Resolving conflict through consensus is a very Dutch tradition. But how do you compromise when it comes to racism? This week on Rough Translation, the controversial Dutch character Black Pete, and how Black Lives Matter may have helped change the holiday season in the Netherlands forever. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
Five personal stories from five continents on the global impact of George Floyd. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
The French republic "lives with her face uncovered," say the posters. But now face masks are mandatory. We look back at why covering your face in France used to be a sign of bad citizenship, until it wasn't. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
One hundred and eighty recovering COVID-19 patients. One Jerusalem hotel. Secular, religious, Arabs, Jews, old, young. Their phones are out, they're recording. And the rest of Israel is... tuning in. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Back in 2017, we brought you the story of a Chinese mom who hired an American surrogate to carry her baby. Each needed something from the other that was hard to admit. Their relationship became a crash course in transcontinental communication and the meaning of family. Now, in the middle of a pandemic, we check in with them. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
Public shame is a powerful tool. But how useful is it when trying to curb a global pandemic? Shaming stories from South Korean chat rooms, a Pakistani street corner, and a Brooklyn grocery store. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
She felt the urgency before her husband did. A story about the time lag between the arrival of the coronavirus in two different nations, and how that played out in a marriage Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
This week on Rough Translation, we check in with NPR international correspondents in China, Germany and Greece about the ways that culture shapes—and is reshaped by—responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
A young Chinese exchange student in Taiwan with no history of activism posts a video criticizing China's president Xi Jinping on Twitter, then asks for asylum. His request for protection fuels a larger discussion about Taiwan's role as a haven for Chinese dissidents, and also raises questions about who he is as an individual and his motivations. Who is he, and can he be trusted? Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
This week, we present the latest episode of NPR's Throughline, a look at the life and complicated legacy of the assassinated Iranian military leader, Qassem Soleimani. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Please, take our survey ! At a Ukrainian comedy competition founded by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, can humor unite a divided country? Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
In the country on the other side of the impeachment hearings... A comedian runs for president of Ukraine and wins in a landslide, with a parliamentary majority to pass any law he wants. So now what? Our host, Gregory Warner, reports from Kyiv. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Listen to hear a preview of a special two-part episode about Ukraine, reported by Gregory Warner. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
For our season finale, a listener's story: When a six-year-old boy adopts Tokyo as his new home, his American mom has to figure out where she belongs in her son's new life. If you want to share your story, email [email protected] Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
What happens when the employees of a French McDonald's take the corporate philosophy so deeply to heart, that it actually becomes a problem for the company? To listen to more Rough Translation, check out our previous episodes . Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
We visit a storytelling podcast from China that slips under the radar of China's government censors, and other international podcast stories about the search for love. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Two radically different ways of seeing race come into conflict in Brazil, provoking a national conversation about who is Black? And who is not Black enough? We revisit our first ever Rough Translation episode, with an update on how the election of an anti-affirmative action president is affecting the debate. If you want to see a photo of the medical school students: npr.org/roughtranslation Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
If you're the kind of person who thinks you can't be conned, that assumption may make it harder for you to recognize when you actually are being scammed. We speak with professional poker player and author Maria Konnikova about how con-artists get inside the stories we all tell ourselves, about ourselves. Then we go to an international multimillion dollar scam in Costa Rica, where a master of the con meets his match... the IT guy. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adcho...
What if more evangelical Christians in the United States fought climate change with the same spirit they bring to the issue of abortion? In this episode, we go back to a surprisingly recent period when that nearly happened. We meet two evangelicals who made it their mission to bridge the divide between Christians and environmentalists. What happened, and why they say the best way to start conversations about the planet is with readings of the bible. For photos and links: www.npr.org/roughtransla...
On today's episode, entrepreneurs around the world are trying to redefine how their societies perceive failure, by doing the scariest thing possible: standing up in public and admitting their mistakes. Links to more stories: http://npr.org/roughtranslation Tell us your story: #ShareYourFailure (http://bit.ly/ShareYourFailure) Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
A fragile alliance begins to fracture, as a romantic photo of Kamaran resurfaces. Ahmed confronts his family. And Sebastian meets with ISIS. * Note: This story contains strong language and sounds of war. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
When a journalist goes missing in Iraq, his friends and family have to figure out a rescue plan. * Note: This story contains strong language and sounds of war. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
The capture of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann was one of Israel's proudest moments. But the doctor at the center of the spy operation refused to talk about his role — even with his family. Today, his children ask why. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
A daughter — and reporter — discovers an uncomfortable truth about her mother's alcoholism. She travels to the other side of the world to find out if there's a better way to treat addiction. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
France is the place where for decades you weren't supposed to talk about someone's blackness, unless you said it in English. Today, we're going to meet the people who took a very French approach to change that. (Note: This story contains strong language in English and French.) Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
Fed up with government inaction, young people start rebuilding Mosul on their own. But in post-ISIS Iraq, volunteering can quickly become an act of rebellion. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
We've traveled far away to bring you stories that hit close to home. This season, we follow people who break the rules and challenge what's normal, wherever they are. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Two sisters attempt to use a 19th century novelist to outwit modern Pakistani restrictions on women. And a war reporter discovers the power of drawing room comedy to understand her own family. (And warning: This episode has explicit language.) Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Taliban poetry. An Afghan cooking show. The US military needs a better weapon. Up comes the perfect person for the job. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
A trashy daytime talk show in Argentina does the unthinkable. It becomes a forum for feminism. How this happened and what it changed. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
