美国国家公共电台 NPR Poll: Most Americans Think Their Own Group Faces Discrimination

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: OK. Brakkton's story grows out of a survey that comes from NPR News, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The survey director was Robert Blendon, who says the aim here was to capt

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fresh Headache For Murdochs: Bill O'Reilly Got Raise After Secret Payout

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Thirty-two million dollars - that's how much money Bill O'Reilly agreed to pay to a colleague at Fox News to keep her allegations of sexual harassment a secret. That was in January, and it just came out in a report over the weekend

美国国家公共电台 NPR Megan Phelps-Roper: If You're Raised To Hate, Can You Reverse It?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about dialogue and exchange. Because we're living at a time of pretty intense polarization, a lot of people are angry and confused. And we don't understand how

美国国家公共电台 NPR Robb Willer: How Do We Bridge The Political Divide?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about dialogue and exchange. And we couldn't possibly do a show about dialogue without talking about politics. OK, so, Robb, I think - I have this feeling that

美国国家公共电台 NPR They Fell In Love For Life, After She Got Over All The Death

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Time now for StoryCorps. Today, a love story that is just ripe for Halloween. Lynne and Greg Houston met 25 years ago. Lynne was working at a restaurant in Buffalo, N.Y. Greg was a mortician at the funeral ho

美国国家公共电台 NPR Money May Not Shield Prosperous Blacks From Bigotry, Survey Says

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This next story suggests how hard it can be to avoid racial discrimination. The story comes from a new survey of Americans of all races and ethnicities. It's being released this morning by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble For Weedkiller Dicamba

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Monsanto, the pioneer of genetically modified food, likes to say it is rooted in science, but some leading scientists are accusing the company of denying evidence about the risks of its newest weedkilling technology. NPR's Dan Cha

美国国家公共电台 NPR Water Spinach Farmers Struggle To Recover After Hurricane Harvey

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And I'm Steve Inskeep with the deeper meaning of water spinach. It's a staple food among some Asian-American families - they use them in stir-fries and soups - but it's grown commercially in only a few parts of the United States.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Amid Opposition Boycott, Kenyans Vote In Re-Run Of Presidential Election

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Going to turn now to Kenya, where it is election day, and already, we are seeing a lot of violence. At least two people are dead, and dozens have been injured. Four counties have now delayed voting until Saturday. Now, there were

美国国家公共电台 NPR Guess Who Renoir Was In Love With In 'Luncheon Of The Boating Party'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: In 1880, the artist Renoir wrote a friend that he was in a riverside town near Paris painting oarsman. He'd been itching to do it for a long time. I'm not getting any younger, the 41-year-old artist wrote, and didn't want to defer

美国国家公共电台 NPR How Black Americans See Discrimination

DAVID GREENE, HOST: People of all races in the United States see racial discrimination regularly, but black Americans report it at the highest rates. This is according to a new survey from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H.

美国国家公共电台 NPR Sen. Flake: GOP Must Stand Against Trump's Behavior 'Or Lose That Chance'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump's White House agrees with Senator Jeff Flake about one thing. The presidential press secretary says she agrees with Flake's decision to quit. The Arizona Republican, a critic of President Trump, announced his depa

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why You Shouldn't Count On The Promised $4,000 'Raise' From GOP Tax Plan

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There's not yet a bill for the Republican plan to overhaul the tax code. But the White House already has one of its main talking points. This week, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that American households would get w

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Best Hostess Gift? A Pound Of Butter, Says Amy Sedaris

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The actress and comedian Amy Sedaris has become famous for her roles in shows like Strangers With Candy... (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, STRANGERS WITH CANDY) AMY SEDARIS: (As Jerri Blank) I was a builder, a loser and a user. SHAPIRO: ...

美国国家公共电台 NPR Your Questions About Activism In Sports, Answered

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we are trying out something new with our Wednesday sports segment. We're taking questions from you, our listeners. This month, we asked, what's been on your mind as you have watched athletes bring social activism onto the fiel

美国国家公共电台 NPR Local Medics Train Chicago Residents To Help Shooting Victims

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, so we're going to hear now about a young woman whose name is Journey Jamison. A few weeks after she turned 15, she saved a man's life. It was a hot Sunday afternoon in Chicago when a stranger burst through her back door

美国国家公共电台 NPR Top American Fears: Sharks And Zombies Or Corrupt Officials?

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: It's that time of year - time for ghosts and goblins and other creatures that go bump in the night. And if those sorts of things give you the heebie-jeebies, maybe you'll take comfort in knowing that 4 percent of Americans say th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Women Are Speaking Up About Harassment And Abuse, But Why Now?

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: For decades, women generally kept quiet about being sexually harassed or even assaulted at work. But just in the last few weeks, hundreds have come forward with their own stories. So what's changed? Are we at a turning point when

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Season Two, 'Stranger Things' Offers More Scares And The Same Quirky Quartet Of Nerds

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Fans of the Netflix TV show Stranger Things have waited more than a year for new episodes. The series was one of summer 2016's surprise hits. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says the show's second season which debuts today sneaks up o

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Ghosts of the Tsunami' Shows How 2011 Event Transformed Japan

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: On March 11, 2011, Japan took a devastating seismic one-two. First an earthquake, and then a tsunami that rose 120 feet high out of the Pacific. More than 18,000 people died. In the villages on Japan's Sanriku Coast some 250 mile