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'Vegetables In Underwear' And Other Laugh Out Loud Book Ideas For Kids | This summer, All Things Considered is on the hunt for great reading recommendations. In our third installment — you can find the first here and the second here — children's book author Jon Scieszka shares some kid-friendly selections with NPR's Audie Cornish. Click the audio link above to find out what Scieszka loves a... |
Afghan Kidnappers Kill Another S. Korean Hostage | Police discovered the body of a second South Korean aid worker in central Afghanistan as kidnappers warned they would kill more of the remaining 21 hostages by Wednesday if Taliban prisoners are not freed. South Korea, meanwhile, pleaded with the international community to set aside the normal practice of refusing to n... |
From One Of Ted's Recommended | From one of Ted's recommended recordings, the late American soprano Arlene Auger (oh-ZHAY) sings two of Joseph Cantaloube's Songs of the Auvergne: "Shepherds' Song" and "Lullaby." Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the English Chamber Orchestra. (Virgin Classics UV 7243 5 61120 2 5) |
Gulf Coast Businesses Struggle To Stay Open As COVID-19 Outbreaks Surge Among Staff | Big Time Diner in Mobile, Ala., stopped serving on July 23. "We had 12 people test positive, so we shut down," says Robert Momberger, owner of the neighborhood restaurant, which specializes in Southern sides and fresh Gulf seafood. He was among the staff who got sick, and he didn't want it to spread further. "Oh, yeah,... |
California Scrambles For Another Day To Avoid Rolling Blackouts | Extreme heat across the western U.S. is creating huge challenges for keeping the lights on in California. Experts say it shows states need to be planning for climate change extremes. |
Sifting Martian Soil and Dreaming of Future Expeditions | Soil collected last year by the Mars rover Curiosity may contain two percent water, researchers report. Laurie Leshin of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute describes what else the rover is finding in the soil, and what that information might mean for future expeditions to Mars. |
A Tweet, A Year In A Labor Camp, And Now An Appeal | This is the tale of a single tweet and its far-reaching consequences in China. In April 2011, retired forestry official Fang Hong posted a scatological tweet, mocking a powerful Chinese politician, Bo Xilai, the Chongqing party secretary. Fang had been critical of Bo in the past. But last year, he was fired up by what ... |
Foreign Policy: Tolerate Dissent, Protect Blasphemy | Lee C. Bollinger is the 19th president of Columbia University and author of Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century. Salman Taseer, the late governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, was assassinated on Jan. 4 of this year, killed by his own bodyguard. He would have turned 67 on May 31. Another... |
Canadian Brass: Tiny Desk Concert | If you said the Canadian Brass represented the "gold standard" among brass quintets, you'd be right on the mark. Aside from performing on 24K gold-plated instruments, the group, led by its avuncular tuba master (and sole original member) Chuck Daellenbach, essentially put the idea of the brass quintet on the map. For m... |
Foreign Policy: What Happens To Oil After The Spill? | A recovery effort is currently underway to clean up a massive oil slick caused by the explosion of the oil rig Deep Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico last week. The leaking well is gushing more than 1,000 barrels of oil a day into the gulf and has already created a slick covering about 28,600 square miles. The U.S. Coast G... |
Listener: Job Cuts 401(k) | Yesterday we asked whether any of you are experiencing falling wages. Economist Ian Shepherdson reminded us that true deflation is a combination of falling prices and falling wages. Check the comments on that item, if you haven't lately. What you're telling us is that you're seeing an overall drop in compensation -- bu... |
A Phone Call Changes Everything In Anne Tyler's 'Clock Dance' | Anne Tyler's latest novel is about a woman in her 60s who marries young, has two children and is widowed young, remarries — and finds her life truly changed, late in the game, by a phone call asking for help, that was probably made in error. (Though that doesn't make it a mistake.) The new book — Tyler's 21st — is call... |
ACLU Family Separation Hearing | Lawyers from the ACLU and the federal government appear in a San Diego courtroom Friday to update a federal judge on compliance with the order to reunite families separated at the border. |
WATCH: Maya Angelou's Poem For Nelson Mandela | Since Nelson Mandela died on Thursday, there have been tributes big and small: from changing the color of the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building to musical tributes from children. Yesterday, the U.S. State Department unveiled a tribute poem written by Dr. Maya Angelou for Mandela "on behalf of the American peop... |
The Latest On Mueller's Russia Investigation | Special counsel Bob Mueller bears down on Paul Manafort, as the Trump-Russia investigation escalates. We’re on it. From the NFL to North Korea to the UN to Lebron James, Donald Trump seems to have everybody in lather these days. Hair on fire. Fired up. But behind all the uproar, there’s a quieter, maybe deeper drama u... |
Brentano Plays Beethoven | The Brentano Quartet opened this season's chamber music series at the University of Georgia. From that concert, we hear the String Quartet No. 6 by Beethoven (1770-1827). |
Democrats on the Internet | NPR's Brian Naylor reports that Congressional Democrats are paying more attention to their presence on the Internet. Recently they met with Steve Case, chief of America Online at a retreat at Hot Springs, Virginia in an effort to strengthen their web-sites. |
After Austerity, British Economy Declared World's Fastest-Growing | In effect, the U.K. is saying "I told you so" after being declared the the fastest growing economy of any rich country in the world. NPR's Scott Simon talks with economist Simon Johnson. |
Midwifery: A Profession Of Passion, For Men Too | There's a growing demand for midwives — and 'mid-men' around the world. Host Michel Martin speaks with midwives from Uganda and Washington DC about the joys and challenges of their jobs. |
World Cafe Next: Beaty Heart | This week's World Cafe: Next artist is a trio from South London. Beaty Heart makes rock music that keeps you on your toes: It's quirky, irreverent and complicated, with a tropical vibe that recalls Vampire Weekend. Download two songs by the band at the audio link. |
Eating Between The Lines: The Supermarket Shopper's Guide To The Truth Behind Food Labels | Guest: Kimberly Lord Stewart, Award Winning Food Journalist, Editor in Chief of Dining Out Magazine, and a Contributor to Natural Home magazine |
Wartime President To Accept Peace Prize | President Barack Obama is in Oslo, Norway, to receive his Nobel Peace Prize medal. He's in the unusual position of accepting the peace prize a week after ordering 30,000 more U.S. troops to the war in Afghanistan. |
'The Motley Fool Take' | David and Tom Gardner talk about the sentence for former Enron executive Andrew Fastow, and about how to make money on the Atkins Diet trend. It's <EM>The Motley Fool Take</EM>, our perspective on some of the week's top stories, as well as some other stories that showed up on the <EM>Fool</EM> radar. |
Prayers - Part 3, Continued | Robert Siegel explores the question "Does prayer work?" in healing sick people. He's joined by three researchers on the topic. While some researchers claim studies prove that people who pray fare better healthwise than those who don't pray, others say that conclusion isn't backed by real data. |
Did The Tax Rebates Work? | I'd almost forgotten, but before President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package, President Bush signed a stimulus package called the Economic Stimulus Act. It contained roughly $95 billion in tax rebates that went out last spring. (This was a huge economic experiment: the package was more than twice as large as the $3... |
S. Pearl Sharp: Who's Really Winning the War on Terror | Commentator S. Pearl Sharp weighs in on who she believes is winning the war on terrorism. |
OAS Demands Honduras Restore Ousted President | All week, the streets of Honduras have been alive with demonstrations. Off the main square of the capital Tegucigalpa, protesters carry banners and pictures of their ousted leader. The want Manuel "Mel" Zelaya reinstated. The tall, mustachioed president with the white Stetson was toppled from office last Sunday. Troops... |
Boy Builds Braille Printer Out Of Lego | What do you get when you put a Lego robotics kit, basic tools and a creative mind together? A Braille printer. Shubham Banerjee, 12, talks to NPR's Scott Simon about his project to help the blind. |
Israel Accuses World Vision Employee Of Embezzling Millions For Hamas | Israel has indicted the Gaza director of World Vision, one of the largest charities in the world, accusing him of siphoning off tens of millions of dollars earmarked for the people of Gaza and sending it instead to the Hamas militant group. Mohammed El Halaby was arrested June 15 and charged on Thursday with "providing... |
Promoting Unity among Christians | New Pope Benedict XVI wants to re-unify Christians around the world. Some Protestants and Catholics have already improved relations in this country. Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center discusses how the culture war has united the two groups. |
Fed's Monetary Policy | Commentator Ev Ehrlich says that instability in world markets places strict limits on how much the Federal Reserve can accomplish with monetary policy. |
Britain To Announce Sweeping Counterterrorism Legislation | The British government plans to introduce measures it says will help authorities combat terrorism. The proposed legislation includes a ban on insurance companies covering the cost of ransom demands. |
Roséwave Returns: 101 Songs To Shade Your Summer Pink | Summer comes in shades of life: nightclubbing with besties, poolside with neighborhood children, backyard grilling, making out at parties, hitting the gym grind, hitting the work grind, quietly sobbing to Stevie Nicks-level heartbreak, living whatever version of your best life fills out the hot and sticky days of your ... |
'Love Story' Author Erich Segal Has Died | "The daughter of Love Story author Erich Segal says her father has died at 72," the Associated Press reports. "Francesca Segal says her father died Sunday at his London homefrom a heart attack and a funeral was held Tuesday." As the AP reminds us: Love Story, a novel about a young couple dealing with love and bereavem... |
NPR Turns 50: Listeners Share Life Advice | In honor of NPR's 50th birthday, we asked listeners who have reached that milestone for some life advice. |
On Inauguration Day, Transfer Of Power Includes Handover Of Twitter Accounts | After President Biden and Vice President Harris were sworn into office Wednesday, they inherited two other important titles: @POTUS and @VP. That's because the transfer of power included the transition of official administration Twitter accounts. Members of the Biden-Harris administration are assuming ownership of a ... |
Californians React To Biden's Decision To Name Kamala Harris His Running Mate | Joe Biden has picked Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. The pick of a running mate from California is unusual, since candidates usually balance their ticket with someone from a swing state. |
A Cardboard Canoe Regatta For Girls In Science | You might wonder how cardboard boxes, duct tape and a swimming pool can solve a problem that has stumped researchers for years. That problem is how to get more women working in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM for short. Some think the answer lies in giving girls hands-on projects that spark their cur... |
'You Couldn't Help But Be The Student': Remembering Tony Conrad | Tony Conrad's violin was a suture on the soul. Using those droning strings, he conjured bracing and beautiful hues between colors, between notes, between worlds. The experimental musician, composer and filmmaker who was a key component of the '60s Lower Manhattan art scene — and who never really stopped innovating — di... |
With Fares Constantly In Flux, Price Tags May Be On Their Way Out | It's easy to forget that the price tag was only invented 150 years ago. It's a fairly recent innovation, and the Planet Money podcast explains how it might be on its way out. |
Tip Of The Hat To First Female Patent Holder | Two hundred years ago next week, Mary Dixon Kies, became the first American woman to hold a patent. Kies found a way to weave straw with silk, and hoped to use the fabric in the booming hat industry. Her invention did not make her money. Historian Margaret Weaver and Mervin Whipple, who owns a memorial business, te... |
Feds Reject Barstow Casino Plan | Another big blow was struck late last week against the embattled plan for tribal gambling in the desert city of Barstow, as federal officials rejected the land applications of two out-of-the area tribes.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of the Interior rejected requests from both the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupe... |
The Turmoil In Scotland, Expressed By Its Poets | Scotland has a proud national tradition of poetry. Days after a historic referendum on independence, we look at how poems by Scottish writers can help us better understand this moment. |
First No Power, Now No Water In Texas | About half a million power customers are still without electricity in Texas, and now millions of people are being told to boil their water before they use it — if they have water. Many households have no water or low water pressure. Here & Now‘s Lisa Mullins talks about the water infrastructure failures with KERA... |
Navajo Nation Decries Plan To Shrink Utah's Bears Ears | President Trump’s planned announcement to drastically shrink Bears Ears National Monument is drawing criticism from conservationists and members of five Native American nations located near the site. Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Davis Filfred, a Navajo Nation Council delegate and member of the Bears... |
World Bank/IMF Meeting | NPR's John Ydstie reports from Washington, where the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are holding their spring meetings this weekend. Global growth tops their agenda, and ministers say prospects for the future are good. |
'What Was John McCain Thinking?' | A response to one of my Sarah Palin posts yesterday, about trying to comprehend her decision to quit, led reader "Cleo K" to comment, "WHAT WAS JOHN MCCAIN THINKING??????" I'm presuming the writer was suggesting that McCain made a major mistake in picking the untested Alaska governor as his running mate. Maybe yes, may... |
Republican Presidential Field In A Nutshell By The Economist Mag | Accompanying a recent story in The Economist headlined "Who Dares Take Him On" with the pronoun referring to President Obama, the magazine had a chart on the Republican 2012 presidential possibilities with wry and pithy assessments of each of their pros and cons. For instance, for Mitt Romney it gives as his pros: "Ric... |
Nonprofit Groups Forced To Do More With Less | The economic crisis is putting an increased burden on nonprofit organizations, including those that help homeless people. More people are seeking the organizations' services at a time when donations are down and banks and local governments are less willing to help the groups. There's an emergency meeting in Washingto... |
One Dose Of H1N1 Vaccine May Be Enough | Four and a half months after the new H1N1 swine flu virus was first found infecting people in California and Mexico, researchers are reporting that they've got a vaccine that works better than anyone expected. Researchers say one shot appears to be strong enough to offer protection within 10 days of the shot. |
The Cleveland Youth Orchestra: On The Road In Mozart's Hometown | Nurturing young talent is a long tradition in the classical music world, and many professional orchestras have their own youth orchestras. But it stands to reason that an organization with the kind of international stature the Cleveland Orchestra enjoys would have a top-notch youth ensemble. It does. And it's called, n... |
Selena's Spark Still Shines | Selena Quintanilla-Pérez would have turned 50 on April 16. Since her death in 1995, just before her 25th birthday, her legacy has spread far beyond her Tejano music roots; Selena's has become an important symbol of womanhood for Latinas everywhere. On this week's show, we're going to try to unpack that a little with ... |
Civil War Veteran Awarded Medal Of Honor, 150 Years Later | President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor on Thursday to a soldier who stayed at his post under withering fire, 150 years ago. Lt. Alonzo Cushing was just 22, commanding an artillery battery during the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg. |
A Basketball Hoop Changed UNC Coach's Life | The next time you see Roy Williams prowling the sidelines in a dapper Alexander Julian suit at University of North Carolina games, you might remember what a dime his mother left on their kitchen table once meant to him. Williams, the winningest active college basketball coach, has written the story of his life with Tim... |
Cool Runnings: The One-Man, East Timor Version | East Timor, a small Pacific nation, will be represented at the Winter Olympics for the first time in history next month, when skier Yohan Goutt Goncalves, whose father is French and whose mother is Timorese, competes in the slalom ski race. But before he could be sent to Sochi, Goncalves, 19, first had to take the unus... |
Debate: Will The GOP Die If It Doesn't Seize The Center? | Following the Republican Party's losses in the 2012 elections, there has been a lot of hand-wringing about what the party should do to improve its electoral fortunes. Some argue that the GOP should moderate its positions on social issues, as well as policies that affect income inequality and social mobility, and that i... |
Honored Playwright Terrence McNally Dies Of Coronavirus At Age 81 | McNally had suffered from lung cancer and pulmonary problems. He won his first Tony Award for <em>Kiss of the Spider Woman</em>. He also won Tonys for <em>Love! Valor! Compassion!</em>, <em>Master Class</em> and <em>Ragtime</em>. |
Miller's 'Crucible' Becomes an Opera | Besides the impeachment trial underway on Capitol Hill, another trial involving sex, lies, justice and retribution is unfolding on stage at the Kennedy Center -- <EM>The Crucible</EM>. The opera, based on Arthur Miller's play, is directed by Bruce Beresford (film director of <EM>Breaker Morant</EM> and <EM>Driving Miss... |
Vernon Jordan's Testimony | NPR's Barbara Bradley reports Vernon Jordan's closed-door deposition yesterday in the Senate impeachment proceedings against President Clinton. House managers say Jordan's testimony supports their argument that Clinton obstructed justice by having Jordan help Monica Lewinsky find a job in return for her cooperation in ... |
Poverty And Not Knowing Your Neighbor Are Connected, Expert Says | It's been 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty. Host Michel Martin speaks with Anne Mosle, of the Aspen Institute, about how much has changed since then and if the battle needs a new plan of attack. |
McCain to Campaign Staffers: No Lobbying | Arizona Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has lost a national finance co-chairman and four other staffers and advisors, as the candidate tries to refurbish his image as a Washington reformer. Tom Loeffler resigned over the weekend, after campaign manager Rick Davis imposed a new policy that required registered ... |
Summary Judgment: New Movies | In this week's roundup from the online magazine <em>Slate</em> of what critics are saying about new movie releases, we hear about <em>Death Sentence</em>, <em>Balls of Fury</em> and <em>Halloween</em>. |
Stock Markets Drop Amid Escalating Tariff Threats | Updated at 4:31 p.m. ET The U.S. stock market fell sharply Tuesday in response to President Trump's recent threats to add another layer of tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 287 points, or about 1.15 percent, marking its sixth straight daily drop. The broader S&... |
San Diego Mayor Convicted in Strip Club Case | A federal jury convicts San Diego's acting mayor and another local politician on corruption charges, in a case that's known as "Strippergate." Councilmen Michael Zucchet and Ralph Inzunza were convicted of taking illegal campaign cash from a strip club owner who tried to lift a ban on touching between nude dancers and ... |
Report Reveals Widespread Sexual Abuse By Over 300 Priests In Pennsylvania | Updated at 4:33 p.m. ET A long-awaited grand jury investigation into clergy sexual abuse in Pennsylvania was released Tuesday in an interim redacted form. The report detailed decades of alleged misconduct and cover-ups in six of the state's eight Roman Catholic dioceses. The roughly 900-page report, not including exhib... |
The Madly Uneven 'Downton Abbey' Turns Its Eye From Money To Sex | [This piece assumes you've seen the first four seasons of Downton Abbey. As to the fifth, it avoids specific spoilers, but does talk about themes and threads enough that you might be 20 percent less surprised by a couple of developments. It's the best balance I could strike.] Let us get this out of the way right off: P... |
Other Candidates on the Calif. Ballot | NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks with some of the lesser-known candidates in the California recall election. |
In Seattle, 'Rainiest Day Of The Year' Defends Its Title | It's Rain Day in Seattle — or at least that's what the city should consider calling November 19. As KOMO-TV reports, Nov. 19 "is statistically the most likely day to have rain in Seattle," with wet weather hitting the city on 89 out of the past 120 years, including today's deluge. No other day reportedly comes close to... |
Iraq Wary Of Violence As U.S. Combat Mission Ends | Iraq is on high alert for further insurgent attacks after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki warned that the government had information about more planned violence. Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for a series of well-coordinated attacks recently. |
The Decade In Music: OutKast's 'So Fresh, So Clean' (2001) | [Every weekday from Nov. 9 to Nov. 20, Song of the Day is surveying the past decade, one year (and one song) at a time, with an emphasis on America's most popular music. These picks don't exactly qualify as musical discoveries, but they do have something to say about the 10 years we're about to leave behind. Song of th... |
Redrawn 6th District In Md. May Benefit Democrats | In Maryland, Republican incumbent Rep. Roscoe Bartlett faces a tough re-election in a redrawn district that now favors Democrats. Challenger John Delaney has outraised and outspent him. |
Global Reality Challenges IMF's Free Market Gospel | After six decades of zealously promoting free market economic policies, the International Monetary Fund has traded its dogmatism for pragmatism. For years, governments that dared to challenge the IMF model found themselves out of favor in Washington and other Western capitals. But the financial crisis that swept the p... |
Homemade Computer Sets Records In The Trillions | Shigeru Kondo is 56 and has already twice set the record for the most digits of pi calculated. His most recent record, 10 trillion digits, took a year to complete on his home-built supercomputer. Host Audie Cornish found out more about the computer, which caused a little family strife because it had to share electricit... |
Political Dirty Tricks | Say you really wanted to win an election, no holds barred (and no second thoughts about ethics), how would you do it? Allen Raymond worked as a GOP consultant and spent three months in jail for dirty political tricks in New Hampshire in the 2002 election (he now says what he did was wrong, and says he hopes to empty th... |
Leno Would Welcome A Return To Late Night | Jay Leno made the switch to prime time in September. His show has not been doing very well in the ratings lately. In a published interview, Leno said if NBC offered him <em>The Tonight Show</em> again, he would take it. Leno's low ratings come at a time when General Electric is said to be selling a stake in NBC Univers... |
Driver Who Ran Through Crowd Of Bike Riders Arrested | The driver of the car that plowed through a large crowd of people riding bikes during a Critical Mass event in Brazil last week is now under arrest, and may face charges of attempted homicide. As we reported, the event, which several people captured on video, has caused anger and outrage. There were no deaths reported,... |
'Dunkirk' Is A Harrowing War Movie, Muddled By A Convoluted Timeline | A new film dramatizes the '40 Allied retreat from the beaches of France as the Nazis close in. Despite strong action sequences, <em>Dunkirk</em> relies too much on fragmented storytelling and obvious plotting. |
The Westminster Dog Show Is This Weekend. Meet The Newcomers And Revisit Past Winners | The 145th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is this weekend, and there's a lot to yap about. For the first time, because of the pandemic, the show has moved 28 miles from inside Madison Square Garden in Manhattan to the outdoors, on the grounds of the 67-acre Lyndhurst Estate in Tarrytown, N.Y. Spectators and ve... |
'High Five' Readers Invited To Participate In Secret Tournament | NPR's Rachel Martin talks to best-selling, children's book author Adam Rubin about his latest: <em>High Five</em>. It tells the story of a secret high-five tournament that's been held in the animal kingdom. |
Report: Mine Safety Agency 'Could Have Prevented' Deadly Disaster | An independent review of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration's (MSHA) enforcement at the Upper Big Branch (UBB) coal mine in West Virginia says the agency failed to spot "a number of enforcement deficiencies" at the mine which were major factors in the April 2010 explosion that took 29 lives. The report f... |
Letters: Melody Gardot, Antarctica | Susan Stamberg reads e-mails from listeners. Among the topics: Scott Simon's interview with jazz singer Melody Gardot, who has suffered from short-term memory loss and sensitivity to light and sound since she was hit by a car; and Danny Zwerdling's report from the South Pole. |
Journalists On Trial In Myanmar | A high-profile case involving the arrest of three Myanmar journalists has sent a chilling effect through the country's media. Rachel Martin talks with Yangon-based journalist Poppy McPherson. |
A 'Fresh Air' concert with NICK LOWE | A 'Fresh Air' concert with NICK LOWE. His newest recording is "The Impossible Bird" (Upstart Records). 1994 revives Lowe's solo career. Lowe in the early 1970s played London's pub rock scene in the band Brinsley Schwarz. After the band broke up in 1975, he produced five albums for Elvis Costello. Lowe worked with Dave ... |
Civil Rights Agency Faces Uncertain Future | With budget problems and regional shutdowns, some say the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is dying a slow death. What will it take for the agency to regain its national vigor? Ed Gordon discusses the issue with the commission's current chairman, Gerald Reynolds, and with former chair Mary Frances Berry. |
Bolivia Must Decide On New Leader After President Flees To Mexico For Asylum | After weeks of its worst unrest in decades, Bolivia's embattled president fled the country for asylum in Mexico. All designated successors also quit and Congress now must decide on the next leader. |
An Alaska Company Losing The Obesity Game Calls In Health Coaches | Every morning, Shannon Orley parks as far away as possible from her office in Anchorage, Alaska. And on the sprawling Providence Alaska Medical Center campus that is really far away. "Right around 1,000 steps each way. Definitely worth it," Orley says. Two years ago, Orley was obese. And she faced a dilemma. She had ju... |
Cheney Chooses Spotlight Over Keeping Quiet | When former president George W. Bush retreated to his new home in Dallas, he left behind a bitter debate over his administration's anti-terrorism policies, and a very public pledge to stay out of it. President Obama, Bush said, "deserves my silence." His historically powerful No. 2 made no such promise. But as former V... |
Bush Faces Dilemma Over Steel Tariffs | This week the World Trade Organization ruled against the United States on the issue of steel import tariffs, calling the tariffs imposed by the Bush administration illegal. The White House has a chance to head off promised international retaliation, but only if it lowers the tariffs enough to satisfy the world body -- ... |
Placido Domingo Conducts 'Don Giovanni' | As the legend goes, he was the quintessential rake — a womanizing scoundrel with a list of amorous conquests so long that his right-hand man needs an entire aria just to outline it. His name is Don Juan or, in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operatic version of the story, Don Giovanni. Mozart's title character has a suave e... |
Stunning 'Little Bird' Mashes Up Myth, Family, Technology And Religion | Among all the weird quirks in the world of comics publishing, one of the weirdest is the practice of crediting writers first on book covers and title pages. Why would you give top billing to wordsmiths in a medium that's defined by graphics? Not that writers aren't essential — of course they are. Usually, though, even ... |
Reforming Unlimited Liability Awards in Miss. | NPR's David Molpus reports that Mississippi has become a battlefield of lawsuits against business - a scene that has trial lawyers flocking to the state, while frustrated lawmakers wrestle over reforming liability laws prone to big jury awards. But critics say the proposed reforms swing too far in the other direction b... |
Anti-Government Sentiment Fuels NRA Push | Anti-Washington anger is in the air, and the National Rifle Association hopes to tap into it. At the NRA's annual meeting in Charlotte, N.C., over the weekend, NRA members made clear that it is President Obama who is driving a recent demand for guns. "He's been a very good gun salesman. People have been going out and b... |
Despite Cease-Fire, Skirmishes Carry On Along Ukraine's Front Line | Fighting in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia separatists has died down after a cease-fire agreement last month, but there are stretches of the front line where shooting has never really stopped. Near the village of Pisky, for instance, you can hear the dull thud of incoming mortar rounds, coming ... |
Bridge Building in the Bay and Beyond | As the new eastern span of the bay bridge takes shape, Forum talks with experts about the art and science of bridge building. |
Later This Hour We Note The | Later this hour we note the silver anniversary of one of chamber music's most daring groups -- the Kronos Quartet. Here are a couple of tracks from their 1995 recording of works by Philip Glass -- the fourth and sixth movements from String Quartet No. 3 (used in the soundtrack from Paul Schrader's film "Mishima.") (Non... |
In Italy, Protesters Push For Rights For Same-Sex Couples | Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Italy on Saturday to demonstrate in support of a bill that would allow same-sex couples to enter into civil unions. The predominantly Catholic country is the last western European nation that doesn't offer same-sex couples any legal rights. As NPR's Sylvia Poggioli rep... |
Palestinian PM Nominee Urges Israel to Halt Crackdown | Ahmed Qureia, nominated to be the next Palestinian prime minister, calls on Israel to stop attacks on militants and lift travel restrictions on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Qureia, who has tentatively accepted the nomination, insists he cannot operate under what he calls the "Israeli dictate." Hear Robert Malley o... |
Unsafe Lead Levels Detected In Drinking Water In Newark, N.J. | Residents of Newark are receiving bottled water after elevated lead levels were detected in their drinking water. But there's confusion over who should get the bottled water. |
Vote Set on California Water-Transfer Deal | California lawmakers will vote on legislation that would clear the way for a large-scale transfer of water from farmers to city dwellers. Designed to help reduce the state's dependence on Colorado River water, also used by six other states, the proposed agreement follows years of negotiation among four big water agenci... |
From A Concert He Gave | From a concert he gave last month at Columbia University's Miller Theatre, Russell Sherman performs the Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 by Beethoven. (Miller Theatre) |
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