Opinion

Politics & Government

Is Trump's Call For 'Law And Order' A Coded Racial Message?

7:35pm July 28, 2016

by Geoff Nunberg

Donald Trump's promise to be the "law-and-order" candidate revived a slogan often associated with Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. Linguist Geoff Nunberg discusses the term's racial underpinings

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Sports

TV Actors Make Big Money, So Why Grumble Over NFL Salaries?

5:15am July 27, 2016

Think NFL players' multimillion-dollar salaries are outrageous? ESPN's Pablo Torre says given the big TV dollars the NFL rakes in, players' incomes should really be compared to Hollywood paychecks.

Politics In The News: The Democratic Convention

5:10am July 25, 2016

Cokie Roberts and the Washington Post's Robert Costa talk politics ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

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?

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

Don't Do What I Do: How Getting Out Of Sync Can Help Relationships

7:00am July 16, 2016

by Christopher J. Hopwood

When someone's angry we tend to get angry in return. But responding in an unexpected way is a valid tool in psychotherapy, and it can help make everyday relationships work better, too.