam War, and it was a moment i...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. The Human Rights Campaign calls it a time to celebrate transgender people around the globe and the courage it takes to live openly and authentically. NPR has been reporting on the challenges...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: It's hard to believe, but Denmark has ghettos. And yes, that is the word the government uses despite its troubling connotations. They are officially designated areas defined by things like unemployment, crime and especially large n...
