Justine Kenin

Justine Kenin appears in the following:

The trauma of gun violence affects all children, not just the ones who were there

Friday, May 27, 2022

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox, author of the book Children Under Fire, about the immediate and long-term affects of gun violence on children.

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Alyssa Gaines is named National Youth Poet Laureate

Friday, May 27, 2022

Alyssa Gaines, an 18-year-old from Indianapolis, has been named the 6th National Youth Poet Laureate.

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Animal sexuality may not be as binary as we're led to believe, according to new book

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Eliot Schrefer, author of Queer Ducks (And Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality. It's about how "natural sex" may not be as binary as some think.

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2-year investigation reveals ICE has data on most of the American public

Friday, May 20, 2022

NPR's Emily Feng talks with Nina Wang, a policy associate at the Center on Privacy & Technology and a co-author of a recent study that exposes the widening dragnet of ICE's surveillance of Americans.

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Rebuilding Ukraine could cost hundreds of billions of dollars

Friday, May 20, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ukrainian economist Yuriy Gorodnichenko about the cost of rebuilding Ukraine after the war.

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Much of the U.S. could criminalize abortion. But how will those laws be enforced?

Friday, May 20, 2022

Law professor Kim Mutcherson said that while states are bound by HIPAA laws, individuals are not. This means that abortion "bounty hunters" could help punish people who seek abortions in other states.

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'Carbon bomb' projects are hurting any hope of meeting climate goals

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

NPR's Emily Feng talks with Oliver Milman, environment correspondent for The Guardian, about how U.S. fossil fuel projects are damaging efforts to limit climate change.

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Much of the U.S. could criminalize abortion. But how will those laws be enforced?

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

NPR's Emily Feng talks with reproductive rights lawyer Kim Mutcherson about how restrictive abortion laws would be enforced if Roe v. Wade is overturned or weakened.

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New York attorney general speaks to NPR about Buffalo shooting

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with New York state Attorney General Letitia James, who appeared in Buffalo with President Biden after the mass shooting, about gun violence and extremism in the state.

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Emma Straub on using time travel to escape the pandemic in 'This Time Tomorrow'

Monday, May 16, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Emma Straub about her new novel, This Time Tomorrow, in which the central character is turning 40 — but wakes up and is age 16 again.

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How Brooke Hayward's marriage to Dennis Hopper helped ignite the 1960s' art explosion

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Mark Rozzo talks about his latest book Everybody Thought We Were Crazy. It offers a look into the relationship between Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward and their impact on 1960s Los Angeles.

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A widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus

Friday, May 06, 2022

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Shelby Van Pelt about her new novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures. It centers heartache, loss — and how friendship can help us get through that kind of pain.

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The acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine is preparing for 2 big transitions

Friday, May 06, 2022

The U.S. embassy is about to return to Kyiv, after evacuating to Poland early in the war. Also, President Biden has nominated a veteran diplomat to fill the post that has been vacant for three years.

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Astros' Dusty Baker makes history as 1st Black MLB manager to win 2,000 games

Wednesday, May 04, 2022

Dusty Baker, manager for the Houston Astros and baseball legend, has passed the milestone of 2,000 career wins.

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Ukraine's Foreign Minister says Mariupol is still in Ukrainian hands

Wednesday, May 04, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly interviews Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba about the state of the war and where things might go from here.

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This former Gap employee is on a quest to collect hundreds of in-store playlists

Tuesday, May 03, 2022

When Michael Bise started his job at Gap in 1992, he was struck by the music the store played. He's been on the hunt for in-store playlists ever since.

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Retired colonel on the rise of javelin missiles, as Biden seeks to aid Ukraine

Tuesday, May 03, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mark Cancian, a former Marine colonel and expert on military procurement, about Biden's request to Congress for billions of dollars to buy javelin missiles to aid Ukraine.

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The Depp-Heard trial is bringing attention to intimate partner violence

Monday, May 02, 2022

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Kellie Lynch, who researches intimate partner and domestic violence, about how this abuse is influencing public opinion in the trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

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New Mexico wildfire surges to cover over 100,000 acres

Monday, May 02, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with San Miguel county commissioner Max Trujillo about the latest news on fighting the Hermit's Peak wildfire.

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New book examines the link between German business families and Nazi fortunes

Thursday, April 28, 2022

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks with writer David de Jong about his new book that explores the relationship between Nazism and some of Germany's wealthiest families.

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