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News Articles: Series: Simon Says

Two young German-Jewish refugees at the porthole of the liner St. Louis finally arrive at Antwerp, after being refused entry to Cuba and Miami prior to the start of World War II.

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Opinion: A Holocaust remembrance — and lessons we have yet to learn

NPR's Scott Simon wonders why teaching children about the Holocaust is not mandatory in most states and the lessons they are missing.

January 28, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
Detailed view shows inscriptions on a sandstone rock, believed to be the world's oldest runestone inscribed almost 2,000 years ago, making it several hundred centuries older than the earliest known ones.

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Opinion: The lessons we can learn from 'idiberug'

NPR's Scott Simon wonders about 8 characters on an old runestone found in Norway. It goes on display today, so others may look and ponder. It is a curse? A love poem? A receipt for Viking take out?

January 21, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
Poet Charles Simic is photographed at the City University of New York, May 13, 2003.

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Opinion: Remembering poet Charles Simic

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Charles Simic, former U.S. poet laureate who was born in Belgrade right before World War II. He died this week after a long career of writing and teaching.

January 14, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
Bagels are displayed for sale at a Manhattan grocery store on Aug. 6, 2010, in New York City.

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Opinion: UNESCO, consider the bagel

NPR's Scott Simon praises the humble bagel as an American cultural icon.

January 07, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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Opinion: The light of Hanukkah shines in Ukraine

NPR's Scott Simon recounts Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's words to a joint session of Congress this week, and how his country has managed to survive, so far, against Russian aggression.

December 24, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, Columbus Drive and Michigan Avenue double-leaf trunnion bascule bridges, top to bottom, are seen over the Chicago River on April 3, 2006.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Remembering Chicago's famed Walking Man

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the life Joseph Kromelis, Chicago's famous "Walking Man", and the harsh conditions that many unhoused people live with every day.

December 17, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
Bouquets of flowers are left near Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. At least five people were killed and 18 wounded in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in the US city of Colorado Springs, police said on November 20, 2022.

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Opinion: Our tragic new normal

NPR's Scott Simon notes how common mass shootings have become in the U.S., and asks how this violence affects how we think about our everyday lives.

November 26, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
President George W. Bush prepares for his State of the Union Speech with Karen Hughes, Counselor to the President, and Michael Gerson, Director of Presidential Speech Writing, outside the Oval Office January 29, 2002 in Washington DC.

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Opinion: Remembering Mike Gerson, Washington Post columnist

Mike Gerson, the Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter for George W. Bush, died this week from cancer at the age of 58. NPR's Scott Simon has an appreciation.

November 19, 2022
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  • Scott Simon
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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