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A visit to one of the busiest border crossings between Ukraine and Poland
Thursday, May 19, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro spends a day at the Medyka border crossing to see how the flow of refugees has changed over the nearly three months since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
African students who fled to Poland from Ukraine are waiting in limbo
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
More than 6 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded. Not all of them are Ukrainian. Some citizens of African countries have found that the doors of Europe are much less open to them.
Polish young adults talk about the war in Ukraine's impact on their generation
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Polish young adults about how the war in Ukraine and the influx of refugees is affecting their country.
A Ukrainian refugee is still teaching her students, who are spread around the world
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ukrainian refugee Daria Bietschasna about what life is like some two months after she fled Ukraine.
International Rescue Committee head on Ukrainian refugee crisis and what we can learn
Monday, May 16, 2022
More people are now crossing the border into Ukraine than are fleeing the war. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the head of the International Rescue Committee about the Ukrainian refugee crisis.
How a school in Warsaw is educating kids of Ukrainian families who fled to Poland
Monday, May 16, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro reports from Warsaw on how Ukrainian children are being educated in Poland.
A Ukrainian singer finds his voice on the streets of Warsaw, Poland
Friday, May 13, 2022
Roman Panchenko moved to Poland from Chernihiv a few years ago and was afraid of singing in the streets. But now, after the war started, he sings Ukrainian songs in a Warsaw plaza to help his country.
Brooke Shields is getting older in the public eye — and she wants to talk about it
Friday, May 06, 2022
Shields grew up in the public eye, and now she is aging in the public eye and wants to discuss it. At the top of her list is the idea that women in their 50s aren't represented in lots of places.
Gloria Steinem's calls to protect bodily autonomy live on as Roe faces reversal
Friday, May 06, 2022
Activist Gloria Steinem has fought for women's rights for decades. She has no plans to stop even as the Supreme Court is poised to reverse Roe v. Wade.
Brooke Shields is aging in the public eye — and she wants to talk about it
Thursday, May 05, 2022
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with actress, writer and entrepreneur Brooke Shields about her effort to embrace aging and how she's trying to help other women do the same.
Gloria Steinem on the consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade
Thursday, May 05, 2022
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with journalist and activist Gloria Steinem about her reaction to news that the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to strike down Roe v. Wade.
What COVID might look like in the U.S. once we reach the endemic phase
Thursday, May 05, 2022
Andy Slavitt, former senior adviser to President Biden on COVID-19, shares what he thinks the endemic phase of COVID-19 will look like in the U.S. and how we can prepare for that stage now.
Minnie Driver on the paradox of fame and her 'complicated' notion of marriage
Wednesday, May 04, 2022
Decades after breaking into Hollywood, Driver is ready for the world to see a little bit more of her. In her memoir she shares stories about her life from childhood to her unexpected path into acting.
Andy Slavitt on what new wave in case growth tells us about endemic covid
Wednesday, May 04, 2022
NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Andy Slavitt, a former adviser to the Biden administration on COVID, about the new rise in cases — and what it could tell us about what endemic COVID looks like.
Premature American twins rescued from Ukraine become stuck in bureaucratic limbo
Wednesday, May 04, 2022
For two parents from Chicago, getting their newborn twins safely out of Ukraine was difficult. Two months later, extracting them from Poland's bureaucracy has turned out to be even more arduous.
Newborn twins were rescued from a warzone. Now they're stuck in bureaucratic limbo
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
For two parents from Chicago, getting their newborn twins safely out of Ukraine was difficult. Two months later, extracting them from Poland's bureaucracy has turned out to be even more arduous.
Preparing the election system for poll workers who think it's rigged
Monday, May 02, 2022
In Michigan, election administrators are preparing for the possibility of new poll workers who believe President Trump's lies about a stolen election.
They played a crucial role in confirming Biden's 2020 win. Now, they're out of a job
Monday, May 02, 2022
After the 2020 election, then-President Trump told Republican canvassers not to certify the results giving Biden a victory. Some say they've been removed from their posts for resisting that pressure.
Election denialism beliefs animate some GOP candidates in Michigan
Friday, April 29, 2022
Michigan was a focal point in Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election. Zach Gorchow of Gongwer News Service tells NPR's Ailsa Chang that election misinformation still looms large there.
Anastasia thinks about leaving Russia. Here's what her life looks like today
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Anastasia has considered leaving her home in Moscow as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues. She feels trapped, cut off from the world, and unable to speak out.