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NPR’s Juana Summers talks with Theresa Cardinal Brown, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s senior adviser for immigration and border policy, about why America has struggled to fix its immigration problem. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The situation at the U.S. border won’t get fixed any time soon. This afternoon, Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan border package that was…

There are tons of markets that don’t exist because people just don’t want to allow a market — for whatever reason, people feel icky about putting a price on something. For example: Surrogacy is a legal industry in parts of the United States, but not in much of the rest of the world. Assisted end-of-life…

The civil rights leader Medgar Evers is maybe more known for his assassination in 1963 than the work he did to fight for voting rights and desegregation. MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid tells the story of Medgar and his wife Myrlie in a new book. Evers was the NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, a state that…

With frequent headlines about layoffs, labor walkouts and general turmoil in the journalism and media right now, Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at New York University and a board member of the Peabody awards, explains how the landscape has changed for both news consumers and producers, and how newsrooms might be thinking about creating more sustainable…

Over the past few years, the trend in society has been to encourage most people to enter therapy. Richard Alan Friedman, M.D., professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, explains why many of us may actually benefit from quitting therapy as listeners share how they knew…

On today’s show: After a stinging political defeat since the City Council overrode his vetoes on two bills, Mayor Adams is traveling to Albany to ask the state legislature to consider his priorities. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, shares insight and analysis of what’s happening within the Adams administration. Clare Malone, staff writer at…

Advocates say the federal government no longer views long COVID with urgency. Private donors are funding research, bringing an unprecedented level of collaboration. (Story aired on ATC on 2/6/24.) Science Long COVID research goes private Read the full article here

Virginia music educator Annie Ray poses in the press room during the 66th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP Grammy Awards don’t only go to the people who produce and perform songs. For just over a decade, they’ve also been given out to those who teach others how to make…

Tuesday on the NewsHour, a court rejects Trump’s claim of immunity with major implications for his election interference case. The mother of a Michigan school shooter is convicted in a trial that questioned whether parents could be held criminally responsible for their children’s actions. Plus, a look at the slow-moving recovery in Turkey and Syria…

When banks let you take out a mortgage, the money they lend you might come from their reserves. But more often than not, banks turn around and sell your loan to an investor — and make an instant profit. In this episode, all about the secondary market for mortgages. Plus, JPMorgan Chase invests in its…