Games & Humor
May 20, 2022
Evil Dead — the horror franchise known for having lots of scares (and laughs) — has gone from cult hit to cultural phenomenon. The latest addition is a video game.
Movie Reviews
May 20, 2022
Maggie Smith's dowager countess acquires a villa in the South of France, so the Downton household goes on a field trip in Downton Abbey: A New Era.
TV Reviews
May 20, 2022
George Carlin's American Dream, which debuts Friday on HBO, shows how the comedian's persona sharpened over the years, from genial jokester to hardened cynic.
National
May 20, 2022
Thousands of asylum seekers are in limbo waiting for a U.S. court to rule on the White House's proposal to drop Title 42, which bars them from entering the U.S. over pandemic concerns.
National Security
May 20, 2022
NPR's Emily Feng talks with Nina Wang, a policy associate at the Center on Privacy & Technology and a co-author of a recent study that exposes the widening dragnet of ICE's surveillance of Americans.
Politics
May 20, 2022
A judge's decision to throw out Democratic-drawn congressional maps is pitting New York lawmakers against each other in a year already tilting against the party's chances of holding on to the House.
Europe
May 20, 2022
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with the mayor of Warsaw, Poland, about how his city is managing the influx of Ukrainian refugees. He says Warsaw's population went up by 15% since the outset of the conflict.
Politics
May 20, 2022
President Biden wants to counter the economic might of China. He visited a semiconductor plant outside Seoul to kick off a trip aimed at his top foreign policy priority.
Music Interviews
May 20, 2022
NPR's Emily Feng talks with the German-Syrian duo Shkoon, who are returning to their roots with the release of their new album FIRAQ.
Asia
May 20, 2022
A new report from a Washington nonprofit tracks whether goods from China's western region of Xinjiang are made with forced labor, and how they make their way to customers in the U.S. and beyond.
