" and npr. and so it was great fun. we had four dailies. we had pearson, which was the financial times economists as our original backers and the chandler family out of california which is the l.a. times, the larger shareholder in the tribune company came in as the second group investing in it. we went through $45 million and lost every bit of it. and you know, it was my project so i lost some too, i hate to say. but it was a noble project and i'd do it again. but we lost precisely because of the changing market. you know when we put the project together, it was a time when newspapers were essentially printing presses for money and by the time we hit the streets, all of that had changed. so but the whole concept of launching something and being entrepreneurial is a great challenge. this one will be of course much lower cost but we hope that we can make it work and we hope to make it work with the international partners. but advice that y'all might have for this will be greatly appreciated. i may be coming to you to write things for it. and then secondly i am working with usc on a

npr and so the la times and there were the largest shareholder and came in as the second group investing in it and we went to $45 million and lost every bit. ititwas my loss and i will do it again and we lost due to market. it was a time when newspapers were printing pressing for money and by the time we hit the streets, all of there had changed. so -- but the whole concept of launching something and being an entrepreneurial is a wonderful challenge and this one would be much lower cost but we hope we can make it work and hope we can make it work for international partners and any advise much be greatly appreciated. secondly, i am working with unc on product with internet laws in latin america that we hope to do and then the last thing, and this is really something for this group, and in here i'm very happy to report that phil from usc is part of a small group that's designing this and that is to redesign the u.s. government's international communication strategy from scratch as if you had to start all over again. we know we have this creaky thing together with a band-aid, left

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. >> an onion? >> that sound pretty cool. a nice cheap way of cleaning things up. >>> npr is pulling the plug on theico npr's managing editor says the decision was made because npr's audience is more engaged on social media. they get about 19,000 comments on the site every month -- actually in july. that was compared to more than 5 million on twitter. comments will be disabled beginning tuesday, the 23rd. reuters, popular science and the week it all ended online commenting as well. >>> a cheaper version of the arthritis treatment could be available two years early. a federal judge ruled a key patent for the drug invalid. that means pfizer plans to begin selling a cheaper version of the drug in october. johnson & johnson plans to appeal the ruling. >>> the united states and could you be arrest teaming up to fight zika and other health issues. the u.s. is interested in learning more about how cuba responds to medical emergencies like the zika outbreak. the delegation will travel to the island in october finalize the details. researchers call this a huge opportunity. at lines comes just abo

politics if it is driven by npr or radio but we have seen towards smaller and smaller factors in the way we publish and promote books like the social media or people can enter into people's homes with book clubs but through programs i know nothing about. [laughter] so the physical traveling of an author from town to town is less important -- less important and used to be specific and have a book on the history of the caliphate which i think is the book that is particularly important right now the word caliphate isn't though word we have spent a lot of time talking about now first cockeyed analyzes to talk about restoring that caliphate. kennedy is an expert he has written a number of books and this is his effort to establish the caliphate both as a was with the history of the idea. for obvious reasonsit holds such a p. enormous appeal for so many young muslims particularly because it was the time when its long ruled of world baghdad had 1 million people biz was the muslim world at the height of its power but what he is trying to show this is the caliphate is showing there is no one c

decision was reached and its impact, i am joined from washington by npr justice correspondent carrie johnson. and, carrie, what did the justice department identify as the biggest problem for these prisons run by private companies. >> the deputy attorney general, sally yeats, told me that simply, government-run prisons operate better by contracting out with private companies, the government saves very little money, and in fact, runs into a lot more trouble. the inspector general at the justice department found assaults, uses of force, and contraband, especially contraband cell phones, were much higher at private prison facilities, rather than the ones operated by the federal bureau of prisons around the country. >> stewart: why is there more trouble in private prisons? >> well, there are a couple of arguments about that. one is somewhat some of the operations at private prisons are understaffed, both in terms of correction officers-- what we would call guards -- and also medical personnel. and inmates there have expressed a lot of dissatisfaction about the quality of medical care they

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mischaracterize trump -- >> you were the former ceo of npr, and does it disturb you to have a rapid response arm for the trump campaign, is it inappropriate to have that kind of merger happening? >> so, look, that merger happened, it is trump-bart as people have known it. i don't think of breitbart as a news media arm. i think a lot about what's going on is -- you know, they're not -- they're a competitor of fox news, but they hate fox news, they hate the republican establishment, that's really what this is about. so it's a political movement, and it's the alignment of two political figures, trump and bannon to try to politicize media. >> after the rise of sarah palin in the '08 campaign, the far right really didn't have any blase to go. we saw the far right that resulted in republicans taking back the house, but there was a string of electoral failures as they tried to make on mitch mcconnell and the chris mcdaniel race in kansas. this group of people didn't have a place to go that was centralized nor a political figure to get behind. and trump and breitbart.com to organize for the

the cover. audie cornish is host of "all things consider"at npr news. and michael gerson. if donald trump were deliberately trying to avoid winning the election, he could hardly be doing a better job. >> well, i think the reason for that is this is a changed environment in this election. and by his own drawing attention away from the vulnerabilities of secretary clinton on to himself by one controversial statement after another. and there's a pattern to that. i mean, the pattern is he makes a statement, there are several days of damaging coverage, he rolls it back. he sort of doesn't roll it back. so he keeps the story going, and in some ways, he creates another diversion to get out of the previous diversion. so he is not focusing on the things that he might focus on if campaign. >> dickerson: michael in the piece in "time" in the interview with donald trump, several times he seems to go-- he says, you know, my advisers want me to behave the way dan is talk about, a traditional campaign, doing things you're supposed to do, prosecuting the case against your opponent and staying on me

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, and lives in richmond, virginia. her work appears in atlantic and npr, have a husband jason and two daughters you are intimately familiar with when you read this book. something must be done about prince edward county, it is a civil rights nonfiction. the library of virginia. the library of virginia website, vote for kristen green and get this book voted for people's choice award. it is an interesting book for me not only because i am a lawyer who loves race relations topics. in law school, those who do not know gaithersburg, the most diverse city in america. you may not fully appreciate race relations were not always as they have been. kristin grew up in farmville, those who do not know this, in the wake of the seminal supreme court decision brown versus board of education which ruled segregation of schools was unconstitutional, prince edward county was the only county in the country to close its schools rather than desegregate their schools. this book is an interesting introspective where kristin looks at her own family's involvement with this troubling time in our nation's hi

. ms. frederick: good evening. i'm pauline frederick of npr, moderator of this second of the historic debates of the 1976 campaign between gerald r. ford of michigan, republican candidate for president, and jimmy carter of georgia, democratic candidate for president. thank you, president ford and thank you, governor carter, for being with us tonight. this debate takes place before an audience in the palace of fine arts theater in san francisco. an estimated 100 million americans are watching on television as well. san francisco was the site of the signing of the united nations charter, 31 years ago. thus, it is an appropriate place to hold this debate, the subject

put, a bad idea. jim: i would go back to dr. monica burrell who on npr when they talked about increasing opioid deaths in 2016, she never mentioned marijuana once. she was on a 30 minute interview on television in may, all about opioids, she never mentioned marijuana once. when there is a political consideration it becomes maria physician or a scientific body, like the cdc. the cdc recently came out with guidelines for opioid prescription and they mention the factors leading to opioid addiction. they do not mentioned marijuana once. ed: listen to what the attorney general has to say in her statement. many are lined up a post to this and here is maura healey. >> to look at something like thc 70's and 80's, it's up to 20% or 30% now. ed: so it is a different item that was when we were growing up. jim: yes. some strains have a larger percentage of thc. some strains don't. the strains that the attorney general mentions, they have been in society for 20 years so we are not introducing anything to the market that does not already exist. all we are saying is let's finally take a way

thing of the past. >> npr thinks of national public radio the latest media company to remove their common sections they say only 6 percent of users are commenting on the site just 4300 users posted 67 percent of their comments many sites are using facebook and twitter as places for users to send off on content instead we used that comments on our webpage and what we found is that everyone was going to facebook and twitter most of the stuff that ended up on the actual site was spam i notice it more the wayside it today there will be a meeting to discuss the controversy surrounding some new york firefighters so here is the deal the firefighters were ordered to take down american flags from three of their fire trucks the order came from the board of fire commissioners and as you might imagine it caused a huge's tour on social media with people criticizing the decision but fire district board chairman james beretta says it wanted a political decision of the flags were actually a safety hazard concerns for our our fighter fighter is it getting on and off the rigs they are going out to e

and tamara keith of npr. welcome back, ladies. tam remarks tell me about this trump speech today, was this the reset, the pivot we keep talking about? >> or was the last one? hillary clinton just said this,h there is only one trump.ru there are different flavors of donald trump -- teleprompter speech, policy speech donald trump which we got today, there is rally donald trump where he says stuff and gets the crowd going, and there is twitterwi donald trump at various hours of the day. about once every month we get one of these teleprompter speeches. in some way, this was a reset. his tax plan you mentioned in the piece, it was on his web site until about 24 hours ago, now there's a new tax plan which alliance with a tax plan -- abines with the tax plan to have the republicans and there were more things in this speech that moved him closer to the republican mainstream. >> that's key. he's done well among white working class voters but not well with white-collar voters.la this was a message directly related to them.re it was interesting to seeg hillary clinton talk about repackaging reag

and npr. her first nonfiction book is forthcoming from random house and she is also the founder subpoenas will come the speaker. [applause] >> i just wanted to thank everybody for being here. the book came out a few weeks ago. we pushed it back a little bit, the project, not the buck because i had a baby. this is one of my first provoke public appearances. i had a little anxiety dream last night where i had to make all of you eggs and you wouldn't eat it. [laughter] on to you. >> congratulations on your baby and your books may be. >> i'm going to be moderating the discussion on the buck on helen gurley brown. i want to start by asking about helen gurley brown. why her, and maybe give a little bit of context how you came to this? >> in 2012 i grew up looking for a book review idea and it's a scavenger a way and in particular i think she just made a film. i was reading about helen gurley brown. she died in august of 201 2012 d her life was so colorful in this rags to riches story and it ended in arkansas again. but i just thought, that might be my computer. it was a fascinating st

good samaritans just gets in the way of relief efforts. scott simon of npr has that story. >> reporter: when nature grows savage and angry, americans get generous and kind. that's admirable, it might also be a problem. >> generally, after a disaster, people with loving intentions donate things that cannot be used in a disaster response. and in fact may actually be harmful. and they have no idea that they're doing it. >> reporter: director of the center for international disaster information in washington, d.c. she spent more than a decade trying to tell well-meaning people to think before they give. hurricane mitch, honduras, 1998. more than 11,000 people died. more than a million and a half were left homeless. and juanita rilling got a wake-up call. >> got a call from one of our logistics experts said a plane full of supplies could not land because there was clothing on the runway. in boxes and bales, takes up yards of space it can't be moved. well, whose clothing is it, what is it? well i dent know whose it is. there is a high-heeled shoe, one, and bale of winter coats. i thought win

. >> how you got involved in this topic. >> sure. i was a reporter, npr, then cnn. cnn, i was a fact checker. i started covering fatherhood and doing segments on it. then i became the dad in the news. because there was this policy at cnn in which anyone could get ten paid weeks to care for their child, except a dad who got his own wife pregnant. who had a baby old-fashioned way. >> what were the men given? >> two paid weeks. >> that was it? >> if i gave my daughter up for adoption and someone else adopted her, he could get ten paid weeks. it's the idea a traditional dad couldn't an caregiver. >> you challenged it? >> i did. unfortunately ultimately they made the decision to change the policy, which was great, a lot of attention came from that. but when so much attention came to me and my family i became fascinated as a journalist. why are so many people interested in my story? why are women's groups and men's groups and business leaders talking about this? i came to understand that we are all in this. everyone who wants real equality is starting to understand that yes, you have to fo

yorker, gq, rolling stone and npr. her first nonfiction book is forthcoming from random house and she's also the founder of women's lives club. please welcome our speaker. thanks. [applause] i just want to thank everybody for being here. of course the book came out a few weeks ago. we pushed us back because i had a baby, so this is one of my first public appearances and i'm kind of still in mom mode and i had some anxiety dream last night where i had to make all a few eggs and you didn't want to eat it. [laughter] >> congratulations on your baby. >> i'm going to be moderating the discussion [inaudible] i want to start by asking about her and maybe give us context you came to the material. >> it was in 2012 and august i was looking for a book idea and am back to doing the same thing right now. it's kind of a scavenger anyway but it's one of the best ones and in particular margarita foster of "the new york times" and i think she just made a film at this time, but she sounded like such a fascinating character. her life is so colorful that started in arkansas and new york and ended ar

. [applause] jones has been published in npr, scratch magazine. she's received fellowships from penn center usa and is currently a candidate in fiction and scholar in the program for writers at warren wilson college. [applause] finally, lehma laymon is the auf long divisions the essay collection how to slowly kill your self and others in america and a forthcoming memoir called heavy, kiese laymon. [applause] >> so, let's jump right in. i thought i would lead by asking a question about james baldwin. why not. when i was searching for a brighter on the contemporary american black experience, he felt inevitable. he was an expatriate most of his adult life and died nearly 30 years ago. so my question for you all is what makes the writing continues to resonate and do you turn to him as i do for comfort and solace? >> the first thing i should say is i was recently promoted to full professor. [applause][a my colleagues might be watching this morning. james baldwin i have a very involved relationship with him because my father was friends with him and so when i first encountered his name, i

. is that on npr? joe: yes. matt: a year go tomorrow, the chinese devalued the yuan and that brought global stocks tumbling down. yet against the dollar in white and s&p in blue. first arrow down is august 11, 2015. then there was the slow crumble at the end of the year, where everyone was freaked out. scarlet: you inverted it. matt: yes, of course, inverted. what i see here that is interesting is starting here, as joe showed us yesterday, the to fadelar continues but you see the s&p rising to these new highs we are worried about. is this? joe: no, if you want to go into my terminal -- if you look, this is actually the s&p 500 versus the one-month volatility of the yuan and derek tracks it. even though yuan has been declining, volatility is fading. i have it flipped over as well. one other thing i'm looking at -- this speaks to what scarlet witch on earlier about everything going up -- basically all asset classes everywhere are going up. eurozone bonds, commodities, high-yield bonds, even u.k. bonds. this is a tough situation for portfolio managers that like to see different aspects

friday, i happened to be listening to npr. morning edition, they had interviews going on, talking about the clintons, and one of the commentators said, they act what everyone else does, only they get caught. i mean, this cynicism of -- for the public, is it any wonder why people are disgusted with the lies and then the lies and then the ob-- i can't say the word, the lack of transparency. >> obfuscation. adam: that's a big word, i'm not supposed to use big words. either do the right thing or tell the truth? >> somehow doesn't occur to somebody inside the beltway that the american people don't understand if they say i made a mistake or i apologize or i didn't mean to do it, this is exactly what happened. it's as if they have the willing suspension of belief it's okay to lie and it's in your face and nobody is going to hold you accountable, even when you get caught, red-handed! like hillary clinton has gotten caught. nobody pays a price. no wonder this country wants to throw all the bums out. adam: i want to play a sound bite for you. donald trump is speaking in michigan and talking

after this black woman who was in "ghostbusters" so aggressively. >> they banned him for life. and npr, they have eliminated all of their comment sections on their website because it just got so hateful. >> what's interesting is they say about 55% of the people who --> >> >> that's what i'm saying -- >> 51% of the population, right? >> you would think that women would discuss it with other women. [ overlapping speakers ] >> what drives me crazy is when they say in their twitter profile, i'm a christian, and then there's like -- somebody wished me to die today. >> and their description is always like, god fearing, a grandfather. >> poem are very unhappy. >> they've driving us out of here. "one more thing" up next. p, gres recognition. you got any trophies, cowboy? ♪ whoomp there it is uh, yeah... well, uh, well there's this one. >>best insurance mobile app? yeah, two years in a row. >>well i'll be... does that thing just follow you around? like a little puppy! the award-winning geico app. download it today. hhis stellar notebooks will last through june. get back to great. this week sh

on npr, if you think today is hot, you are right. if you think this year is hot, you're right. the latest temperature numbers from nasa and the latest numbers say the oceanic atmosphere that the numbers are the hottest on record in the planet. beginning in 1993, gretel ehrlich traveled to greenland. they have four months of , four months of constant daylight, in the twilight seasons in between. traveling up the west coast, listeninghe dogsled, to their narratives and observing changes in their traditional hunting. has she reminded us from her harpers in 2015, what happens at the top of the world affects all of us. we are deeply honored to have gretel back. and in conversation with her is someone she knows well, her -- neil someone who conan worked as a correspondent in new york, washington and has covered wars in the middle east in northern ireland, olympic games in lake placid in sarajevo , and a presidential impeachment. he served in various times as producer and executive producer of all things considered. i miss sam and you probably do as a long-time "talk of the nation." pleas

would like us to be on our guard against is kind of an npr like, like i don't deny it but what am i going to do kind of -- i'm going to turn it into a witty phrase, going to find a gray area, some kind of way to hesitate. that is to now also and certainly the environmental movement as it is officially constructed for us. it has been hesitant in finding ways for you to feel okay buying a totebag or clicking electronic petitions and feeling okay for the day, amen. i know, we are lost right now and that little area and yes, i am from the church, and always come down to consumers. we are separated from original action, separated from original culture from making things for ourselves, by a cloud or products. one of the things that products are -- and that's say name this storm, naming each name that explodes in front of us is a story and that might sloth down. it might be the wrong story, so let's sing, let's touch touch each other, let's be direct, arrest me, let's have sex. >> had a we legalize industrial -- in the way of defeating monsanto and bringing it back that can help us all? >>

advocating that this is disproportionate impact -- i did "npr" this morning and the issue started with targeting minority communities for quality of life. i took great offense. we do not target. we go with the calls come from. charlie: there is also the relationship between the communities in the police and neighborhoods. have you been able to do what you want to do? you have that challenges will take years to achieve. comr. bratton: let me speak to the city of new york. on the issue of crime we have climbed down 25 straight years. there. there on preparing the city against the act of terrorism. they are creating a 500 person unit. there heavily equipped to deal with their terrorism issue. we did it here in london is now emulating that. more than we are doing here. the fourth area, which for 400 years has been a problem -- racial relations. originally, the slave catchers. with segregation, we and forced that. that is still the unresolved -- we enforced that. that is still the unresolved issue. charlie: now we have video. especially with police violence against individuals, it enhances

there was no historical data to draw from. experts told npr that the storm would likely had received more attention if it had been a hurricane. >> we are -- >>> we are learning does waiting to learn the identity of a soldier that was killed and another that was wounded in a southern province of afghan -- afghanistan when they hit a roadside bomb. six afghans were also injured. us forces issued a statement. " -- "we are deeply seven by this loss but are deeply committed to helping our afghan partners provide a better place for themselves and their children." they are adding another 100 troops to the area because it's being taken over by taliban insurgents. >>> the leader of the boko haram terrible was killed earlier -- last week. other commanders have also been killed but have not been independently confirmed. if you recall, he was already considered to be dead and later on was -- appeared in videos after that claim. >>> students are returning to school with dad -- badly damaged equipment due to fire damage. we will have a look at that later. >>> we will bring in meteorologis

accurate? >> the most were democracy core, pew research and the hartford current. the worst, gallup and npr and ap. all had romney pulling off a win. >> gallup got out of the presidential polling business. rasmussen, i think served over management. 18. that is a big, interesting one. polling not only is an indicator of who might be winning but also, it's a psychological factor because voters think their candidate is going lose, they stay home and whatever. in some analysis that has been studied. >> they look at the republicans and and that is turned out to be the case. >> that is interesting. most people think it's biassed left. let's get to obamacare. aetna says we don't want it anymore. >> they say they lost $200 million in the second quarter of the year. that is on track for a billion dollar loss this year. they say too many sick people have been signing up, high risk people and not enough young, healthy people. >> in obamacare, preexisting conditions anyone can sign up. insurance agencies have to take you. the way they do that is healthy people like me and sean and aren't putting in cla

just recently heard a program on npr saying that just the repair backlog in the national parks is literally hundreds of millions of dollars and that as you were pointing out earlier the complete budget has not really been increased for decades while the number of parks have increased all the time. so the national park service is facing despite all these little efforts that we're mentioning a financial catastrophe. and i heard that now debates are being made internally at several parks to sort of privatize things. outsource things or basically sell off the rights to run campgrounds to private companies, for-profit companies. and especially in view of the idea of making it more accessible for not middle-class wealthy people, i think that's a very worrisome development and i wonder what you think of that. thank you. >> the exclusivity, if it exists, on the basis of economics perhaps is a consideration. if you were to take a look at secretary lane's letter of 1918 he directed stephen mather to work with the railroads and it was the railroads that were the principal sponsors of visitat

, covering the games for "u.s.a. today" and a contributor for cnn, and npr's lulu garcia-navarro. welcome back to both of you. christine, let's start with you and ryan lochte. he apologized without quite admitting that he had lied about what happened.ne do we know, at this point, what happened? >> i don't know, jeff, that we're ever going to know exactly what happened at that gas station in the early hours of sunday morning, and i'm not so sure at this point if we need to. obviously, that will all be sorted out as fast as the lawyers and everyone can do. the bottom line is that's a story they took over these olympics and took coverage away from athletes who deserved it all because these four americans were out on a night on the town apparently drunk, allegedly vandalizing a gas station, and then, obviously, this coverup, and everyone, i think, is well aware of the story.he but it just was a complete lack of where they should be and whah they should do as representatives of the united states. i know our senses are so dulled by pro athletes and how they behave. well, the olympic co