Search results for

Voters in Utah voted to legalize medical marijuana this year. Now state lawmakers are meeting to rewrite the provisions, but supporters of the initiative say the lawmakers are overstepping.

Deficit? Debt? Shutdown? Debt ceiling? NPR offers a guide to some of the political and economic terms you're likely to hear.

NPR's Deb Amos speaks to Scott Simon about covering Operation Desert Storm.

William Webster served as CIA director under president George H.W. Bush. — a man who previously held that post. NPR's Michel Martin asks Webster why Bush is so revered for his time at the agency.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the head of FEMA's Housing Task Force in California about the agency's slow response to the most recent wildfires in California.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with John Sununu. He served as President George H.W. Bush's Chief of Staff from 1989 to 1991.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, about the foreign policy legacy of George H.W. Bush, who steered a peaceful end to the Cold War.

People who worked with Bush valued his character, manners and experience. That, they said, led him to be successful in managing the end of the Cold War — and current leaders could learn from that.

A number of celebrities paid tribute Sunday night to the five Kennedy Center honorees: Reba McEntire, Wayne Shorter, Philip Glass, Cher, and the team behind the hit Broadway show Hamilton.

Steve Inskeep talks to Erin Ennis, senior vice president of the U.S.-China Business Council, about the U.S. and China reaching a temporary truce in the ongoing trade war launched earlier this year.