Florence Welch Is Thankful For Her Messy Teenage Years: 'It Formed Me'
Florence Welch is no stranger to making music out of life's emotive messes. As the lead vocalist of Florence + The Machine , the British-born indie pop star was introduced to the world stage back in...
View ArticleWith Mugabe Out Of Power, This Zimbabwean Newspaper Editor Looks Ahead
Most media outlets in Zimbabwe are state-run, and working as an independent journalist under Robert Mugabe came with serious risks. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dumisani Muleya, editor-in-chief of The...
View ArticlePolitics In Zimbabwe Has A New Soundtrack
Music and politics have always been intertwined, from " Yankee Doodle " to " A Change is Gonna Come ." And that's true in Zimbabwe, too — a country that is now facing a historic political transition....
View ArticleWhat It's Like To Be Held Hostage By Somali Pirates For 2 1/2 Years
Michael Scott Moore is a journalist who traveled to Somalia to write a book about the history of piracy in the Horn of Africa. It did not go as planned. The title of his new book tells you what...
View ArticleReaction To Demi Lovato's Alleged Overdose Shows Changing Attitudes Toward...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORIohoI4m0 At the end of June, Demi Lovato released a single titled " Sober " where she confesses, "I'm not sober anymore" and apologizes to family and fans she wanted...
View ArticleParker Posey Writes Her Own Myth In 'You're On An Airplane'
Parker Posey is not the kind of movie star who seems distant and unapproachable. Instead, people shout her most famous lines at her when they pass her on the street. "I've gotten 'Air raid!' for, you...
View ArticleA Look Into What Immigrant Families Face At Busiest Border Crossing
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump took to Twitter yet again today to threaten a government shutdown. He's demanding that Congress fund his immigration...
View ArticleWhat Happens On The Other Side Of the U.S. Border In Mexico
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Borders are two-sided. And to tell the full story of what's happening on the U.S.-Mexico border, it helps to look at both sides. So during a...
View ArticleAn Unlikely Friendship: An Immigration Attorney And A Border Patrol Agent
In America today, communities are sorting themselves into like-minded bubbles. There are red teams and blue teams, where you're less likely to run into people who disagree with you. Lately, immigration...
View ArticleIn Satirical 'Severance,' A Stricken Country Works Itself To Death
Ling Ma was in the last months of a tedious office job when she began writing her first novel . The company was downsizing, and as her coworkers got laid off, the office became "silent and desolate,"...
View ArticleStrangers On A Train: How Gabriel Kahane's Travels Inspired An Album Of Empathy
A few weeks before the 2016 presidential election , composer Gabriel Kahane decided he needed to take a journey. On Nov. 9, 2016, the day after the votes were counted, Kahane boarded an Amtrak train in...
View ArticleWith Big Red Machine, Justin Vernon And Aaron Dessner Are Anti-Auteurs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c784Nv_qzjw Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner are music industry veterans by now: Vernon has been recording and performing as Bon Iver since the mid-2000s, Dessner as part...
View ArticleSinging In The Shower To Help Save Cape Town's Water
Around the world, people are struggling for access to drinking water. All Things Considered is examining the forces at play in separating the haves from the have-nots — from natural disasters to...
View ArticleSally Field Wasn't Sure She'd Have The Guts To Publish Her New Memoir
Emmy- and Oscar-winning actress Sally Field could have written a famous-people-I've-known memoir. But her new book, In Pieces, is instead an intensely personal, vulnerable accounting of her life and...
View ArticleJavier Cercas Uncovers The Truth Behind Spain's 'Impostor'
For nearly two decades Enric Marco was a highly respected figure in Spain, widely known as a Holocaust survivor, Civil War hero and resistance fighter against the Francisco Franco regime. He even held...
View ArticleAnthony Roth Costanzo: A Countertenor For The 21st Century
Despite being one of the first and oldest forms of popular music, opera sometimes struggles to connect with 21st century audiences. However, Anthony Roth Costanzo is breaking down the genre's stodgy...
View ArticleStill Reinventing At 80, Jane Fonda Says, 'I Feel Better Than I Ever Have'
About 20 years ago, to mark her 60th birthday, Jane Fonda asked for her daughter's help in creating a very short video about her life. Her daughter suggested, "Why don't you just get a chameleon to...
View Article'A Kind Of Vague Hostility': Michael Lewis On How Trump Loyalists Run Agencies
There have been a lot of books written about chaos and dysfunction in the Trump White House. The latest book by Michael Lewis looks at parts of the federal government that don't get as much attention,...
View ArticleJameela Jamil: 'My Career Is Not Reflected By The Size Of My Body'
The NBC sitcom The Good Place is back for its third season, and fans will be happy to know Tahani al Jamil is as "conceited, but deeply kind, insecure, [and] vainglorious" as ever — in the words of...
View ArticleHow A 19th Century Chemist Took On The Food Industry With A Grisly Experiment
Unlabeled stimulants in soft drinks. Formaldehyde in meat and milk. Borax — the stuff used to kill ants! — used as a common food preservative. The American food industry was once a wild and dangerous...
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