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  • Trump is betting the economy on his tariff theory

    Trump is betting the economy on his tariff theory
    Apr 1 2025
    In President Donald Trump's telling, tariffs are the political equivalent of duct tape: you can use them to fix anything.

    For example, they're a negotiating tool — he used the threat of tariffs to pressure Canada and Mexico to implement border policies he liked. He also sees tariffs as a revenue source that might help offset his proposed $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and as a shield to protect American manufacturing jobs from overseas competition.

    With all of these potentially conflicting aims, and with another major round of tariffs expected to be announced on Wednesday, what is the strategy behind them?

    Rana Foroohar, a Financial Times columnist and the author of Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World, says they're an "experiment" that could lead to a big change in the way the global economy works.

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  • South Korea admits to widespread adoption fraud. Here's one story

    South Korea admits to widespread adoption fraud. Here's one story
    Mar 31 2025
    Last week, South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that Korean adoption agencies were responsible for widespread fraud, malpractice and even human rights violations.

    More than 140,000 South Korean children were adopted by families living abroad in the decades after the Korean war. The report documented cases in which agencies fabricated records and others in which abandoned children were sent abroad after only perfunctory efforts to find living guardians.

    Documentarian Deann Borshay Liem was an adult when she first learned the story she'd been told about her identity was a lie. She was adopted by an American family from California in 1966, when she was eight years old. Her adoption records said she was an orphan, but she eventually discovered her birth mother was alive, and she had a large extended family in South Korea.

    She shares her adoption story, her reaction to the commission's report, and her thoughts on what justice looks like for adoptees.

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  • AI and the Environment

    AI and the Environment
    Mar 30 2025
    The AI boom has caused a huge surge in energy consumption, so how is the tech industry thinking about its environmental footprint as it invests in new AI models?

    Emily Kwong, host and reporter for NPR's Short Wave podcast, finds out what solutions are being considered that might meet both consumer demand and address climate concerns.

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  • Reporting on how America reduced the number of opioid deaths

    Reporting on how America reduced the number of opioid deaths
    Mar 30 2025
    After reaching historic levels, fatal overdoses from opioids are dropping rapidly.

    Today we bring you a reporter's notebook from NPR's national addiction correspondent Brian Mann. He tells host Scott Detrow what it's been like to cover America's addiction crisis and explains the significance of the recent decline in opioid deaths.

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  • Why did Israel restart the war? One answer: Bezalel Smotrich.

    Why did Israel restart the war? One answer: Bezalel Smotrich.
    Mar 28 2025
    Bezalel Smotrich's views were once fringe in Israel. He's an ultranationalist West Bank settler, who has repeatedly called for Israel to resettle the Gaza Strip.

    Today, as finance minister, he's a key figure influencing the future of Israel's war against Hamas.

    NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalchi has the story of Smotrich's rise to power in Israel politics.

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  • The Southeastern U.S. faces a future with more wildfires

    The Southeastern U.S. faces a future with more wildfires
    Mar 27 2025
    Six months ago, Southern Appalachia was devastated by Hurricane Helene.

    Now, after a dry spell and a windy March — the region faces wildfires that are feeding on the downed trees and vegetation that the hurricane knocked to the forest floor.

    The North Carolina Forest Service has declared one of them "the highest priority fire in the U.S."

    And due to climate change and population growth, the Carolinas must anticipate a future with more fire danger.

    Experts and first responders explain the current situation — and the way forward.

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  • Campus protesters have faced deportation threats before

    Campus protesters have faced deportation threats before
    Mar 26 2025
    In January of 1987, Michel Shehadeh, a Palestinian man who'd lawfully immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager, was taking care of his toddler son at home when federal agents arrived at his door and arrested him at gunpoint. Shehadeh soon learned he was one of eight immigrants arrested on charges relating to their pro-Palestinian activism.

    Then, in March of 2025, federal agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate student, and Georgetown professor Badar Khan Suri. Both are in the U.S. legally, being threatened with deportation. And both are targets of the Trump administration's crackdown on what they describe as anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas speech on college campuses.

    We hear from David Cole, who represented the Los Angeles Eight for insight into this moment, and what we can learn from their plight.

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  • The fallout from the Signal breach begins

    The fallout from the Signal breach begins
    Mar 25 2025
    In the 24 hours since a bombshell Atlantic article, senators have grilled Trump administration intelligence officials — but there are no signs yet that anyone involved will face any repercussions. The article, by Jeffrey Goldberg, details how he was inadvertently added to a chat on Signal, the encrypted messaging app, where key administration figures were planning a U.S. bombing operation in Yemen.

    NPR's Ryan Lucas followed a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, where CIA Director John Ratcliffe and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard testified that no classified information was discussed in the chat group. Democrats challenged that assertion.

    And Willem Marx reports on reaction in European capitals. The Atlantic article included disparaging comments about European allies from Vice President J.D. Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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