All Things Considered

Monday through Friday, 3pm - 7pm; Saturday and Sunday, 4pm - 5pm

Melissa Block, Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish

Since its debut in 1971, All Things Considered has delivered in-depth reporting and transformed the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday afternoon, hosts Robert Siegel, Melissa Block, and Audie Cornish bring listeners breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features. WNIJ airs a one-hour edition of the program at 4pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Local Host(s):

Guy Stephens

Genre:

News/Talk

Composer ID:

5187f5a3e1c80ade92b5bd89|5187f57fe1c80ade92b5bceb

Defendant: Florida A&M Student Wanted To Be Hazed

By editor

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 6:22 pm

Listen

Transcript

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

Hundreds of pages of evidence were released today in the hazing death of a Florida A&M band major. Last November, Robert Champion was beaten to death on a bus after a football game. Thirteen people have been charged in the case.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports the documents released today provide an unsettling look at the hazing ritual that took place that night.

3:30 pm

Wed May 23, 2012

By This 'Beak And Claw,' A Trio Shall Synthesize

Credit Illustration by John Ciambriello

Left to right: Son Lux, Serengeti and Sufjan Stevens collaborate on a sometimes humorous but mostly beautiful EP.

By Robert Christgau

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 9:55 pm

Listen

Sufjan Stevens is a classically trained singer-songwriter whose recent work has leaned symphonic. Son Lux is a classically trained beatmaker whose solo albums do indeed evoke luxury. Serengeti is a self-trained rapper who creates voices for a panoply of full-fledged characters who range from scufflers to yuppies. Billed as s / s / s, this ad hoc trio has just released an EP called Beak and Claw that somehow synthesizes their specialties.

1:24 pm

Wed May 23, 2012

Where Dollars Are Born

Next image Previous image

Credit Robert Benincasa / NPR

Rewinder operator John Danylieko moves a finished roll of currency paper from the paper machine. The roll will be cut into three narrower rolls before being cut into sheets.

Credit Robert Benincasa / NPR

Crane & Co. Vice President Doug Crane stands near a spool of paper used for $20 bills, as it spins at the company's Wahconah Mill.

Credit Robert Benincasa / NPR

A "size press" coats the currency paper so that it's compatible with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's intaglio printing process.

Credit Robert Benincasa / NPR

The rotary digester, about 15 feet across, uses steam and chemicals to cook away the contaminants in cotton and linen fibers.

Credit Robert Benincasa / NPR

Several tons of linen fibers drain and cool down after having been cooked in the rotary digester, a giant steel ball.

Credit Robert Benincasa / NPR

Marites Wilbur performs a final inspection on a ream of 32-note currency paper sheets.

Credit Robert Benincasa / NPR

A currency template is used to check that security features, such as a watermark of Andrew Jackson's image, are in the right place.

By Robert Benincasa

Originally published on Fri May 25, 2012 8:05 am

Listen

DALTON, Mass. – If you were driving through this small town along the Housatonic River in the Berkshires, here's something you might not think about: All the bills in your wallet are visiting their birthplace.

The paper for U.S. currency, the substrate of everyday commerce, has been made here since 1879 by the Crane family.

Crane & Co. vice president Doug Crane represents the eighth generation descended from Stephen Crane, who was making paper before the American Revolution.

He gave NPR reporters a behind-the-scenes tour and talked about his company.

4:50 pm

Tue May 22, 2012

I Vs. We: The 'Heart' Of Our Political Differences

Credit Paul Morigi / Courtesy of Bloombury USA

E.J. Dionne Jr. writes a weekly column for The Washington Post on national policy and politics. He lives in Bethesda, Md., with his wife, Mary, and their three children.

By editor

Originally published on Tue May 22, 2012 5:45 pm

Listen

For years now, the Tea Party has held individualism up as the great American value. But Washington Post columnist and Georgetown University professor E.J. Dionne Jr. says that while Americans have always prized individualism, they've prized community just as much.

3:30 pm

Tue May 22, 2012

'It Worked For Me': Life Lessons From Colin Powell

Next image Previous image

Credit

Credit David Ake / AFP/Getty Images

Colin Powell, then chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff under George H. W. Bush, makes a point about the entrenched Iraqi troops in Kuwait during a briefing at the Pentagon in January 1991.

Credit Mario Tama / Getty Images

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addresses the U.N. Security Council in New York on Feb. 5, 2003. He presented evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction — that turned out not to exist.

Credit Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images

Powell endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008. "I'm proud of the vote I cast for him in 2008, I think he was absolutely the right choice," Powell says. When it comes to the 2012 election, Powell says he's "not prepared" to say who he'll be voting for.

By editor

Originally published on Tue May 22, 2012 4:50 pm

Listen

If you're looking for advice on leadership, it's good to start with a four-star general. Colin Powell's new memoir, It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership, is a collection of lessons learned and anecdotes drawn from his childhood in the Bronx, his military training and career, and his work under four presidential administrations. The memoir also includes Powell's candid reflections on the most controversial time in his career: the lead-up to the war in Iraq in 2003.

Now Playing

Most Active Stories

All Things Considered

Pages

NPR Story

3:36 pm

Wed May 23, 2012