Politics
June 04, 2018
After Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, many believed Robert Kennedy was going to carry on the reforming fight. But when he too was assassinated many lost hope for a new America. Looking back 50 years on after his death on June 6, 1968, some argue that Kennedy’s death meant America lost a liberal idealism that has never been recaptured.
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
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.
Global Politics
Germany's relations with Russia and the US are a delicate balancing act in the Trump-Putin era
GlobalPost
July 13, 2018
President Donald Trump shocked Germans during the NATO summit in Brussels this week by accusing their country of being in bed with Russia. As Trump heads to Helsinki for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Germany is in many ways stuck between a rock and a hard place.'
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.
Lifestyle & Belief
A Taiwanese immigrant’s first days in America were about getting by
January 24, 2014
Shwuling Shieh came to the United States from Taiwan in 1984. "We didn’t get scholarships, but we came and worked. So as soon as I got off the plane, I started working," she said.
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.