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The Undertaker Who Helps Big Banks Write Death Plans

The nation’s big banks are writing death plans — living wills that spell out how, in a future crisis, they could be safely dismantled. The idea is that the death plans will help avoid another government bailout of the banks. “You’re technically writing your own funeral, down to the color of the flowers” says Dolores [...]

White House Details Changes To Controversial Contraception Rule

Hospitals and organizations operated by religious institutions will not have to pay for or provide contraception coverage to their employees, but the insurance companies that offer coverage to those workers will have to do that, White House officials just told reporters during a conference call. They’re explaining changes to a controversial plan the administration unveiled [...]

Discovering The Mysteries Of Rice Krispyhenge

Brock Davis plays with food, but not like the rest of us. He’s a graphic designer based in Minneapolis, and this is what he did with Rice Krispies. He calls it Rice Krispyhenge. Ideas come to him. He will be staring at something. It will stare back at him — but from a weird place. [...]

How My Voice Went Silent

There’s an old joke around newsrooms: News is something that happens to your editor. If you’ll pardon the self-indulgence, I’m going to take this truism one step further: News is what happened to me. I was laid low the week before New Year’s Day by a mysterious headache and a blazing sore throat. A few [...]

‘The Interrupters’: Keeping Peace On The Streets

This interview was originally broadcast on August 1, 2011. The Interrupters will be broadcast on Frontline on February 14, 2012. For 11 years, former gang members in Chicago have entered dangerous neighborhoods in the city and staged group interventions for at-risk youth, in an effort to try to stop the cycle of retaliatory gang violence [...]

If Women Are In Combat, Men May Try To Protect Them, Santorum Says

On CNN last evening, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was asked about the Pentagon’s plan to open up more jobs to women in the military — and to bring them closer to, but not right into, combat roles. The former senator from Pennsylvania, while lauding the roles that women are playing in the U.S. military, [...]

‘Situation Could Not Be More Dire,’ Syrians In Besieged City Say

From inside the Syrian city of Homs, where activists say several hundred people have been killed by government forces in the past week and troops are preparing for what could be a “ground offensive” in coming days, residents say the “situation could not be more dire,” NPR’s Kelly McEvers reports. Speaking to Morning Edition co-host [...]

Halos Can Turn To Horns, Corporate Donors Find

Energizer makes batteries. But in recent days, company executives have spent a considerable amount of time responding to complaints about abortion. The reason, of course, is that Energizer got caught up in the controversy surrounding last week’s decision by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation to cut off its funding for Planned Parenthood. [...]

Santorum’s Support Goes Beyond Social Conservatives, Strategist Says

Rick Santorum surprised the Republican presidential field again this week, chalking up victories against front-runner Mitt Romney in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri. Very few pundits would have predicted six months ago that the former Pennsylvania senator would still be a contender this late into the primary season. So what’s his secret and can he keep [...]