美国国家公共电台 NPR Distraction, On Street And Sidewalk, Helps Cause Record Pedestrian Deaths

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's the oldest form of transportation - walking - and new evidence shows it's getting more dangerous. A new report by the Governors Highway Safety Association shows the number of pedestrians killed in traffic jumped 11 percent las

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Democrats Are Good For Gun Sales': Guess What Happened After Trump's Election

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Donald Trump won the support of the National Rifle Association and many gun owners by opposing any limits to the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. Here he is at the NRA convention last May. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

美国国家公共电台 NPR Two Ways Of Documenting Uncertainty: 'All This Panic' And 'God Knows Where I Am'

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Two documentaries told in two very different ways. First, All This Panic takes a fly-on-the-wall approach with its teenage subjects - no narration. And then God Knows Where I Am teases out its story as if it were a mystery novel.

美国国家公共电台 NPR For Egyptian Collector, No Object's Too Dusty Or Trivial For 'Mosaic Of Our History'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: To Cairo now for a story about another collector and collection. Amgad Naguib gathers ephemera - incidents of daily life like ticket stubs or photographs, letters, even disposable toothbrushes. He says these items tell the real his

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 Trump Organization Says It Is Closing Its Modeling Agency

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump has said a lot over the years about illegal immigration. So last year when reports surfaced that his modeling agency had hired women without documents to do fashion work, it generated a lot of controversy. Now that

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Obit' Follows The 'Times' Team Charged With Turning Lives Into History

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: If you are the kind of reader who goes straight to the obituaries, here's something to look forward to - a documentary opens this week called Obit. It follows the staff writers of The New York Times obituary desk. And to learn more

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Haunting '60s Film About Mental Illness And Incarceration Becomes A Ballet

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Fifty years ago, a documentary came out that shook up the media. Titicut Follies depicted life in a Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane. It launched filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's Oscar-winning career. Now, it's back as

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Administration Wants North Korea At Negotiating Table On Nuclear Weapons

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: America's top diplomat says he wants direct talks with North Korea. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says this is the goal - North Korea must end up with no nuclear weapons at all. DAVID GREENE, HOST: Tillerson called for direct

美国国家公共电台 NPR Heavy Rotation: 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We check in each month with music maestros in public radio. Here is a sample of what they're currently playing in heavy rotation. BILL DEVILLE: I'm Bill DeVille, one of the deejays at The Current in St. Paul, Minn. And my pick is a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Meet The Teenage Girl Who Wants to Be A Boy Scout

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: According to scout law, Boy Scouts must be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly. But do they really have to be boys? A teenager in New York City wants the Boy Scouts to grant official membership to girls, including herself. Yasmee

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Utah, How You Tread Through This Canyon Matters

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's a truce in Utah's Canyon Country between preservationists and off roaders in Recapture Canyon, which is prized for its sensitive Native American cultural sites. And as NPR's Kirk Siegler reports, the agreement there could r

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fyre Festival Fiasco: Luxury Music Experience Turns Into Vacation Nightmare

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It was supposed to be an exclusive luxury music festival on a tropical island. Instead it became a target of ridicule and a social media feeding frenzy. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The brand new Fyre Festival - that's F-Y-R-E - was suppos