Christina Cala
Stories
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NPR staffers share their favorite romance novels for summer Books We Love
From our summer round-up of Books We Love, NPR staffers give recommendations for books they literally loved - all about romance.
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What Trump's fixation on 'white genocide' in South Africa tells us about the U.S.
How the false notion of "white genocide" traveled from the political fringes to the Oval Office. The week on Code Switch, we're talking to a reporter who was in the room during a meeting when President Trump pushed this conspiracy theory on the president of South Africa. And we're digging into what Trump's fixation on white South Africans tell us about anxieties over white replacement here in the U.S.
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In Michigan, Arab Americans weigh the power of a vote
We travel to Dearborn, AKA the "capital of Arab America." The Dearbornites we met said that the war in Gaza is the key issue on their minds as they consider how to cast their ballots. What these voters ultimately decide could have huge consequences for the whole country.
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With Big Red Machine, Justin Vernon And Aaron Dessner Are Anti-Auteurs
The two artists, best known for their bands Bon Iver and The National, say their new project isn't really a band but a large-scale collaboration involving dozens of musicians.
