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New York: A Concrete Jungle And 'City Of Trees,' Too
People generally don't associate trees with New York City, and if they do, they tend to think only of Central and Prospect parks. But the city is filled with old, beloved trees, some dating back more...
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Discovering A Family Member's Lost Time In Amsterdam
When Margot Adler learned that a cousin had hidden from the Nazis in Amsterdam, she was stunned. Adler started digging around and discovered that like Anne Frank, 25,000 Dutch Jews hid, and two-thirds...
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Midcentury Furniture + Grandkid Nostalgia = Modern Trend
It first showed up in the 1950s and '60s — think low-slung sofas, egg-shaped chairs and the set of Mad Men. Today, midcentury modern furniture is "blazing hot," as one dealer puts it. One explanation...
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Does Capitalism Work? A True/False Quiz In Times Square
"Starting a conversation about capitalism is like walking up to a stranger and asking, 'Can I talk to you about Jesus?'" says artist Steve Lambert. The best way to talk about the C-word, he says, is to...
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Dwindling Middle Class Has Repercussions For Small Towns
As the U.S. recovers from the Great Recession, one fact that's emerging is that while jobs are coming back, most of these jobs are either high- or low-paying jobs. Middle-class jobs are not coming...
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In Appalachia, Poverty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
NPR's Pam Fessler was told that Eastern Kentuckians would be reluctant to talk because they were tired of being depicted as the poster children of the War on Poverty. Instead, she got an earful.(Image...
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Baseball, Vietnam And Coming Of Age At The 1969 World Series
On Oct. 15, 1969, hundreds of thousands marched in Washington to protest the Vietnam War. But it was also Game 4 of the World Series, and NPR's Brian Naylor, then 14, knew where he had to be.(Image...
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Reporter's Notebook: In Small-Town Russia, 'Football Is My Life'
Millions of Russian adults and children play soccer on various levels. In one small town, three generations of soccer players take on the meaning of the game and the World Cup.(Image credit: Alina...
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'It Seemed Apocalyptic' 40 Years Ago When Mount St. Helens Erupted
Howard Berkes covered the 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens for NPR and has returned to the volcano for multiple stories over the years. He recalls the massive blast and its aftermath.(Image credit:...
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With 'Dune,' Denis Villeneuve has made Hollywood's definitive post-9/11 epic
With the new 2021 movie, director Denis Villeneuve turns the novel's meditations on race, culture and colonialism into riveting and undeniable cinema.(Image credit: Chiabella James/Warner Bros....
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The case for nixing the Oscars' best international feature category
In the extraordinary new age of subtitled streaming and globalized filmmaking, the Oscar category is becoming a caricature of itself as a relic of the past. (Image credit: Gianni Fiorito/Netflix;...
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