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Medicins Sans Frontieres is also known as MSF, or Doctors Without Borders. They are the first ones to arrive when there’s a war, an earthquake, an outbreak, or a famine. And increasingly, they are …
Medicins Sans Frontieres is also known as MSF, or Doctors Without Borders. They are the first ones to arrive when there’s a war, an earthquake, an outbreak, or a famine. And increasingly, they are …
When you play basketball in the NBA’s minor league – it’s called the D League — the stands aren’t full, the schedule is grueling, and the pay can be as low as $13,000 a year. Compare that to the …
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Like so many people addicted to opioids in this country, Joy doesn’t fit the picture most people have in their heads when they hear the words “drug addict.” Joy was a nurse working in a hospital.
We go back to Austin, Indiana to see how Joy, the nurse from our first episode, is dealing with her addiction to a painkiller called Opana. Follow Kelly McEvers on Twitter @KellyMcEvers. Email us at …
On its face, the immigration system can look a lot like the criminal justice system: prisons, courts, judges, prosecutors. But the rules are different and the details are often hard to access. Today …
On Skid Row in Los Angeles, where thousands of poor, homeless people live — many of them black — questions of how police should use force and interact with people come up all the time. We embed with …
El Salvador is the murder capital of the world, by many estimates. It has the highest homicide rate anywhere outside of war zones. The reason? Violent street gangs, exported from the U.S. We spend …
A shootout last year in Waco, Texas between rival biker groups the Cossacks and the Bandidos ended with nine people dead, 20 injured, and a lot of questions. Hear bikers give eyewitness accounts of …
Meet the people inside a house at the center of an HIV outbreak in Indiana. Find Kelly McEvers on Twitter @kellymcevers. Email us at embedded@npr.org.