美国国家公共电台 NPR Political Subtext In Wes Anderson's 'Isle Of Dogs' Is More Bark Than Bite

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Wes Anderson's new animated puppet movie is called Isle Of Dogs. I'm saying that carefully because if you say Isle Of Dogs quickly, it comes out sounding a lot like I love dogs. And of course I only feel OK about dogs, but Wes An

美国国家公共电台 NPR Is It Even Possible To Protect Your Privacy On Facebook?

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The recent revelations that a voter targeting firm harvested the personal data of some 50 million Facebook users have left many people on that social network feeling uneasy. As NPR's Laura Sydell reports, there are some ways to bet

美国国家公共电台 NPR Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To Change

Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To Change DAVID GREENE, HOST: It's possible you've never heard of Section 230, and yet your life online has likely been shaped by this landmark law. It's described by many as a core pillar

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I'm Ready To Call 911': Austin On Edge With 'Serial Bomber' At Large

'I'm Ready To Call 911': Austin On Edge With 'Serial Bomber' At Large DAVID GREENE, HOST: Investigators are combing a neighborhood in Austin, Texas, looking for clues to catch what they're now calling a serial bomber. Since the beginning of this mont

美国国家公共电台 NPR Justices Appear Skeptical Of Calif. Law Challenged By Anti-Abortion Centers

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The U.S. Supreme Court is going to hear arguments today in a major First Amendment case that involves abortion. On one side are self-identified crisis pregnancy centers that seek to prevent abortions. And on the other side is the

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Wave Of Female Candidates Is Set For A Wave Of Losses, Come November

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's talk midterm elections now. The enthusiasm of Democrats is a major force shaping this year's crop of candidates. Among the results of a newly energized Democratic Party, far more women are running and expected to run in thi

美国国家公共电台 NPR Republican Lawmakers Say Mueller Needs No Protection

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Congressional Republicans are making it clear they will not take any steps to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from getting fired. Here's Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MITCH MCCONNE

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Chinese Space Lab Will Soon Fall From The Sky. Where It Lands, No One Knows

AILSA CHANG, HOST: A prototype space station, put into orbit by China, will soon be falling back to Earth. It is the size of a city bus. No one knows where parts of it will land although regions of the continental U.S. are in the potential crash zone

美国国家公共电台 NPR Congress Passes $1.3 Trillion Government Funding Bill, Averts Shutdown

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Congress is less than three days away from another government shutdown deadline, and they have just released a $1.3 trillion bill that's more than 2,000 pages. There's only one problem. Nobody seems to know how they'll rush the leg

美国国家公共电台 NPR For One Father And Son In Puerto Rico, A Storm Was Just The Latest Trial

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's been six months since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. There are still towns without power and water, and Puerto Rico faces a severe doctor shortage. Daily life is hard for many but more so for families caring for peo

美国国家公共电台 NPR Migrants Captured In Libya Say They End Up Sold As Slaves

DAVID GREENE, HOST: African migrants who pass through Libya to board smugglers' boats to Europe are being captured by militias, and some of them are being sold as slaves. NPR's Ruth Sherlock traveled to southern Tunisia recently and met migrants who

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'National Geographic' Turns The Lens On Its Own Racist History

DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK. National Geographic became a cultural institution by bringing other cultures to Western readers. Now, in what it's calling The Race Issue, the magazine is issuing an apology. National Geographic says it often portrayed foreign

美国国家公共电台 NPR Autism, Haircuts And A Nursery Rhyme

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right, that is a familiar sound, the sound of a haircut. But it's also a sound that can be terrifying to a child with autism. That was the case for 10-year-old Jordie Rowland of Brisbane, Australia. Jordie has autism, and he

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Chaplain Talks March Madness

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. If you want to succeed against the odds, you got to have faith. And this year, the University of Loyola-Chicago's men's basketball is succeeding against the odds. Here's a clip from the TNT network's coverage of their

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Like A Jazz Musician': Past Poet Laureate Philip Levine's Posthumous LP

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Since the age of Homer, poetry has been performed with music. Jazz and poetry have been paired up frequently ever since the beat poets and the beboppers got together in the 1950s. A new addition to that canon features Pulitzer Priz

美国国家公共电台 NPR What Did Cambridge Analytica Do During The 2016 Election?

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Donald Trump's presidential campaign paid millions of dollars to Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 election. So did Texas Senator Ted Cruz's campaign. Following reports that the company improperly collected data on 50 million F

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'We Should Have Been The Last': Kentucky Shooting Survivors Inspired By Parkland

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This weekend's big rally against gun violence in Washington, sparked by a shooting in Florida, has its counterparts in other parts of the country. One march comes in Marshall County, Ky., which had a school shooting of its own in

美国国家公共电台 NPR Invisibilia: Inspired By 'American Idol,' Somali TV Show Aimed To Change The World

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: NPR's podcast Invisibilia is back with its fourth season. And today they have the story of a reality show in the Horn of Africa that set out to change our culture. It led NPR's Alix Spiegel to ask, can telling a certain kind of sto

美国国家公共电台 NPR Are There Risks From Secondhand Marijuana Smoke? Early Science Says Yes

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And let's stay here in California, which is one of more than 20 states where marijuana is legal in some form, which, of course, means people can be exposed to marijuana on the street. So what about secondhand smoke? Is that a conc

美国国家公共电台 NPR After Years Wandering A Golf Desert, Tiger Woods Stages A Dramatic Comeback

DAVID GREENE, HOST: For the second week in a row, Tiger Woods almost won a golf tournament. The trophy for the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando went to Rory McIlroy. But the weekend was really all about Tiger. He's in the midst of a dramatic com