Commentary

A chronic shortage of donor hearts places doctors in an ethical dilemma.

Should Doctors Game The Transplant Wait List To Help Their Patients?

6:13pm July 24, 2016

by Matthew Movsesian

A cardiologist knows how to game the system to get his patients bumped up the list for a heart transplant by giving them care they don't need. Is that being a good doctor — or a moral failure?

Politics & Government

'America First,' Invoked By Trump, Has A Complicated History

8:37am July 23, 2016

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon looks back at the history of the slogan, "America First," which goes back to the 1940s, and has both bipartisan and anti-Semitic roots.

Invisibilia: The Unbearable Lightness Of Footwear

6:43pm July 22, 2016

by Colin Dwyer

When we invented shoes, we slipped a surface between ourselves and the world. Ever wonder if this is the moment mankind fell from grace? No? Well, for better or worse, NPR's Colin Dwyer has.

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump speaking during the final night of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Politics & Government

Trump Cited My Work In His Speech — But He Missed The Point

4:52pm July 22, 2016

by Pam Fessler

Donald Trump talked about how "the system is rigged against our citizens, just like it was rigged against Bernie Sanders — he never had a chance."

Week In Politics: Republican National Convention

4:32pm July 22, 2016

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with our regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times about the Republican National Convention, the vice presidential picks and other political news of the week.

Arts

Turns Out, Fighting Fat Shaming And Racist Trolls Is Also A Ghostbuster's Job

2:00pm July 22, 2016

by Tanya Ballard Brown

Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones quit Twitter this week after getting her fill of racist and sexist trolls. But, as the saying goes, every goodbye is not gone.

"I watched that night in Dallas like everyone else, through the lens of my own back story," novelist Mat Johnson writes.

National

'I'm Petrified For My Children': Will Racism And Guns Lead To America's Ruin?

1:44pm July 21, 2016

by Mat Johnson

Novelist Mat Johnson says the nation's unresolved racial legacy, our love of guns and our method of policing have put the country on a fatal and disastrous path.

Queue Listen Now

Actors Diana Sands, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil and Sidney Poitier appear in the 1961 film adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.

Arts
Economy

Hollywood And The Middle Class: Selling Dreams Of 'Somewhere That's Green'

6:00pm July 20, 2016

by Bob Mondello

We don't call Hollywood a "Dream Factory" for nothing. If you have a vision of the sort of place you'd like to live, Tinseltown can bring it to life.

Sports

It's Impossible To Guarantee That The Rio Games Will Be Drug Free

5:05am July 20, 2016

In this age of drug-tainted Olympic champions, sports commentator Kevin Blackistone thinks there's a lesson to be learned from a university commencement ceremony.

NPR's Scott Simon and his family enjoyed the Bastille Day fireworks in Deauville, France.

World News

Balancing Safety And Celebration On The Streets Of France

8:37am July 16, 2016

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon celebrated Bastille Day in France with his family. Even before he learned of the attack in Nice, he struggled to balance the joy of the festivities with the undercurrent of fear.