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Forget #HotGirlSummer. This year, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Greta Gerwig are ringing in #BillionGirlSummer. Gerwig's Barbie has already made $1 billion at the box office. Swift and Beyoncé's tours are predicted to bring in similar amounts. NPR's Bilal Qureshi writes that the three women's spectacular pop revival has "created a communal economy of irrational exuberance."
Roughly 10,000 participants from more than 80 countries are gathering in Chicago, Ill., today for this year's Parliament of the World's Religions. The first meeting in 1893 is considered the birthplace of the modern interfaith movement. This year, progressive organizers want to send a message that faith doesn't have to be divisive.
Thousands of pounds of fentanyl flow into the U.S. from Mexico every month. Nearly all of it is smuggled by people legally authorized to cross the border, and more than half is smuggled by U.S. citizens, according to immigration officials. Virtually none of it is seized from migrants seeking asylum.
🎧 Haley, 32, tells NPR's Joel Rose how she became a drug courier and how she got caught. She's asked not to use her last name in order to protect her children's privacy
As states nationwide fight over banned books, librarians, administrators and teachers are caught in the crosshairs. Many fear for their safety after being shouted at by parents, vilified on billboards and harassed online. Many are making the tough decision to quit the industry, leading libraries to cut hours and services. |
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NPR host Manoush Zomorodi is working on a special series investigating the relationship between our technology and our bodies and how our digital habits affect us physically. Please tell us:
How does your body feel after a day spent working on your laptop or computer? Be specific: does it affect your shoulders/neck/back? Your mood? Your energy? Your eyes?
Manoush describes her days as “type, tap, collapse.” How would you describe what you feel at the end of the day?
Please record a voice memo on your phone. Give us the dirt. Then email it to bodyelectric@npr.org. Thank you and look out for Body Electric coming this fall from NPR . |
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Battleground: Ballot Box from Georgia Public Broadcasting: Season 1 of Battleground: Ballot Box walked us through the ins and outs of the 2020 election. This season looks at the grand jury in Atlanta that will decide if former President Donald Trump and his allies will face criminal charges over their attempts to overturn Georgia's 2020 results. 🎧 The new season’s first episode turns back the clock to examine how Georgia's election system came to be ground zero for election conspiracy.
Spy Valley: An Engineer's Nuclear Betrayal from PRX and Project Brazen: Dive into the story of James Harper, a Silicon Valley engineer turned spy who began selling nuclear secrets to the Soviet Bloc. 🎧 Episode 1 covers how Moscow’s spies opened up shop in Silicon Valley, and how a group of FBI spy hunters assembled to stop them.
Almost There from the Emerson Collective: How do we create healthy communities? How do we build a fairer immigration system? How can we protect our planet? Almost There explores what it takes to make transformative social change. 🎧 Conchita Cruz is the daughter of a Guatemalan immigrant and a Cuban refugee. In this episode, she talks about her family's immigration journey and the potential change that’s possible when asylum seekers have a chance to tell their own stories. |
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My daughters and I have been doing a little cooking this summer, using my mother’s old spatula. I spied it in the back end of a drawer, obscured by newer and glossier implements. But it brought back a rush of memories.
My mother used that spatula to flip over small, silver dollar pancakes on a winter’s morning as we watched the snow fall on the fire escape stairs of our North Side Chicago one-bedroom apartment. She would tell me about working in nightclubs. “Not much of a living,” she'd say. “But a heck of a life. Right?”
My mother used the spatula to flip pancakes on my birthday (or sometimes, just to make me feel better) on which she’d drizzle Bosco chocolate syrup to resemble the seams on a baseball. “Here you go, slugger,” she’d say.
I remember the time we had to use that spatula to carefully lift our 5th-grade homework assignment from a baking sheet: a flour and water bas-relief map of the state of Illinois. “Carbondale keeps sticking,” my mother noted. “Why don’t we just leave that town to Kentucky?”
Once, she deployed that spatula to rescue my pet turtle, Neil (yes, Neil Simon) from a bathtub drain. “Crawl here, baby, crawl here,” my mother cooed to Neil. “This spatula is your golden coach.”
My daughters and I have been using that spatula to sauté onions in soy sauce, grill veggie burgers and their buns, and flip hashbrown potatoes. But old family spoons and spatulas stir memories, too. |
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