LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Australia has gone nearly three decades without a recession. It's an enviable economic record. But as NPR's Jim Zarroli reports, the Australian wildfires are threatening key parts of the country's economy. JIM ZARROLI, BYLI...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Only about half of working Americans currently get retirement benefits through their employers. A new federal law takes effect this year to expand that. NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports that while the impact of that new law may be limite...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The toll of the Australian bushfires is staggering. Twenty-seven people have died, more than 2,000 homes destroyed and 18 million acres have burned. A billion animals may have been killed. Try to hold that horrifying number in your...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The new film Les Miserables is not another adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel. It's definitely not a musical by BJ Leiderman, who writes our theme music. It is set in the same Paris suburb that inspired part of the 19th century cl...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In recent months, California's biggest electric utility's been taking the unprecedented step of shutting off power to millions. The move is meant to prevent power equipment from sparking catastrophic wildfires. Jefferson Public Rad...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: These days, there is this paradox in the job market. The unemployment rate is as low as it's been in a half-century. But men in their prime working years are much more likely to be unemployed than they once were. Ten years after t...
Interview: Anna Wiener, Author Of 'Uncanny Valley' SCOTT SIMON, HOST: When Anna Wiener was a 20-something, she left her job at a literary agency in New York and moved to California to join the high-tech world of inflection points, designpreneurs, bli...
No Sex For Fish: How Kenyan Women Try to Stop Transactional S AILSA CHANG, HOST: Midmorning is the busiest, loudest time of the day on the shores of Lake Victoria. That's when local women show up to buy fish from the boats just arriving after a night...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Designed by clowns who, in turn, are supervised by monkeys. That is how one Boeing employee described the development of the company's troubled 737 Max aircraft. It's just one of a number of remarkable comments made in internal do...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: What power might Congress claim, or reclaim, to limit the president's ability to take further military action against Iran? A war powers resolution sponsored by Democrats was approved yesterday in the House of Representatives. Th...