NPR All Things Considered
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All Things Considered hosts Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, 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, Juana Summers and Scott Detrow present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features 7 days a week.
Language:
English
Episodes
Part of the U.S. strategy in 20 years of war in Afghanistan? Weakening poppies
11/17/2025
In an exclusive Washington Post story, reporter Warren Strobel describes a CIA operation in Afghanistan over the course of about a decade. The goal was to degrade the country's opium crop.
Duration:00:05:15
Superfans turn out for U.S. Olympic Curling Team trials
11/17/2025
Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Milan in February, curling superfans turn out in Sioux Falls, S.D., for trials to determine which U.S. team will compete in "chess on ice" against the world.
Duration:00:02:39
Clinics that provide abortion in Maine face an onslaught
11/17/2025
Abortion is supported by three out of four Mainers, but a popular network of clinics that provides it alongside primary care is being shut out of Medicaid by the Trump administration.
Duration:00:06:45
Comet 3I/Atlas doesn't need to be 'alien' to deserve a closer look, scientists say
11/17/2025
There's a new celebrity in town and it's... a comet. Much of the attention has to do with an astrophysicist's grandiose suggestions that 3I/ATLAS could contain alien life. Other scientists disagree.
Duration:00:03:56
Study finds human ancestors made tools continuously for 300,000 years
11/17/2025
Ailsa Chang speaks with David Braun, an archeologist, about his team's discovery of a site in Kenya that suggests human ancestors built tools continuously much earlier than previously thought.
Duration:00:04:53
'Gleaners' collect crops for hungry Americans
11/17/2025
When farm crops are harvested, there is often food left in the fields. That's where gleaners come in — gathering lettuce, potatoes and other crops that are still good and giving them to needy people.
Duration:00:03:54
These San Antonio grandmas show cultural pride and 'stay young' by dancing folklórico
11/17/2025
A dozen Latina grandmothers ages 73 to 86 formed a folklórico dance group in San Antonio known as Las Abuelitas De Oro, with a goal of sharing their cultural heritage with newer generations.
Duration:00:03:51
NPR Student Podcast Challenge: Cold Weather Swimming
11/17/2025
One of our NPR College Podcast Challenge finalists brings the story of a group of women who, every week, take an icy plunge into the Connecticut River.
Duration:00:03:29
Democratic lawmaker reacts to Trump's reversal on Epstein files
11/17/2025
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., after President Trump's recent comments about the potential release of files from the Justice Department's investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
Duration:00:06:51
Ecuador votes no to U.S. bases
11/17/2025
In a sharp rebuke of President Daniel Noboa, Ecuadorian voters overwhelmingly rejected his bid to allow foreign military bases — including the U.S. — and overhaul the constitution.
Duration:00:02:47
DOJ official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats
11/17/2025
NPR reports for the first time on remarks from a Justice Department official who told prosecutors the U.S. should "just sink" drug boats — six months before drug strikes began in the Caribbean.
Duration:00:04:06
Saudi Crown Prince visits Trump in the White House
11/17/2025
Saudi Arabia's crown prince visits Trump to firm up bilateral and personal ties
Duration:00:03:55
Chicago nonprofit fights for DEI
11/17/2025
President Trump's war on DEI has gone far beyond the federal government. A nonprofit in Chicago dedicated to promoting equity by bringing women into the skilled trades is fighting for its existence.
Duration:00:04:34
Why some ant colonies get tricked into killing their own queens
11/17/2025
For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide.
Duration:00:03:43
Disaster and insurance costs are rising. The middle class is struggling to hang on
11/17/2025
Middle-class families are struggling to afford insurance in southwest Florida. Realtors say a wave of foreclosures could be coming.
Duration:00:04:07
Do people still quote movies?
11/16/2025
NPR's Barrie Hardymon and Marc Rivers discuss why some movie lines become iconic and whether today's films are still creating quotes that last.
Duration:00:09:37
A new U.N. report shows gang control expanding across Haiti
11/16/2025
The Miami Herald's Jacqueline Charles talks about a new U.N. report that highlights how gang violence in Haiti is spreading beyond the capital, and what that means for a country without a functioning government or elections.
Duration:00:06:30
Tornado survivors in St. Louis say recovery is a mess, due to FEMA changes
11/16/2025
Six months after the St. Louis tornado, residents say Trump's new disaster policy has left them on their own.
Duration:00:11:19
A year from now, hemp shops could disappear under a new federal ban
11/16/2025
WFAE's Steve Harrison reports on how the new spending bill imposes new restrictions on hemp and CBD producers nationwide now that the government has re-opened.
Duration:00:02:58
The man who tried to make Texas a country again
11/16/2025
In the 1990s, an armed group pushed for Texas to break from the unio. Zoe Kurland from Marfa Public Radio covers the story in 'A Whole Other Country.'
Duration:00:06:23