America

May 03, 2018

Journalist Ronan Farrow takes a hard look at the decline of American diplomacy in his new book, “War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence.”

North Carolina’s fight to keep its foothold on furniture

PRI's The World

May 02, 2018

For more than a century, North Carolina and southern Virginia were the furniture-making centers of America. Foreign competition from Asia has taken most of that work away over — 60 percent of the jobs have disappeared since 1990. But North Carolina isn’t going down without a fight.

Madeleine Albright thinks it's time to sound the alarm on fascism

PRI's The World

April 25, 2018

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says we might not recognize the resurgence of fascism worldwide until it's too late.

Conflict

They spewed hate. Then they punctuated it with the president’s name.

Reveal

April 20, 2018

Nearly every metric of intolerance in the US has surged over the past 18 months, from reported anti-Semitism and Islamophobia to violent hate crimes based on skin color, nationality or sexual orientation.

Global Politics

Pompeo nomination consolidates climate skepticism in Trump administration

PRI's The World

April 17, 2018

The CIA Director's views on climate change would be more in line with President Trump’s than those of his predecessor.

Books

Jimmy Carter on faith, Trump, and his undying optimism

PRI's The World

April 11, 2018

The more time elapses from his presidency, Carter says, the more he's interested in exploring the spiritual side of life.

Conflict

Women filling Mexico's prisons are the 'lowest rungs of the drug trade'

PRI's The World

April 03, 2018

The number of women going to jail in Mexico is on the rise. Many are single moms trying to support their families.

Conflict

Russian 'green' trolls are targeting the US energy sector, House report claims

Living on Earth

April 01, 2018

As the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election grinds on, a House committee also accuses the IRA, Russia’s Internet Research Agency, of trying to pit environmental activists against fossil fuel advocates.

Global Politics

Liberia was founded by people enslaved in the US. Advocates say the US should not end an immigration program that helps them.

PRI's The World

March 26, 2018

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03/27/2018 - 4:15pm

A small immigration program for Liberians in the US will expire at the end of March. Minnesota economists and health care companies says their losing immigration status will have an outsized effect.

Technology

From Ford to Foxconn: A history of factories

Innovation Hub

March 23, 2018

Factories created the modern world, sometimes in ways that are rarely discussed.

Arts, Culture & Media

Some Japanese will pay $4,500 for an old Missouri prisoner uniform. Me, I collect Japanese 'boro'

PRI's The World

June 26, 2014

Why Japanese love America's castoff workwear and why some Americans feel the same way about Japanese wear.

Health & Medicine

Brazil's effective HIV prevention strategies

January 11, 2010

Exploring the effective and controversial strategies that have reduced the spread of HIV in Brazil in the last decade.

Lifestyle & Belief

Enough already with the cinnamon this holiday season

PRI's The World

November 25, 2013

Americans assume two things about cinnamon: that it's wholesome and that everyone loves it. Not true!

Global Politics

How Donald Trump ended up at a Bollywood-themed Hindu rally in New Jersey

PRI's The World

October 20, 2016

It’s not that Indian Americans favor Trump. It’s that Trump reminds many of his Hindu supporters of a political movement in India.

Environment

The trouble with managing America’s wild horses

Science Friday

October 24, 2017

“We never have really figured out how to make the idea of the horse as a symbol of freedom, and the practical biology of protecting and yet limiting this horse, work,” says author David Philipps.

Justice

This is a story about the origins of Antifa

The World in Words

October 25, 2017

Antifa became the buzzword of the summer after racially motivated protests in Charlottesville. But where did this word come from and how did Antifa become a movement in the US? Find out.

Justice

A brief history of America’s hostility to a previous generation of Mediterranean migrants — Italians

PRI's The World

November 26, 2015

A wave of migrants from the Mediterranean meets a hostile reception from many Americans. The migrants are seen as alien in religion, culture, politics, law. So different in fact that some Americans argue that they can never be assimilated. They are the Italians, in the 1890s.

Arts, Culture & Media

Sometimes it's not what you say or how you say it... it's the language you pick

PRI's The World

September 26, 2013

You might think world leaders care a lot about the words they choose and how powerfully they deliver them. Guess again. Sometimes all that matters much less than deciding whether to speak English or not.

Conflict & Justice

Nine things we've learned from Carol Rosenberg's 13 years covering Guantanamo

PRI's The World

June 13, 2014

Even before the first detainee arrived at the US base in Guantanamo, Cuba, Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg was on the story. After 13 years on the job, Rosenberg reflects on how the detention center came to be, snapshots of life there, and what Guantanmo was like for the five Taliban leaders recently swapped for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

Arts, Culture & Media

New Recording Surfaces of Jimi Hendrix Gig in London

PRI's The World

February 18, 2013

Jimi Hendrix continues to inspire fans more than forty years after his death. New recordings of the guitar great seem to surface all the time. But none can quite compare to the one The World's Clark Boyd got to hear recently.