Opinion

Oh, weird, a street scene in Mumbai where everything isn't covered in neon clouds of dust. Is this really even India?

Music & Culture

Dear White Artists Making Music Videos In India: Step Away From The 'Holi' Powder

4:42pm February 01, 2016

by Tasneem Raja

Yes, this is about the new Beyoncé-Coldplay music video for "Hymn For the Weekend," which also features levitating sadhus, a child painted blue to resemble Hindu gods, and fire-breathing.

Andy Goodling, with his father, Scott, on a recent visit with StoryCorps.

National

Amid A Lost Love, A Son And Father Finally Speak The Secret Between Them

7:58am January 29, 2016

by NPR Staff

It was a love long hidden, and cut short all too soon. But it was only around the time Andy Goodling's boyfriend died that he was finally ready to tell his father: "Bryan was my everything."

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Journal editors want researchers to unlock the data vault.

Journal Editors To Researchers: Show Everyone Your Clinical Data

3:19pm January 26, 2016

by Harlan Krumholz

The world's leading medical journals have a proposal that could transform medical science: Researchers would have to publicly share their clinical data to get their studies published.

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Sex Won't Make You Dance Better; Sex In A Pool Won't Prevent Pregnancy

10:35am January 25, 2016

by Jane Otai

That's what health care educator Jane Otai had to tell a group of teenage girls to correct their mistaken ideas about being sexually active.

Sports

Sometimes, You Have To Pass The Ball

1:55pm January 20, 2016

by Frank Deford

Cities lose sports teams, as occasionally things have to change, and that's just part of life, according to sports commentator Frank Deford.

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Sports

New Commentators Coming To 'Morning Edition'

10:13am January 20, 2016

by Elizabeth Jensen

Morning Edition will start to develop a more diverse group of contributors.

When a country is declared Ebola-free â like Sierra Leone last November â the mood is upbeat. But that doesn't mean the virus is vanquished, as Sierra Leone learned this month.

Has The World Learned The Wrong Lessons From The Ebola Outbreak?

3:34pm January 19, 2016

by Nahid Bhadelia

By focusing on the end of the epidemic, writes infectious disease specialist Nahid Bhadelia, we miss the larger point.

When is it easier to ignore that text message than reply to it?

Going Away Without 'Ghosting': A Better Way To Say 'I'm Not Into You'

9:10am January 14, 2016

by Sarah Hepola

The simple answer? Honesty. Commentator Sarah Hepola says that once she learned how to turn down dates with men she wasn't interested in, it became much easier to say yes to the ones she liked.

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Everyone Uses Singular 'They,' Whether They Realize It Or Not

2:21pm January 13, 2016

by Geoff Nunberg

The singular, gender-neutral usage of "they" is now acceptable on college campuses, among the genderqueer and in the Washington Post. Linguist Geoff Nunberg traces the rise of the new "they."

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David Bowie performs during a concert celebrating his 50th birthday, on Jan. 9, 1997, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

David Bowie, The Internet Visionary

12:23pm January 12, 2016

by Laura Sydell

Bowie was an explorer of what it meant to be human. In a 1999 interview, he predicted the power of the Internet — "an alien life form" — to break down the divisions between artists and the audience.