European Union Ambassador To The U.S. Weighs In With Response To Trump’s Tariffs
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with David O’Sullivan, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, about Europe’s response to the new tariffs President Trump ordered for steel and aluminum imports.
Defense Secretary Mattis Says Diplomacy Is The Way Forward For Talks With North Korea
With the State Department hollowed out, the generals have been driving North Korea policy. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has all along pushed for a diplomatic solution to the stand-off.
Meet The French Priest Documenting Crimes Committed By ISIS Against Yazidis
Father Patrick Desbois has spent a decade uncovering the forgotten, mass graves of the 2 million Jews murdered by the Nazis in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Now he’s using his same techniques to document crimes committed by ISIS against the Yazidis.
How Koreans Are Reacting To Potential Meeting Between Trump And Kim Jong Un
South Korea has gone more than a generation without a diplomatic opening with the North and without anything like a hope for nuclear disarmament. NPR looks at how news of a possible meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un is playing out among K…
Trump’s Upcoming Meeting With North Korean Leader Has Potential For High Reward
President Trump’s willingness to meet with North Korea’s leader has the potential for high reward but also brings with it high risk. As both leaders prepare for the meeting, many are wondering what Trump will bring to the table and what the next steps …
What Ghouta tells us about the world’s ability to protect civilians
What can other countries do to save eastern Ghouta’s non-combatants, caught in crossfire between Islamist rebel forces and advancing Syrian troops, backed by Russian air power, who have killed more than 800 civilians in indiscriminate bombardment over …
The art of listening in a Trump-Kim summit
In the history of diplomatic firsts, there has never been something quite like this: Over the past year, President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have called each other nothing but belittling names. Then suddenly on March 8, they called for…
The Great Norwegian Porridge Debate, Or Tradition Vs. ‘Science’
In 1864, a male scientist tried to “porridge-splain” how to make proper gruel to Norwegian women who had been making it for centuries. It caused quite a stir and didn’t work out so well for him.
Japan builds a head of steam for an alternative to nuclear
White plumes of steam billow from dozens of metal chimneys that sprout from rooftops across the neighborhood, fed by the hot springs that lie underground and pipe scalding spring water into baths known in Japan as onsens. When Kazunori Ueda sees this …
Guess Who Knows Both President Trump And Kim Jong Un?
Until this week, only one person was believed to have spent quality time with both leaders: Dennis Rodman.
John Koenig: What If There Were A Word For Every Emotion In The World?
When we can’t describe how we’re feeling, we say we “have no words.” But in his made-up dictionary, writer John Koenig has invented words to describe our most abstract and ephemeral emotions.
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