Now Playing

Loading streams...

Podcasts & RSS Feeds

All ContentRSS
View all podcasts & RSS feeds

NPR News

Pages

Politics
9:00 am
Wed February 8, 2012

Is Komen's Image Beyond Repair?

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

The breast cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, took a lot of heat last week for cutting grants to Planned Parenthood. The group reversed the decision this week, and Karen Handel resigned as vice president. Host Michel Martin continues the conversation on this week's major news with a diverse panel of politicos.

Poetry
8:57 am
Wed February 8, 2012

Donald Hall: A Poet's View 'Out The Window'

Next imagePrevious image
Credit
Credit Jim Cole / AP
Donald Hall stands in the barn of the 200-year-old Wilmot farm that has been in his family for four generations. His latest poetry collection is called The Back Chamber.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Poet Donald Hall spends much of his time in his blue armchair, looking at the landscape out his window. The 83-year-old former poet laureate has lived for years on the same New Hampshire farm that his grandparents used to own, and still writes in the room he slept in as a child.

Read more
Music Reviews
8:28 am
Wed February 8, 2012

Chuck Prophet's 'Beautiful' Homage To San Francisco

Next imagePrevious image
Credit Charlie Homo
Chuck Prophet.
Credit Courtesy of the artist
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

Chuck Prophet's new album, Temple Beautiful, takes its name from a former synagogue that hosted punk-rock shows in the late '70s and early '80s; it was next door to the temple overseen by cult leader Jim Jones. That may sound like a grim or black-humored reference point around which to erect an album, but with Prophet, grimness, humor, fact and fiction mingle freely. Before anything else, he's a guitar player with a melodically nasal voice whose phrasing favors the whimsical and the querulous.

Read more
The Two-Way
8:10 am
Wed February 8, 2012

Report: Data Show No 'Upsurge In Muslim-American Terrorism'

Credit Stan Honda / AFP/Getty Images
January 2010: Muslim-Americans protest against terrorism outside a federal court building in Detroit, where "Christmas Day" bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was being arraigned.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

There was a decline last year in the already "small" number of Muslim-Americans indicted for violent terrorist plots and the rate of radicalization among that group remains "far less than many feared" after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a researcher at North Carolina's Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security reports today.

Read more
Author Interviews
7:42 am
Wed February 8, 2012

Finding 'Life, Death, And Hope' In A Mumbai Slum

Credit
cover detail
Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Originally published on Wed February 8, 2012 9:01 am

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo spent more than three years in Mumbai's Annawadi slum to do research for her new book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Residents of the slum — which is located next to the Mumbai airport and in the shadow of several luxury hotels — live in devastating poverty.

Read more

Pages