There's a big question at the center of life in our democracies today: How do we fight terror without destroying democracies, without trampling human rights? I've spent much of my career working with journalists, with bloggers, with activists, with h...
When I was about this small, I decided that I wanted to help save the planet. I was one of those kids that would tear off the label of the tea bag and then put it in the waste paper and then think where I put the staple. So I also really liked the id...
So this is my niece. Her name is Yahli. She is nine months old. Her mum is a doctor, and her dad is a lawyer. By the time Yahli goes to college, the jobs her parents do are going to look dramatically different. In 2013, researchers at Oxford Universi...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Health care providers are thinking a lot more about the end of life and trying to emphasize the quality of that life. Lahey Hospital outside of Boston is taking a musical approach to make their patients a little more comfortable. P...
For a long time in my life, I felt like I'd been living two different lives. There's the life that everyone sees, and then there's the life that only I see. And in the life that everyone sees, who I am is a friend, a son, a brother, a stand-up comedi...
Has anyone here ever done a plank before? And when I say plank, I dont mean where you get on the ground, lie down on random things, and take pictures for Instagram. I mean that awful exercise they probably made you do in gym class. My name is Gabi Ur...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Clothes can make you feel confident, even powerful. But can a piece of clothing save your life? We are about to meet a man who dresses other people for a living. And then we'll hear NPR's Hanna Rosin turn the mirror on him and a...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: This next story is about a unique relationship between people and a wild animal, a bird called the honeyguide. Like the name suggests, this bird will deliberately guide people to honey. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports a new st...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Are American police too afraid of the public? That's a sensitive question, especially after five officers were gunned down in Dallas last week. Many reformers say it has to be asked. NPR's Martin Kaste reports now on the growing de...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: As you know, we've been following the attack on the boardwalk in Nice and the attempted coup in Turkey, both of which claimed dozens of lives. But those are just two of recent violent episodes that shocked the world. There was al...
All right. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, President Reif. Thank you Class of 1966. That was alarming walking along and seeing 66 and then somebody saying, Oh its their 50th I almost had a heart attack. Time flies. And mostly thank you to th...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And because summer is here, many people will soon be taking a vacation. We hope yours will be everything that you want it to be. But what if it doesn't turn out so well? At least, what happens when travel dreams become travel night...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Writer Virginia Heffernan fell in love with the Internet through the strains of Pachelbel's Canon. (SOUNDBITE OF YOUTUBE VIDEO, GUITAR) MARTIN: It was January of 2006, and this video appeared on YouTube in its early days. (SOUNDB...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Electronic-cigarettes are often billed as a safe way for smokers to kick the habit. But it's not just smokers who are getting their fix this way. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in five kids in m...
Donald Trump: The CNN reporter, an absolutely horrible reporter, she starts off saying, 'Oh look, the room is half empty,' everybody was standing right next to me in the front of the room. Journalist: Well, make no mistake, everything you just heard...
