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  • The Call-In: Your Questions About The Senate Health Care Bill
    In this week's Call-In, NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with health reporters about the impact the current Senate health care bill will have — and answer callers' specific questions.
  • Civil defense workers carrying the body of a civilian retrieved from the rubble of a house destroyed in airstrike. They've collected almost 1,500 bodies so far in west Mosul – many of them women and children – and are still finding casualties.
    More Civilians Than ISIS Fighters Are Believed Killed In Mosul Battle
    A morgue in Mosul, Iraq, documented more than 5,000 civilians killed during the battle to free the city from ISIS — likely more than the number of ISIS fighters that died.
  • Not My Job: We Quiz Author Nora Roberts (aka JD Robb) On J.D. Salinger
    If you added up all the time the author has spent justin the No. 1 spot of the New York Times best-seller list, she would clock in at more than 4 years. Originally broadcast on Feb. 18, 2017.
  • For Novelist Jennifer Egan, 'The Joy Of Writing Is Being Delivered Out Of My Life'
    "I don't use my life as inspiration," says the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Her new book, Manhattan Beach, imagines the lives of the women who worked on the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II.
  • Wounded Veterans Return To Unprepared Medical System
    This is the first installment of a three-part series on veterans’ health. The second part, which you can find here, deals with mental health. The third…
  • South Dakota Tribe Goes Up Against Big Brewers
    The Oglala Sioux Tribe filed a $500 million lawsuit against brewers and retailers, claiming they're responsible for the reservation's alcohol-related problems. The tribe lives on a dry reservation, but they claim nearby towns unlawfully sell alcohol to residents. Host Michel Martin speaks to a reporter and the tribe's attorney.
  • Is Kansas Mental Health System Near Breaking Point?
    The filing of a murder charge against a former patient at the Osawatomie State Hospital is prompting questions about the state’s mental health system.On…
  • Black Voters Rethinking Gay Marriage?
    On Election Day, Washington, Maine and Maryland states voted to legalize same-sex marriage, stopping a 32-state losing streak. In Maryland, African-American faith leaders took vocal positions on both sides of the issue, and host Michel Martin hears from two of them: Reverend Delman Coates and Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr.
  • U.S. Marines arrive at Saudi Arabia's Dhahran Air Base on Aug. 21, 1990. The U.S. began a buildup in the region just days after Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2 of that year. The U.S. military has been active in Iraq virtually nonstop for the past quarter-century.
    25 Years In Iraq, With No End In Sight
    Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990. The U.S. reversed Saddam Hussein's aggression, but it was just the start of the U.S. military role in Iraq that's spanned four presidents and a panoply of goals.
  • Nga Truong (front) meets with social services advocate Lisa Gigliotti. Truong says she's struggling to rebuild her life after nearly three years awaiting trial for murder.
    How A Teen's Coerced Confession Set Her Free
    In 2008, 16-year-old Nga Truong admitted to suffocating her infant son. She spent nearly three years awaiting trial for murder, until a videotape of her interrogation revealed that detectives had manipulated her in order to obtain a confession. Ultimately, that videotape helped set her free.
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