美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Prepares To Get Tougher On China Over Trade

SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: China is the world's export giant. Each year, it sells more than $2 trillion worth of goods around the world. Other countries often say one way China has reached the top is through unfair trade practices, like dumping products b

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Daniel Mallory Ortberg's Version, The Little Mermaid Inhales Souls

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Merry Spinster is one of the most anticipated books of the spring. Daniel Mallory Ortberg, co-creator of The Toast, an important website for feminist writing, has recast some classic tales, including The Little Mermaid, The Vel

美国国家公共电台 NPR French Fashion Designer Hubert De Givenchy Dies At 91

SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: A man who dressed some of the most glamorous women in the world has died. Hubert de Givenchy died at 91. As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, he helped import French couture to America partly by way of Hollywood. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, SAB

美国国家公共电台 NPR Despite Heightened Fear Of School Shootings, It's Not A Growing Epidemic

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The school walkouts that happened yesterday around the country channeled an intense feeling of anger and frustration for a lot of young people. A month after 17 people died in the Parkland, Fla., shooting, students walked out of

美国国家公共电台 NPR Author Alan Hollinghurst On Secret Affairs, Narrative Gaps And Writing Gay Sex

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist who likes to explore private, secret lives. His characters are often gay men, sometimes living in an earlier era when they wouldn't use the word gay to describe themselves. Hollinghurst won

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Flag Still Flies For Jasper Johns

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. I want you to consider these objects - an American flag, a target and a number. Would you ever think to make paintings of them? Well, the American artist Jasper Johns did that. And now six decades of his work are on vie

美国国家公共电台 NPR Stephen Hawking, Who Awed Both Scientists And The Public, Dies

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of the most famous scientists of our time has died. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist whose early work on black holes transformed how scientists think about the nature of the universe. But his fame wasn't just a res

美国国家公共电台 NPR Case Closed: Preservation Hall's Missing Sousaphone Is Returned

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: And now a true crime story that involves a theft, an anonymous tip and a very special tuba. (SOUNDBITE OF TUBA MUSIC) SHAPIRO: That is the missing tuba - a sousaphone, to be exact. Here's its owner to tell us about his instrument,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Replacing Secretary Of State Tillerson With CIA Director Mike Pompeo

Trump Replacing Secretary Of State Tillerson With CIA Director Mike Pompeo ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Today began with a bang - or rather, a tweet. President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Trump later explained that it was because of a lack of

美国国家公共电台 NPR A 4-Minute Surgery That Can Give Sight To The Blind

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now to Ethiopia where recently, hundreds of blind people arrived at a remote hospital. They were hoping for a miracle, the ability to see again. For a week, the hospital compound held a campaign to remove cataracts, the world's lea

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Rocky Appearance For DeVos On '60 Minutes'

SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: President Trump also is setting up a commission on school safety. He's asked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to lead it. It will look at everything from arming teachers to age restrictions on gun purchases to video game violence

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hearts Get 'Younger,' Even At Middle Age, With Exercise

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. If you haven't been an avid exerciser, never fear. It's not too late, necessarily. A recent study shows that if you take up routine exercises even in late middle age, you can actually reverse some of the damage that a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump Administration Moves To Reshape Who Qualifies For Asylum

NOEL KING, HOST: Here at home, the Trump administration is moving to limit who gets asylum in the U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is using his authority to reshape the law on who qualifies for asylum. Advocates for immigrants' rights warn that th

美国国家公共电台 NPR French Fashion Designer Givenchy Dies At 91

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of the fashion world's most famous designers has died. Hubert de Givenchy styled some of the world's most fashionable women, icons like Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy and Princess Grace of Monaco. NPR's Paris correspondent El

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Junot Diaz's 'Islandborn,' A Curious Child Re-Creates Her Dominican Roots

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The writer Junot Diaz wanted to publish a children's book for more than 20 years. In the meantime, he stayed busy. He wrote several grown-up books, including The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, which won a Pulitzer Prize. He al

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trump's Plan To Secure Schools Calls For Arming Teachers, Improving Background Checks

Trump's Plan To Secure Schools Calls For Arming Teachers, Improving Background Checks RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Almost one month after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed, the White Hous

美国国家公共电台 NPR Gun Owners Grapple With Shifting Conversations Around Firearms

RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This is The Call-In. (SOUNDBITE OF CORDUROI'S MY DEAR) MONTAGNE: These past few days saw changes to our gun regulations on both the national and the local level. In Florida, Governor Rick Scott signed a package of new gun regula

美国国家公共电台 NPR Storm Reid Says Making 'A Wrinkle In Time' Was 'A Dream Come True'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The film A Wrinkle In Time has some of Hollywood's biggest stars - Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon and more. Their stories all revolve around the central character who's played by a 14-year-old actress named Storm Reid

美国国家公共电台 NPR 20 Years On, 'The Big Lebowski' Reminds Us To Slow Down, Dude

DON GONYEA, HOST: The Dude abides. OK. As iconic movie lines go, maybe it's not as iconic as here's looking at you, kid. But for fans of the film The Big Lebowski, there are few things better than hearing Jeff Bridges say those words with such slacke

美国国家公共电台 NPR One Final Road Trip Takes A 'Census' Of The Hurt In The World

DON GONYEA, HOST: Jesse Ball is one of America's most accomplished writers. He's published volumes of poetry, short stories and novels. His latest is a novel called Census. It's about a man, a widower, who learns he doesn't have long to live. And he