The hosts of NPR's All Things Considered help you make sense of a major news story and what it means for you, in 15 minutes. New episodes six days a week, Sunday through Friday.Support NPR and get your news sponsor-free with Consider This+. Learn more at plus.npr.org/considerthis
1649 episodes transcribedFive days after tornadoes first touched down in the Midwest and South of the U.S., survivors are coming to grips with what they have lost. Of the seve...
Kevin Dawes, an American from California, traveled to Syria in 2012 with hopes of a launching a career as a foreign correspondent. But shortly after c...
Almost two years into the pandemic, at-home rapid tests can still be difficult to find in the U.S. If you do find them, they're often expensive. Other...
After seven days of testimony directly from Elizabeth Holmes, her defense announced it had rested its case this week in a federal fraud trail that beg...
During oral arguments last week in a major Supreme Court case, Justice Amy Coney Barrett brought up the idea of adoption as an alternative to abortion...
At least six conservative broadcasters who spread misinformation about COVID-19 and questioned coronavirus vaccines have now died from just this year....
In October of 1941, a young soldier was on leave in southern California when he met the woman he was sure he would marry. Then, two months later while...
Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai made an assault allegation in November, then disappeared from the public eye. She has since re-emerged, but in protest...
Banning books from classrooms and school libraries is nothing new, but it's recently become a topic of considerable political debate. How should paren...
It was only a matter of time before cases of the COVID-19 omicron variant started popping up in the U.S., and now, it's here. Although it's too early...
Buying stuff is a part of this country's DNA. It's a tradition that really took off near the end of World War II, when the American economy was thrivi...
Getting an abortion in Mississippi has never been easy, but it hasn't been impossible. Now, a case before the Supreme Court that centers on a clinic i...
After years of jokes about unsuccessful Infrastructure Weeks, months of deliberation, and bouts of gridlock on the political left, a $1.2 trillion pac...
The World Health Organization is warning that the omicron variant of the coronavirus, which was first detected in South Africa, has a "very high" glob...
This Thanksgiving week, we're sharing a segment from our special series Play It Forward, in which artists tell us about their own music and the musici...
For Thanksgiving Day, we're sharing a segment from our special series Play It Forward, in which artists tell us about their own music and the musician...
The commonly-told version of the first Thanksgiving story leaves out a lot: The indigenous Wampanoag people who lived in a complex society long before...
CTE — chronic traumatic encephalopathy — is a degenerative brain disease found in many former professional football and hockey players, for whom blow...
CTE — chronic traumatic encephalopathy — is a degenerative brain disease found in many former professional football and hockey players, for whom blow...
For those living with long COVID, daily activities like going for a walk, washing the dishes, or being on a Zoom call can be incredibly draining. Thes...
