Mary Louise Kelly

Mary Louise Kelly appears in the following:

An infrastructure expert weighs in on the Baltimore bridge collapse

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with critical infrastructure expert Stephen Flynn about the bridge collapse in Baltimore.

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Biden's National Security adviser says US had "duty to warn" Russia of Moscow attack

Monday, March 25, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with White House National Security communications adviser John Kirby about US intelligence on the recent terror attack near Moscow.

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The shaka could become an official state gesture for Hawaii

Friday, March 15, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Hawaiian native Ryan Ozawa about a pair of bills in the state legislature that would make the shaka an official state gesture.

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Remembering David Mixner, a 'titan' in the fight for gay rights

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly remembers the life of civil rights leader David Mixner with his friend and mentee, Brian Sims.

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In new novel '2054', technology is advancing, but is humanity able to catch up?

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

In the new book 2054, Admiral James Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman imagine how the singularity might threaten America and the world 30 years from now.

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World Food Program's Jean-Martin Bauer on Haiti's growing starvation

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with World Food Program director Jean-Martin Bauer on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Haiti as violence has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

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Jim Sciutto on if the next world war is preventable

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with CNN chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto about his new book The Return of Great Powers and how close we are to the precipice of a new global order.

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Maryland Sen. Van Hollen says Biden could pressure Israel to let more aid through

Monday, March 11, 2024

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen recently spoke out about a law that the U.S. could use to get more aid to people in Gaza. He talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about what the law is and what it means.

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An expert weighs in on the crisis in Haiti

Monday, March 11, 2024

Daniel Foote, a former American diplomat who was appointed as the special envoy to Haiti after the president was assassinated, speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the current crisis in Haiti.

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The space missions that aim to explore distant moons

Thursday, February 29, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with astrobiologists Catherine Neish and Kevin Hand about missions to Saturn's moon Titan and Jupiter's moon Europa, to search for conditions that could support life.

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The fickle, golden magic of the Yosemite "Fire Fall"

Thursday, February 29, 2024

For a few weeks each year, Horsetail Fall at Yosemite national park glows gold just before sunset. They call it the "Fire Fall." But it only happens if conditions are perfect.

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This online learning program is teaching preschoolers in crisis situations

Thursday, February 29, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Anya Kamenetz about an Arabic-language remote learning program called "Ahlan Simsim." It's a show by the Sesame Workshop, created for Syrian refugees.

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Biden campaign co-chair reacts to 'uncommitted' votes in Michigan

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the co-chair of the Biden campaign Mitch Landrieu about the Michigan primary results and challenges for the campaign moving forward.

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The Indigo Girls on how their song ended up in 'Barbie,' which is up for 8 Oscars

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, about their 1989 hit "Closer to Fine" being featured prominently in the Barbie movie, which is up for eight Oscars.

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Iraq War failures can be boiled down to miscommunications, according to this author

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with journalist and author Steve Coll about his new book, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, The CIA, and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq.

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The North Korean forced labor program supplying seafood around the world

Monday, February 26, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with journalist Ian Urbina about how upwards of 100,000 North Koreans have been sent to work in China, often in conditions of captivity.

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This rule change to women's volleyball is causing a stir

Friday, February 23, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with volleyball analyst Emily Ehman about the sport's new rule change that is causing a stir in the women's game.

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Uncertainty looms after Alabama's IVF court ruling

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Alabama's new court ruling that frozen embryos should receive legal protections as "unborn life," leaves fertility clinics and parents-to-be in limbo.

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Looking back on two years of war in Ukraine

Thursday, February 22, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Ukrainian writer Artem Chapeye about two years of war in Ukraine.

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What a Julian Assange conviction could mean for the future of press freedom

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University's Jameel Jaffer about arguments that prosecuting Julian Assange would threaten press freedom.

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