Opinion

Sports

Deford: A New Sports Talk Show By Women, But Will People Watch?

12:22pm October 08, 2014

by Frank Deford

Women are everywhere in sports — coaches, executives, athletes and reporters. Commentator Frank Deford wonders why there's still low viewership for women's sports on TV.

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Paul Pillar (right), a former national intelligence officer, with teammate Aaron David Miller, argues that the U.S. should have a smaller military footprint in the Middle East.

Debate: Does U.S. Military Intervention In The Middle East Help Or Hurt?

8:25pm October 07, 2014

by NPR Staff

As the U.S. presses on with airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, two teams tackled the motion "Flexing American Muscles In The Middle East Will Make Things Worse," in the latest Intelligence Squared debate.

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Arts

Does Television Spanglish Need A Rewrite?

5:50pm October 04, 2014

by Jasmine Garsd

More Hollywood writers are having Latino characters speak a mix of English and Spanish. But if Latinos themselves are divided over Spanglish, how can the entertainment industry get it right?

Firing a man on a mobile phone in a public setting? NPR's Scott Simon doubts that's in any manual of etiquette or management techniques.

A Stranger On A Train, A Phone Call, A Man's Life Transformed

1:50pm October 04, 2014

by Scott Simon

Announcing a layoff over the phone is bad etiquette, but it's the stuff of a great short story. When NPR's Scott Simon overheard such a moment, he couldn't help but try to fill in the gaps.

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Goodbye To All That: Farewells In Sports

3:23pm October 01, 2014

by Frank Deford

In honor of Derek Jeter's last game, commentator Frank Deford recalls other sports' so-long-see-you-laters.

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As The Ebola Outbreak Worsens, A Book About Compassion

6:59pm September 26, 2014

by Alaya Dawn Johnson

This week, the CDC predicted there could be tens of thousands of Ebola cases if the disease is not controlled soon. Author Alaya Dawn Johnson turns to a favorite novel for wisdom amid this epidemic.

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Sports

What We Talk About When We Talk About Race And Sports

1:31pm September 24, 2014

by Frank Deford

Commentator Frank Deford reflects on the owner of the Atlanta Hawks' controversial efforts to market the team to white audiences.

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Education experts faced off on the motion "Embrace the Common Core" at an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate, moderated by John Donvan (center).

Debate: Should Schools Embrace The Common Core?

2:10pm September 19, 2014

by NPR Staff

The Common Core has arguably become the most contentious issue in American education. Experts face off over the new state standards in the latest Intelligence Squared debate.

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Kevin and Joyce Lucey remembered their son, Jeff, in an interview with StoryCorps in Wellesley, Mass. Jeff, a U.S. Marine, took his own life months after returning from a deployment in Iraq.

Nightmares And Darkness Follow Marine Home From Iraq War

10:45am September 15, 2014

by NPR Staff

Jeff Lucey deployed to Iraq with the Marines in 2003. He returned home later that year, and initially, all seemed well. But it slowly became apparent that Lucey was struggling with invisible wounds.

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Week In Politics: Obama's ISIS Speech, Rand Paul

6:32pm September 12, 2014

Regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and David Brooks of The New York Times discuss President Obama's Islamic state speech, Rand Paul and the current political races across the country, with a trend of the public swaying more towards the Republicans.

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