All Things Considered
Weekdays 4 - 6:30 p.m., Weekends 5 - 6 p.m. on 88.5 NEPM
Every weekday, join NPR’s Ari Shapiro, Mary Louise Kelly, Alisa Chang, Juana Summers and New England Public Media's Kari Njiiri and Adam Frenier for breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special — sometimes quirky — features.
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A partial government shutdown is now underway. How long it will last depends on congressional agreement over a DHS funding deal that proposes new guardrails on immigration enforcement.
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NPR congressional correspondent Barbara Sprunt watched U.S. lawmakers attempt a diplomatic rescue mission in Denmark amid the Greenland crisis.
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Losing democracy once can make it harder to restore it, even after a democratic government returns to power. University of Birmingham professor Nic Cheeseman analyzed three decades of data.
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What does it mean to have faith, and where do our moral codes come from? Scott Carter of 'Ye Gods' podcast tries to tackle these big questions.
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Dorothy Brown, a Georgetown University law professor, lays out a case for reparations in her new book Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past.
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Who are the Bnei Menashe, an ethnic group from India that has been immigrating to Israel? Judy Maltz of Ha'aretz has covered the community for more than a decade.
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Madison Beer talks about her new album 'Locket', and growing up in the public eye since age 13.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Paul Schnell, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Corrections, over his agency's dispute of Homeland Security claims around arrest numbers.
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Borders between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been closed since October, disrupting trade around the region. It's part of a broader dispute over how to handle increasingly active militant groups.
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Scientists have discovered what they say is the earliest known rock art, in a cave in Indonesia. They say the image dates to more than 67,000 years ago.