What's your most vivid school memory? Do you remember it as a time of exploration? Was it a place where you could figure out who you were and what you wanted to become?
Or did it feel like it wasn't made for you? Did it feel constricting, or like a place with lots of rules about how you had to act and what you couldn't do?
Your experience of schools likely depended on the administrators, who your teachers were, how your city or state set up the curriculum, and the resources your school received. Writer Eve L. Ewing argues that experience could also be shaped by who you are.
We sit down with Ewing to talk about her new book, "Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism."
What has school meant for students, and who influenced how schools function the way they do? And what are alternatives for how school could work for students?
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State of the World from NPR - The promise and frustration of a future economic powerhouse on Africa’s west coast
The booming population along coastal corridor from the cities Lagos to Abidjan has the potential to be a bustling West African economic engine, tied together by a long-promised superhighway that could slash travel time and supercharge trade. But the task of harnessing that potential has barely been met. We travel along a section of the road to understand why.
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Up First from NPR - Rahm Emanuel on 2026 Midterms and Politics in the Trump Era
Rahm Emanuel has held many political jobs, and he's considering a run for President. In a wide-ranging interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, he critiques democrats and offers advice for the upcoming midterms.
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Up First from NPR - Greenland Emergency Summit, New World Order, SCOTUS Justices Hear Fed Case
European leaders meet for an emergency summit as allies weigh a possible deal with the U.S. on Greenland after President Trump walked back threats of military action and tariffs.
Trump’s clashes with Canada and Europe raise fresh doubts about the stability of U.S. alliances, as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warns coercion and tariff threats are changing the global order.
And Supreme Court justices had tough question for Trump's lawyers as they hear arguments over whether a president can fire a Federal Reserve governor, a case that could redefine the independence of the central bank.
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Trump’s clashes with Canada and Europe raise fresh doubts about the stability of U.S. alliances, as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warns coercion and tariff threats are changing the global order.
And Supreme Court justices had tough question for Trump's lawyers as they hear arguments over whether a president can fire a Federal Reserve governor, a case that could redefine the independence of the central bank.
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It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Ben Abrams and Christopher Thomas.
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(01:59) Greenland Emergency Summit
(05:27) New World Order
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NPR's Book of the Day - Iranian pop star Googoosh on her new memoir and life in pre-revolution Iran
The Iranian government has exerted forceful control over its citizens since the Islamic Republic seized power nearly 50 years ago. The pop star Googoosh has firsthand experience of opposition to the regime – and its consequences. In 1980, the singer was imprisoned and forced into a basement with other women after the government deemed her music sinful. Afterwards, she spent decades living in silence and exile. In today’s episode, she joins Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd for a conversation about her new memoir, Googoosh: A Sinful Voice, and her relationship with Iran, then and now.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - How beef climbed to the top of the food pyramid
Beef is back on top. Well, at least on top of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new food pyramid, unveiled alongside updated national dietary guidelines. Red meat really never left the great American menu. But how’d it climb all the way up there?
On today’s show, America’s storied love affair with beef. And how big business and government have long influenced what winds up on our plates.
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Why beef prices are so high
Who’s buying all the beef?
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On today’s show, America’s storied love affair with beef. And how big business and government have long influenced what winds up on our plates.
Related episodes:
Why beef prices are so high
Who’s buying all the beef?
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.
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Planet Money - BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?
Planet Money has teamed up with the company Exploding Kittens to make a board game inspired by the legendary economics paper The Market for Lemons. We’ve decided we want a mass-appeal party game that quietly sneaks in the economics, so that we can report from inside a world that no other Planet Money project has entered: the real shelves at real big box retail stores.
We have a great game mechanic and a set of rules. Now all we need is a good name and theme.
Turns out, that is way harder and way higher stakes than any of us could have imagined.
In the third episode of our series, we learn the importance of a good game name and theme and try to come up with one for our game.
Find our previous episodes in the board game series, here and here.
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We have a great game mechanic and a set of rules. Now all we need is a good name and theme.
Turns out, that is way harder and way higher stakes than any of us could have imagined.
In the third episode of our series, we learn the importance of a good game name and theme and try to come up with one for our game.
Find our previous episodes in the board game series, here and here.
Pre-order the Planet Money book and get a free gift. / Subscribe to Planet Money+
Listen free: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the NPR app or anywhere you get podcasts.
Facebook / Instagram / TikTok / Our weekly Newsletter.
This episode of Planet Money was hosted by Kenny Malone and Erika Beras. It was produced by James Sneed and edited by Marianne McCune, fact-checked by Willa Rubin, and engineered by Cena Loffredo and Kwesi Lee. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.
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Consider This from NPR - How Trump moves political norms – both slowly and suddenly
In the first year of his second term, President Trump has repeatedly said and done things that were previously assumed to be unacceptable to voters.
Whether on Greenland or Gaza, federal prosecutions or federal spending, immigration enforcement or sending the U.S. military to protests of immigration enforcement, the Trump administration appears undeterred on almost all of its agenda.
As Ashley Parker wrote in The Atlantic this week — the Trump administration has pushed the window of what’s possible in American politics so far that his opposition seems exhausted.
She discusses her essay, “Trump Exhaustion Syndrome.”
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1A - In Good Health: What We Know About ADHD
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, affects tens of millions of people in the U.S.
About one in nine children and one in 16 adults have ADHD. That’s according to an analysis from the nonprofit Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, or CHADD.
As researchers learn more about the brain and its complexities, they’re also gaining new insights into what the condition looks like across different ages, genders, and races.
In recent years, more adults — especially women — are being diagnosed than ever before.
In this installment of our series “In Good Health,” we focus on ADHD – from symptoms, to diagnoses, to treatments.
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About one in nine children and one in 16 adults have ADHD. That’s according to an analysis from the nonprofit Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, or CHADD.
As researchers learn more about the brain and its complexities, they’re also gaining new insights into what the condition looks like across different ages, genders, and races.
In recent years, more adults — especially women — are being diagnosed than ever before.
In this installment of our series “In Good Health,” we focus on ADHD – from symptoms, to diagnoses, to treatments.
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State of the World from NPR - India’s black market for human eggs
We meet a woman in India who estimates she has dozens of biological children. And she says there are many more women like her, because India has a thriving black market for human eggs. Rules constraining the supply of donated eggs, have given rise to this underground supply which have risks for the women giving up their eggs. Our reporter investigates.
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