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Latest Episodes
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Democrats aim to wrap up their to-do list. A Florida school district will pay $25 million to the families of Parkland shooting victims. School board elections are the new political battlefields.
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Local school board races are the newest battlefield in America's politics. In Centerville, Ohio, masks are a flashpoint.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to pianist Lara Downes about her recording a mini-album each month in an effort to highlight forgotten contributions of Black American composers.
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Households struggle to pay bills during the pandemic. A survey by NPR, Harvard and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found of the four largest U.S. cities, Houston feels the crunch the worst.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jack Nicas of The New York Times about a panel in Brazil expected to recommend that the country's president be charged with homicide for his handling of the pandemic.
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Federal investigators have implicated much of Detroit's city hall in a corruption probe involving council members and their staffs. Bribery and campaign finance violations are central to the claims.
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When an Indiana steel plant closed in 2017, hundreds of jobs went to Mexico. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Farah Stockman about her book: American Made — What Happens to People when Work Disappears.
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The Netflix employee resource group supporting trans and non-binary people is demanding better representation, both onscreen and in management. -
Israeli settlers are pressing ahead with a new outpost on occupied West Bank land — closing it off to Palestinians and posing a test for Israeli leaders who will have to rule on it.
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Four years after the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis was rocked by protests over a sculpture that inflamed the indigenous community, a new sculpture by artist Angela Two Stars helps to make amends.
