Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Search results for

  • The stories that NPR's readers embraced range from news of President Trump's first year in D.C. to warnings about living in an "underslept state" and "What Living On $100,000 A Year Looks Like."
  • NPR's Dan Charles reports on efforts to create vast new libraries on-line. While more and more information is being made available through computer networks, it's a surprisingly difficult and slow process to convert large amounts of written material into a form that can be easily accessed via computer.
  • New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin has covered climate change and climate politics for 20 years. His new book The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World is geared toward young adults.
  • The James Beard award-winning chef was the youngest ever to receive a three-star review from The New York Times. His new memoir, Yes, Chef, explains what it takes to be a master chef — and describes his journey from Ethiopia to Sweden to some of America's finest restaurants.
  • The economy still takes the top spot as the most pressing concern, but preserving democracy continues to rank high in NPR's polling, an aberration in American history.
  • The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 siege at the Capitol has voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump to question him about what he knew beforehand and how he reacted during the attack.
  • John Powers, Fresh Air critic at large, weighs in on the trends of 2007: political campaigns, Iraq movies failing at the box office, HBO's The Sopranos, stories about hitting the road, the TMZing of America, jocks gone wild, hip sentimentality, the nightly ideological news, atheist chic and the writers strike.
  • Some people think competition is an art. Others believe it's a skill. A new book suggests it might be neither — and that there is a science behind winning. Host Michel Martin speaks with authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman about Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing.
  • It's been a month since Hurricane Dorian slammed into the Bahamas. The hardest hit area was Marsh Harbour which is still struggling to come back. Most residents have fled, further slowing recovery.
  • The 90-day suspensions go into effect immediately and could be extended, FIFA says. Along with President Blatter, the group banned one of his rivals for six years.
27 of 28,176