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Not My Job: 'Coco' Director Lee Unkrich Gets Quizzed About Taco Bell

Three questions about a not-so-authentic Mexican eatery. Originally broadcast Nov. 11, 2017.

One of several machine shops Mike Schultz uses to make his special prosthetic sports leg — a unit that includes the Moto Knee and the Vera Foot. Schultz, a U.S. snowboarder competing at the Paralympics in South Korea, invented the devices after losing his leg in a snowmobile race accident in 2008.

For U.S. Snowboarder, Helping Fellow Paralympians Is As Vital As Medaling

Mike Schultz lost his leg in 2008. Since then, he created a successful business making prosthetic legs and learned to snowboard so well that he's about to compete in the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

It's no accident that neighborhood schools are battlegrounds for so many of the pitched battles over race and place in America.

What We Lose When A Neighborhood School Goes Away

The fight over a closure of a struggling public high school in Chicago raises questions about what's disrupted and upended when a community loses one of its central institutions.

Debussys Melisande by Gillian Opstad

[AUDIO PLUS DEAD VIDEO LINKS] If you lived in Paris in 1902 and picked up any one of the many daily newspapers you would have read the following on or…

China's President Xi Jinping gives a speech at the opening session of the Chinese Communist Party Congress on Wednesday.

5 Years Ago, China's Xi Jinping Was Largely Unknown. Now He's Poised To Reshape China

China's president has embraced a strongman style of personal rule. The 19th Communist Party Congress, now underway in Beijing, is expected to strengthen his ability to bend the system to his will.

Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.

Larry Trachtenberg, one of the original athletes that completed the first New York City Marathon in 1970, will run the marathon's 50th edition this year. He kept his training log from the 1970 marathon.

They ran the 1st New York City Marathon. Only one returns for the 50th

Larry Trachtenberg and Jim Isenberg dreamed of running the 50th version of the race they finished back in 1970. A life-altering accident foiled the plan.

Becca Turchanik, of Nashville, Tennessee, drove four hours to Atlanta for an abortion in 2019, and the emotions of the ordeal have stayed with her, she says. She's angry that she had to call from state to state to find care, and that she couldn't have her abortion close to home, with friends nearby. "We got an appointment in Georgia because that was the only place that had appointments," she says.

Long Drives, Costly Flights, And Wearying Waits: What Abortion Requires In The South

Restrictive abortion laws across the South mean more women are traveling across state lines to find safe services.

Meeting Tracy Chapman In The Spaces Between

After Chapman released her 1988 debut, she was everywhere in pop and always on the mind of writer Francesca T. Royster. Hearing that album, she writes, "helped me say what I hadn't yet said out loud."

Republican Convention Day 1: 'Make America Safe Again'

Steve Inskeep talks to Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign. NPR's Scott Detrow and Mara Liasson wrap up the convention events of the first night which had a law and order theme.

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