Search results for

Commentator Andrew Lam remembers his first Thanksgiving Day in the United States when he could barely say the word "Thanksgiving." His family was silent and lost without his father, who had stayed behind in Vietnam, and there seemed little reason for thankfulness.

In the wake of the excruciatingly close presidential race in Florida, NPR's Philip Davis reports on problems faced by Palm Beach County voters who mistakenly voted for Pat Buchanan instead of Al Gore. And many Democrats contend that these lost votes may have cost Gore the presidency.

The U.S. men's basketball team lost to Argentina Friday -- and thus will not win the gold medal. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

Rock historian Ed Ward looks at the early days of the Neon Boys who became the band Television. The "lost" third album by Television has just come out on CD — a 25-year old live broadcast, and their first two albums have just been remastered.

Robert Satloff is executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His new book, Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands, is about the Arabs who protected or aided Jews in North Africa during World War II.

Austin American-Statesman reporter Tony Plohetski speaks with NPR's A Martinez about the redistricting fight in Texas.

For the Perry siblings of Tupelo, Miss. — ages 9, 14 and 16 — making music involves making unique instruments from car parts. The young family band with astonishingly mature blues chops demonstrates its craft in NPR's Studio 4A.

Almost a year after Hurricane Ida killed 11 residents of mostly-unregulated basement apartments in Queens, advocates say the city and state haven't done enough to make that type of housing safer.

Folk music's Mike Seeger was an adventurer who wanted nothing more than to share his discoveries. He found overlooked musical treasures, polished them off a little and wondered at them. He sought out undiscovered or disappeared musicians in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina — including Dock Boggs. Seeger died Friday at 75.

A little-known part of the Affordable Care Act pays primary care doctors to help overweight seniors lose weight. So why aren't more seniors taking advantage of the free weight loss counseling?