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Episodes

• A Spelling Bee Coach On How To Spell Success

  Five spellers in this year's National Spelling Bee shared a coach: a retired school teacher from Denver. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Bill Schaefer, who's been been teaching spelling since the 1970s.

  Jun 16, 2019 at 5:03 am

• New U.S. Players Poised To Make Big Impact In World Cup

  Rose Lavelle, Lindsey Horan and Mallory Pugh are the new faces of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team. Who they are tells us about how the career paths of elite women footballers have changed.

  Jun 16, 2019 at 5:03 am

• Sudan's Internet Outage

  Sudanese authorities shut down the Internet around the same time that they violently broke up an opposition sit-in seeking civilian rule. The protesters are gone, but the Internet is still down.

  Jun 16, 2019 at 5:03 am

• David Schelzel On The Ocean Blue's 'Kings And Queens/Knaves And Thieves'

  NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with musician David Schelzel about The Ocean Blue's new album, Kings and Queens/Knaves and Thieves.

  Jun 16, 2019 at 5:03 am
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  A German Dad's Search For His Daughter, Taken By ISIS

  A German father struggles to find and bring home his young daughter, taken by his ex-wife when she went to Syria five years ago with her new husband, an ISIS fighter.

  Jun 16, 2019 at 4:51 am

• The Limits Of Human Endurance

  How do you study the upper limits of human endurance? Professor Herman Pontzer of Duke University tracked long-distance athletes running across the country. He talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

  Jun 09, 2019 at 5:13 am

• The Scene At The Guatemalan-Mexican Border

  Under a new agreement, Guatemalans seeking asylum must first seek refuge in Mexico, and not the U.S.

  Jun 09, 2019 at 5:13 am

• The Future Of Flood Insurance

  Flood insurance is getting increasingly expensive. So Congress is trying to restructure the federal flood insurance program and figure out how to help people who live in flood-prone areas.

  Jun 09, 2019 at 5:13 am

• 'The Handmaid's Tale' And Coming Out As Transgender

  NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Vox culture critic Emily VanDerWerff, who came out publicly as a trans woman in her recent review of the new season of The Handmaid's Tale.

  Jun 09, 2019 at 5:13 am

• YouTube Removes White Supremacist Content

  YouTube's new policy intended to remove hateful speech from its platform has been effective, but it is also having unintended consequences.

  Jun 09, 2019 at 5:13 am

• What It's Like To Survive A Tornado

  NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with tornado survivor Cait Routson about the storm that ravaged her Dayton, Ohio, neighborhood last week.

  Jun 02, 2019 at 5:22 am

• 'This Land Is Our Land' Argues For Migration

  NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Suketu Mehta, author of This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto, which argues for more immigrants in America and elsewhere.

  Jun 02, 2019 at 5:22 am