美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Janesville' Looks At A Factory Town After The Factory Shuts Down

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: All eyes turn to the Rust Belt where three states that voted for Democratic candidates since the 1980s helped Donald Trump win the election. Wisconsin hadn't given its electoral votes to a Republican since 1984. It was key to Trump'

美国国家公共电台 NPR LA Riot Documentaries Show Dehumanizing Black People Enables Abuses in Policing

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Next Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots. The widespread and violent uprising erupted after four police officers were acquitted in the beating of a black motorist named Rodney King. The assault was captured

美国国家公共电台 NPR #NPRpoetry Naturally Goes Outside For Some Earth Day Inspiration

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Now let's take a moment to appreciate some of the poetry that's been coming in this month as part of our celebration of National Poetry Month. We've been asking you, our listeners, to tweet 140-character-or-less poems using the hash

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Thunder In The Mountains' Tells Tragedy Of Two Strong, Opposing Leaders

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Now to a lesser known story about race relations in this country. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, the U.S. looked West to the unresolved conflicts over land rights and sovereignty with the country's native peoples. In the Pa

美国国家公共电台 NPR Winds Of Change Could Come Slowly For Agriculture Nominee Perdue

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Senate is scheduled to vote today on the nation's next agriculture secretary, a full three months after President Trump announced his choice for that job. If confirmed, Sonny Perdue will run a department slated for major cuts

美国国家公共电台 NPR Renée Elise Goldsberry Hopes 'Henrietta Lacks' Movie Will Start Conversations

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: We mentioned earlier in the program that today is Earth Day, and there have been demonstrations for science around the world. In a few minutes, we'll hear from one of the celebrity scientists behind the march, Bill Nye, who has a ne

美国国家公共电台 NPR Clashes Over Grazing Land In Nigeria Threaten Nomadic Herding

LYNN NEARY, HOST: For the past decade, Boko Haram has been killing thousands across northeastern Nigeria, causing millions to flee from their homes. But now there's another conflict in Nigeria that's killing more people than Boko Haram and threatenin

美国国家公共电台 NPR Student Loans: You've Got Questions, We've Got Answers

LYNN NEARY, HOST: And this is The Call-In. For many high school seniors, the deadline for deciding where to go to college is just around the corner, and that means grappling with the price of tuition. We asked you to share your experiences with finan

美国国家公共电台 NPR Justice Department Warns 'Sanctuary Cities,' With Grant Money At Risk

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Here in the United States, the Justice Department is putting more pressure on what are sometimes called sanctuary cities. Officials have sent letters to eight cities that receive millions of dollars in law enforcement grants, and

美国国家公共电台 NPR Author Alison MacLeod Tries To Find Humor In Terrorism

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: OK, file this one under impossible assignments - write a really funny, like laugh-out-loud funny, short story about jihad. Yeah, terrorism and humor are uneasy bedfellows, to put it mildly. But the author Alison MacLeod takes

美国国家公共电台 NPR Dark Lives Of 'The Radium Girls' Left A Bright Legacy For Workers, Science

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In the early days of the 20th century, radium factories in New Jersey and Illinois employed mostly women to paint watch faces and clock faces with luminous paint. The paint got everywhere - hair, hands, clothes. They were cal

美国国家公共电台 NPR Willy Wonka-Inspired 'Candy Alchemist' Spins Sugar Into Pure Imagination

LYNN NEARY, HOST: As Roald Dahl's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory comes to Broadway this spring, across town, a real-life Willy Wonka is whipping up his own new confections. Allyson McCabe takes us inside the darkly, whimsical world of a mysterious

美国国家公共电台 NPR Filmmaker Jonathan Demme, Director Of 'Silence Of The Lambs,' Dies At 73

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Jonathan Demme, who directed The Silence Of The Lambs, Philadelphia and many other movies and documentaries, died today of complications from esophageal cancer. As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, the Oscar award-winning filmmaker passe

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ohio Gov. John Kasich On America's Division And Rising Above 'Self-Absorption'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Ohio's governor, John Kasich, is back on the national stage this week. He's out with a new memoir about his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. The book is called Two Paths: America Divided Or United. I spoke with

美国国家公共电台 NPR Portugal Basks In Post-Bailout Economic Revival

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now we have the results of a test of economic policy. Europe has spent years recovering from the financial crisis, and some nations adopted austerity programs. But a year and a half ago, a socialist government in Portugal said th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Recordings Reveal That Baby Humpback Whales 'Whisper' To Their Mothers

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We now present an editorial opinion. What this particular day of news really needs is the sound of a humpback whale. (SOUNDBITE OF HUMPBACK WHALE VOCALIZING) INSKEEP: That's an adult male humpback whale. Scientists recently recor

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump To Sign Executive Order That Could Shrink National Monuments

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order tomorrow that could end up shrinking or even abolishing altogether some protected national monuments on federal public land. These monuments were designated by president

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Compelling — And Chilling

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Handmaid's Tale debuts today on Hulu. It's an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel. I saw her once with fans. People love this story even though it is so troubling, a story of authoritarian rule and female oppressi

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Just Show Up': Sheryl Sandberg On How To Help Someone Who's Grieving

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Life was good for Sheryl Sandberg when she and her husband, Dave Goldberg took a vacation in Mexico two years ago. She was a senior executive at Facebook, mother of two and the best-selling author of the book Lean In. Then her husb

美国国家公共电台 NPR Mexico Worries That A New Border Wall Will Worsen Flooding

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump has kept up the pressure to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, though the administration now seems willing to wait until later this year so they can figure out where the funding for that wall is going to c