美国国家公共电台 NPR As Trump Continues Mar-A-Lago Trips, Watchdogs Want To Know Who's Joining Him

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For the seventh time since taking office, President Trump will spend this weekend at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Government watchdog groups want a federal court to force the Trump administration to release a list of visitors to

美国国家公共电台 NPR Long-Persecuted Rohingya Find Refuge, But Not Acceptance, In Bangladesh

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's return to the story of the Rohingya. They're a Muslim minority group in Buddhist majority Myanmar. And they have been persecuted by that country's government for decades, so much so that many flee for something better somewh

美国国家公共电台 NPR Online Video Producers Caught In Struggle Between Advertisers And YouTube

DAVID GREENE, HOST: People who produce content on YouTube are bringing in less money. They say their ad rates have gone down by as much as 75 percent the last couple weeks. As NPR's Laura Sydell reports, the producers are caught in a struggle between

美国国家公共电台 NPR Set 40 Years In The Past, 'Guerrilla' Speaks Strongly To Today

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A few years ago, the American screenwriter John Ridley was working in Britain. He learned a bit of history. It was new to him. It felt familiar. It was the story of a time in the 1970s when Britain struggled with that American so

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fitzgerald Didn't Satisfy This Author, So She Wrote Her Own 'Gatsby'-Inspired Novel

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one of the most beloved American novels. It's set in the roaring 20s about the messiness of chasing the American dream. For the author Stephanie Powell Watts, something about the novel neve

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Film Celebrates Emily Dickinson's Poetry And 'Quiet Passion'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The American poet Emily Dickinson is the subject of a new film called A Quiet Passion. The writer and director is Terence Davies. He's best known for his depictions of working-class life in his native Britain. The American actress

美国国家公共电台 NPR George W. Bush Calls Foreign Aid A Moral And Security Imperative

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump's budget proposal is all about hard power, increasing U.S. military might while slashing aid to other countries, the thinking being there are enough problems to deal with at home. But these historic cuts in foreign

美国国家公共电台 NPR Rohingya Fleeing Myanmar Describe Military Tactic Of Systematic Rape

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In the last six months, more than 70,000 Rohingya fled across the border into Bangladesh. A warning here - some listeners might find the content of this story disturbing. Reporter Michael Sullivan has been with the Rohingya in so

美国国家公共电台 NPR Alleged Plot, Coming Trial In Montenegro Reads Like a Thriller

DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump has reversed his position on NATO. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I said it was obsolete. It's no longer obsolete. GREENE: He cited efforts by the Alliance to Combat Terrorism as the reas

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump, In A 180-Degree Switch, Says NATO 'No Longer Obsolete'

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump has been meeting at the White House today with the secretary general of NATO. On the campaign trail, Trump questioned the modern-day relevance of the military alliance between Western powers. It was, after all, fo

美国国家公共电台 NPR On The Navajo Nation, Special Ed Students Await Water That Doesn't Stink

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: More than a third of the Navajo Nation lacks running water. And in some of the places with running water, people don't want to drink it. They say it smells, tastes funny and looks bad. Laurel Morales of member station KJZZ has more

美国国家公共电台 NPR File This Under Nostalgia: New Book Pays Tribute To The Library Card Catalog

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: David, you and I are old enough to remember card catalogs at the library, right? DAVID GREENE, HOST: Three words - Dewey Decimal System. MARTIN: Did you go to the library in college? GREENE: Of course I went to the library... MAR

美国国家公共电台 NPR Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Receives James Baldwin Letters

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Literary icon and social critic James Baldwin has inspired generations of writers since his death in 1987. But who inspired him? The answer to that question may be found in a new archive of the author's writings acquired by the S

美国国家公共电台 NPR Laura Kipnis Tackles Campus Sexual Politics In 'Unwanted Advances'

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A few years ago, Laura Kipnis, a tenured professor at Northwestern, published an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In it, she argued that the rules governing sexual relationships between students and professors

美国国家公共电台 NPR Drugs That Work In Mice Often Fail When Tried In People

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to talk now about how scientists test new drugs. A lot of the drugs made for humans are tested first on mice or other lab animals, although one of the big problems is that most drugs that work in mice don't work in pe

美国国家公共电台 NPR Has Apple Lost Its Innovation Mojo?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's hard to overstate how the technology developed by Apple has revolutionized our lives. But fast forward to 2017; innovation now is increasingly coming from other companies. NPR's Laura Sydell looks at the reasons behind that

美国国家公共电台 NPR It's A Beautiful Day For Some Sunny #NPRpoetry From Listeners

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's take a poetry break now with a few more of your Twitter poems. It's a beautiful day here in Washington, D.C., so a good time to hear a few reflections on springtime and nature, like this one from Mark Holoweiko in Michigan.

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Alive And Kicking' Chronicles Deep History Of Swing Dancing

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, there was a time when going out on weekends didn't mean Netflix and chill or dining out at the latest restaurant. It meant going out to dance, and in the '20s and '30s that meant swing dancing. Born in Harlem, N.Y.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Prince Contained Multitudes, New Book Confirms

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to music. Many people were shocked and upset by the death of singer-songwriter Prince last April. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WHEN DOVES CRY) PRINCE: (Singing) Dig if you will the picture of you and I engaged in a kiss. MARTIN: New Y

美国国家公共电台 NPR What's The Issue With Nitrate Film Stock? It's Combustible

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Audiences had an unusual opportunity over the weekend to see classic movies the way they were originally projected. The TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood played movies on old-style nitrate film. It's very rare and beautiful