Scott Detrow
Stories
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How strong is the strongest water lily?
Botanical gardens from around the world testing who has the strongest lily pad.
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Why the recent unemployment numbers matter
The Labor Department released another disappointing jobs report this past week. A month ago, a government number cruncher got fired for that. How much faith should be put in the government's economic data?
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What happens when democracies use military force to occupy their own territory?
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Robert A. Pape of the University of Chicago about what happens when democracies use military force to occupy their own territory. Weeks of talk of sending federal troops into Chicago has set the city on edge.
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Chicago responds to President Trump's threats of troop deployment
WBEZ's Adriana Cardona Maguigad reports on reaction in Chicago as Trump renews threats to send in National Guard troops and increase ICE enforcement.
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Massachusetts makes progress on regional health care coalition
The Boston Globe's Jason Laughlin explains how Massachusetts and other states are forming independent healthcare coalitions to fill in the gap on healthcare policy left by sweeping federal changes.
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Who makes the rules at immigration court? Reporting on chaotic scenes in courthouse halls
NPR's Ximena Bustillo talks to Scott Detrow about what reporting on the immigration court has been like recently, and describes the chaotic courthouse hallways she's been navigating.
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A week in Beijing shows Putin is keeping China very close
Russian president Vladimir Putin spent the week in China, attending a summit and very publicly aligning himself with Xi Jinping. Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, explains why this matters to the US and Ukraine.
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A remembrance of longtime CBS reporter and White House correspondent Mark Knoller
The White House Press Corps lost an icon this weekend. A remembrance of longtime CBS News reporter Mark Knoller.
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College Game Day personality Lee Corso is retiring
On Saturday, the college football personality Lee Corso announced he was retiring from the broadcast and the network he joined back in 1987.
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An emergency room doctor describes what the changes at the CDC could mean for public health
The Trump Administration has made significant changes to the departments in charge of public health. Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency medicine physician who teaches public health policy at Brown University, discusses the impact he expects on the health of average Americans and for the future of public health research.