Sunday Puzzle: Eye-Oh
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WAMC listener Ellen Triebwasser of Red Hook, N.Y., and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.
Human Interest
'Wait Wait' for March 8. 2025: With Not My Job guest Lauren Graham
This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with host Peter Sagal, special guest Lauren Graham and panelists Shantira Jackson, Faith Salie, and Roy Blount, Jr.
Opinion: Thailand's deportation of Uyghurs to China has echoes of 10 years ago
Thailand's recent deportations of Uyghurs to China have eerie parallels with a large deportation in 2015, in which the country bowed to Beijing, writes historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
Failure is an option. Here's why some new space ventures go sideways
Within the span of a few days, another SpaceX Starship broke up on re-entry, and two other space companies faced failures. This reflects a new "fail-fast, learn-fast" ethos of spacecraft development.
A look at the past — and the future — as Selma marks 60 years since Bloody Sunday
Decades after law officers attacked voting rights marchers, we revisit the event that helped spark passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and hear what civil rights activists are doing in Selma today.
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.
SpaceX's latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket but lost contact minutes into the test flight.
That galaxy next door? It's home to a monster black hole
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy.
Intuitive Machines sends another probe to the moon, but can't stick the landing
Commercial company Intuitive Machines has landed its second probe on the moon, but company officials say it isn't in the correct position. The same thing happened last time.
State Supreme Court races can be costly, competitive and combative. Why?
Wisconsin is on track to break spending records once again in a high court contest that's at times turned heated. But these races weren't always like this.