Darlene Love On Phil Spector, Christmas, And How Hate Gives You Wrinkles

The weeks leading up to the Television Critics Association press tour every summer are a barrage of communications and press releases, of pitches and promises and offers to talk to this person and that person about this project and that one. This year, the words I managed to pick out during those weeks were “Darlene [...]

When to Worry About Smart Kids and Drugs

All parents hope their children will be smart. But no parents want their children to grow up to have problems with drugs like cocaine, marijuana and amphetamines. So it’s no surprise that a study out this week linking high IQ in children with illegal drug use as adults has been giving parents the willies. “I [...]

OSU Women’s Basketball Coach Kurt Budke Dies in Plane Crash

Oklahoma State University women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant women’s basketball coach Miranda Serna were killed along with two others Thursday night in a plane crash in Perry County, Arkansas.

‘Flickers Of Progress’ Prompt Plan For Clinton To Visit Myanmar

When he announced early today that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will visit Myanmar next month, President Obama cited “flickers of progress” on respect for human rights in the country also known as Burma as grounds for the first visit by an American secretary of state in 50 years. Among those signs: the release [...]

Congressman Lankford Pushes Balanced Budget Amendment

The US House of Representative is voting later today on a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution similar to one which failed in the Senate in 1995 when Republicans had control of both chambers.

The Parenting Dance: Hold Tight While Letting Go

When Sarah Littman took her son, Joshua, to college this fall, it was hard. “I thought I was gonna cry the whole way back from college,” she says during a visit to StoryCorps in New York City. “But I managed to make it until I got home. And then I walked upstairs and I saw [...]

To Imagine A Gingrich Presidency, Look To The ’90s

Newt Gingrich served as speaker of the House of Representatives for four turbulent and productive years. From 1995 through 1998, Congress forced a government shutdown, overhauled the welfare system, balanced the budget for the first time in decades and impeached a president for the second time in history. Gingrich was in the middle of those [...]

Mrs. Stamberg’s Relish Goes To Washington

All families have Thanksgiving traditions, and longtime NPR listeners know that Susan Stamberg is always willing to divulge her own. Every year since 1972, Stamberg has shared her mother-in-law’s now famous cranberry relish recipe on the radio. Stamberg says the relish — a shocking pink, like Pepto-Bismol — sounds terrible, but tastes terrific. This year, [...]

Attacks Target Palestinians In Israeli Towns

In Israel, tensions are rising between Jews and Palestinian Arabs, who make up about 20 percent of the population. Over the past few months, several Arab sites have been vandalized by militant Jews who left graffiti such as “Death to Arabs.” Locals blame activists from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. At a recent [...]

Would Supercommittee Failure Roil Markets?

With next Wednesday’s deadline looming, the congressional supercommittee still seems far from an agreement, causing concern that failure could send financial markets into a spiral. The bipartisan panel, charged with finding budget cuts or new revenues to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years, is a child of the [...]