美国国家公共电台 NPR Venezuela's Bread Wars: With Food Scarce, Government Accuses Bakers Of Hoarding

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to Venezuela, where an economic crisis has brought thousands of people to the streets. The demonstrations have been growing since the country's supreme court tried to nullify the Congress there. Food and medicine are in short

美国国家公共电台 NPR Esra'a: Would You Speak Up ... Even If It's Dangerous?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today ideas about Speaking Up. Can you introduce yourself please? ESRA'A: Yeah. So my name is Esra'a, and I am from Bahrain. RAZ: Esra'a asked us not to use her last name b

美国国家公共电台 NPR James Hansen: What Makes A Scientist Take A Stand?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, Speaking Up, ideas about what it takes and when you know it's time to say something. JAMES HANSEN: As the ocean gets warmer that melts the ice shelves that come out

美国国家公共电台 NPR Clint Smith: What Do We Risk If We Don't Speak Up?

GUY RAZ, HOST: On the show today, Speaking Up. We're talking about when people choose to speak up and what happens if they don't. So when Clint Smith was a high school teacher, he wanted the students to understand the importance of speaking up and th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Dalia Mogahed: How Does Speaking Up Change Minds?

GUY RAZ, HOST: Have you ever experienced hatred or - I mean, have you ever - I don't know. Has anybody ever said something to you because of who you are, because of your faith that has just been so incredibly hurtful? DALIA MOGAHED: Yes (laughter), a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Family, Death And A Road Trip In 'Ashes To Asheville'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Some books can sweep you away in the first sentence. Sarah Dooley's new book Ashes to Asheville begins with a riff that includes sisterhood, death, cute pets and saucy widows. Let's get the author to read it. SARAH DOOLEY: (Reading

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Syria, The News Of U.S. Missile Strike Is Greeted With Ambivalence

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: NPR's Alison Meuse is in Beirut. She's been talking to people in Syria who oppose the Assad regime, and she's been asking them about last night's airstrikes. ALISON MEUSE, BYLINE: The barrage of Tomahawk missiles came as a surpri

美国国家公共电台 NPR Opposition Parties In Venezuela Prepare For Elections, Hoping They Will Come

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Venezuela's economic crisis helps make the government there highly unpopular. Hugo Chavez, the late leader, and his socialist allies used to win nearly every popular vote, but the current president, Nicolas Maduro, is fast losing s

美国国家公共电台 NPR Carl And Rob Reiner Leave Hand And Footprints In Concrete

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And now on to some Hollywood history. Carl and Rob Reiner, father and son, became the first father and son to leave their hand and footprints in front of Hollywood's famous Chinese Theater. NPR arts correspondent Mandalit del Barco

美国国家公共电台 NPR Beyond The Pale (Male): Marvel, Diversity And A Changing Comics Readership

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For most of their history, superheroes were white guys. That's changing. Alongside Superman and Captain America, there are more and more superheroes who are women or people of color or both. But this week, a Marvel Comics executive

美国国家公共电台 NPR Getty Museum Acquires Collection Of Architect Frank Gehry

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Frank Gehry has designed world-renowned buildings, including the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain. Recently, the Getty in LA acquired a vast archive of Gehry's work that spans three decades of the

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ad For Nice Living: Discover Trees, Now With Chlorophyll

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Need a distraction from the news? ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: We have one. CORNISH: It's a reminder of the good things in life that are free. SHAPIRO: Another commercial for Nicer Living. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED MAN

美国国家公共电台 NPR Tight Race For DNC Chair Narrows Ahead Of Weekend Vote

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Democratic Party is in search of a leader. Now, often, that means finding the next inspirational figure to run as a presidential nominee. But in their current state, Democrats are beginning with electing someone to chair the D

美国国家公共电台 NPR VX: The Nerve Agent Used To Kill Kim Jong Nam Is Rare And Deadly

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There are fresh twists today in the apparent assassination of the half-brother of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un. The brother, Kim Jong Nam, died last week at an airport in Malaysia. Security footage showed that two women pois

美国国家公共电台 NPR Advice From Patients On A Study's Design Makes For Better Science

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Many studies of new drugs simply languish. They don't attract enough patients, and they aren't completed. That slows medical progress. Well, here's a counterexample. So many volunteers signed up for a federally funded trial of un

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Take The Cannoli': 45 Years Spent Quoting 'The Godfather'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Academy Awards are Sunday night. But that's just what we call a peg for what I really want to talk about. This spring marks the 40th anniversary of The Godfather. Leave the gun, take the cannoli. Francis Ford Coppola's film is

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Poky Little Puppy' And His Fellow Little Golden Books Are Turning 75

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In the 1950s and '60s if there were any children's books in a house, at least one of them was likely to be a Little Golden Book. With their gold spines and brightly colored pictures, they'd just beg to be grabbed off a shelf by a c

美国国家公共电台 NPR How The Long-Lash Look Went From The Red Carpet To Everyday Life

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Tune into the Oscars this weekend, you'll see dresses, jewelry and lots of false eyelashes. False eyelashes first appeared on the big screen a century ago. And today, they're considered an essential on red carpets, in weddings and

美国国家公共电台 NPR David Oyelowo On The Real 'United Kingdom' Marriage And Its Diplomatic Fallout

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A young woman meets a prince and falls in love - sounds like the start of an old-fashioned fairy tale, right? Well, in the movie A United Kingdom, it's the start of a diplomatic firestorm. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, A UNITED KINGDOM) JA

美国国家公共电台 NPR Oscar Nominee Lin Manuel-Miranda Aims For EGOT

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Academy Awards are this Sunday. And the playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda is up for best original song for this. It's called How Far I'll Go from the film Moana. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, MOANA) AULI'I CRAVALHO: (As Moana,