Here and Now
Monday through Friday, Noon - 2pm
WNIJ's midday news magazine keeps you up-to-date with the news between Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Here & Now combines the best in news journalism with intelligent, broad-ranging conversation to form a fast-paced program that updates the news from the morning and adds important conversations on public policy and foreign affairs, science and technology, and the arts: film, theater, music, food, and more.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress introduced a bill that would allow the FDA to quickly respond when there’s a problem.
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Was Amazon's success from innovating retail or cornering the market on e-commerce when the internet was still a fringe part of society? Was it by creeping into every part of our daily lives, from shopping to entertainment to health care?
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The law would have forbidden any public performance where actors impersonate someone of another gender.
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A nonstop flight from Los Angeles to New York spews about 1,300 pounds of planet-warming carbon into the air — per passenger.
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The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, is launching a strategy to overturn a landmark Supreme Court decision that protects the right of undocumented students to attend public school.
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Police in New York made arrests last week at an encampment at Columbia University.
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Hundreds of thousands of civilians on both sides of the Israel–Lebanon border have been displaced.
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Former Kentucky Poet-Laureate Crystal Wilkinson's "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" is both a family memoir and a cookbook.
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It's the first time the union has successfully organized workers at an automaker outside Detroit's big three.
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Several down ballot races could predict how November’s general election might play out in the Keystone State.