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An engineer in Huntsville, Ala. is suing the defense contractor Parsons Corporation for discrimination, arguing he was fired for speaking his native Hindi language at work. SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: An engineer in Huntsville, Ala., is suing a major defense contractor, arguing he was fired after speaking his native Hindi language on the job. His lawsuit…

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Nora Princiotti, a staff writer at The Ringer and a Swiftie, about Taylor Swift’s cultural impact on the NFL. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: OK. We now know who’s going to play in the Super Bowl in a couple of weeks. The San Francisco 49ers will face the Kansas City Chiefs in…

The U.S. says it is reviewing its sanctions policy against Venezuela as the country’s high court blocks the presidential candidacy of a leading opposition politician. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Venezuela’s leading opposition candidate says she’s staying in this year’s presidential race despite a ruling by the country’s High Court upholding a ban on her candidacy. Some…

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Danny Werfel, commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, about this year’s tax filing season and the future of the IRS. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The last time we spoke with Danny Werfel, he had recently gotten a new job and $80 billion added to his budget. He’s commissioner of the Internal…

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley waves to supporters while arriving at her first campaign event in Charleston, South Carolina. Win McNamee/Getty Images As the curtain falls on the New Hampshire primary, Democrats and Republicans are looking ahead to South Carolina and Super Tuesday. And even though Nevada is next on the calendar, the nomination process…

NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland’s first segregated asylum, where Black patients were forced into manual labor. Her new book is Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum. Also, Ken Tucker reviews the new album The Interrogator from The Paranoid Style. Read the full…

In his State of the City address, Mayor Adams declared social media to be a public health hazard, at the same time that Florida is working on a ban for all teens under 16. Katherine Keyes, professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, talks about what her research has shown on…

On today’s show: Meg Kinnard, national politics reporter at The Associated Press, writer of their ‘Ground Game’ newsletter and a South Carolina resident, With the next presidential primary taking place in South Carolina, shares her reporting and analysis on the politics of the Palmetto State, including the issues that voters there care most about, and…

Last year, the small Massachusetts college Worcester Polytechnic Institute dealt with a spate of suicides on campus. A new piece in New York Times Magazine chronicles what happened, and how professors and administrators struggled to figure out what to do. Journalist Jordan Kisner joins us to discuss her piece, “The Unthinkable Mental Health Crisis That Shook a New…

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