JULIA FURLAN, HOST: Hi, this is NPR's LIFE KIT. I'm Julia Furlan. The beginning of a friendship can feel very much like the beginning of a rom-com. You know how it goes; like, a woman sitting at her desk, and she's got a shiny, new job right out of c...
'A Good Provider' Argues Migration Can Be Salvation MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In 1987, reporter Jason DeParle went to sleep on the floor of a shanty in Manila for the first time. He came to the Philippines to find out more about poverty in the develop...
To Honor John McCain, His Wife Says, Americans Could Be Nicer To One Another DAVID GREENE, HOST: We visited Cindy McCain at her home in Phoenix, Ariz., this week. This Sunday marks the first anniversary of her husband's death. The late Senator John M...
(SOUNDBITE OF THE BIGTOP ORCHESTRA'S TEETER BOARD: FOLIES BERGERE [MARCH AND TWO-STEP]) TAMARA KEITH, HOST: Hey there. It's the NPR POLITICS PODCAST. I'm Tamara Keith. All summer long, we are taking you on the road to meet the 2020 Democratic preside...
NOEL KING, HOST: A short drive from the White House, where immigration policy is a major focus of the president's agenda, a museum has filled three floors with artists' reactions to displacement, to relocation and to flight. NPR special correspondent...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: To Argentina now. When you stand in the center of Plaza del Congreso in downtown Buenos Aires looking at the Capitol dome, there's a ghost of a building just to the right. It's a deteriorating art nouveau masterpiece closed for dec...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump seems to be backing off statements supporting gun control, including laws that would make it easier to take firearms away from people who might hurt themselves or others. Seventeen states and the District of Columb...
JULIA FURLAN, HOST: Hi, this is NPR's LIFE KIT, and I'm Julia Furlan. Look; I don't know you yet, but I bet that if you really looked at your friendships, it wouldn't hurt to be a little bit more intentional about them. But what would that actually l...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Our friend and resident poet Kwame Alexander is back with us for one of our regular poetry call outs. Hi, Kwame. KWAME ALEXANDER, BYLINE: Hey, Rachel. MARTIN: Did you know this? It has been two years since we started doing these...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now we have the story of a strange and elaborate quest that all hinged on a couple decimal points. Scientists today need to figure out how much hotter the oceans are now than in the past, but the old measurements are unreliable. A...
NOEL KING, HOST: In Europe, unlike in the U.S., governments have been holding the tech companies Google, Facebook and Twitter liable for social media attacks that happen on their platforms. Those governments got tough on tech in part because of the e...
NOEL KING, HOST: All right. Elsewhere in medical news - doctors and patients have been looking at ways to manage pain without relying so much on opioids. One strategy is called therapeutic virtual reality. NPR's Allison Aubrey has the story of a man...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Around the country, cities with big homeless populations have passed laws banning things like panhandling or sleeping in public areas. Here in Los Angeles, officials are cracking down on people living in vehicles. But as Anna Scot...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Sometimes, families harbor the deepest of secrets. WEEKEND EDITION producer Denise Guerra recently uncovered a murder mystery among her relatives she'd never known about. And in pursuing her investigation, she'd learned abo...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Serena Williams made headlines last year, not only for her prowess on the tennis court but for talking about how she almost died after giving birth to her daughter. And it opened up a conversation about maternal health in t...
