3 American Economists Win Nobel Prize
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: OK, the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics was awarded today to three American men - Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, Robert Shiller. The Nobel committee cited their...
View ArticleWhy College Freshmen May Feel Like Impostors On Campus
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Tens of thousands of freshman have just finished their first month in college. They've signed up for classes, met a bunch of other people and, if history is any guide,...
View ArticleSenate Expected To Announce Deal To Raise Debt Limit
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This is MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And I'm Steve Inskeep. Good morning.Hours before a deadline to extend the federal debt...
View ArticleTacloban Took Brunt Of Typhoon Haiyen
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: We have two perspectives now on the destruction a typhoon left behind in the Philippines. The first is the view from the air. It comes from U.S. Marine Brigadier...
View ArticleGrim Details Reveal Brutal Effects Of Philippine Typhoon
The official death toll from the typhoon is expected to keep rising — thousands are still missing. Aid continues to come into the Philippines from around the world, but its flow is being hampered by...
View ArticleChina Expected To Loosen One-Child Policy
A state-run news service says the government will make a big change to the policy designed to restrain population growth. That policy has also led to a relative shortfall of young people and especially...
View ArticleStudy: Commuting Adversely Affects Political Engagement
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Okay. We all know about the partisan divide in this country - Democrats, Republicans - but there's another political divide. Part of the country is very engaged in the...
View ArticleA View From China, India On Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Well, let's hear from some of the rest of the world. We're gonna go to China and India and to NPR correspondents in those countries, beginning with NPR's Anthony Kuhn in...
View ArticleU.S. Diplomat Tours Central African Republic
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The American ambassador to the United Nations is visiting Central African Republic today. Before becoming a diplomat, Samantha Power was a journalist who wrote about...
View ArticleRemembering The Alamo With A Texas Historian
At The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, historian Frank de la Teja explains how the dividing line between the United States and Mexico came to be drawn where it is.
View ArticleBorderland: A Journey Along The Changing Frontier
My colleagues and I drove 2,428 miles and remained in the same place.We gathered a team, rented a car, checked the batteries in our recorders and cameras. We moved from the Gulf of Mexico to the...
View ArticleAlways Watching: A Fragile Trust Lines The U.S.-Mexico Border
We drove 2,428 miles on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, and it's safe to say that for much of the road trip, we were being watched.Border Patrol agents, customs officers, cameras, sensors, radar...
View ArticleCongressmen Are Bullish On The Borderlands
The U.S.-Mexico border isn't just about immigration. Local politicians in El Paso, Texas, say their city is misunderstood. Being located across the river from Mexico is part of their potential.
View ArticleThe Rarely Told Stories Of Sexual Assault Against Female Migrants
Transcript ARUN RATH, HOST: A dust-covered car has been in our parking lot at NPR West this week. It was the vehicle that took Steve Inskeep and several colleagues along the entire border between the...
View ArticleOn The Mend, But Wounds Of Violence Still Scar Juarez
We had just finished our time in Juarez, Mexico, when we had dinner with some distant relations on the U.S. side of the border. "You," one of my relatives said, "are the first Juarez survivors we've...
View ArticleTroncoso Family Finds Success On U.S. Side Of Border With Mexico
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: About midway through our road trip along the U.S./Mexico border, my colleagues and I rode up a mountain. Okay. Should we hop in?UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Hop in.INSKEEP: We...
View ArticleFrom Pancho Villa To Panda Express: Life In A Border Town
Columbus, N.M., is all about the border. It's an official border crossing. Its history centers on a cross-border raid. In more recent years, it was a transit point for illegal weapons heading south...
View ArticleCrossing The Desert: Why Brenda Wanted Border Patrol To Find Her
It's hard enough to drive through the Arizona desert, where the sun is harsh and the distances immense. This is the story of people who walk it.In particular, it's the story of Brenda, who asked us to...
View ArticleBorn From The Border, Tijuana Grows In New Ways
Tijuana is itself a creation of the border. The borderline was drawn here in 1848, as the United States completed its conquest of the present-day American Southwest. The border, along with the growth...
View ArticleGM To Pay Record Fine Over Safety Recall
The Department of Transportation on Friday announced that it's ordering General Motors to pay a $35 million civil penalty for the handling of its ignition switch problems.
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