SAM SANDERS, HOST: From NPR, I'm Sam Sanders. IT'S BEEN A MINUTE. It's Tuesday, and I have a conversation for you. Today, I'm talking with Natasha Rothwell. She joined me at NPR West studios in Culver City. A lot of you know Natasha from her role as...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Elliott Ackerman served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he often draws on that experience in his writing. In a new novel out today, he explores the life of a seriously injured veteran named Eden and those who were...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Jane Fonda has lived many lives from starlet to fitness guru to Vietnam protester and now a comedic actress, securing roles at an age when most people in Hollywood have left the screen. A new documentary on HBO is called Jane...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A record number of women are running for Congress this year. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben asked if this marks a lasting shift. DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN, BYLINE: Lauren Underwood, the Democratic House candidate in Illinois' 14th district,...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Rod Rosenstein is still the deputy attorney general at the Justice Department despite conflicting reports about his fate earlier today. TV cameras recorded him leaving his home for a meeting at the White House. A short while late...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump today addressed a gathering of world leaders in New York at the United Nations General Assembly. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I honor the right of every nation in this room to pursue i...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump today addressed a gathering of world leaders in New York at the United Nations General Assembly. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I honor the right of every nation in this room to pursue i...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We're going to spend the next several minutes talking about an object that you spend a lot of time with - your chair. Why are so many chairs so bad for people's backs? NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff investigated, and she's written us...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump talks a lot about moving to what he calls a merit-based immigration system. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: One that admits people who are skilled, who want to work, who will contribute t...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Thousands of homes in North Carolina have been destroyed by Hurricane Florence and the flooding that followed. For the elderly, who are often living on fixed incomes and can't afford repairs, a flood can quickly become an evictio...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In North Carolina, more than 60,000 students are starting another week without school. Their districts are still taking stock of the damage caused by Hurricane Florence, and many of the students and teachers who evacuated are sti...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A former sawdust factory in Brooklyn has been transformed into a nonprofit music venue with a $4 million annual budget. It spends nearly a quarter of that to commission new works, to record and release albums and support young arti...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: In the early 1900s, a housewife in Michigan started studying young children in her living room. She called it a cosmic laboratory of baby training. From that inauspicious beginning sprang something that is now a multimillion-doll...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In about a week, the city here will mark a grim anniversary. It was a year ago in October where the single deadliest mass shooting in modern American history took place. A man opened fire on a country music festival. He kil...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: In 1940, the threat of Nazi Germany brought up a patriotism in the British, mostly. There were also secret admirers of Hitler who embraced the Iron Cross of the Third Reich over the Union Jack. And that moment in history is what...
