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News Articles: Opinion

A high school boys' soccer game.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: High schoolers can do what AI can't

NPR's Scott Simon has an idea for newspapers experimenting with AI: hire high school journalists to cover high school games rather than settle for substandard reporting.

September 09, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
A West Point archeologist and  museum curator take part in the opening of a lead box placed in the base of a monument by cadets almost two centuries ago.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and digits to nothing

NPR's Scott Simon has thoughts about a 19th century time capsule opened at West Point this week, and what lay within.

September 02, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
Teen mental health has suffered in recent years, partly fueled by the disruptions of the pandemic. New York City is working to expand mental health support to all high school students via telehealth.

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  • Opinion

New York City is embracing teletherapy for teens. It may not be the best approach

A proposal to establish the biggest student mental health program in the country contains a paradox. With teens' mental health struggles partly fueled by screens, is teletherapy the right tool?

September 01, 2023
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By:
  • Rainier Harris
This booking photo, provided by Fulton County Sheriff's Office, shows former President Donald Trump after he surrendered and was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta this week. Trump is accused by District Attorney Fani Willis of scheming to subvert the will of Georgia voters.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Trump's mug shot may become his best-known portrait

A mug shot for a former president and others in his circle: NPR's Scott Simon recalls his days as a crime reporter, and reflects on the significance of mug shots.

August 26, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
Fans and spectators walk to the entrance of Chicago's Comiskey Park on April 9, 1990, for the opening day of the final Major League Baseball season there.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Corporate ballpark names just don't have that special ring

NPR's Scott Simon ponders stadium naming rights: how relatively inexpensive it is for companies to link their brands to major league ballparks and football fields.

August 19, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
In 2022, a man in Kabul covered his face to protect his identity, as he showed his harmonium musical instrument. The Taliban have begun to burn these instruments, and others.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: The Taliban is cracking down on music, and joy

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on two years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, including the recent burning of musical instruments and equipment.

August 12, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
A screenshot from one of the videos of the brawl in Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday. The video shows a fight that broke out between an apparent dock worker and several men who appeared to be parking their pontoon boat in a space reserved for the city's riverboat.

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  • Arts & Life

I've spent my career explaining race, but hit a wall with Montgomery brawl memes

When you've built a career around explaining race and racism to people, what happens when you find a moment you just don't want to explain?

August 10, 2023
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  • Eric Deggans
Vice President Mike Pence speaks alongside President Donald Trump in 2020. As Trump was being arraigned in Washington on yet another round of criminal charges this week, his former runningmate-turned-rival Mike Pence unveiled merchandise that quotes "Too Honest," a reference to Trump's response when Pence rebuffed his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Trump said Pence is 'too honest'

NPR's Scott Simon ponders a detail in this week's indictment of former President Trump: When his vice president refused to join a scheme to overturn the 2020 election, Trump called him "too honest."

August 05, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
People look at a lowland gorillas at the Bronx Zoo's Congo Gorilla Forest exhibit on July 8, 2003, in New York City.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: A movie theater for gorillas

After the Toronto Zoo warned visitors against showing videos to gorillas, NPR's Scott Simon wonders what sort of motion pictures might entertain a great ape.

July 15, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
People queue for a free malaria test in Lagos, Nigeria. The country has one of the highest national death tolls from the mosquito-borne disease. A new vaccine offers hope. But logistics could prevent it from reaching the arms of those who are eligible.

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  • Opinion

New malaria vaccine offers a ray of hope to Nigeria. There's just one thing ...

The country's toll makes up nearly a third of the world's 619,000 malaria deaths each year. Now Nigeria has approved a new vaccine. Will it get into the arms of those who need it most?

July 12, 2023
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By:
  • Tolani Yesufu
View of a collection of defused cluster bombs and grenades used by an international bomb disposal group for training in Savannakhet, Laos, on May 2, 2006.

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  • Perspective

The U.S. promised Ukraine cluster bombs. In Laos, they still kill civilians

The U.S. dropped over 2 million tons of ordnance on Laos, including cluster bombs, in the 1960s and '70s. To this day, many people are killed, crippled and disfigured by them, writes Lewis M. Simons.

July 11, 2023
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  • Lewis M. Simons
A woman holds a picture of Victoria Amelina, as pallbearers carry the writer's coffin at the end of her funeral ceremony in Mykhaylo Gold Domes in Kyiv on July 4, 2023.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Remembering Ukrainian poet Victoria Amelina

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Ukrainian writer and poet Victoria Amelina, who was among those killed in a Russian strike at a pizza restaurant last month.

July 08, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
Turner Classic Movies offers a well-curated, wide variety of offerings, spanning more than a century of film history. Above, Gene Kelly pictured in 1952 during the filming of <em>Singin' in the Rain — </em>a movie that aired on TCM earlier this month.

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  • Movies

If you love film, you should be worried about what's going on at Turner Classic Movies

Warner Bros. Discovery recently announced a shake-up at the network, which for years has offered a well curated film selection. Critic David Bianculli says TCM wasn't broken — and didn't need fixing.

June 28, 2023
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  • David Bianculli
This is a general view of Comerica Park, where the Detroit Tigers play.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Scorecards keep record of games, and memories

NPR's Don Gonyea says looking through his old baseball scorecards stirs up sweet memories from summers long past.

June 17, 2023
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  • Don Gonyea
Wade Goodwyn reported on his home state of Texas and the Southwest for NPR since 1993.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Wade Goodwyn brought Texas spirit to NPR

NPR's Scott Simon remembers longtime colleague Wade Goodwyn, who covered Texas for the network for 30 years. Goodwyn died this week of cancer at age 63.

June 10, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
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