LEILA FADEL, HOST: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has written a new children's book inspired by an experience she had years ago in a restaurant bathroom. A woman walked in while Justice Sotomayor was giving herself an insulin injection. SONIA...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A playwright set out to tell a love story that challenges American perceptions of her hometown, Damascus, Syria. But she got a tough lesson on what can happen when art and politics collide and how the heartache of the U.S. governme...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: It looks a bit like a very mini version of the creature from the Alien movies. It's olive green with three jaws, over 50 teeth, and it sucks blood. It's Macrobdella mimicus, a newly discovered species of leech uncovered in the swam...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Scientists announced the results of a study on sexuality this week. They say they found a genetic link to being LGBTQ, but it's spread widely across the genome and not limited to a single gene. To reach that conclusion they used a...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There are signs hanging up in Chevy Chase Village, Md., an upscale suburb inside that circle of highway around metro Washington, D.C., called the Beltway that may help us see what so much of America distrusts about Beltway insiders...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We've been talking about the comedy business and some of the women breaking the rules of what comedy can be in 2019. For instance, social media is the new calling card, where you can build your audience, maybe be discovered and b...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: One of TV's most beloved sidekicks has died. Valerie Harper, best known for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died this morning in Los Angeles. She was 80 years old. NPR's Elizabeth Blair has this remembranc...
