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Classrooms in Columbus, Ohio, are empty on 1st day back as teachers strike
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Fuentes, Columbus Education Association spokesperson, about the teacher's strike over failed contract negotiations between the teacher's union and the school board.
Whistleblower says Twitter's security flaws are a risk to users and national security
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Washington Post's Joseph Menn, one of the reporters to break the story about Twitter's former security chief accusing the company of security and privacy vulnerabilities.
Nicole Mann will be the 1st Native woman in space
Monday, August 22, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, who is going to be the first Native woman in space.
Books We Love: Recommended reading for romance
Sunday, August 21, 2022
NPR's Books We Love has reading recommendations from our staff and contributors. Today, we hear about three new romance novels: "An Arrow to the Moon," "Young Mungo" and "Ramon and Julieta."
What's next for Liz Cheney
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
A key primary re-affirmed Trump's hold on the Republican party. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney lost her race in a landslide, defeated by a Trump-endorsed political newcomer: attorney Harriet Hageman.
Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act into law
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with The New New Deal author Michael Grunwald about President Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act into law, which addresses climate change, drug prices and taxes.
Belinda Huijuan Tang's debut novel explores family, forgiveness in times of change
Friday, August 12, 2022
Belinda Huijuan Tang's debut novel A Map for the Missing is a story about family, forgiveness and the challenge of grappling with the past while charting a path for the future.
Investigation reveals how government bureaucracy failed to stop family separations
Tuesday, August 09, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Atlantic immigration reporter Caitlin Dickerson about her extensive investigation into the Trump administration's family separation policy.
New report tracks criminal prosecutions of self-managed abortions
Tuesday, August 09, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Laura Huss, lead researcher of the new If/When/How report, about what the group found when looking back at cases that criminalized self-managed abortions since 2000.
How NASA's Webb telescope gets its packed schedule
Monday, August 08, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Christine Chen of the Space Telescope Science Institute about choosing and scheduling research projects for NASA's James Webb Telescope.
Former Republicans and Democrats form a new 3rd political party
Friday, August 05, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, two of the co-chairs of the new national political third party, called "Forward."
How to talk about monkeypox effectively, without stigmatizing gay men
Friday, August 05, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Gregg Gonsalves of the Yale School of Public health about the public messaging challenges around monkeypox, which is primarily affecting men who have sex with men.
Rising costs of food and housing bring new clients to Las Vegas food pantry
Wednesday, August 03, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro checks back in with Brooke Neubauer of Just One Project, a community market in Las Vegas, about the continued effects of inflation on the organization's ability to operate.
An Arctic shark found in Belize has researchers pondering deep sea discoveries
Tuesday, August 02, 2022
The Greenland shark can live for centuries and is typically found in cold arctic waters. One found in the warmer waters of Belize has researchers rethinking how widespread the marine species could be.
FEMA coordinator describes catastrophic flooding in Kentucky
Tuesday, August 02, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with FEMA's Federal Coordinating Officer Brett Howard overseeing the disaster response to massive floods in the Appalachian mountain communities in Kentucky.
Dems could pass the most ambitious climate package in years — but would it be enough?
Monday, August 01, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Manish Bapna, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, about the climate investments and actions in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Resuming Ukrainian grain exports may help reduce food insecurity in the Middle East
Monday, August 01, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Corinne Fleischer, the World Food Programme's Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe regional director, about what grain shipments from Ukraine means for some areas.
How a New Jersey city has achieved 0 traffic deaths in 4 years
Monday, August 01, 2022
With motor vehicle traffic fatalities rising, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Hoboken Director of Transportation and Parking Ryan Sharp on how Hoboken, N.J., has had zero traffic deaths in four years.
Only 31 new emoji were proposed this year
Friday, July 22, 2022
We've reached peak emoji. The Unicode Consortium proposed 31 new emoji this year, a quarter of the approved 112 emoji last year.
New baseball rule hopes to reverse decades of fan loss
Friday, July 22, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with LA Times baseball reporter Bill Shaikin about the defensive "pie-slice rule" and other ways the MLB is attempting to bring more excitement back to baseball.