Sarah Handel
Stories
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No reprieve for 'Cancer Alley': Louisiana pollution correlates with preterm births
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jessica Kutz, a reporter for The 19th, about a recent study that sheds light on how polluted air in Louisiana has affected pregnant people and their children.
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Actor Michael Imperioli talks 'An enemy of the People' and its modern parallels
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with actor Michael Imperioli about his Broadway debut in An Enemy of the People and the relevance of this adaptation of the play, roughly 150 years after the original.
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The internet is obsessed with a woman's TikTok story about marrying a compulsive liar
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim, hosts of the Slate podcast ICYMI, about "Who the F Did I Marry," the TikTok saga that now has tens of millions of views.
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Could IVF access be protected nationally? One senator has a plan
Senator Tammy Duckworth has introduced a bill to protect access to IVF. She tells NPR about her own experience with fertility treatments and her attempts to build bipartisan support for her bill.
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Greta Lee of 'Past Lives' talks about how language and identity are intertwined
Greta Lee stars in the new movie Past Lives. She talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about the film and the ways language and identity are intertwined.
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How safe are other Kremlin critics held in Russia's prison system?
Alexei Navalny's death has shaken the families of other political prisoners in Russia. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of jailed opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza.
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Putin's regime is 'running out of fuel,' a Russian opposition activist tells NPR
If the Russian president continues to burn through his reserves of oil and gas money, ordinary people will become a threat to his power, according to one outspoken activist.
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Empty office buildings litter cities, but real estate expert says expect change soon
NPR'S Sacha Pfeiffer talks with David Smith, head of Americas Insights at the real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield, about the empty commercial buildings across several U.S. cities.
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They crashed in the mountains and turned to cannibalism. He focuses on the humanity
Director J. A. Bayona's new movie Society of the Snow is based on the true story of the survivors of the 1972 Uruguayan plane crash in the Andes.
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Hollywood loves to churn out 'great man' movies. This year stands out, critic says
The year 2023 saw quite a few movies about "Great Men": Oppenheimer, Napoleon, Maestro, Ferrari. How did these films play into or subvert expectations around those kinds of stories?
