Explainers

NPR's Tim Mak explains just how the politically powerful National Rifle Association has successfully blocked almost all gun regulation legislation.

Saul Griffith's hopeful and realistic action plan for fighting climate change while boosting the job market is to electrify, electrify, electrify.

Is there a difference? Millions of people participate in direct-sales companies, recruiting friends and families to sell products, with the ultimate promise of hope.

Body art can tell personal stories. For many of these women, tattoos are a way to reclaim the past and take ownership of the future.

We're joined by Suzanne Simard, author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest.

We're joined by Daniel Lieberman, author of Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

"As offices and schools reopen, and we venture into more in-person social gatherings, we’re having to relearn how to have conversations," says Deborah Tannen.

What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love—with Autism Spectrum Disorder

The reality is breakthrough cases are becoming more common. Here's what you should know about getting a breakthrough case — and what I wish I'd known.

The messages shift and can be confusing. WHYY’s Health Desk Help Desk talked to public health communicators about, well, communication.

Simultaneous disasters, like the wildfires in California and Hurricane Ida this week, are happening more often as the planet heats up.

John Colapinto, author of This is the Voice, joins us to talk about the extraordinary architecture of our sonic sounds. Then, Joseph Turow on his new book, The Voice Catchers.