Ari Shapiro

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EPA administrator says it's 'all hands on deck' in Jackson, Miss.

Wednesday, September 07, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan about the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, Miss. The city has now gone 39 days without safe drinking water.

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East Kentucky's cultural cornerstone is trying to salvage its archives after floods

Wednesday, September 07, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Alex Gibson of the Kentucky-based arts and media organization Appalshop, about how recent floods affected their archives of Appalachian music, film and heritage items.

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Encore: Werner Herzog's new novel is a story of the jungle and obsession and delusion

Tuesday, September 06, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with filmmaker Werner Herzog about his debut novel, The Twilight World. It tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting decades after the end of WWII.

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What's next for Chile after voters rejected a new constitution

Tuesday, September 06, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Antonia Laborde, a reporter for El País in Santiago de Chile after voters in the country rejected a new constitution. Now the country must consider a new path forward.

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A.M. Homes on writing about characters that have different set of values from her

Tuesday, September 06, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author A.M. Homes about her new book, The Unfolding, which focuses on a Republican power broker between election night 2008 and Inauguration Day in January 2009.

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Social media can inflame your emotions — and it's a byproduct of its design

Tuesday, September 06, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Max Fisher, author of The Chaos Machine, about how social media companies leverage content that elicits anger and outrage to keep users engaged on their platforms.

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What we know about the stabbings in Saskatchewan

Monday, September 05, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Bill Graveland, national correspondent for The Canadian Press, on the recent stabbings in Saskatchewan.

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The United Kingdom's next prime minister could be a foreign policy hard-liner

Friday, September 02, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ben Judah, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, about British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who will likely succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.

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How Artemis 1 fits into NASA's grand vision for space exploration

Thursday, September 01, 2022

It's been nearly 50 years since the latest Apollo landing, and the landscape for space exploration is wildly different. Why is NASA's latest mission focused on revisiting the moon?

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Former Australian Prime Minister blames Fox News for America's polarized politics

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Why are American politics so polarized now? NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull about why he blames Rupert Murdoch, the former CEO of Fox News.

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NASA is going back to the moon. What's different this time?

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lori Garver, the former deputy administrator of NASA, about the space agency's goals and priorities.

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25 years ago, Princess Diana's shocking death became one of the first viral moments

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Tina Brown, author of The Palace Papers, about the lasting impact of Lady Diana's death 25 years later.

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It seems like everyone loves garlic. 'Eater' looks at why do recipes use so little

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Eater reporter Bettina Makalintal about her recent piece, "Why Do So Many Recipes Call for So Little Garlic?"

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Why climate change may be driving more infectious diseases

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

While the impacts of climate change may conjure images of natural disasters, a new study shows that its can also impact humans on a microscopic level.

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How climate change could be impacting pathogenic diseases

Monday, August 29, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with climate scientist Camilo Mora on what impact climate change is having on pathogenic diseases.

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Thieves may have just pulled off the 'heist of the century'

Friday, August 26, 2022

A brazen, early morning robbery of a Brinks truck may be the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history. Thieves took 22 containers, each weighing about 100 pounds, which could be worth $100 million total.

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Remembering Joey DeFrancesco, pioneering Hammond organist who changed jazz music

Friday, August 26, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with music critic Nate Chinen about the legacy of iconic jazz Hammond organ player Joey DeFrancesco, who died on Thursday.

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Trigger laws in now 14 states place further restrictions and punishments on abortion

Thursday, August 25, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mary Ziegler, professor of law at UC Davis, to discuss the impact of the trigger laws banning abortion in Tennessee, Idaho and Texas.

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'Who Killed Daphne' podcast seeks answers and justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia

Thursday, August 25, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Stephen Grey, the host of Who Killed Daphne. The podcast investigates the 2017 death of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed in a car bomb in Malta.

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The book 'Haven' is a monastic retreat to an island inhabited only by men and birds

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Emma Donoghue about her new book, Haven. In it, three Irish monks in the Middle Ages choose to live a life of isolation on a rocky island.

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