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    National Guard troops reinforce the security zone on Capitol Hill in Washington early Tuesday, before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president on Wednesday.
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    Here's How America's Crisis Feels Too Familiar To This Immigrant Who Has Covered War

    Jan 19, 2021
    No, Washington, D.C., is not Baghdad, despite now having a Green Zone of its own. But the events of Jan. 6 make the comparison more apt than any of us would wish.
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    Wednesday's inauguration, coming two weeks to the day after the insurrection on the Capitol, will be unlike any other in living memory, writes NPR's Michel Martin. Above, the Capitol building is seen as workers prepare for the inauguration ceremony for B
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    The Things I'll Miss Most On An Inauguration Day Unlike Any Other

    Jan 17, 2021
    As the inauguration nears, the Capitol has become a fortress. The fences surrounding it, writes NPR's Michel Martin, "are the hallmarks of a country at war, and most tragically, at war with itself."
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    A vast majority of self-identified Republicans do not consider President Trump to blame for the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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    Opinion: The Fringe Of America's Fabric

    Jan 16, 2021
    NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the upcoming presidential inauguration of Joe Biden in the wake of last week's deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol.
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    People lined up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Disneyland's parking lot in Anaheim, Calif. on Jan. 13. The state says all residents 65 or older are now eligible to receive the vaccine.
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    OPINION: Moral Tragedy Looms In Early Chaos Of U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

    Jan 16, 2021
    As states suddenly expand the categories of people eligible for the first scarce shipments of vaccine, who will be watching to make sure those hit hardest by the pandemic aren't left behind?
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    Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol as smoke fills the corridor on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.
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    From 'Protest' To 'Riot' To 'Insurrection' — How NPR's Language Evolved

    Jan 14, 2021
    The Capitol breach changed journalist vocabulary
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    Pro-Trump extremists breached the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. The insurrection was just the latest chapter in America's ongoing battle over race, writes NPR host Sam Sanders.
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    The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Race

    Jan 10, 2021
    The insurrection at the Capitol was just the latest chapter in America's ongoing battle over race, writes NPR host Sam Sanders. "Once you see it as such," he says, "it all makes a lot more sense."
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    Journalist Neil Sheehan, pictured at the time as a reporter for UPI, died recently at the age of 84.
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    Opinion: Remembering Journalist And Friend Neil Sheehan

    Jan 09, 2021
    NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the life and work of famed reporter Neil Sheehan who obtained the Pentagon Papers. Sheehan died this week at the age of 84.
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    Technicians work inside of a uranium conversion facility producing unit in 2005 outside the city of Isfahan, Iran. After the 2015 Iran nuclear deal put limits on the program, Iran's government has been increasing uranium enrichment since the United State
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    Opinion: Iran Is Escalating Its Nuclear Program. Biden Should Not Rush To Respond

    Jan 08, 2021
    Iran has announced new nuclear steps aimed at the incoming Biden administration, but the U.S. has leverage to push back, argues analyst Henry Rome.
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    WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 31: U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office while arriving back at the White House on December 31, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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    NPR Had The Leaked Trump Tape, Too. Here's What The Newsroom Did With It

    Jan 07, 2021
    A public radio initiative to bolster local reporting paid off in dividends
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    When F. Scott Fitzgerald published <em>The Great Gatsby</em> in 1925, it didn't sell many copies. Now it's sold nearly 30 million.
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    Opinion: 'The Great Gatsby' Enters Public Domain But It Already Entered Our Hearts

    Jan 02, 2021
    NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The literary classic's copyright expired on the first day of 2021.
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    A Poet Reflects On How We Reckon — Or Fail To Reckon — With The Legacy Of Slavery

    Dec 28, 2020
    Atlantic writer Clint Smith grew up surrounded by Confederate iconography, being told that the Civil War wasn't about slavery. He shares a poem from his forthcoming book, How the Word Is Passed.
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    With countless lights, Christmassy illuminated man-high trees and reindeer decorate the entrance of a shop
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    Opinion: T'was The Night Before Christmas in 2020

    Dec 19, 2020
    With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, NPR's Scott Simon updates "A Visit from St. Nicholas" for 2020.
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    "The Nutcracker" as performed by the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago.
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    Opinion: COVID-19 Has Taken Away Nutcracker Season

    Dec 12, 2020
    NPR's Scott Simon notes how the pandemic has impacted the arts, including seasonal performances of "The Nutcracker." Without ticket sales from that ballet, many organizations are struggling.
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    NPR's Code Switch is Apple Podcasts' first-ever Show of the Year for 2020
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    Code Switch Is An Overnight Sensation 7 Years In The Making

    Dec 10, 2020
    How a startup show grows in a legacy organization
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    President Trump commuted the sentence of and later pardoned Alice Marie Johnson, who had received a life term in a drug case.
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    Opinion: The Truth About Pardons

    Dec 05, 2020
    The history of presidential pardons is often surprising — and revealing.
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    President-elect Joe Biden introduces key foreign policy and national security nominees and appointments at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., on Nov. 24.
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    Opinion: With Biden, America Is Back — But Not At The Head Of The Table

    Dec 02, 2020
    The world needs convincing that the U.S. can lead again, and it may not let it, according to foreign policy experts Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky.
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    Irish poet William Butler Yeats circa 1920.
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    Opinion: Reading William Butler Yeats 100 Years Later

    Nov 28, 2020
    NPR's Scott Simon reflects on what a 100 year-old poem by William Butler Yeats means today.
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    NPR Released An Explicit Podcast On Hip-Hop And Prison, Here's Why It Matters

    Nov 25, 2020
    Louder Than A Riot combines research, reporting and cultural criticism to tell the story of hip-hop and the U.S. prison system.
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    A Doctor's Thanksgiving Plea: Stay Home And Stay Safe

    Nov 19, 2020
    With COVID-19 cases surging and more than 250,000 dead, the CDC is recommending people not travel for Thanksgiving. And doctors worry the holiday could be a superspreader event.
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    A woman holds her 1-year-old son as they wait in line to get a coronavirus test.
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    Opinion: A New Phase Of Uncertainty

    Nov 14, 2020
    NPR's Scott Simon notes that as coronavirus cases in the U.S. rise rapidly, it can be hard to hear that we don't know when this will all be over.
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    OPINION: To Solve The Pandemic, Biden Must Focus On Equity

    Nov 13, 2020
    Doctors who helped stop Ebola call on Joe Biden's transition team to address COVID-19's racial and economic inequities. The evidence shows a safety net under the most vulnerable protects us all.
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    A burned helmet lying on the ground of the hospital in Martakert, a day after shelling during the ongoing fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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    Opinion: The U.S. Can't Afford To Ignore The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

    Oct 24, 2020
    Risks of a wider conflict are too high. The U.S. should use diplomacy to stop the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, writes Gen. Philip Breedlove, former NATO supreme commander in Europe.
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    Editors' Picks
    Over the past week, users of TikTok began absorbing, in a "challenge," one artist's musical investigation into the realities of living through a degenerative neurological disorder.
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    What Happens When TikTok Looks To The Avant-Garde For A Challenge?

    Oct 22, 2020
    This past week The Caretaker, an artist who has long leaned into challenging sounds, began emerging as an increasingly popular "challenge" on the youth-led platform.
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    Karin Huster was diagnosed with breast cancer during the pandemic. As she yearned for human contact, memories of her work with Ebola patients in Africa came flooding back.
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    My Breast Cancer Diagnosis Came In The Pandemic. I Wanted More Than A 'Virtual Hug'

    Oct 17, 2020
    The diagnosis — delivered at a distance of 6 feet in the doctor's office — was a shock. It brought back memories of my work in the Ebola ward. Then as now, an intimate touch was a rare thing.
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    Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden (R) and US President Donald Trump take part in the first presidential debate at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 29, 2020. (Phot
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    Can The NPR Approach To News Survive 2020?

    Oct 15, 2020
    Listeners react when outrageous news lacks outrageous delivery.

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