美国国家公共电台 NPR Facing Death Threats And A Ban On His Novel, A Palestinian Author Flees

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A crime novel set in Ramallah has been outlawed there and in other Palestinian cities. The Palestinian Authority's attorney general banned the book. He said it contains indecent terms that threaten public morality. Now the author's

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Religion Is More Durable Than Commonly Thought In Modern Society

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's easy to just assume this as fact - as a society becomes more modern, it becomes more secular. People separate their religion from their institutions and from parts of their lives. Sociologists have a name for this idea. They

美国国家公共电台 NPR VA Hospitals Still Struggling With Adding Staff Despite Billions From Choice Act

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: An effort to help American veterans get medical care faster is not working. NPR and some of its member stations have investigated a multi-billion dollar U.S. government program for veterans. It is supposed to add more doctors, nu

美国国家公共电台 NPR For Barcelona Activist Turned Mayor, The Anti-Corruption Goals Stay The Same

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: An activist in Spain who has no experience in office is now the mayor of Barcelona. Ada Colau was swept into office on a wave of anti-establishment anger. And now almost two years into her term, she spoke to reporter Lauren Frayer

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Taste For Pork Helped A Deadly Virus Jump To Humans

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: When you talk to disease experts about what might alarm them, it's not Ebola or Zika. It's Nipah. It's as deadly as Ebola but attacks the brain, and it has the potential to spread by mere cough. As NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff reports

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump And CPAC: A Complicated Relationship No More

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Donald Trump can make conservatives nervous. They tend to like his Supreme Court nominee and his Cabinet choices. They can be wary of him when it comes to trade, the military and social issues. Yesterday, conservative speakers comp

美国国家公共电台 NPR Kuwait Celebration At Trump Hotel Raises Conflict Of Interest Questions

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's National Day in Kuwait. The annual holiday commemorates the Gulf state's independence from British rule in 1961. For years, the Kuwaiti embassy in Washington, D.C. has been holding a gala celebration to mark National Day. But

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Administration Weighs Increased Scrutiny Of Refugees' Social Media

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump is expected to issue a new executive order next week on refugees and other people coming to the U.S. from foreign countries. While we don't yet know the details of what the Trump administration's extreme vetting wil

美国国家公共电台 NPR Last Chance To Sign Up For Obamacare, For 2017 And Maybe Forever

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now, today is the last day - for this year anyway - to sign up for the health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act, which may seem a bit strange since most of the talk in Washington has been about getting rid of Obamacar

美国国家公共电台 NPR Boy Scouts Will Admit Transgender Boys

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: One more development in this dramatic newsweek - a surprise announcement late Monday. The Boy Scouts of America say that they will begin accepting transgender boys who want to join its scouting programs. NPR's Richard Gonzales re

美国国家公共电台 NPR Lots Of People Donate Their Cars, But This Owner Donated His Auto Repair Shop

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In Baltimore, an auto mechanic named Jerry Greeff wanted to offload his business so he could retire. Instead of selling it to another mechanic, he donated his auto body shop to an organization that needed not only the ca

美国国家公共电台 NPR Christian Leaders Question Trump's Promise To Favor Christian Refugees

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump is promising to give priority to Christian refugees fleeing persecution, yet some of the strongest criticism of his executive order is coming from Christian leaders themselves. Some say the temporary ban on refuge

美国国家公共电台 NPR At State Department, 'Dissent Channel' In High Gear With Refugee Ban Protests

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In the State Department, there is an easy and usually private way for employees to register their concerns about U.S. policy. It's called the Dissent Channel. Today, an unusually large number of Foreign Service officers are using t

美国国家公共电台 NPR Labor Unions Appear Set For More State-Level Defeats In 2017

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Twenty-seventeen is shaping up to be another tough year for organized labor. The year started with Republican lawmakers in Kentucky passing so-called right-to-work laws that affect how labor unions collect dues. That made Kentuck

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Breaking News' Artists Use Mass Media As Their Medium

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The images that often come from breaking news can be dramatic or brutal or upsetting. And that has provided inspiration for art. In Los Angeles, an exhibit at the Getty Center looks at artists' reactions to mass media, what they

美国国家公共电台 NPR Attention Must Be Paid To What 'The Salesman' Is Selling

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The executive order banning visitors and refugees from seven majority-Muslim nations is having some unanticipated effects in Hollywood. The Salesman has an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film. Its director, Asghar Far

美国国家公共电台 NPR All-Female Orchestra From Afghanistan Is A Force For Change

All-Female Orchestra From Afghanistan Is A Force For Change STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Decades of war and extremism in Afghanistan have ravaged that country's ancient culture including its music. A school in Kabul started by an Afghan musicologist is tryin

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Big Brutus,' World's Largest Electric Shovel, Turned Into Museum

'Big Brutus,' World's Largest Electric Shovel, Turned Into Museum LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: You never know what roadside attraction you might find along America's byways. Our colleague Melissa Block is on a reporting road trip around the country,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ben Johnston Hears The Notes Between The Notes

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Ben Johnston celebrated his 90th birthday this year, and he completed a decade-long project - the recording of all 10 of his string quartets. That's in part due to the fact that Ben Johnston hears music differently than most people

美国国家公共电台 NPR Behold: Susan Stamberg's Special Recipe For Caviar Pie

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Now it's time for the last in our series of holiday recipes from our colleagues here at NPR. We've heard about Christmas breads and Turkey tacos and mofongo and also to you, but the person who started it all joins us now. Susan Sta