Interviews

Nurse practitioners Carla Saunders (left) and Kyle Cook at the East Tennessee Children's Hospital earlier this year.

National

How Two Nurses Decided To Help Babies Touched By Opioid Crisis

4:16am September 15, 2017

Kyle Cook and Carla Saunders, two neonatal nurses in Tennessee, remember the early days of the opioid crisis, a time that led them to help develop treatment protocols for babies exposed to opioids.

Richard Nixon says goodbye to his staff members outside the White House as he boards a helicopter after resigning the presidency on Aug. 9, 1974.

From Sept. 11 To The Beatles' British Invasion: How We Remember Our First News Events

9:15am September 11, 2017

Hundreds of NPR readers recounted their first memory of a news event. These are some of their stories.

Mike White's other writing credits include The Emoji Movie and several episodes of Freaks and Geeks and Dawson's Creek.

Fresh Air Weekend: Novelist John Le Carré And Director Mike White

11:03am September 09, 2017

Le Carré looks back on his career in espionage, and White discusses his new film, Brad's Status, about a father who starts to experience status anxiety while taking his son on a college tour.

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Michael Jackson appears at a news conference in New York in 1992, where it was announced that a marketing agreement had been struck between Jackson and Pepsi-Cola International.

Using Black Celebrities To Push Pop, Pudding And Politics

1:06pm September 08, 2017

by Gene Demby

In the 1960s, Tom Burrell helped change advertising by convincing agencies to tailor their pitches to black consumers, but he also saw his marketing work as part of a larger social project.

Arts

Actress Pamela Adlon Says 'Better Things' Is Dedicated To Her Daughters

10:59am September 08, 2017

Adlon's FX series is based on her own experience raising three girls as a single mom. Her daughters are very much a part of the show, she says. Originally broadcast Sept. 6, 2016.

Talat Hamdani says her son Salman, pictured here in 1983, was so proud to be an American. Salman died responding to the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City.

A Mother Remembers Her Son, A Muslim-American First Responder Who Died On Sept. 11

9:40am September 08, 2017

Talat Hamdani's son Salman died after the police cadet rushed to the fallen towers to help. The first responder was later wrongfully identified by police and the press as an accomplice in the attacks.

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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Institute of Politics.

'His Ideology Is White Supremacy': Ta-Nehisi Coates On Donald Trump

3:18pm September 07, 2017

by Jeffrey Pierre

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to writer Ta-Nehisi Coates about his cover story in The Atlantic magazine about Donald Trump, and how voters reacted to the first African-American president.

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Fresh Air Weekend: Director Elia Kazan; Singer Ronnie Spector; Novelist John Updike

11:59am September 02, 2017

We commemorate Fresh Air's 30th anniversary as a nationally syndicated show with interviews from our first years on air. Kazan and Spector spoke to Terry Gross in '88. Updike's interview is from '89.

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A recent scuffle between an elotero and a pedestrian in Hollywood re-energized discussion about legalizing street vending in California.

National

'I'm Not Racist, I'm Argentine!'

1:08am August 30, 2017

What does it look like when one Latino is racist towards another? And what can one tiny interaction say about the way communities relate? How one viral video reveals fissures in the Latino community.

A boy on the outskirts of Bogra, Bangladesh, on Aug. 20.

Epic Floods — Not Just In Texas — Are A Challenge For Aid Groups

4:18pm August 29, 2017

by Malaka Gharib

Two weeks before Hurricane Harvey struck, monsoon rains swamped Bangladesh, India and Nepal. Aid groups are struggling to deal with both disasters.