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1673 episodes transcribedSome young people are hesitant to start a family because they are worried about the impact it will have on the environment. But some experts argue, th...
The job of a media reporter is to examine the role the press plays in our democracy, and the choices the large corporations operating newsrooms are ma...
Federal education policy has seen a lot of changes since President Trump's inauguration. For example, the Department of Education itself, which Trump...
Since returning to office, President Trump has moved swiftly to upend decades of federal policy—from education to healthcare to vaccines...but nowhere...
As a candidate in 2024, President Trump promised – often – to end what he and other conservatives describe as "woke" policies.On his first day in offi...
President Trump helped reshape the federal courts during his first term in office. And he relied heavily on the Federalist Society in that effort, whi...
Plea deals with the 9/11 defendants, including for the alleged ringleader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, have been canceled. Families of those who died on S...
NPR correspondent Jasmine Garsd has taken several reporting trips to Florida recently, a state seeing some of the most aggressive immigration enforcem...
One of the narratives at the heart of President Trump's political movement is this: American society is dominated by a shadowy group of elites, and th...
Earlier this week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy testified on Capitol Hill, where he thanked Congress for recently approving $12.5 billion dolla...
It's been over three months since President Trump announced very big across-the-board tariffs on imports from nearly every territory on Earth–includin...
It's not just Texas. In the past couple of weeks, communities all around the country have been hit with torrential rains and deadly flash flooding. Ex...
President Trump has made some big shifts in U.S. policy on Russia's war with Ukraine lately. In the course of two weeks, Trump halted and reinstated w...
It's been a year since the assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania and the motivations of the shooter are still unclear.The U...
On July 2nd, Sean Combs was acquitted of the most serious charges he faced: racketeering and sex trafficking. He was found guilty on two counts of tra...
All across the U.S., there are aging oil and natural gas wells no longer in use.A lot of them don't have anyone on the hook to seal them up. Some esti...
Israel bans international journalists from independent access to Gaza. But NPR's Anas Baba is from Gaza, and in the 21 months he has been reporting on...
It's been nearly a week since devastating flooding tore through Kerr County, Texas killing more than a hundred people.Now, after unimaginable tragedy,...
The total fertility rate is a small number with big consequences.It measures how many babies, on average, each woman will have over her lifetime. And...
Imagine standing in water shallow enough to just barely hit the soles of your feet. And then it rises so fast that in just about ten minutes, it's up...
