Should Athletes Be Activists? WNBA Star Nneka Ogwumike Says They Have To Be
The WBNA's political activism helped to reshape the political landscape in Washington. NPR's Franco Ordoñez and Ayesha Rascoe talked to Nneka Ogwumike, head of the league's players union, about its ro...
13 Sep 202117min
Listen: How The Country Remembered 9/11, Two Decades Later
There were remembrance ceremonies in New York City, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon. The reading of the victim's names — there were nearly 3,000 — took hours. Former President George W. Bush and Vic...
11 Sep 202115min
Weekly Roundup: September 10th
The number of new COVID cases hasn't been this high since before the vaccine was widely available. Aiming to curb the rise, President Biden has announced a series of expansive new policies covering th...
10 Sep 202128min
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Told Us He Isn't Retiring. Yet.
In a conversation with NPR's Nina Totenberg, Justice Breyer, 83, says he plans to retire from the High Court before he dies. He bemoaned the public's perception of Supreme Court Justices as politician...
9 Sep 202122min
There's A Chance That California Will Soon Have A Republican Governor
Voting ends Tuesday in California's recall election, where voters are deciding whether or not to remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office. If he loses, Republican Larry Elder is the most likely...
8 Sep 202114min
Cutting Unemployment Aid Didn't Get Many Unemployed Americans Back To Work
Some twelve million Americans saw their expanded unemployment assistance expire Monday as the delta variant throttles the nation's economic recovery. Research from the states that halted the aid progr...
7 Sep 202114min
Do School Mask Bans Violate The Rights Of Children With Disabilities?
The Biden administration is investigating several states over their bans on mask mandates in schools, saying the measures could violate the rights of children with disabilities who are entitled to a s...
6 Sep 202114min
Sacred Ground: A 9/11 Story
On Sept. 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked by four al-Qaida terrorists. The passengers and crew fought back and because of that, the plane crashed outside Shanksville, Pa., instead of...
3 Sep 202156min
