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All Things Considered hosts Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, Ari Shapiro, Juana Summers and Scott Detrow present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features 7 days a week.
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All Things Considered hosts Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, Ari Shapiro, Juana Summers and Scott Detrow present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features 7 days a week.
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English
Episodes
This Michigan city goes wild for its public library's Summer Game
8/6/2025
Summer for thousands of people in Ann Arbor means scavenging for hidden codes around the city and reading books to collect points. It's been a triumph for the public library that runs it.
Duration:00:03:23
NFL bans smelling salts during games over safety concerns
8/6/2025
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Dr. Robert Cantu, medical director and director of clinical research at the Cantu Concussion Center at Emerson Hospital, about the NFL banning teams from providing smelling salts on game days.
Duration:00:04:12
Hundreds of former Israeli military and security leaders urge Trump to end Gaza war
8/6/2025
More than 500 former officials who once led Israel's military and security agencies are asking President Trump to help stop the war in Gaza. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with one of them.
Duration:00:06:17
Illinois Gov. Pritzker on why his state is hosting Texas state lawmakers
8/6/2025
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, about hosting a group of Texas state lawmakers as they protest a partisan redistricting effort in their state.
Duration:00:06:33
Texas GOP Caucus chair on what's next in state's redistricting battle
8/6/2025
On Sunday, Texas Democrats fled the state to avoid giving Republicans a quorum for a special session. We speak with Texas Republican Tom Oliverson about what's next in the state's redistricting fight.
Duration:00:08:03
When wildfires make the air smoky, here's how to protect your health
8/6/2025
Smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to bring poor air quality into the Northeast U.S. and the Upper Midwest. And the exposure to wildfire smoke remains a growing health problem.
Duration:00:04:06
How the Trump administration is rolling back access to birth control in the U.S.
8/6/2025
Contraception is routine for many Americans – and people across political parties agree that it should be legal and accessible. But the Trump administration is walking back access for some people.
Duration:00:03:54
What one parent did to rescue their child from online violent extremism
8/6/2025
Children are increasingly being targeted online by violent, predatory networks that groom them into harmful behaviors. One mother whose son fell under their influence shares her family's experience.
Duration:00:08:14
How many steps do you need to stay healthy?
8/6/2025
Most of us have heard you need 10,000 steps a day to stave off health problems, but new research is finding that number is not necessary -- though more is always better.
Duration:00:04:07
These researchers are using radiation to protect rhinos
8/6/2025
We speak with James Larkin, the head of a project in South Africa that's experimenting with using radiation to prevent rhino poaching. They sedate the animals and inject radiation into their horns.
Duration:00:03:25
The director of 'Sketch' sought every emotion and every demographic
8/6/2025
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Seth Worley, director of the feature film Sketch, where a young girl's drawings of monsters come to life.
Duration:00:08:00
Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine research
8/6/2025
The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.
Duration:00:03:52
60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats
8/6/2025
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the Supreme Court could curtail its remaining protections for minority voters.
Duration:00:04:15
Canadians push back against Trump's tariffs by avoiding U.S. goods and travel
8/5/2025
Many Canadians along the U.S. border continue to avoid purchasing U.S. goods and travel. A major grocery chain is labeling products so customers know what they are choosing.
Duration:00:03:54
What happened when schools paid high schoolers $50 a week, no strings attached?
8/5/2025
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Jonathan Johnson, founder and CEO of Rooted School Foundation, about a study involving his charter schools which gave $50 weekly to low-income students.
Duration:00:04:17
Dungeons & Dragons live shows spawn new fans of the tabletop game
8/5/2025
Dungeons & Dragons is a game invented in the 1970s where people sit around a table playing characters on a fantasy adventure. But over the past decade, D&D has emerged as a popular form of spectator entertainment.
Duration:00:04:33
Marc Maron on feeling connected to the partner he lost
8/5/2025
On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Comedian Marc Maron talks about the ways he feels connected to the partner he lost.
Duration:00:03:25
The story behind one grim image of a mother and child in Gaza
8/5/2025
A photo of a starving child in Gaza has gone viral, with many in Israel claiming it depicts false information.
Duration:00:04:21
Decades of songbird mapping in New Hampshire yields insights about their changing home
8/5/2025
In 1969, a team of researchers took a patch of forest in central New Hampshire and mapped the territories of the songbirds inhabiting it. For more than half a century, that work has continued, revealing insights about the forest and its birds with evermore modern techniques.
Duration:00:05:14
'Each Peach Pear Plum' author Allan Ahlberg dies at 87
8/5/2025
Bestselling children's writer Allan Ahlberg has died at the age of 87. Many of his books -- like Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman -- were illustrated by his wife, Janet, who died in 1990.
Duration:00:02:18