Audie Cornish
In 2000, lawyers and election officials endlessly examined and debated butterfly ballots and hanging chads. Now, the legal arguments are more complex and center on the rules governing mail-in voting.
Lewis began his nearly 60-year career in public service leading sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in the Jim Crow-era South. He went on to serve in Congress for more than three decades.
Whether you’re extremely online or still confused by how a simple period can be interpreted as passive-aggressive, linguist Gretchen McCulloch has a guide to how our on-screen speech is morphing.
The Chicago Crime Commission recently published an update to its gang book. NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with Columbia University professor Desmond Patton about the book and why it’s problematic for communities of color.
The genre-mashing rapper discusses how “wacky” musical influences, self-doubt and the pressure of growing up with Nigerian immigrant parents coalesced on his album DROOL.
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mitch Kapor says Zuckerberg — set to appear before Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday — is at a crossroads, and reflects on his performance as a leader in the public eye.
Writer Jean Twenge has observed dramatic shifts in behavior among children who go through adolescence with smartphones. They’re spending less time with friends and reporting greater anxiety.
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with T.J. Bray, a steelworker at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis where President Trump said he saved over 1,000 jobs. Last month, Carrier told the state that 600 people will be laid off, and those jobs will be transferred to Mexico.
What did it take to get through Ellis Island? For a few years, it took passing a a puzzle test. NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Adam Cohen, who wrote about it in Smithsonian Magazine.
“I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible,” he says. " ... And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more than.”
Elisabeth Moss and Samira Wiley star in Hulu’s TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel — in which fertile women become reproductive surrogates for powerful men and their barren wives.
Adichie’s new book began as a letter to a childhood friend (and new mother) who had asked for some advice. It’s called Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions.
Abner Garcia, a 23-year-old Army veteran, was killed in a shooting in Chicago on Saturday. He was working with a YMCA mentoring program called Urban Warriors, designed to help kids affected by violence. NPR’s Audie Cornish talks to Eddie Bocanegra, founder of Urban Warriors and director of the program at the Chicago YMCA.
NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Paul Resnikoff, publisher of Digital Music News, about what the piracy of Kanye West’s new album says about streaming as a venue for music.
With Spotlight winning the Oscar for Best Picture, NPR’s Audie Cornish talks to Sacha Pfeiffer, one of the reporters portrayed in the film who broke the story of sexual abuse by Catholic priests.
NPR Audie Cornish interviews Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, about why he has been introducing Trump on the stump, despite concerns expressed by other Christian leaders.
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez about the movement to increase minimum wages at the local level.
Andrea Towson, who has used heroin off and on for 30 years, is eager to get treatment. “I just want to wake up and eat breakfast and be normal, no matter what that might be,” she says.