Daily Schedule

On today’s show: A look at how our cash-strapped era is changing American global leadership and our foreign policy. Then, Ann Jones talks about the impact of war on the least visible victims: women. Plus, Sigrid Nunez discusses her latest novel, Salvation City. Also, a look at the implications of Newtown Creek’s recent designation as a superfund site. And our latest Underreported segment examines why court records of Colombian paramilitary soldiers extradited to the United States have been sealed.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Thirty Issues in Thirty Days continues with a look at education policy on the state and national level.  Plus, Israeli novelist David Grossman, Supreme Court preview, and The View’...

During a dark moment in his professional wrestling career, Mick Foley found inspiration in an unlikely source: the music of Tori Amos. We talk with Foley about the song that helped him brave a barbed-wire match. And: we hear a review of Neil Young's new album, Le Noise. Later: live music from the Baltimore-based rock group J. Roddy Walston & the Business.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.

New York-based composer David Lang visits the WNYC studio for this edition of New Sounds.  We'll hear his Pultizer Prize-winning piece "The Little Match Girl Passion," and other recent recordings.