SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In recent months, California's biggest electric utility's been taking the unprecedented step of shutting off power to millions. The move is meant to prevent power equipment from sparking catastrophic wildfires. Jefferson Public Rad...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: These days, there is this paradox in the job market. The unemployment rate is as low as it's been in a half-century. But men in their prime working years are much more likely to be unemployed than they once were. Ten years after t...
Interview: Anna Wiener, Author Of 'Uncanny Valley' SCOTT SIMON, HOST: When Anna Wiener was a 20-something, she left her job at a literary agency in New York and moved to California to join the high-tech world of inflection points, designpreneurs, bli...
No Sex For Fish: How Kenyan Women Try to Stop Transactional S AILSA CHANG, HOST: Midmorning is the busiest, loudest time of the day on the shores of Lake Victoria. That's when local women show up to buy fish from the boats just arriving after a night...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Designed by clowns who, in turn, are supervised by monkeys. That is how one Boeing employee described the development of the company's troubled 737 Max aircraft. It's just one of a number of remarkable comments made in internal do...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: What power might Congress claim, or reclaim, to limit the president's ability to take further military action against Iran? A war powers resolution sponsored by Democrats was approved yesterday in the House of Representatives. Th...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It looks unlikely that Cory Booker will qualify for next week's Democratic presidential debate - second debate in a row that he's missed. For much of this campaign, the New Jersey senator has struggled to gain traction in the pol...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Let's pursue answers to a big question posed by Senator Mike Lee. He is a Republican from Utah. He says he supports President Trump, but he told Rachel Martin yesterday that the administration has done a terrible job explaining i...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: A top Iranian diplomat says his country has finished its retaliation against the United States. But it's worth listening carefully to the way he says it. A wider conflict between the two nations seems certain to continue. The Iran...
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: This new year, how about some new music? (SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE) ANDREA BOCELLI: (Singing in non-English language). TRAVIS SCOTT: (Rapping) Made this here with all the ice on in the booth. UNIDENTIFIED MUSICAL ARTIST: (Vocalizing...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: They are called the 1% - the richest of the rich. And as income and wealth inequality have grown significantly in this country, they've become more of a political, economic and social focus. We have new poll out today that breaks...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he has the votes to start the impeachment trial without hashing out the terms with Democrats. McConnell confirmed yesterday he is abandoning attempts to reach an agreement with Minority...
SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: When you look at a painting on a museum wall, you might think about the artist and their technique. You probably don't think about what it took to get the painting on that wall. A show now at the Denver Art Museum through early...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Cancer death rates in the United States recently dropped more sharply than ever, according to an analysis by the American Cancer Society. NPR science correspondent Richard Harris reports on what's driving the trend. RICHARD HARRIS,...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In Florida, it used to be that someone who convicted a felony could never again vote - a lifetime ban. One year ago, though, a new constitutional amendment ended the ban. Then, though, the State Legislature put up a roadblock. Th...
