Campaign organizers The political genie New and mysterious, the campaign organiser is credited with mighty powers ROBIN MCGHEE's desk is a library of transatlantic electoral wisdom. The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's...
NOEL KING, HOST: The Labor Department released its monthly jobs report this morning. Employers added 266,000 jobs last month, which is better than expected and a sign that the U.S. economy continues to power ahead. With that record number of American...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's Friday, which means it's time for StoryCorps. Today we have a hard conversation. It's about suicide. Sylvia Grosvold was 5 1/2 years old when her mother died. Ten years later, she came to StoryCorps with...
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...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: World leaders are gathering at a U.N. climate summit in Madrid this week to talk about how to reduce greenhouse emissions. In the search for alternatives to fossil fuel, some countries have now turned to one of the oldest energy s...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It is estimated that more than 1 million tons of plastic garbage contaminates the world's oceans every year. But one artist on the Oregon coast is making a small dent in that. NPR's Kirk Siegler has the story from the seaside vil...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: An exclusive now, an NPR investigation into what's happening to hundreds of thousands of Americans with student loans and a significant permanent disability. According to U.S. federal law, these borrowers are entitled to have the...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: When Donald Trump Jr.'s new book first topped the New York Times bestseller list, it raised eyebrows and not just because of who the author is. Beside the title of the book, which is Triggered: How The Left Thrives On Hate And Want...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Close to 100 Montanans are taking on one of the largest corporations in the world today at the U.S. Supreme Court. Residents of two small towns say Arco, the Atlantic Richfield Company owned by BP, needs to go beyond what the law...
NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump is reimposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from Brazil and Argentina. The president announced that news on Twitter this morning. NPR chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley is here to explain what's goin...