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In her new show, Bridget Everett imagines someone like her returning to her hometown
Thursday, January 27, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Bridget Everett about her new HBO show, Somebody Somewhere. It's about what may happen if someone like her went back to live in her small Kansas hometown.
Biden administration is offering to negotiate with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
The Biden administration has delivered a plan to Russia offering a diplomatic way to resolve the crisis over Ukraine. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with State Dept. spokesman Ned Price about the situation.
Remembering trailblazing fashion designer Thierry Mugler, dead at 73
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
French fashion designer Thierry Mugler reshaped the fashion world, centering wildly inventive concepts and creating space for queer voices. On Sunday, he died at the age of 73.
How the Ukraine crisis could reset the global balance of power
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Gideon Rachman of 'The Financial Times' about how China and Russia could leverage the Ukraine crisis to reduce U.S. influence around the world and reset the world order.
The big wins, losses and off-court drama you may have missed from the Australian Open
Monday, January 24, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Washington Post sports reporter Liz Clarke to get an update on the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of 2022.
You save a stranger's life — then what? A new novel explores the aftermath
Friday, January 14, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Antoine Wilson about his novel, "Mouth to Mouth." It explores the complicated, unexpected ripple effects of saving a stranger's life.
Congo Basin peatlands have trapped years' worth of carbon. How can they be protected?
Friday, January 14, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist John Cannon about the dangers of destroying a hidden peatland in the Congo Basin that has locked in as much carbon dioxide as the world emits in three years.
How the health care worker vaccine mandate will work, with SCOTUS' go-ahead
Thursday, January 13, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about the Supreme Court ruling on the vaccine mandate for health care workers.
Journalists probing Salvadoran government were spied on using military-grade tech
Thursday, January 13, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Julia Gavarrete, a journalist at the digital newspaper El Faro, about a recent study confirming that 22 journalists from El Faro were spied on using the spyware Pegasus.
Go back to school and ditch weekly testing: The advice from one children's hospital
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Dr. David Rubin discusses guidance from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia that says schools should stay open for in-person learning and discontinue required weekly testing.
Public health experts say most of us will get COVID-19. What does that mean?
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Public health experts say COVID-19 won't be eradicated, but studies show the omicron variant is less severe than delta, and there are ways to manage the disease — which will become predictable.
Rethinking school safety in the age of omicron
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. David Rubin, primary care physician and director of PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, on how schools should consider navigating the current COVID wave.
Why COVID tests can cost anywhere between $20 to $1,400
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Adam Tanner from Consumer Reports about the range of prices COVID-19 testing companies can charge in the United States.
Winter storms in California's mountains drop record-breaking amounts of snow
Thursday, December 30, 2021
Much of California is in the grips of extreme or exceptional drought. But the state may soon be blanketed by record levels of snow, after a series of storms finish parading through the western U.S.
How evictions impact tenants far beyond scrambling to find housing
Thursday, December 30, 2021
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with KPBS's Cristina Kim on her enterprise reporting on what happens to vulnerable renters as pandemic eviction bans begin to go away.
Tens of thousands are displaced in Brazil after weeks of flooding in Bahia state
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Gram Slattery, Brazil correspondent for Reuters, about the deadly flooding currently happening in the northeastern state of Bahia, Brazil.
CDC director on new isolation rules
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky about new guidelines that have the isolation period for asymptomatic people who have COVID.
Maggie Gyllenhaal explores the difficulty of motherhood in her directorial debut
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
The new movie The Lost Daughter shows a side of motherhood that Hollywood doesn't often depict.
John Wilson wants to capture a New York that's both 'timeless and aggressively dated'
Monday, December 27, 2021
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with John Wilson who unveils the absurdity of the mundane in his HBO show, How To With John Wilson.
For over a century, California banned Indigenous cultural fires. Now, that's changing
Monday, December 27, 2021
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Don Hankins, an Indigenous fire expert at California State University, about the state's decision to permit cultural burns.