LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In her new film Tully, written by Diablo Cody, Charlize Theron is Marlo, a mom completely overwhelmed by the arrival of her third child until Tully, a night nanny, walks through the door. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, TULLY) MACKENZI...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Emergency room doctors and mental health advocates say there's a crisis happening in ERs. Surging numbers of patients with psychiatric disabilities are not receiving the care they need. NPR's Merrit Kennedy reports the issu...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There are times when we can connect surprisingly deeply with someone and then never see them again, a missed connection. A while ago, we asked you to tell us your missed connection stories and let us help you find that pers...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: How do we find a real connection in a device-reliant world? In Mary H.K. Choi's debut novel, Emergency Contact, Penny and Sam strike up a text-based romance and soon become take-your-phone-to-the-bathroom inseparable. But f...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Here's a depressing statistic. In Massachusetts, over half of all young adult men released from jails and prisons go back within three years. The state's largest county wants to disrupt that cycle. A few months ago, it adop...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Native Americans from across the Northern Plains are gathered in Fort Laramie, Wy., this weekend. They're marking the 150th anniversary of the Lakota Treaty with the United States. Jim Kent reports on a document that some f...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: President Trump spent last night in Washington - that's Washington Township, Mich., where his campaign hosted a rally with thousands of supporters. And that was deliberate. (SOUNDBITE OF RALLY) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Is th...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Last week, a van plowed into a busy Toronto sidewalk, killing 10 people, in what appeared to be a deliberate act. The suspect in the attack, Alek Minassian, was quickly linked to an online community of trolls and violent mi...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Next week, the south side of Chicago gets something it hasn't had in decades - a high-level adult trauma center at the University of Chicago Hospital. Trauma centers treat people with the most acute wounds, including gunshot injuri...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: How do you tell what's real from what's not on the Internet, especially when paid foreign agents and political operatives are working hard to create believable stories that are complete fiction? This is something Wikipedia co-found...
SOUAD MASSI: (Singing in Arabic). ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For the past 20 years, Souad Massi has written provocative songs challenging authority and weaving stories. She sings in Arabic, French and Berber, the languages of her native Algeria. In her 20s,...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The White House says it has evidence to refute the most serious allegations that have been leveled against Dr. Ronny Jackson. Dr. Jackson is Donald Trump's personal physician in the White House. The president had nominated him to l...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The leaders of the rival Koreas have agreed to work towards formally ending the Korean War and to seek a nuclear-free peninsula. That agreement came out of a day-long and historic summit between North Korea's Kim Jong Un and South...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In early October of last year, U.S. troops were ambushed by Islamist extremists while on patrol in Niger. Four Americans and four Nigerian soldiers were killed in the fighting. The Pentagon hasn't said much about what happened that...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The right holds many of the nation's levers of political power. Republicans control the House of Representatives, the Senate, the White House and a majority of the country's governors' mansions. Conservatives dominate the Supreme C...