Ari Shapiro appears in the following:
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal explores the honesty of being a mother in her directorial debut
Friday, December 24, 2021
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with actress Maggie Gyllenhaal about her directorial debut The Lost Daughter, which takes a unique look at motherhood. Now in theaters, the film will be on Netflix on Dec. 31.
3 nurses give their inside story on how omicron is affecting the country
Friday, December 24, 2021
Here's how their hospitals are doing nearly two years into the pandemic, what they are seeing in new omicron patients, and their thoughts on the wave of burnout affecting the industry.
The Trump supporters who went from planning the Jan. 6 rally to aiding the riot probe
Thursday, December 23, 2021
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with reporter Hunter Walker, who wrote a Rolling Stone article on Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lynn Lawrence, the Trump supporters now cooperating with the Jan. 6 House panel.
3 nurses discuss what 2021 has been like for them on the front lines of the pandemic
Thursday, December 23, 2021
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with three nurses from around the country about how the omicron variant has affected their work and what their year has been like on the front lines of the pandemic.
Thieves raided Catherine's family shop. California blames organized retail gangs
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Catherine Kim's family kiosk is just one business targeted by shoplifters in California in recent weeks in what California Attorney General Rob Banta says is an organized operation.
Kellogg's workers end 11-week strike with a new contract
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with HuffPost labor reporter Dave Jamieson about the announced end to the Kellogg's strike in Michigan.