RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The next Democratic debate is tomorrow. So who is best positioned to win over voters? A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that Senator Elizabeth Warren is in a strong place, registering as the, quote, most well-liked of all...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some other news now - violent crime rates are up for the third year in a row. NPR's Martin Kaste reports on the annual National Crime Victimization Survey. MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: Every year, police departments send their crime sta...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A medical school is trying to face an underlying problem of the opioid epidemic. Addictive though they are, opioids are manufactured to address a real problem - pain. That's where the medical school comes in. It's teaching future...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: So while sneakerheads are in D.C., in New York City, Fashion Week is underway, where designers show off their new looks for the coming season. And have you ever seen a video where models trying to navigate the runway in insanely...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to switch gears now and talk about a subject of utmost importance to some of us. That would be shoes. And sneaker heads already know this - some of the most coveted sneaker releases and collaborations - Jordans, Yeezy...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's talk about the latest development in the push to hold drug companies accountable for the nation's opioid crisis. Purdue Pharma manufacturers the opioid medication OxyContin. That company is owned by one of the wealthiest fam...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Three decades after the Cold War ended between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, some American intelligence officials are wondering out loud if there is a new Cold War brewing, this one between the U.S. and China. The Defense Intell...
RYAN HEINSIUS, BYLINE: Large-scale forest restoration designed to prevent wildfires in northern Arizona is behind schedule. One reason why - there are very few places for low-value branches and small diameter logs to go once they've been cut down but...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The Russian Revolution, a doomed love affair, Omar Sharif and snow - lots of snow. When Lara Prescott was born, Doctor Zhivago was her mother's favorite movie. She even named her daughter Lara after the main character. So i...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Ella Fitzgerald is one of the most acclaimed singers of the 20th century. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and 14 Grammys. She was admired around the world, and her influence is still felt today. For the NPR series Tu...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: With a new NFL season starting tonight, concerns about head injuries in football are expected to ramp up again, and now the discussion is expanding to women's soccer. After the Women's World Cup, researchers are preparing to...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It takes only a few paragraphs in Genesis for the Earth to take shape, sprout with life and then human beings. Of course, that development actually took millions of years. This week, as the world watched a huge hurricane gather in...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Critics of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have given him a new nickname owing to his refusal to take up election security bills, Moscow Mitch. Democrats say that he is assisting Russian election meddlers. But as Kentucky Pu...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Margaret Atwood has written a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. Now, that sentence alone will move millions of readers to buy the book ASAP. The final act of that book, published in 1985, saw its unnamed heroine Offred step off the pa...
ELISSA NADWORNY, HOST: This is NPR's LIFE KIT. And I'm Elissa Nadworny, an education reporter. What are you going to do after you graduate? God, yeah, I know - it's seriously the worst question. Some students hear this question super early, like befo...
