Alabama father-son journalists win Pulitzer for reporting that changed laws
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with father-son Alabama journalists John and Ramsey Archibald about their shared Pulitzer win.
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Author Dave Eggers channels a stray dog for his new book
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with author Dave Eggers about his new book, "The Eyes and the Impossible." The protagonist is a dog whose job is to serve as the eyes of the vast urban park where he resides.
Maternity homes provide support in a post-Roe world, but not without conditions
A crisis pregnancy center in Idaho opened a maternity home in the months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The residents have more complicated stories than the home's founders expected.
He followed strict rules as a judge and wants Supreme Court justices to do the same
Retired federal Judge Michael Luttig says he wouldn't even accept baseball tickets in his years on the bench: "I believe that federal judges should essentially live like priests or saints or monks."
Many people living in the 'Diabetes Belt' are plagued with medical debt
More than half of the counties in the nation's so-called Diabetes Belt also have high rates of medical debt among their residents, an NPR analysis found.
'Paved Paradise' examines how parking has changed the American landscape
Author Henry Grabar says parking codes, parking lots and garages have shaped the landscape of cities and suburbs, and limited the creation of affordable housing.
Florida lawmakers want to use radioactive material to pave roads
Phosphogypsum, a byproduct in the fertilizer industry, contains uranium and radium — and as the EPA notes, it also forms radon, "a cancer-causing, radioactive gas."
What should bystanders do during a mass shooting?
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Katherine Schweit, a retired FBI agent who founded the agency's active shooter program in 2012.
A 17-year-old died in the Outer Banks after a sand dune collapsed on top of him
The teenager's friends and family had been looking for him. He was found buried underneath several feet of sand.
Texas driver who hit a group of asylum-seekers is charged with manslaughter
Vigils were held in Brownsville, Texas, for the eight people who were killed Sunday when a driver plowed an SUV into a bus stop across from a migrant center.