MARTIN: And this is For The Record. There are 11.3 million people in the U.S. who have immigrated here illegally. And as you probably heard, the presidential candidates have different opinions about how to handle them - most notably, the GOP front-ru...
In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, Oh my God, I'm exactly the same. Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was po...
JULIA ROBERTS: (As Anna Scott) And don't forget, I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. SANAA LATHAN: (As Monica Wright) I've loved you since I was 11 and the [expletive] won't go away. OMAR EPPS: (As Quincy McCall)...
Bob Cunningham: Tonight we've got lasagne, a vegetarian korma, steamed rice, and salads. David Lewis: Which of those do you expect to be the most popular? Bob Cunningham: The lasagne by a mile! David Lewis: It's almost dinner time, and staff at this...
We now bring you a love story. A boy and a girl from different backgrounds meet. They fall in love. Their parents don't approve. And that's the part that fells familiar, even universal. But this true story takes place in Afghanistan, where falling in...
So a while ago, I tried an experiment. For one year, I would say yes to all the things that scared me. Anything that made me nervous, took me out of my comfort zone, I forced myself to say yes to. Did I want to speak in public? No, but yes. Did I wan...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We turn now to a story about a missed opportunity. Several years ago, Adam Grant was approached to become an early investor in Warby Parker - you know, the first startup to sell eyeglasses online. Grant is a management consultant...
GUY RAZ, HOST: OK, so after this point the future is looking pretty awesome, you know, all this incredible technology to cure disease and make us live better lives but like the force, there is of course a dark side. Which is what Mark Goodman worries...
Amanda Smith: It's through languagethe sounds that you make with your mouth, with your tongue, your teeth, vocal cords, and lungsthat we convey meaning to each other. But there's a whole range of noises we make that are not words. They still communic...
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The French are having a huge cultural row over some spelling changes the government's about to put into effect, particularly the elimination of the circumflex - the little hat-shaped accent that sits on certain v...
So a few years ago, I did something really brave, or some would say really stupid. I ran for Congress. For years, I had existed safely behind the scenes in politics as a fundraiser, as an organizer, but in my heart, I always wanted to run. The sittin...
Ive just returned from a few weeks in Kazakhstan, a large country between Russia and Afghanistan. Home again, I changed my phone message to: Just back from Central Asia, which isnt Bali. Yes, the trip had been disturbing, physically and emotionally....
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now for a story about falling in love, and not just figuratively. In 2012, Natalie Lindeman went on a first date and she fell a hundred feet down a mountainside into a canyon. Lindeman wrote about her date, that fall and what hap...
A few years ago, I got one of those spam emails. And it managed to get through my spam filter. I'm not quite sure how, but it turned up in my inbox, and it was from a guy called Solomon Odonkoh. I know. It went like this: it said, Hello James Veitch,...
Hi, it's All in the Mind on RN. Today, why the gut has been dubbed our second brain. David Perlmutter: There are some absolutely avant-garde researchers who have finally made a huge leap and have decided to look for brain answers outside of the brain...
