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News Articles: Opinion

State Rep. Barbara Cooper, D-Memphis, watches the vote board as her bill to limit license restoration fees passes during House session on April 12, 2006 in Nashville, Tenn. Cooper, who served in the General Assembly, died on Oct. 25, 2022. She was 93.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: A life lesson from these midterm elections

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on several electoral races in which candidates were posthumously elected.

November 12, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
An artistic illustration of what the child could have looked like when alive and sleeping

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  • Opinion

Opinion: An 8,000-year-old lesson

There is humanity in the evidence that a Stone Age child was interred wrapped in a cloak and with a dog.

November 05, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
In this illustration photo, a voter fills out their ballot n Los Angeles on Monday.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Where did all of the political debates go?

NPR's Scott Simon ponders a diminishing and vanishing election year tradition: candidate debates.

October 29, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
Pumpkins are pictured in a field in Germany.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Yes, I am basic

NPR's Scott Simon is an unabashed, unreformed, unapologetic lover of pumpkin spice. He knows his ardor is not universal. He does not care.

October 22, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
Russian missiles roll in Red Square in Moscow. President Vladimir Putin has warned that he wouldn't hesitate to use nuclear weapons to ward off Ukraine's attempt to reclaim control of its occupied regions.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: The specter of nuclear Armageddon

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on President Vladimir Putin's threats to use nuclear weapons in Russia's war against Ukraine.

October 15, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
A man walks through the rain during an intense afternoon thunderstorm in 2012 in New York City.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Observations from a quiet and rainy New York

In this week's essay, NPR's Scott Simon reminds us to look up from our screens and take note of the beauty in the regular routines and rituals around us.

October 08, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
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  • Opinion

Opinion: Remember the victims, not the killer

A new drama series on Netflix is about one of the country's most notorious serial killers. It has NPR's Scott Simon thinking maybe it's the names of his many victims we should remember.

October 01, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
Trevor Noah announced Thursday that he'd be leaving <em>The Daily Show</em> after seven years.<em> </em>"My time is up," he said. "But in the most beautiful way." Noah is pictured above in Los Angeles in September 2021.

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  • Television

Trevor Noah's 'Daily Show' departure hints at deeper problems in late night TV

Noah increasingly looked like a performer who was growing beyond the grind of a late-night Comedy Central show. If he doesn't find a new perch in the genre, the industry will be all the worse for it.

September 30, 2022
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  • Eric Deggans
Wind gusts blow across Sarasota Bay as Hurricane Ian churns to the south on Wednesday in Sarasota, Fla.

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  • Television

Can the hurricane TV reporters come inside now? Please?

This is an old debate and one the TV news industry seems to have already decided — but until someone is seriously injured doing this kind of reporting, it will continue.

September 29, 2022
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  • Eric Deggans
The general Nanisca, portrayed by Viola Davis, is the star of <em>The Woman King. </em>When a man objects to her influence, she retorts: "If the king respects me, it is because I have earned it."

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  • Opinion

Opinion: 'The Woman King' speaks loud and clear to this Nigerian feminist

The film about female warriors in 1800s West Africa is all too relevant, in 2022, writes Oyeronke Oyebanji: "The inequalities faced by the women in the movie reflect the struggles of women today."

September 25, 2022
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  • Oyeronke Oyebanji
NPR's Scott Simon keeps hundreds of compost worms like this one in a bin on his balcony.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Tiny movers of earth, and also our hearts

NPR's Scott Simon has worms. Hundreds of them. They live in a bin on his balcony and rejuvenate soil for flowers and vegetables. He talks about his admiration for the squiggly things.

September 24, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
Left to right: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic

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  • Sports

The Laver Cup is your last chance to see tennis' 'Big Three' together on the court

Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic had a three-way rivalry that made each of them better — and was awfully fun to watch. They will compete together this weekend for Team Europe.

September 22, 2022
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  • Jane Krosby Braden
Writer and health educator Marni Sommer is co-author of <em>A Girl's Guide to Puberty & Periods</em>, which aims to help young people ages 9 to 14 understand the changes that happen in puberty and what to expect when.

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  • Health

Opinion: With abortion bans on the rise, kids need to know more about menstruation

Today, even one missed period could have serious implications for a young person's life. But how late is late, and when is pain or a heavy period a medical concern? Many preteens don't know.

September 17, 2022
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  • Marni Sommer
Aaron Judge #99 of the New York Yankees at bat against the Boston Red Sox during the fifth inning at Fenway Park on September 14, 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Aaron Judge might break the true single-season home run record

New York Yankee Aaron Judge is approaching 62 home runs in a single season, which Scott Simon considers to be the true record, as those who have surpassed it used performance enhancing drugs.

September 17, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
Anne Garrels reporting from Iraq in 2003.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Remembering Anne Garrels, who blazed trails to the front lines

Scott Simon remembers the life and work of Anne Garrels, the formrer NPR foreign correspondent who died this week at the age of 71.

September 10, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
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