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  • Pace Of Vaccinations Speeds Up, But There Are Other Challenges
    Over 41 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed in the U.S. Scientists say the pace must accelerate to help fight the more contagious variants that make vaccines less effective.
  • Bonobos Offer Clues To Why Humans Evolved To Value Niceness
    Humans evolved to be nice — at least sometimes. The trait has helped us succeed as a species. But how did it happen? A look at some peace-loving apes in Democratic Republic of the Congo offers clues.
  • 'Denial' Recounts Professor's Legal Battle With Holocaust Denier
    Historian Deborah Lipstadt was the defendant in a British libel lawsuit brought by Holocaust denier David Irving. The new film Denial tells the story of that trial and the debate it ignited.
  • Limericks
    Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Jowl Alarm; Airplane or Salad Bar? and Grand Theft Vatican.
  • Ford Rechoreographs Plants To Allow For Workers To Socially Distance
    NPR's Noel King talks to Jim Hackett, CEO of the Ford Motor Company, on the automaker's plans to restart production at some of its North American plants on Monday. NPR's Camila Domonoske weighs in.
  • A sign (left) outside a Mongolian-language school in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, reads: "When the people have conviction, the state has strength and the ethnic minorities have hope." The sign at right says: "Rule of law."
    Parents Keep Children Home As China Limits Mongolian Language In The Classroom
    As it has long done with the Tibetan and Uighur languages, Beijing is reducing instruction in Mongolian in favor of Mandarin Chinese in ethnic Mongolian areas of the country.
  • Limericks
    Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Drink No Sanitizer Before It's Time, Mailbox Mystery and Big Money Big Wheel.
  • Laura and Thanos Ntoumanis recently moved from Greece to Germany, where Thanos, a psychiatrist, got a job.
    With Its Economy Hobbled, Greece's Well-Educated Drain Away
    Since the start of its financial crisis, Greece has been exporting some of its most highly trained professionals. Thanos Ntoumanis is just one of thousands of medical professionals who have left their struggling homeland for jobs in Western Europe.
  • West Virginians Still Stocking Up On Water, Fearing Pollution
    Life is still anything but normal for some 300,000 people around Charleston, W.V. It's been more than a month since a leak from chemical storage tanks polluted the water supply. And many are still relying on bottled water to drink. Others have gone to lengths to avoid using the water at all. (This story originally aired on All Things Considered on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014.)
  • Bluff The Listener
    Our panelists tell three stories about attempts to improve your commute.
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