Weird. Why the popular campaign insult stings more in Minnesota
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz popularized the term to brand his Republican opponents in the presidential race. To Minnesotans, though, it hits different.
Human Interest
Quiz: Do you know your economic history?
Time to show your economic history skills based on what we’ve covered in Planet Money Summer School 2024: An Incomplete Economic History of the World. Make it through the quiz, and receive a — and we cannot stress this enough — totally fake (yet well-earned) diploma.
Boeing faces hard questions about Starliner and its future in space
Boeing’s Starliner will return to Earth as soon as next week — but the crew will stay in space into next year. It’s another blow for Boeing, and could have major implications for its space business.
The story of how the 14th Amendment has remade America – and how America has remade the 14th.
The fourteenth amendment was ratified after the Civil War, and it's packed full of lofty phrases like due process, equal protection, and liberty. But what do those words really guarantee us?
The first commercial spacewalk will be conducted later this week
Four astronauts aboard a SpaceX capsule will attempt the historic private spacewalk. It's a high-risk operation with lots that could go wrong, but with a potentially great view.
Sunday Puzzle: Two of the same
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with this week's winner Dan Robinson from Washington, DC and puzzle master Will Shortz.
A Massachusetts woman unexpectedly gave birth at an unlikely place in Cape Cod
A Massachusetts woman gave birth in traffic this month, then cut the umbilical cord in the most New England of places: a Dunkin' parking lot.
NASA will bring stranded astronauts back on SpaceX — not Boeing's Starliner
NASA had been weighing whether it would be safe enough to return two astronauts to Earth on Boeing's Starliner.
'Wait Wait' for August 24, 2024: With Not My Job guest Diane Lane
This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with special guest Diane Lane and panelists Dulcé Sloan, Adam Felber, and Adam Burke.
NASA will bring stranded astronauts back on SpaceX — not Boeing's Starliner
Boeing's troubled Starliner remains docked at the International Space Station as NASA decides it is too risky to bring the astronauts home on the spacecraft. The two astronauts will return in February.