Rachel Martin

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Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Speech
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We have to laugh. Life is hard and the news is often grim - you should be able to turn on NPR's Weekend Edition every week and know that we are going to make you think, make you question - and make you laugh, preferably out loud.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Thinking
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Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays.
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Collection: Team
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Childhood is messy and beautiful.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Beautiful
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People are sometimes having trouble deciphering what is true, and what is journalism with integrity, and what is not. It is incumbent upon us to, if anything, explain our process, and make sure that people understand the lengths that we go to bring objective truth-telling to the air, and to bring a wide variety of perspectives and the choices we make in how we cover the news. I think we could do a little bit of a better job doing that.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Integrity
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We do live in a time where there are fake web sites peddling mistruths out or sites that use hyperbole and don't put things in context. There's a range of ways that real journalism has been mashed up with things that aren't journalism... like opinion or that's sensationalistic in some ways. It is really noisy out there. You have to think of ways to cut though the noise.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Real
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Nobody has ever accused Donald Trump of lowering the temperature on anything - I don't think.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Thinking
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Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare].
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Average
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There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Loyalists
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For months, Republican Party leaders have been talking about the need to unify the GOP, in part because of Donald Trump and his criticism of the establishment, which created such big divides.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Party
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President [Barack] Obama - he was unsuccessful in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, but he still used the Labor Department in other ways to try to boost paychecks for American workers.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Effort
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During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to roll back government regulations.Trump plans to nominate fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head the Labor Department and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA. If confirmed, the two men would signal a sharp break from the policies of the [Barack] Obama administration.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Men
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If you want to improve the Affordable Care Act, let's work together. But if you think you're simply going to throw millions off of health insurance, you got another guess coming.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Thinking
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Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Taken
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History is, as we know, written by the winners.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Winner
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Presidents in the modern era who've had significant assets have usually put those into a blind trust with some kind of independent manager.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Independent
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There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Law
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If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or drones or perfectly executed dance routines, then you know that this is a band that is masterful at coming up with amazingly creative music videos.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Song
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About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Half
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President-elect Donald Trump is an unprecedented figure in many respects, in part because there has never been an American president who has such complicated global business interests.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: President
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Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Mother
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a critical test in her political career. Merkel has been under increasing pressure over the European migrant crisis, and recent polls suggest Angela Merkel, who's been the German leader for more than a decade, could lose an election in her political home state.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Home
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Donald Trump has stated that his three older children will manage his business once he enters office.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Children
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There's no way to get around it; online dating is work. And some people are more skilled at this kind of communication than others.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Communication
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Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Gun dealers say the president's initiatives have spurred sales. At the same time, polling shows more than two thirds of Americans support the president's proposals, including a majority of gun owners.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: Gun
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When the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, not everyone was celebrating. It is estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the population back then were loyal to the British Crown and thus were not so thrilled when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.
- Rachel Martin
Collection: War