Patrick Jarenwattananon

Patrick Jarenwattananon appears in the following:

Meeting the Philadelphia team that embroiders presidential flags

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

A small workshop on a northeast Philadelphia military base exclusively manufactures the presidential and vice presidential flags. The tradition has been going on for more than 150 years.

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30 years after Oslo Accords, peace is far away for Israelis and Palestinians

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Aaron David Miller about the Oslo Peace agreement and what has happened since that historic handshake and signing ceremony.

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In a Portuguese town, the wine flows as free as a river — but no one is drinking it

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Roughly 581,000 gallons of wine poured out of two burst tanks at Destilaria Levira in Portugal Sunday, which led to a viral video of a "river of wine" coursing down a hilly street.

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Google's antitrust showdown begins this week

Monday, September 11, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rebecca Haw Allensworth, a professor of antitrust law at Vanderbilt Law School, about the federal government's first major monopoly trial of the Big Tech era.

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A 150-year-old shipwreck was found in Lake Michigan

Friday, September 08, 2023

A long-lost shipwreck has been discovered in Lake Michigan by two maritime historians. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Brendon Baillod, one of the historians who discovered the shipwreck.

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A look ahead at the NFL season

Thursday, September 07, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks to the Ringer's Nora Princiotti about the start of the 2023 NFL season and what to expect.

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The U.S. Open in NYC has been heating up — literally

Wednesday, September 06, 2023

The U.S. Open in New York City is approaching its semifinals in sweltering conditions. Organizers partially closed the roofs on stadium courts to offer more shade but couldn't do much about the heat.

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Alabama's rejected congressional map dilutes Black voters' political power

Tuesday, September 05, 2023

A panel of three federal judges has struck down Alabama's latest map of congressional election districts for not following a court order to comply with the landmark Voting Rights Act.

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Judges strike down another Alabama congressional map over Voting Rights Act violation

Tuesday, September 05, 2023

A panel of three federal judges struck down Alabama's latest congressional districting plan. Neither this map nor a prior version had more than one district with a majority Black population.

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Migrants from majority-Muslim countries were unequally imprisoned in Del Rio, Texas

Friday, September 01, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Hamed Aleaziz of The LA Times about his reporting on asylum seekers from majority-Muslim countries getting disproportionately imprisoned in a Texas district.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faces an impeachment trial next week

Friday, September 01, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sergio Martínez- Beltrán, political reporter for The Texas Newsroom, about the impeachment trial Attorney General Ken Paxton faces with charges including bribery.

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A neurology professor weighs in on the health questions surrounding Mitch McConnell

Thursday, August 31, 2023

For a second time in a little over a month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze up while taking questions a press conference, raising questions about his health.

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More than half of wetlands no longer have EPA protections after Supreme Court ruling

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Marla Stelk, executive director of the National Association of Wetland Managers, about the EPA's new rules that comply with a ruling limiting the Clean Water Act's scope.

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The science that goes into emergency evacuation orders

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Craig Fugate, former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the U.S., on how officials decide to issue an evacuation order during natural disasters.

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With her her 8th U.S. Championship win, Simone Biles is still the gymnastics GOAT

Monday, August 28, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with writer Camonghne Felix about how Simone Biles won her eighth U.S. Championship Sunday night — a record — 10 years after she first ascended to the top of her sport.

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Tropical Storm Hilary helps take California out of drought conditions, for now

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with climate scientist Alex Hall about the temporary relief that Hilary has offered the drought in California.

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When it comes to wildfires, beware of dry grass — that's where most occur

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jeva Lange, who wrote a story called "Most Wildfires Aren't Forest Fires," about how wildfires largely occur in grasslands.

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Legendary Baltimore jazz performances are brought back through unearthed recordings

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom were released earlier in 2023.

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Virginia rapper Magoo dies at age 50

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

The rapper, an early collaborator with the producer Timbaland, emerged from a Virginia Beach rap crew that produced several future superstars. Like hip-hop itself, he was 50 years old.

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How Nicki Minaj took hip hop by storm in 2010

Friday, August 11, 2023

Nicki Minaj spent years hustling in the rap world before she even put out an album. Then in 2010, it all came together with a celebrated guest verse and a debut album that took hip hop by storm.

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