Opinion

Abraar Karan spent time in rural India in 2008 while working for Unite for Sight, a nonprofit group that provides eye care. Above: He interviews a woman about the challenge of living from severe cataracts.

Opinion: How COVID Reveals The Hypocrisy Of The Global Health 'Experience'

7:00am April 18, 2021

by Abraar Karan

Health workers from the West couldn't help out in other countries due to lockdowns and restrictions. So they turned to help at home. But what is their role in lower resource countries moving forward?

U.S. Marines conduct an operation to clear a village of Taliban fighters on July 5, 2009, in Mian Poshteh, Afghanistan. The U.S. and NATO forces plan to withdraw their remaining troops from Afghanistan by September.

Opinion: U.S. Faces Hard Choices To Fight Terrorism After Afghanistan Withdrawal

4:32pm April 15, 2021

by Colin P. Clarke

Al-Qaida is degraded but not defeated. Analyst Colin Clarke assesses where the U.S. may be mapping out its future counterterrorism presence after withdrawing from Afghanistan.

Anne Beatts attends the Live From New York! documentary's Los Angeles premiere after-party on June 10, 2015.

Arts

Opinion: Remembering The Late Comedy Writer Anne Beatts

8:36am April 10, 2021

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon remembers comedy writer Anne Beatts, who died this week at the age of 74. She worked in male-dominated writers' rooms at Saturday Night Live and National Lampoon magazine.

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A soldier holds a Taiwanese flag during a military exercise in Hsinchu County, northern Taiwan, in January. Taiwanese troops using tanks, mortars and small arms staged a drill aimed at repelling an attack from China.

World News

Opinion: Don't Help China By Hyping Risk Of War Over Taiwan

11:41am April 08, 2021

"Hyping the threat that China poses to Taiwan does Beijing's work for it," write Richard Bush and Ryan Hass of Brookings and Bonnie Glaser of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

National

Reparations Can — And Should — Take Many Forms, Says Human Rights Researcher

4:43pm March 26, 2021

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Dreisen Heath, a researcher and advocate at the Human Rights Watch, about reparations in the United States.

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Florida's Pasco County Health Department and the Army National Guard partnered with Fellowship Church in Tampa, Fla., to help city residents age 65 and older get immunized with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in February.

OPINION: 5 Ways To Make The Vaccine Rollout More Equitable

9:03am March 25, 2021

Getting the COVID-19 vaccine into most Americans' arms will involve much more than a good supply and logistics. Values such as equity, deep listening, and informed choice are crucial, too.

Jenny Choi (left) and Kristi You place flowers Wednesday at the entrance of Gold Spa, one of three locations where deadly shootings happened in the Atlanta area this week.

National

Opinion: The 8 We Lost

8:35am March 20, 2021

by Scott Simon

We learned more about the suspect in the Georgia shootings than the victims, possibly because the women who died may have been too busy working to leave long histories on social media.

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A farmer in a pasture circa 1945 appears to get his cow cuddles for free. These days, it could cost him.

Health & Safety

Opinion: The Comfort of Cow Cuddles

2:17pm March 13, 2021

by Scott Simon

Americans are paying $75 an hour to hug a cow. The bovine cuddles can boost oxytocin levels in humans.

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Women have power — but also lack power — in Coming 2 America, starring Eddie Murphy (right) as an African king with three daughters and a newly discovered out-of-wedlock son.

Health & Safety

13 Things I Did (And Did Not) Love About 'Coming 2 America': An African Perspective

7:25am March 13, 2021

by Ifeanyi Nsofor

Our Nigerian critic wants you to know: We Africans do not see wild animals in our backyards! Women are allowed to own businesses! But I did admire the awesome head-ties — and powerful princesses!

Bystanders flash a three-fingered sign of resistance as the body of Kyal Sin leaves the Yunnan Chinese temple in Mandalay, Myanmar earlier this week.

World News

Opinion: Death Of A Teenage Protester in Myanmar

10:15am March 06, 2021

by Scott Simon

A teenager, Kyal Sin, also known as Angel, was killed during recent protests in Myanmar. NPR's Scott Simon considers her final moments and her legacy.