Ailsa Chang

Ailsa Chang appears in the following:

NFL suspends quarterback Deshaun Watson for 6 games over sexual assault accusations

Monday, August 01, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Lindsay Jones, senior NFL Editor for The Ringer, about the NFL suspending quarterback Deshaun Watson for six games.

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Encore: Artist Ai Weiwei on his father's exile and hopes for his own son

Monday, August 01, 2022

In this encore presentation, NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to artist Ai Weiwei about his memoir, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows.

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In extended-stay hotels, one writer sees a solution to lots of housing problems

Monday, August 01, 2022

Slate staff writer Henry Grabar tells NPR's Ailsa Chang why he thinks a return of extended-stay hotels — once a fixture of American cities — could help with today's housing market dysfunction.

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At a distillery in flood-stricken Kentucky, there's mud everywhere

Monday, August 01, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Colin Fultz, owner of Kentucky Mist Distillery, about the flood damage in his town of Whitesburg, Ky.

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Indigenous peoples react to the pope's apology for Canada's residential schools

Friday, July 29, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stephanie Scott, executive director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, about the pope's apology to Indigenous peoples for Canada's residential schools.

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Protecting yourself from the BA.5 omicron subvariant

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Bob Wachter, chair of the University of California, San Francisco Department of Medicine, about the omicron BA.5 COVID-19 variant.

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How can you talk to kids about abortion? Here are some tips

Saturday, July 23, 2022

For many parents, the wall-to-wall news coverage of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade means facing some questions from their kids. Here's how to answer them.

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Could the Jan. 6 committee's findings lead to criminal charges for Trump?

Friday, July 22, 2022

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about the evidence presented by the Jan. 6 committee and the difficulties in prosecuting a former president.

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How to talk to your kids about abortion

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

How do you talk about abortion — both the medical procedure and the politics around it — with your kids? NPR's Ailsa Chang gets tips from Dr. Elise Berlan and parenting expert Reena Patel.

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The debut album from NoSo is a postcard to a former, younger self

Friday, July 15, 2022

Abby Hwong, who makes music as NoSo, talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about getting comfortable in their own skin and their debut album, Stay Proud Of Me.

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She was married to Khashoggi. She wants accountability as Biden lands in Saudi Arabia

Friday, July 15, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Hanan Elatr, who was married to slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, about President Biden's meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman.

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Catholic leaders say new parents will need more assistance in a post-Roe world

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sisters of Life's Sister Bethany Madonna and Mike Phelan of the Office of Marriage and Respect Life about the church's work with people carrying unexpected pregnancies.

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Missouri OBGYN testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee about abortion

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Colleen McNicholas, who works for Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, following her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Carmen Rita Wong reckons with her identity after learning a secret hidden for decades

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Carmen Rita Wong's mother was Dominican and father was Chinese, or so she thought. In her memoir, Why Didn't You Tell Me, she reckons with the truth that was kept from her for 31 years.

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Faced with COVID and monkeypox, new USAID leader draws strength from African proverb

Monday, July 11, 2022

Dr Atul Gawande, the surgeon and bestselling health writer talks, to NPR about the problems he has inherited as the new head of USAID's global health office.

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Challenges low income countries are facing

Monday, July 11, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Atul Gawande of USAID about the challenges facing low-income countries as they tackle continued COVID surges, a lack of monkey pox vaccines and climate disasters.

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The impact that President Biden's executive order on abortion access will have

Friday, July 08, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Kim Mutcherson, dean and professor of law of Rutgers University, about the impact President Biden's executive order on abortion access will have.

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Trauma center medical director explains public health implications of guns

Thursday, July 07, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Elizabeth Benjamin, Grady Memorial Hospital's trauma medical director in Atlanta, Ga., about gun violence and its devastating impact on public health.

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What the U.S. can learn from abortion rights wins in Latin America

Thursday, July 07, 2022

In the last two years, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia have decriminalized or fully legalized abortion. Here's what Latin America's green wave can teach the movement in the U.S.

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What the U.S. can learn from abortion rights wins in Latin America

Wednesday, July 06, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Ipas Central America and Mexico director Maria Antonieta Alcalde about what the U.S.'s abortion rights movement can learn from reproductive rights wins in Latin America.

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