A migraine is the third most common illness in the world, affecting over 1 billion people. Women are especially susceptible to migraine attacks. Three times as many women experience migraine compared to men. Why do migraines affect women more? And what has this meant for how the condition is understood and treated by the medical community and beyond? Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Connect with us. Listen to 1A sponsor-fr...
Jun 11, 2024•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Wisconsin follows Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada in bringing charges against so-called fake electors. What do we know about the case in Wisconsin and how it compares to these other states? Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Connect with us. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a . Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy...
Jun 10, 2024•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, President Biden issued an executive order on Tuesday that significantly restricts asylum at the U.S.- Mexico border. On Tuesday, Trump's lawyers asked the judge who oversaw the criminal trial in New York to lift the gag order placed on him. The order prevents Trump from attacking witnesses, the jury, and others involved in the case. Meanwhile in Gaza, an Israeli strike killed at least forty people when it hit a school-turned-shelter run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian ref...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Supreme Court is busy this summer. Before the term ends in July, the Court will decide whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal charges for actions taken while in office. It could upend over three hundred Jan. 6 prosecutions, including Trump's, in a case about obstruction. But the Supreme Court's public approval rating remains historically low. Justice Samuel Alito's refusal to recuse himself from the Jan. 6 proceeding despite the hanging of controversial flags outside h...
Jun 06, 2024•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's a right guaranteed not once, but twice in our constitution – a trial by jury. And many of us are asked to serve on them, whether we want to or not. Whether jury duty is a responsibility you dread or relish, the trial of former President Trump in Manhattan put the spotlight on the jury selection process – one that happens every day in courthouses across the country. We speak with legal experts about the role juries play in our justice system – and the psychology of jury selection. We also he...
Jun 05, 2024•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast The results for the biggest election in the world are now in. Incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist, won a landslide victory, but with a smaller margin than expected. Since April, India conducted a multi-phased a general election with 970 million eligible voters. What does his victory mean for this country of 1.4 billion people? We discuss what another five years of Modi leadership means for the groups that he and his party have targeted, like; Indian Muslims, journalists, ...
Jun 04, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's a big Monday. The first after the historic criminal conviction of Donald Trump. He's the first former or sitting president to be found guilty in a criminal trial. In his case – guilty not once, but on all 34 counts charged against him. We focus this hour on what the guilty verdict means for the GOP as well as talking about what's next for the case in the legal system. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Connect with us. ...
Jun 03, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all counts in his criminal hush money trial. Israeli Defense Force missiles hit a camp of displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday, igniting an inferno. And a look at election results in India and South Africa. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Connect with us. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a . Learn more about sponsor message choi...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast For children of immigrants who are straddling two worlds, mental health can be a unique struggle. According to a 2020 study, children of immigrants had nearly double the rate of psychological distress than their immigrant parents. And this population is only growing, with one in four children in the U.S. currently being a child of immigrants. Therapy is bound by many Western ideas and rooted in whiteness. How to deal with the expectations, guilt, and dialogues of the bicultural experience can be...
May 30, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 2004 Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's Supreme Court found that their Constitution could no longer exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage rights. That watershed decision from Goodridge vs. Department of Health paved the way for LGBTQ+ rights across the country, which eventually saw same-sex marriage federally legalized in 2015. Since then, more than 700,000 same-sex couples have married across the country. But what prompted the fight fo...
May 29, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Between 1935 and 1939, thirty million Americans had the chance to see a play thanks to Federal Theater Project . Nearly a century later, the theater's place in American life is shrinking. Today, we look back on this one-of-kind federal project that believed in the power of theater, and we look forward to the role theater might play in upholding democracy even as the arts in America are being undermined. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Ha...
May 28, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Action and adventure films are big business. Last year, they accounted for more than half of box office earnings. And what's a great action flick without some bad-ass stunts stunts. The car chases, the fight scenes, and epic super-hero showdowns are all thanks to Hollywood's most daring: stunt performers. For the latest in our "Ask A" Series, we're talking to the professionals behind the danger and excitement on set. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to th...
May 27, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast The final chapter of former president Donald Trump's hush money case is imminent. The International Criminal Court is seeking to issue arrest warrants for several top Hamas leaders and Israeli officials including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is criticizing his country's western allies. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Connect with us. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by si...
May 24, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast With CRISPR technology, scientists can edit pig genes to be more compatible with a human body, or at least that's the hope. But a future of endless kidneys bred from pigs is still far away. The experimental surgeries that allowed for a pig kidney transplant were covered under the FDA's compassionate use care and clinical studies have yet to be conducted. What is the state of kidney transplantation? And what might the future look like? Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station a...
May 23, 2024•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Has someone ever asked you what "your story" is? For some, that question is a nightmare. Where do you begin? What parts are important? And are the parts you think are important, actually that crucial? Are you telling it the right way? One Hollywood art form bravely tries to do that, but about other well-known figures. That's the biopic. For this edition of the 1A Movie Club, we talk about the latest, "Back to Black." The movie tries its best to illustrate the story of Amy Winehouse. We discuss h...
May 22, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast We recently did a show about the cicada double brood emergence. Billions of them are above ground this year. And the conversation... took a bit of a turn... towards whether they can be eaten. (They can.) Some of you are certainly thinking you'd never eat a bug. But more than 2 billion people around the world eat insects as part of their standard diet. When we had that conversation, our host, Jenn White, would have described her enthusiasm to taste insects as... mild. But a lot changed since our ...
May 21, 2024•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast At 1A , when it comes to election coverage, we focus on the stakes, not the chatter. And nothing could be more high-stakes than the country's ability to conduct elections safely and with integrity. Harassment and the threat of violence are causing a high attrition rate among the nation's election workforces. But there are still folks out there preparing to meet these threats, both physical and virtual. We discuss how election workers are being protected. Want to support 1A? Give to your local pu...
May 20, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump agreed on terms this week to face off in two televised debates before the general election this November. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was left "speechless" this week after a coalition of airlines banded together to sue his department over new rules concerning junk fees and making it easier for customers to receive refunds. As Russia continues to make gains in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelens...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast What do you remember about being in your twenties? Maybe it was the best time of your life. Maybe it brought challenges that you had to learn to overcome as you entered adulthood. And if you're in your twenties now, life probably looks a lot different for you than it did for your parents. Meg Jay is a psychologist and author. In her new book, "The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age," she explores the way our twenties set up the rest of our lives, and how the u...
May 16, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Over half of adults in America live with a chronic illness. Nearly 1 in 5 people who have heart disease or have had a cardiac arrest also have depression. And for people who have been diagnosed with cancer around 42 percent have experienced depression. Today, as part of our series "In Good Health," we talk about the intersection between chronic conditions like heart disease and our mental wellbeing. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have q...
May 15, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast What has red eyes, lives underground for years, and screeches all summer long? That would be cicadas. And they're here. And more are coming.For the first time in over two hundred years, billions of cicadas are digging their way up from underground in a rare biological occurrence. Scientists are calling it a double brood emergence because two cicada broods will be above ground at the same time. Depending on where you live, you might have already seen them flying around or their infamous exoskelet...
May 14, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Maryland is one of three states holding primaries tomorrow. It's also attracting outsized national attention because of the outsized amount of money being spent. Maryland's Senate race is the third most expensive nationwide behind California and Texas. That's thanks largely to the self-financed campaign of wealthy Democrat David Trone. He currently serves in the House. He's part of a wave of self-funded candidates nationwide. That rise coincides with the ever-surging cost of funding a campaign. ...
May 13, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Billions of birds are making their way around the world right now as part of their annual spring migration. But climate change, habitat loss, and human infrastructure are making that journey harder for a lot of species. That's why conservation and government groups come together twice a year to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day – but maybe they also just want an excuse to talk about our feathered friends. Either way, we're happy to oblige. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio sta...
May 12, 2024•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Biden campaign is growing increasingly nervous over the growing trend of campus protests in support of Palestinians. Party strategists are predicting a torrid time at this summer's Democratic National Convention as President Biden comes under fire for his handling of Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and recent incursion into Rafah. Meanwhile, the Israeli government ordered the removal of Al Jazeera from within its borders this week. Officials confiscated broadcast equipment from the networ...
May 10, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jen Psaki wants everyone to work on their communication skills. She's the former press secretary for the Biden administration. She's out with a new book called "Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World." In it, she points to deteriorating communication skills as one source of our intractable political disagreements. We talk to Psaki about talking, politics, and talking politics. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have que...
May 09, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast For the last 50 years, the government has classified Marijuana as a schedule one drug. Last Tuesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland did initiate the process to reclassify marijuana as a schedule three drug. Those substances are considered by the Drug Enforcement Agency to have moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence. This recommendation does not make marijuana legal at the federal level. But for the first time, the government is acknowledging marijuana's potential m...
May 08, 2024•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast In less than two months, two whistleblowers who came forward about Boeing's unsafe production standards have died. Then on Tuesday, an emergency slide that fell off a plane mid-air was found near the residence of a lawyer who was already suing the company. While flying over Oregon, a piece of a Boeing 737 MAX came off mid-flight. There were no fatalities, but an audit by the Federal Aviation Administration found dozens of issues in the manufacturing process. This led to two senate panel hearings...
May 07, 2024•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Third parties and third-party candidates are not a new phenomenon in American politics. But this year, the stakes of their candidacies are especially high. The list of third-party candidates running this year includes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West, both of whom are running as Independents. Jill Stein returns to the campaign trail as a representative of the Green Party. What role do third parties play in elections? And how could they influence this year's presidential one—even if they don...
May 06, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast University administrations' responses to students staging protests in support of Palestinians have varied wildly from campus to campus across the country. The House passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 in response to the protests. The bill attempts to codify a definition of antisemitism. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Hamas this week to negotiate a deal for a ceasefire in its conflict with Israel. However, Hamas leaders don't want to accept the deals that have b...
May 03, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Economist Emily Oster became a big name in pregnancy advice 10 years ago with her book "Expecting Better: Why The Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong – And What You Really Need To Know." Her latest book is called "The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During And After Complications." She co-wrote it with Maternal Fetal Medicine Dr. Nathan Fox. We talk about some of those complications and how patients can get better care from their doctors. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio s...
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