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I quit Ozempic and embraced feeling healthy over striving for thinness

Taking the drug made one writer feel so sick she quit and focused on healthy habits instead of her body size. Turns out, 65% of people using GLP-1 drugs for weight loss quit within a year.

April 24, 2025
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  • Mara Gordon
Then-NPR correspondent Sylvia Poggioli speaks with Pope Francis on a flight from Rome to Havana, on Sept. 19, 2015.

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The time NPR's Sylvia Poggioli came face-to-face with Pope Francis

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli spent over four decades covering Rome. During her time, she covered the last three popes. But Poggioli shared something special in common with Pope Francis.

April 21, 2025
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Stargazing, poetry and meditation: What connects NPR readers to their spirituality

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, it's poetry and gardening, for others, it's meditation and community.

March 19, 2025
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  • Malaka Gharib
An empty elementary school classroom is seen on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021 in the Bronx borough of New York. Nationwide, students have been absent at record rates since schools reopened after COVID-forced closures. More than a quarter of students missed at least 10% of the 2021-22 school year.

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If you see something (woke), say something

Code Switch's Gene Demby looks into the Department of Education's new end-DEI portal that asks Americans to narc on their local public schools.

March 07, 2025
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  • Gene Demby
Reporter Zach Mack and his dad are living in separate realities, and it's tearing their family apart.

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How a son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories

Zach Mack spent a year attempting to rescue his father from the depths of the conspiracy rabbit hole. Their family was forced to reckon with clashing realities, ideological divides and misinformation.

February 26, 2025
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  • Zach Mack

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The revolution will be screenshot (hopefully)

Code Switch's B.A. Parker takes a look at the many ways our digital world is being erased.

February 14, 2025
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  • B.A. Parker
Punxsutawney Phil is held up by his handler for the crowd to see during the ceremonies for Groundhog day in 2018 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

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An earnest defense of America's silliest holiday: Groundhog Day

Let's celebrate Groundhog Day, in all its bizarre, quirky strangeness. Let it remind us that we have not subdued nature, but merely made ourselves more comfortable in its domain.

February 01, 2025
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  • Avery Keatley
Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, attach siding to the front of a Habitat for Humanity home being built on June 10, 2003, in LaGrange, Georgia.

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Jimmy Carter is no saint in my house

For President Biden's legacy, we should look to late President Jimmy Carter's history in Central America.

January 10, 2025
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  • Jasmine Romero
Cyclists pass police standing next to a burning makeshift tyre barricade, erected by protesters demonstrating against the military coup, in Yangon's South Okkalapa township on April 1, 2021.

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How hopes for Myanmar's democracy faded and why leadership is needed (again)

Former U.S. Ambassador Derek Mitchell argues the United States should assert its leadership in helping shape Myanmar's peaceful, just and democratic future.

December 23, 2024
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  • Derek Mitchell
Windsor Johnston and her husband, Bob Edwards, in Switzerland during Christmas of 2017.

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This Christmas I'll be grieving. Here's how I'll be finding joy.

Since her husband's death, newscaster Windsor Johnston has been looking for ways to recapture joy and continue her healing journey — one that's taken her to a place she'd never expected.

December 22, 2024
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  • Windsor Johnston
Protesters in Bangladesh ousted its longtime authoritarian leader, Sheikh Hasina, in August.

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People power's unfinished work: Can Bangladesh be an exception?

The Wilson Center's Michael Kugelman says that for many Bangladeshis, a successful youth-led mass movement has shattered a long malaise and kindled a newfound optimism about the country's future.

December 21, 2024
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  • Michael Kugelman
Half of the world's population lives in countries where elections took place this year. But only around half of those elections were in countries where they could be viewed as free and fair.

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  • Perspective

History has never ended, but are we at a crossroads again?

Oxford professor Ben Ansell says we are witnessing a battle between nationalism and liberalism that will write our own time indelibly into the history books of tomorrow.

December 20, 2024
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  • Ben Ansell
Then-Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a hearing by the House Judiciary Committee on June 4, 2024. President-elect Donald Trump had picked Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, but Gaetz withdrew from consideration on Thursday.

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A 'lynch mob' did not come for Matt Gaetz, but the phrasing remains powerful

Even as a young child, I could understand the idea that words have meaning, which is why when Sen. Lindsey Graham referred to a "lynch mob" coming after Matt Gaetz, I felt my stomach drop.

November 25, 2024
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  • Leah Donnella
Guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) speak with residents of San Agustín, Usulután department, on July 5, 1983.

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  • Perspective

A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

November 24, 2024
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  • Robert Nickelsberg

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How to approach the holidays with people you deeply disagree with

Code Switch weighs in on preparing for difficult political conversations and when to draw the line and uninvite yourself from that family potluck.

November 18, 2024
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  • Leah Donnella
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