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Climate change could be to blame for the Sriracha shortage
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
There's a nationwide shortage of the beloved hot sauce, Sriracha from Huy Fong Foods. And climate change could be the culprit.
After 27 years, Microsoft has retired Internet Explorer
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Internet Explorer officially retires Thursday. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Margaret O'Mara, professor at the University of Washington, about the embattled web browser's long history.
Gabby Giffords reflects on this moment in time for gun safety measures
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was shot more than a decade ago, about whether efforts for gun control may go differently this time due to recent mass shootings.
Sen. Raphael Warnock on his new memoir 'A Way Out of No Way' and what gives him hope
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sen. Raphael Warnock about his memoir A Way Out of No Way and how he proved himself wrong by winning a Georgia Senate seat as a Black Democrat.
The Suffers lead singer Kam Franklin talks about the tough road to their latest album
Thursday, June 09, 2022
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Kam Franklin, lead singer of the Gulf Coast soul band The Suffers, about her hometown being a source of strength, because the industry hasn't always embraced her.
Overachiever Tracy Flick faces her unmet life expectations in 'Tracy Flick Can't Win'
Thursday, June 09, 2022
Tracy Flick is back — this time in middle age. How did life turn out for her? NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Tom Perrotta about his new novel, Tracy Flick Can't Win.
Homophobia has lingered in baseball since the days of Glenn Burke in the 1970s
Tuesday, June 07, 2022
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with author Andrew Maraniss about homophobia in Major League Baseball's history after some members of the Tampa Bay Rays refused to wear Pride jerseys.
How TikTok helped save this small Australian candy shop
Tuesday, June 07, 2022
When the pandemic hit, this small business was about to shutter its doors. Then Tiktok came along.
This Australian candy shop has mesmerized the internet
Friday, June 03, 2022
After nearing a lockdown-induced bankruptcy, millions of people around the world now follow this Australian candy shop on social media.
How to get ready for what reproductive care could look like if Roe is overturned
Friday, June 03, 2022
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dr. Raegan McDonald-Mosely, CEO of Power to Decide, and Robin Marty, author of Handbook for a Post-Roe America, about how Americans can prepare if Roe is overturned.
Poet Amanda Gorman reflects on a tough week for America
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
One week after the Uvalde killings, we hear poet Amanda Gorman. She shares the power of poetry and a new poem.
How 'Gone Girl' hold up 10 years later, according to a book critic
Monday, May 30, 2022
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with book critic Maris Kreizman about Gone Girl and the long shadow it still casts over the psychological thriller market, 10 years after it was published.
What 'Queer Ducks' can teach teenagers about sexuality in the animal kingdom
Sunday, May 29, 2022
The new book, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals), is designed to be teenager friendly. It's filled with comics and humor and accessible science on the diversity of sexual behavior in the animal world.
The trauma of gun violence affects all children, not just the ones who were there
Friday, May 27, 2022
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox, author of the book Children Under Fire, about the immediate and long-term affects of gun violence on children.
Alyssa Gaines is named National Youth Poet Laureate
Friday, May 27, 2022
Alyssa Gaines, an 18-year-old from Indianapolis, has been named the 6th National Youth Poet Laureate.
Animal sexuality may not be as binary as we're led to believe, according to new book
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Eliot Schrefer, author of Queer Ducks (And Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality. It's about how "natural sex" may not be as binary as some think.
2-year investigation reveals ICE has data on most of the American public
Friday, May 20, 2022
NPR's Emily Feng talks with Nina Wang, a policy associate at the Center on Privacy & Technology and a co-author of a recent study that exposes the widening dragnet of ICE's surveillance of Americans.
Rebuilding Ukraine could cost hundreds of billions of dollars
Friday, May 20, 2022
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ukrainian economist Yuriy Gorodnichenko about the cost of rebuilding Ukraine after the war.
Much of the U.S. could criminalize abortion. But how will those laws be enforced?
Friday, May 20, 2022
Law professor Kim Mutcherson said that while states are bound by HIPAA laws, individuals are not. This means that abortion "bounty hunters" could help punish people who seek abortions in other states.
'Carbon bomb' projects are hurting any hope of meeting climate goals
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
NPR's Emily Feng talks with Oliver Milman, environment correspondent for The Guardian, about how U.S. fossil fuel projects are damaging efforts to limit climate change.