Opinion

Week In Politics: House Passes American Health Care Act

4:31pm May 05, 2017

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor for National Review and columnist for Bloomberg View. They discuss the House passing the American Health Care Act and President Trump's executive order on religious liberty.

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Hate Speech And The Misnomer Of 'The Marketplace of Ideas'

4:03pm May 03, 2017

by David Shih

The belief that more speech is the remedy for "bad" speech can be a principled stance. But racist hate speech may not be doing what free speech defenders think it is.

Health & Safety

The Surprising Wishes Of India's Sex Workers

7:00am April 30, 2017

by Abraar Karan

A researcher found that some of them don't want to be "rescued." And that in one community, sex work is a traditional occupation for married women.

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Arts

Is Facebook Real Life Or Is It Just Fantasy?

10:00am April 29, 2017

Dear Sugar Radio is a podcast offering "radical empathy" and advice for the lost, lonely and heartsick. Today the hosts hear from a woman in an "emotional affair" with a college friend on Facebook.

Those ubiquitous drug ads are selling cures to ills we'll probably never have.

Those TV Drug Ads Distract Us From The Medical Care We Need

5:00am April 29, 2017

by John Henning Schumann

Doctors spend lots of time answering questions about the latest drug ad, and that means less time answering questions that could really help your health, a primary care physician says.

Two reconstructed buildings stand in the former Manzanar War Relocation Center. Once, 10,046 people were imprisoned here.

Walking In Their Footsteps At A Former Japanese Internment Camp

4:01am April 29, 2017

by Melissa Hung

"I wanted to see Manzanar with my own eyes, so that my understanding of history might feel deeper through the experience of place."

Week In Politics: Tillerson On North Korea, Michael Flynn

4:31pm April 28, 2017

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with political commentators David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution. They discuss the Trump administration's latest stance on North Korea and the Pentagon's investigation into whether Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn broke the law by receiving money from a foreign source after retiring from the service.

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Why My Coal Mining Grandfather's Deathbed Advice Applies To Minority Americans

4:31am April 23, 2017

by Amy Alexander

As my grandfather lay dying from Black Lung disease, his eldest children did not question or doubt his advice to them: go out and get educations, and master newer ways of working.

Week In Politics: Trump Approaches 100th Day As President

4:34pm April 21, 2017

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with E.J. Dionne, of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and Kristen Soltis Anderson of the Washington Examiner and Echelon Insights.

When It Comes To Policymaking, The Rules Don't Apply To Climate Change

6:20pm April 20, 2017

by Adam Frank

On Saturday, people from around the country will take to the streets in the March for Science. Organizers say that the point of the March is not to make science political, but to highlight the reality of science to politicians, as a guide in policymaking, in which science is an uncharted issue.

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