Search results for

NPR's Michel Martin talks with political scientist Steven Levitsky of Harvard University about the future of American democracy.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with NetChoice's Carl Szabo, a critic of Florida's new social media restrictions for kids, about age verification and fears of data collection.

NPR, PBS and their member stations are on the brink of change as Congress closes in on wiping out all federal funding for public media.

The refrain — "Glory, glory, hallelujah" — shows up at labor protests, conservative rallies, church services and football games. It turns out the song, originally a war march, is flexible by design.

Not every American 65 and older is worrying about Medicare's open enrollment period, now underway. Some who are eligible for the government insurance...

The current method of vaccine production, which requires the incubation of flu virus in chicken eggs, may not be up to the task of protecting people from a new strain of deadly flu.

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin has appointed former federal mine safety official Davitt McAteer to head a special state investigation into conditions in the coal industry. The probe comes after an explosion at the Sago coal mine that killed 12 miners. Anna Sale of West Virginia Public Radio reports.

Alaska's Stryker Brigade was scheduled to wrap up the state's biggest deployment since Vietnam, but instead the Department of Defense announced this week that the unit's deployment would be extended. One Stryker soldier is coming home. Sergeant Irving Hernandez was killed by sniper fire just a few weeks before his deployment was scheduled to end. Libby Casey of member station KUAC in Fairbanks has this remembrance.

Experts confirm that a cluster of trees found by a scientist hiking near Pine Mountain, Ga., are in fact American chestnut trees. But researchers say they have no idea how the trees escaped a blight in the early 1900s, which experts thought had wiped out the entire U.S. population of the trees.

Retail giant Wal-Mart is facing criticism over an internal memo that proposes aggressive moves to trim employee benefit costs, such as discouraging unhealthy people from taking jobs at Wal-Mart. The company, whose stock price has dropped over the last year, is under pressure from investors to cut costs.

Celebrated film producer Richard Zanuck, whose latest movie is director Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, discusses his wide-ranging career and Hollywood today.

Many consider the 26-mile men's marathon to be the Summer Olympics' most grueling event. Olympic race walker Curt Clausen -- an athlete who must push through 50 kilometers in about four hours, without breaking into a run -- would disagree. NPR's Tom Goldman profiles Clausen.

Actress Jennifer Garner appeared last week on the Web site of the Central Intelligence Agency. Garner plays a CIA case officer in the ABC show Alias. Her video encourages people to consider a career at the CIA. NPR's Robert Siegel takes us on an audio tour of the CIA's recruitment Web site where, with the help of NPR's Frank Tavares, we hear about exciting job opportunities at the agency.

During the Cold War, the world's biggest country and the world's most populous fought over ideology and borders. The two giants have put much of that hostility behind them to forge strong economic bonds. But as NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports, mistrust remains.

New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte admits using human growth hormone in 2002 — not banned by baseball until 2005. The Baltimore Orioles became the first team to publicly criticize the report. How will the league and players' union deal with issues detailed in the report?

A Spanish delivers verdicts for 27 men and one woman charged in connection with the Madrid train bombings in 2004. Charges range from masterminding the attack to stealing dynamite to building the bombs. They detonated on four commuter trains, killing 191 people.

Conjuring images of America's founding fathers — Washington, Adams, Franklin — is easy. But less is known about the women who helped build a new nation. In a new book, Founding Mothers, NPR News Analyst Cokie Roberts examines the lives and contributions of Revolutionary wives and lesser-known women of the era. Roberts speaks with NPR's Renee Montagne.

A retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates the life of Salvador Dali, going beyond the surrealist work for which he is most famous. Curators wanted to explore Dali's later efforts, which left many critics unimpressed. Joel Rose of member station WHYY in Philadelphia took an early tour of the exhibit.

All actors, whether they know it or not, owe a debt to Constantine Stanislavsky, a businessman turned actor who revolutionized the art of acting. Stanislavsky set out to create what he called a "believable truth" onstage.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich announces his state will become the first to help residents buy prescription drugs from pre-screened pharmacies in Canada, England and Ireland, the first state program to help residents buy drugs from Europe. NPR's Julie Rovner reports.

A century ago, one of three U.S. children went to a one-room schoolhouse. A few survive, most in rural communities. Taki Telonidis of the Western Folklife Center profiles a Nevada school.

Anti-American anger in the Arab world is at an all-time high, shaped by the Iraq war -- and a perception that U.S. foreign policy is hostile to Arab and Muslim concerns. NPR's Deborah Amos concludes her series on Iraq's Arab neighbors.

National Geographic Society staff photographer Chris Rainier talks with NPR's Alex Chadwick about a retrospective of photos taken by John Szarkowski, an influential photo curator for New York's Museum of Modern Art from 1962 to 1991.

The most senior woman in Nepal's Maoist insurgency is known as Comrade Parvati. In a rare interview from hiding in India, she explains why women are drawn to the insurgency, how children are used in the insurgency and why killing is sometimes neccessary.

Everyman, the latest novel from author Philip Roth, tells the story of a man's life through his illnesses and, ultimately, his death. But it's also a book about a man trying to stay alive. Roth discusses the novel, the writing process and his own thoughts on mortality.