Gun Control Is Front And Center In Virginia Races
Gun control has emerged as a key issue in next month's off-year elections in Virginia, a state that is seen as a bellwether of what could come in national elections in 2020. Republicans currently hold...
View ArticleHow Rick Perry Became A Key Figure In The Trump Impeachment Probe
Among the key figures embroiled in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump is Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who announced last week that he will be resigning later this year. It was Perry who led...
View ArticleIranian Americans Anxiously Follow Events In Iran
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: The United States is home to a community of prominent Iranian American activists, writers and journalists. In the past week, they have seen...
View ArticleWriter John McPhee Explains His 'Old-Man Project'
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Congress wants to better understand the Trump administration's Iran policy. The House Foreign Affairs Committee called Secretary of State...
View ArticleNerd Out With Mardi Gras' Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And in these weeks leading up to Mardi Gras, the streets of New Orleans are filled with a series of extravagant parades organized by local...
View Article'A Matter Of Common Decency': What Literature Can Teach Us About Epidemics
Professor Alice Kaplan has been scrambling to revise her lectures for the French literature class she teaches at Yale University. On the syllabus, coincidentally, for her online class is The Plague ,...
View ArticleVirologist Spends His Days 'Hunting The Thing That Wants To Hunt Us'
As the novel coronavirus continues its global rampage, scientists around the world are racing to stop its spread. Dozens of projects have been launched under great pressure to deliver a vaccine as...
View ArticleLos Angeles, D.C. And Chicago Still Seeing Plateau, Not Decline In New...
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit NOEL KING, HOST: Dr. Deborah Birx of the White House coronavirus task force offered some good news this week. She said, in a lot of U.S. cities, COVID-19 cases...
View ArticleMemorializing Those Who Died In The Time Of COVID-19
Virtual vigils , streamed live on Facebook. Websites that collate the names and photos of the dead. Video projections of those we have lost, shining onto building facades. In the absence of collective...
View ArticleAt The D.C. Protests, A 'Lean On Me' Singalong Offered A Moment Of Solace
It had been a long, hot day of protests in Washington, D.C. As dusk descended on the nation's capital on June 3, a man in the crowd held up a microphone. The man, Maryland-based singer Kenny Sway ,...
View ArticlePush To Remove Confederate Monuments Opens Debate On Other Honored Historical...
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit NOEL KING, HOST: In Richmond, Va., there's a place called Monument Avenue. Until yesterday, when you visited Monument Avenue, you would find a statue of the...
View ArticleBehind The Scenes: 1 Man Creates Crowd Noise For Sporting Events
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Major League Baseball starts tomorrow. There will be no fans, but it will sound like there are. NPR's Melissa Block explains how these...
View ArticleYes, Women Could Vote After The 19th Amendment — But Not All Women. Or Men
On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially took effect when Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed a proclamation certifying its ratification. The amendment promised...
View Article'She'll Look Like A Boss': Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris Inspires Young...
When Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivered her victory speech on Saturday night, she spoke directly to a certain slice of the population. "Every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a...
View ArticlePoised To Be America's 1st Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff Shakes Up Gender...
With Kamala Harris poised to become the country's first female vice president, she brings with her another historic first: America's first second gentleman, her husband, Doug Emhoff. Emhoff, 56, is...
View ArticleCan The Forces Unleashed By Trump's Big Election Lie Be Undone?
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: Well, last Wednesday, just before pro-Trump extremists stormed the Capitol in an insurrection that left five people dead, the president...
View ArticleCan The Forces Unleashed By Trump's Big Election Lie Be Undone?
Last Wednesday, just before a mob of pro-Trump extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol in an insurrection that left five dead, the president stood before a huge crowd gathered in front of the White House...
View Article'To Me He's Not A Number': Families Reflect As U.S. Nears 500,000 COVID-19...
How do we wrap our minds around the fact that nearly half a million people have died of COVID-19 in the United States alone? The nation is on the cusp of that milestone: 500,000 lives lost, in just one...
View Article'It's Hurtful': Trans Youth Speaks Out As Alabama Debates Banning Medical...
Syrus Hall, a 17-year-old from Mobile, Ala., has heard it all before: "You'll grow out of it." "It's a phase." "You're just confused." "It makes me mad," he says. Hall is transgender and in the early...
View ArticleIdaho's Transgender Sports Ban Faces A Major Legal Hurdle
Updated May 3, 2021 at 7:36 PM ET Do transgender women and girls have a constitutional right to play on women's sports teams? That question was argued before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on...
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