AILSA CHANG, HOST: Starbucks' plan to close all of its U.S. stores for an afternoon to give their employees racial bias training has a lot of people asking, will this even work? We know little about what the training will include. Starbucks has said

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Connecting The Dots On Arvo P?rt's Symphonic Journey

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Arvo Part is one of the most performed living classical composers known for his spacious and meditative sound. (SOUNDBITE OF PERFORMANCE OF ARVO PART'S SUMMA FOR STRING ORCHESTRA) SHAPIRO: You can hear how the Estonian composer arr

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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Conversation About Kanye West, Twitter Philosopher

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Kanye West is writing a philosophy book on Twitter, according to Kanye West on Twitter. And the tweets - his chapters, if you will - are pretty sunny. The superstar rapper is talking about being present in his own life, about shari

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How To Watch 'Westworld' Even If You've Never Seen An Episode

AILSA CHANG, HOST: There's a lot of great stuff on TV right now, which is awesome but also exhausting. We have reviewed or featured at least 13 TV shows this year alone, which is like 129 hours of assigned viewing. And we're not even counting the Oly

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美国国家公共电台 NPR \April Is A Cruel Month For This Columbine Teacher And Survivor

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Students across the country walked out of school yesterday to demonstrate against gun violence. The national school walkout also marked the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre outside of Denver. Paula Reed was te

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Building Museum Exhibit Chronicles Scourge Of Evictions, Homelessness

DAVID GREENE, HOST: You know, it's pretty rare for a book about a wrenching social problem to read like great literature. But when Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City came out in 2016, it won a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur genius grant

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Hungary Has A Xenophobia Problem

Hungary Has A Xenophobia Problem RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Take A Number is our series that uses a numerical figure to explore problems around the world. And today's number is 10, which is the percentage of Hungarians who, according to a new EU survey, ar

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige On The Future Of Marvel Movies

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Avengers: Infinity War may break box-office records when it opens this weekend, has a chance to anyway. Its over the top all-star cast includes Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch and Chadwick Boseman. The

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Mel Brooks Says It's His Job To 'Make Terrible Things Entertaining'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Fifty years ago, Mel Brooks released The Producers. It was a movie about a scam to put on a Broadway musical that lost money. Years later, it became a Broadway musical about putting on that musical. And like the fictional musical

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Avengers: Infinity War,' The Superheroes Have Their Work Cut Out For Them

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Marvel movie Avengers: Infinity War opens this weekend. Advance ticket sales are topping even those for Black Panther. The film brings together storylines from all over the Marvel Universe, and it's being advertised with a cert

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Former NBC Correspondent Accuses Tom Brokaw Of Sexual Misconduct

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A former NBC News correspondent is accusing Tom Brokaw. She says Brokaw groped and forcibly tried to kiss her in the 1990s. NPR's Scott Neuman has more. SCOTT NEUMAN, BYLINE: Linda Vester, who worked for NBC for a decade before m

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Bill Cosby Found Guilty Of All Charges In Sexual Assault Retrial

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Comedian and entertainer Bill Cosby has been convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) GLORIA ALLRED: Bill Cosby, three words for you - guilty, guilty, guilty. CHANG: That was attor

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Navigating Campus For The 'Not Rich': Students Launch A Crowdsourced Guide

Navigating Campus For The 'Not Rich': Students Launch A Crowdsourced Guide ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: College is expensive. And at the University of Michigan, the student government tried to help by publishing a guide for cost-effective living at the school.

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Muggles Rejoice: 'Harry Potter And The Cursed Child' Is Now On Broadway

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The most expensive nonmusical play in Broadway history opened last night. At more than $33 million, it runs 5 1/2 hours in two parts. It costs more than the recent extravaganza Frozen. We are of course talking about Harry Potter An

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Iran's Foreign Minister: Renegotiating Nuclear Deal Would Damage U.S. Credibility

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Iran's foreign minister is making his case for a nuclear deal, plausibly, for the final time. Mohammad Javad Zarif is finishing a visit to the United Nations here. He arrived weeks before a deadline for President Trump to extend

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Newsroom To 'Chicago Tribune': With 85 Percent Backing, We Have Votes For Union

RACHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: Journalists at the Chicago Tribune say they're one step closer to unionizing. They voted overwhelmingly in favor of it and have given the paper's owners 24 hours to respond. It's a big turnaround for the paper, which has histor

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Facebook Updates Community Standards, Expands Appeals Process

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Facebook says it will be more open about the posts it takes down. The company tells NPR that today it is publishing internal details of its community standards. That's the term for what's allowed on Facebook and what is not. Moni

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Sounding The Alarm About A New Russian Cyber Threat

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The United States and the U.K. issued this rare joint alert last week warning that Russia is actively preparing for a future cyberwar against the West. Jeanette Manfra is the Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity chief,

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美国国家公共电台 NPR After Diesel Scandal, VW Turns To New Leadership And Electric Cars

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: I think we've had this headline before. Volkswagen is trying to move on from its diesel scandal - again. VW admitted two years ago to installing devices in its diesel vehicles that falsely improved their emissions tests. Now it's

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Free To Speak, Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Takes On Trump

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: These days, John Brennan is a private citizen free to speak his mind as long as he doesn't venture into any classified intelligence. Brennan ran the CIA until the stroke of noon on the day Donald Trump was sworn into office. Since

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