'Automating Inequality': Algorithms In Public Services Often Fail The Most...
In the fall of 2008, Omega Young got a letter prompting her to recertify for Medicaid. But she was unable to make the appointment because she was suffering from ovarian cancer. She called her local...
View ArticleLike Lemons? Quinoa? Thank This Food Explorer For Bringing Them To Your Plate
Botanist David Fairchild grew up in Kansas at the end of the 19th century. He loved plants, and he loved travel, and he found a way to combine both into a job for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At...
View ArticleQuestions And Answers About Opioids And Chronic Pain
Millions of Americans use opioids to relieve pain. But many also struggle with addiction. This week, a report in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, found that nonopioid painkillers...
View ArticleMiami Pedestrian Walkway Collapses Onto Road, Killing At Least 4
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Officials in Miami have just announced that at least four people are dead after a pedestrian walkway collapsed today. Construction crews had...
View ArticleHow Phoenix's Real Estate Market Is Faring 10 Years After Housing Crisis
Phoenix was among the cities hit hardest by the mortgage and foreclosure crisis. Ten years later, the city and its real estate market have rebounded, but no one has forgotten. Copyright 2018 NPR. To...
View Article'It's A Very Different World Now,' Says Outgoing Human Rights Commissioner
In the last few years, some European countries have refused to take in refugees, prejudiced views have entered the mainstream, and leaders demonize religious minorities and attack the free press. Nils...
View ArticleAutonomous Weapons Would Take Warfare To A New Domain, Without Humans
Killer robots have been a staple of TV and movies for decades, from Westworld to The Terminator series. But in the real world, killer robots are officially known as "autonomous weapons." At the...
View ArticleAsylum-Seeking Student Says Nothing Can Stand Between Him And Poetry
Allan Monga, a junior at Deering High School in Portland, Maine, traveled to Washington, D.C. to compete in the Poetry Out Loud contest on Monday. It's a national competition in which students recite...
View ArticleNavigating Campus For The 'Not Rich': Students Launch A Crowdsourced Guide
University of Michigan students Griffin St. Onge and Lauren Schandevel have published an online guide that anybody can edit called " Being Not Rich at UM ." It's a Google Doc about navigating the costs...
View ArticleWikipedia Founder Says Internet Users Are Adrift In The 'Fake News' Era
At any given moment, volunteers and paid workers are writing fictional narratives that they present online as news stories, and some of those will get picked up and shared — perhaps thousands of times...
View ArticleActress Jessie Buckley On Her Character's Dark Role In 'Beast'
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The new movie "Beast" is a psychological thriller set on a quaint island in the English Channel called Jersey. Twenty-seven-year-old Moll...
View ArticleBefore They Walk Into A Classroom, These New Teachers Will March On The N.C....
Last week, teachers-to-be WinnieHope Mamboleo and Cristina Chase Lane marched across the graduation stage at North Carolina State University. This week, they'll be marching with future colleagues at...
View ArticleMSU Settlement In Nassar Case 'A Great Victory,' Abused Gymnast Says
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Gymnast Jeanette Antolin is one of more than 300 sexual abuse victims of the U.S. national team physician Larry Nassar. In 1999, she competed...
View Article'Get Something That No One Else Has Gotten', Says Photographer Mark Seliger
For decades, Americans have seen celebrities through photographer Mark Seliger's lens. His work has appeared in magazines such as Vanity Fair, GQ and Rolling Stone. "Having a sense of humor" is...
View ArticleJohn Cameron Mitchell On Punks, Aliens And The Queerness Of 'How To Talk To...
More than a decade ago, author Neil Gaiman wrote a short story that captures some of the strangeness of being a teenager discovering the world. It's called "How to Talk to Girls at Parties," and it's...
View ArticleHuman Ashes Left At The Vietnam Memorial Find A Not-Final Resting Place
It's nightfall in Washington, D.C., at the end of the evening shift, when the throngs of students on school field trips have slowed to a trickle at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. With a flashlight in...
View ArticleZimbabwe Explosion Hits Presidential Rally
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. In Zimbabwe today, an explosion went off at a presidential campaign rally,...
View Article'A New Life': An Activist Comes Home To Zimbabwe, Hoping To Hold Leaders...
Savanna Madamombe's life is very different than it was a year ago. Originally from just outside Zimbabwe's capital Harare, Madamombe moved to Manhattan in 2000, where she worked in hotels and...
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