Alaskan Winter Doesn’t Freeze Protesters’ Resolve

The frigid air needles exposed flesh and sinks through clothing, but that hasn’t kept at least one protester from occupying a park in Fairbanks, Alaska, for more than a month. The temperature has been 30 to 40 degrees below zero in recent weeks. This time of year, the days are short. It’s dim, bleak and [...]

New Hampshire Takes Another Look At Ron Paul

In this presidential cycle, as in the last, there is no question which Republican candidate has the most ardent supporters: Ron Paul, the 76-year-old Texas congressman whose brand of libertarianism often puts him at odds with all of his rivals. But with less than seven weeks to go for the nation’s first primary, there are [...]

In Tenn., A Possible Model For Higher Education

The typical college student today isn’t “typical” anymore: Only 1 in 4 lives on campus and studies full time. But part-timers and commuter students are much less likely to finish — most part-time students are still without a degree or a certificate after eight years. Higher education is desperately looking for strategies that improve those [...]

Beyond Fighting Crime, FBI Reaches Out To Victims

When FBI agents arrive at the scene of a shooting or a terrorist attack, there’s often someone else standing in the background. It’s a representative from the FBI’s Office for Victim Assistance, there to help people suffering in the aftermath of a disaster. The planning for those unfortunate days starts here, in a windowless conference [...]

Keep Your Head Above Water

On-Air Challenge: Each answer is a compound word or a familiar two-word phrase containing the consecutive letters H-H-O, as in H2O. For example, given the clue “Dutch province containing Rotterdam and The Hague,” the answer would be “South Holland.” Last Week’s Challenge: Name a food item. Divide this word in half. Take the second half [...]

War By Remote Control: Drones Make It Easy

From his spot beneath a replica of the famous Wright Military Flyer in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Peter Singer is reminded of a modern military drone. “The story of manned airplanes is a great parallel to what’s happening now with unmanned airplanes,” he tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Rachel [...]

‘Chicks With Guns’: A Picture Of Gun-Toting Women

If you turn to page 109 of Lindsay McCrum’s photo book, you’ll see a photo of a woman wearing jeans and a green baseball cap standing in a grassy field. She’s looking straight at the camera, clutching a semi-automatic rifle as if it were a water bottle. Standing between her legs is her son, his [...]

Actor Henry Winkler Plays Not My Job

For kids growing up in the 1970s, there was one, absolute model of cool — not James Dean or Marlon Brando, but The Fonz. Henry Winkler played the 1950s greaser on the sitcom Happy Days who got all the girls, and even more amazingly, could make the vending machine spit out free sodas with his [...]

Primatologist Jane Goodall Plays Not My Job

When she was in her 20s, Jane Goodall left her home in England to live among chimpanzees in the jungle. Some people thought it was crazy; we think it’s crazy she decided to come back to live with humans. Goodall studies wild chimpanzees, so we’ll quiz her on a truly wild creature: In a game [...]

Actor Jason Bateman Plays Not My Job

Jason Bateman is that rarest of creatures: a former child star who seems sane and successful. He starred in many ’70s and ’80s sitcoms, and of course, the classic Teen Wolf Too. He went on to play the nice-guy lead in Arrested Development, and also appeared in the movies Hancock, Juno, Horrible Bosses and The [...]