美国国家公共电台 NPR How A 1981 Sondheim Flop Turned Out To Be The 'Best Worst Thing'

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: A director looks sideways at a musical that goes backwards. That's what happens in a new documentary about a Broadway flop that is now viewed as a classic. The film is called Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened. Critic

美国国家公共电台 NPR Last Call: Send Us Your Commercials For 'Nicer Living' Project

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today the United States Supreme Court considers just what you can trademark. Most familiar names and logos are registered trademarks, from the McDonald's golden arches to the apple on an iPhone. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In the last t

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Battle Over Band Name, Supreme Court Considers Free Speech And Trademarks

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today the United States Supreme Court considers just what you can trademark. Most familiar names and logos are registered trademarks, from the McDonald's golden arches to the apple on an iPhone. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In the last t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Gene Cernan, Last Man To Walk On The Moon, Dies At 82

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The last person to leave footprints on the moon has died at age 82. Gene Cernan was big, brash and gregarious, and if he hadn't been lucky, he could have missed his chance to walk on the moon. NPR's Russell Lewis has this remembr

美国国家公共电台 NPR In An Ever-Changing Music Industry, Cash For Hits Remains A Constant

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Hey, let's talk about the 21st century strategies for making a song a hit. The music industry has always had its ways over the generations, from the musicians known as song pluggers who were paid to promote sheet music in the ear

美国国家公共电台 NPR Arrest Warrant Sought For Samsung Heir In S. Korean Presidential Bribery Scandal

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Dramatic developments this morning in South Korea for one of the world's biggest companies. Prosecutors have asked a court to issue an arrest warrant for the leader of Samsung. It's all in connection to this ongoing corruption sc

美国国家公共电台 NPR For Female Inmates In New York City, Prison Is A Crowded, Windowless Room

DAVID GREENE, HOST: More than a hundred female inmates who were given sentences in federal prison faced a different fate. They were instead held for years in two windowless rooms in a detention center in New York City, and the conditions there have b

美国国家公共电台 NPR Democrats Rally In Dozens Of Cities To Oppose Obamacare Repeal

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law. Those r

美国国家公共电台 NPR Gallaudet President Navigates From World Of Hearing To Sound Leadership Of The Deaf

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There is another new president in Washington, D.C., at Gallaudet. It's the only liberal arts university devoted to the deaf and hard-of-hearing, and the school's newest president is the first deaf woman to lead the university. NPR'

美国国家公共电台 NPR Residents, Businesses And Charities Urge The Trumps To Get To Know D.C.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now, we don't know how much time President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will actually spend here in D.C. But when they're here, a whole lot of organizations are going to ask for their time, from the Kennedy Center to the Am

美国国家公共电台 NPR Donald Trump's Been Saying The Same Thing For 30 Years

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: For decades, Donald Trump played coy about his interest in running for president. But he never shied away from talking politics. And as seemingly erratic as he might be with his rhetoric, his political views have actually remaine

美国国家公共电台 NPR For A Garbage Man In Minnesota, 'Trash Tells A Story'

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: It is time now for StoryCorps. And today we'll meet a man who performs two very essential, very different jobs. John Marboe is a Lutheran pastor who grew up admiring his local garbage collectors in Alexandria,

美国国家公共电台 NPR In U.S. Ethics Chief, An Unlikely Gadfly To Trump

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: One of the most unlikely figures to capture the spotlight since the election is the lawyer who runs the Office of Government Ethics. Walter Shaub openly criticized Trump's moves to separate the presidency from his businesses as i

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump's Kindred Spirit, UK's Nigel Farage, Will Be An Honored Guest Friday

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Among the guests Donald Trump's inauguration tomorrow will be one of his kindred spirits, a fellow populist who railed against immigration and who helped drive an electoral upset that stunned the world. I'm talking about the Brit

美国国家公共电台 NPR At A Virginia Planned Parenthood Clinic, Practitioners Worry For Their Patients

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This week, we've been hearing from people whose lives may change under a Donald Trump presidency. My co-host Ari Shapiro is talking with them as he drives through North Carolina and Virginia on his way to the inauguration. Today'

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Inherits Guantanamo's Remaining Detainees

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Pentagon, earlier this week, announced that they have transferred 10 detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Oman. Forty-five prisoners remain in the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo. NPR's Arun Rath has been reporting this sto

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hollywood Grapples With TV In The Age Of Trump

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: How might TV change in the age of Trump? That's a question Hollywood is mulling. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans is in Los Angeles for the Television Critics Association gathering, and he asked writers, actors, producers and executive

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sundance Film Festival Kicks Off In Park City, Utah

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Reservoir Dogs, Memento, The Blair Witch Project and the Coen brothers' debut film, Blood Simple, all have one thing in common. They premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. My co-host Kelly McEvers has more. KELLY MCEVERS, HOST:

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Being Bored Isn't Necessarily A Bad Thing

DAVID GREENE, HOST: You know, here at MORNING EDITION we like to strive to give you in-depth lively coverage of the news. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Indeed, we hope you are informed and entertained. GREENE: I mean, the last thing we want to do is bore you.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Yale Repertory Marks 50 Years As A Theater Incubator

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The movie Fences, a leading contender for the Oscars, is based on a play by August Wilson that got its start at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Conn. This season, Yale Rep is celebrating its 50th anniversary as an incubator