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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

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President Donald Trump  (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
Politics & Policy

Trump to address shutdown, Mexican border Saturday

President plans 'major announcement' from White House at 3 p.m. Saturday.

7 years ago

With less than six months to Census Day, federal officials have finished their preparatory work in the state. (Michelle R. Smith/AP Photo)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Court blocks Trump administration’s effort to add citizenship question to the census

Guest: Ari Berman “Is this person a citizen of the United States?” That’s the ...

7 years ago

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In this Dec. 13, 2018, file photo, teen migrants walk in line inside the Tornillo detention camp in Tornillo, Texas. Government investigators say many more migrant children may have been separated from their parents than the Trump administration has acknowledged.  (Andres Leighton/AP)
Courts & Law

Watchdog: Many more migrant families may have been separated

Investigators concluded that the true number of migrant children separated from their parents is unknown and could be much higher than the 2,700 reported.

7 years ago

(AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith;  AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli; AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Radio Times
Courts & Law

The census citizenship question / ACA contraceptive coverage / Philly’s deadliest roadway

Guests: Ari Berman, Allison Hoffman, Jason Laughlin ...

Air Date: January 17, 2019 10:00 am

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Karen Paz hugs her daughter, Liliana Saray, 9. They are from San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
NPR
Community

‘I’m a survivor of violence’: Portraits of women waiting in Mexico for U.S. asylum

Domestic violence was the leading reported crime in Honduras, according to a March 2015 report by the United Nations' special rapporteur on violence against women.

7 years ago

Honduran migrants wait in line to cross over the border checkpoint into Guatemala in Agua Caliente, Honduras. A new caravan of at least several hundred Hondurans has set off toward the United States on foot or in vehicles. Some have already crossed into Guatemala. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Honduran caravan crosses Guatemala, traveling toward U.S.

The group that reached Guatemala on Tuesday is the first wave of a caravan that could consist of thousands.

7 years ago

An employee of Tokyo Electric Power Co. works at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to decontaminate the area after the 2011 nuclear meltdown. A Vietnamese laborer in Japan on a training program says he was also put to work cleaning up the site, but with inadequate gear.
(Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

As Japan tries out immigration, migrant workers complain of exploitation

The Japanese government intends to bring in 345,000 more foreign workers in the next five years, to staff sectors including restaurants, construction, agriculture and nursing.

7 years ago

Unauthorized immigrants leave a court in shackles in McAllen, Texas. More than 40,000 immigration court hearings have been canceled since the government shutdown (John Moore/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Government shutdown leads to a spike in canceled immigration hearings

Almost 43,000 immigration court hearings have been canceled as a result of the partial government shutdown.

7 years ago

A migrant worker in a Connecticut apple orchard gets a medical checkup in 2017. A proposed rule by the Trump administration that would prohibit some immigrants who get Medicaid from working legally has already led to a lot of fear and reluctance to sign up for medical care, doctors say (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Clinics struggle to resolve fears over Medicaid sign-ups and green cards

Trump's controversial proposal, if implemented, could jeopardize immigrants' legal status who sign up for government-funded programs. Some doctors are torn.

7 years ago

Darling Adalid Mercado, 19 (center), left his home in Ocotepeque, Honduras, three months ago to flee town thugs who wanted to recruit him. (Guillermo Arias for NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

A waiting game for immigrants and border agents on both sides of the wall

While the Border Patrol builds up its fences in San Diego to guard against a national security threat, migrants waiting in Tijuana consider whether the journey was worth it.

7 years ago

Brian Kolfage raised millions of dollars for construction of a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)
NPR
Money

More than $20 million crowdsourced for border wall will be refunded

As of early Saturday, the campaign had raised $20,328,658, and more than 340,000 people had donated to the GoFundMe page within 26 days.

7 years ago

Maria Rivas and her 15-year-old daughter, Emily, embrace after their StoryCorps interview last month. (Mia Warren/StoryCorps)
NPR
Community

A mom and her teenage daughter brace for a future apart

Two decades ago, Maria Rivas emigrated from El Salvador to the United States, where she received temporary protected status (TPS) allowing her to stay and legally work.

7 years ago

President Trump addresses the media as he leaves the White House on Thursday en route for a trip to the border in Texas. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Once a fence, later slats, almost always a wall: Trump’s border wall contradictions

The president is now in a battle with congressional Democrats to approve $5.7 billion in funding for a physical barrier.

7 years ago

The westernmost edge of the U.S. border wall separates Tijuana from San Diego. Most undocumented immigrants in this country did not enter the U.S. at the Southern border. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Where does illegal immigration mostly occur? Here’s what the data tell us

Most undocumented immigrants didn't enter this country through Tijuana, where news cameras have captured images of thousands of immigrants seeking refuge during recent months.

7 years ago

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa. (AP, file)
Politics & Policy

Sen. Casey: "We should never confuse a concrete wall with border security. It is not."

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey joined former border czar Alan Bersin to discuss expert opinions on border security amid the government shutdown.

7 years ago

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