Ep. 8: Are We Going to Be OK? Cartoonist Ellen Forney says bipolar disorder prepared her for the Covid-19 pandemic As many struggle with anxiety and depression during lockdown, some with a history of mental health challenges are putting to work tools they relied on well before coronavirus. Kristin Leong
'Quaranzines' Bring Readers Together Despite Distancing During the coronavirus pandemic, the Internet has become home to a growing number of self-published "quaranzines" on everything from cutting your own hair to building emergency hand washing stations. Allyson McCabe
Disney World And Other Florida Theme Parks Outline Reopening Plans The popular theme parks will open their doors in the next few weeks and say they're planning to keep guests and employees as safe as possible. Greg Allen
'Running For Your Life': A Community Poem For Ahmaud Arbery For this latest community poem, NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander sifted through more than 1,000 submissions reacting to the killing of Ahmaud Abrery and created a poem that speaks with one voice. Rachel Martin
Art Of The New Deal: How Artists Helped Redefine America During The Depression When the Roosevelt administration rolled out millions of dollars to fund artists, musicians, writers and actors, it wasn't just about job creation. It was to unite a nation in turmoil. Neda Ulaby
What I Learned From Writing Letters To Strangers Across America Writing letters to strangers in almost all 50 states became an outlet to process anxieties about the pandemic. And a reminder of all the ways we are connected. Elise Hu
Meredith Talusan On Her New Memoir, Life As A Child Star, Relationship With Parents Author Meredith Talusan talks to NPR's Scott Simon about her new memoir, Fairest.
How King County's Somali community is keeping people fed during Eid This weekend Muslims around the world celebrate Eid (eed) after a month of fasting during Ramadan. On Eid, people come together to pray and feast. But the pandemic has upended that tradition. Here’s how King County’s Somali community has adapted. Ruby de Luna
I Should Buy A Boat Finally, cats and the internet come together. Nico Santos and Zeke Smith play a music parody game where songs about felines are rewritten to be about the most-Googled search terms of 2019.
Ask Me Another Hotline Listeners call in to talk about things they're learned while practicing distance learning with their kids, because nobody expected the pythagorean theorem to come back into their lives.