Justine Kenin

Justine Kenin appears in the following:

Some podcast guest chairs go to high bidders — without telling listeners

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Bloomberg's Ashley Carman's about a growing trend of guests paying podcasts to appear on their shows in order to market themselves or their products new target audiences.

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Children are reportedly spending 23 hours lock in at Texas youth prisons

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Jolie McCullough, a criminal justice reporter for The Texas Tribune, about her reporting on the state's juvenile prison system nearing collapse.

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The new CHIPS and Science Act will bring semiconductor chip manufacturing to the U.S.

Tuesday, August 09, 2022

President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 into law Tuesday, which allocates $53 billion dollars in federal funding to manufacture semiconductor chips domestically.

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Reflecting on Serena Williams' career and legacy as the G.O.A.T retires from tennis

Tuesday, August 09, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Jessica Luther, co-host of the sports podcast Burn It All Down, about Serena Williams' retirement from the world of tennis.

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A fossilized tooth may determine the origin of the Chincoteague ponies

Tuesday, August 09, 2022

A fossilized horse tooth could finally provide an answer to the mystery of how the wild Chincoteague ponies ended up on Maryland and Virginia's Assateague Island.

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How NASA's Webb telescope gets its packed schedule

Monday, August 08, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Christine Chen of the Space Telescope Science Institute about choosing and scheduling research projects for NASA's James Webb Telescope.

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Matt de la Peña and Hanif Abdurraqib on how basketball feeds their writing

Thursday, August 04, 2022

Children's book writer Matt de la Pena and poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib talk about how basketball feeds their writing.

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Why conservative Kansas handed victory to abortion rights

Wednesday, August 03, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dave Helling of The Kansas City Star about the historical background of Tuesday night's vote on abortion rights in the state.

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Julia Whelan on narrating her romance novel about a narrator who hates romance novels

Tuesday, August 02, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with writer and audiobook narrator Julia Whelan about what it was like bringing her own profession to the pages of her new novel Thank You For Listening.

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A teenager's 'I Voted' sticker design hits a nerve, and now everyone wants one

Saturday, July 30, 2022

When 14-year-old Hudson Rowan drew his spider-robot-humanoid character for an "I Voted" sticker competition, he didn't realize just how far the illustration would travel.

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A 14-year-old hopes his chaotic 'I Voted' sticker design brings people to the polls

Friday, July 29, 2022

Hudson Rowan, age 14, was doodling away on his iPad when a creature appeared. It's now the winning design of the Ulster County "I Voted" Sticker contest.

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Biden adviser Gene Sperling sees U.S. hope and resilience despite shrinking economy

Thursday, July 28, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with White House senior adviser Gene Sperling about Thursday's new GDP numbers and the health of the U.S. economy.

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Cleaning a great floating garbage patch the size of Texas

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

The Kwai, a 140-foot cargo ship, just made a 45-day round trip from Hawaii and back. It's load? About 96 tons of trash from a floating garbage patch the size of Texas.

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Senate put $50 billion into chips semiconductor research

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana about efforts to build more computer chips in the U.S.

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Encore: Author Ladee Hubbard on love, family and resilience

Monday, July 25, 2022

Ladee Hubbard, author of the short story collection The Last Suspicious Holdout, talks about love, family, resilience and grief in the Black community.

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The White House has a new public engagement advisor. Here's her plan

Friday, July 22, 2022

Keisha Lance Bottoms is the new White House senior advisor for public engagement. The former Atlanta mayor begins her job at a time when President Biden's approval ratings are at an all-time low.

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This woman gave her wedding dress to a stranger for free, and inspired a movement

Friday, July 22, 2022

Gwendolyn Stulgis walked down the aisle in the dress of her dreams. But after her wedding, she decided to pay the feeling forward to a complete stranger.

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Can deleted text messages actually be retrieved?

Thursday, July 21, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Paul Luehr, a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, about what happens when texts message get deleted.

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This woman gave her wedding dress to a stranger, and inspired others to do the same

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

It might only be worn for one night, but many people keep their wedding dresses for years. However, one woman decided to pass her gown to a stranger on Facebook, inspiring others to follow her lead.

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Putin met with leaders from Turkey and Iran

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul about Putin's visit to Tehran on Tuesday.

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