RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: The Breeders - twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson - hit it big on the radio in the summer of '93 with this song Cannonball. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, CANNONBALL) THE BREEDERS: (Singing) Spitting in a...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Guns and gun safety are very much in the news again this week. This morning, the Justice Department moved forward with a process to ban bump stocks. That's the accessory that enables guns to fire like automatic weapons. Yesterday...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Larkspur Conservation in Sumner County, Tenn., is a beautiful park-like setting with hiking trails and picnic areas and, soon, occasional burial plots. It's part of a new partnership with the Nature Conservancy, offering familie...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Hollywood has put its muscle behind the Time's Up campaign to fight sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace. Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes, and Oprah Winfrey are among those who've donated hundreds of thousands...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: The Night Diary is a novel set at a pivotal and bloody moment in history, written in the voice of a 12-year-old girl. Nisha takes us on her personal journey as part of the mass exodus of Hindus and Muslims in the turbulent time...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: The civil war in Syria is, by any measure, one of the world's great catastrophes. And for much of the time, it has raged too dangerous for most journalists to get close to those at the center of the conflict. One who has is Rani...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Trade issues were a big part of Trump's appeal in America's industrial areas, where he brought out a big surge of working-class, white voters. Danielle Kurtzleben writes for NPR Politics on our website. And she writes that it is...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The film A Wrinkle In Time has some of Hollywood's biggest stars - Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon and more. Their stories all revolve around the central character who's played by a 14-year-old actress named Storm Reid...
DON GONYEA, HOST: The Dude abides. OK. As iconic movie lines go, maybe it's not as iconic as here's looking at you, kid. But for fans of the film The Big Lebowski, there are few things better than hearing Jeff Bridges say those words with such slacke...
DON GONYEA, HOST: Jesse Ball is one of America's most accomplished writers. He's published volumes of poetry, short stories and novels. His latest is a novel called Census. It's about a man, a widower, who learns he doesn't have long to live. And he...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There's a new book out called Children Of Blood And Bone. It's a big, heavy book that tackles big, heavy themes - police killings of unarmed black men, the politics of black hair, even death. It's also a young adult fantasy book wi...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's been nearly two years since we heard someone say... (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, AMERICAN IDOL) RYAN SEACREST: This is American Idol. SHAPIRO: ABC is bringing back the one-time hit musical competition on Sunday. The show was cancele...
DON GONYEA, HOST: Louisiana State Penitentiary, or Angola Prison, is known for extremes. It's an enormous, maximum-security prison. And it's so remote most of the medical needs of the prisoners are met right at the prison. But according to some inmat...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a lot of Democratic enthusiasm about this year's elections, and that means a lot of Democrats running for Congress across the country. But in Southern California, the party may have too much of a good thing. NPR's Scott D...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's time now for StoryCorps. Zoe Courville and Lora Koenig first met in the middle of an ice sheet in Greenland. They are scientists, and their work takes them to the most remote parts of the world. They spe...
