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Former DOGE employee: work could 'cross extreme ethical and legal lines'
March is Women's History Month, so on NPR's Book of the Day podcast, we're kicking it off with a week of women writers, including one novel about a woman who ditches society and heads to a secluded religious community.
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Former DOGE employee: work could 'cross extreme ethical and legal lines'
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The Talented Mr. Vance
Shortwave thinks of science as an invisible force showing up in your everyday life. Powering the food you eat, the medicine you use, the tech in your pocket. Science is approachable because it's already part of your life. Come explore these connections on the Shortwave podcast from NPR.
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The Talented Mr. Vance
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The Talented Mr. Vance
When Malcolm Gladwell presented NPR's Throughline podcast with a Peabody Award, he praised it for its historical and moral clarity. On Throughline, we take you back in time to the origins of what's in the news, like presidential power, aging, and evangelicalism. Time travel with us every week on the Throughline podcast from NPR.
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The Talented Mr. Vance
Imagine, if you will, a show from NPR that's not like NPR, a show that focuses not on the important but the stupid, which features stories about people smuggling animals in their pants and competent criminals in ridiculous science studies, and call it Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me because the good names were taken. Listen to NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
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The Talented Mr. Vance
On the Planet Money podcast, you've seen them, those labels that say made in China or made in France. But what do they really mean?
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The Talented Mr. Vance
We dig into the delightfully convoluted rules behind country of origin, what makes, say, a Chinese product Chinese, and how companies facing tariffs are getting creative. From Planet Money on NPR, wherever you get your podcasts.
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The Talented Mr. Vance
Keeping up with the news can feel like a 24-hour job. Luckily, it is our job. Every hour on the NPR News Now podcast, we take the latest, most important stories happening and we package them into five-minute episodes so you can easily squeeze them in between meetings and on your way to that thing. Listen to the NPR News Now podcast now.
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The Talented Mr. Vance
Political turmoil escalated again today across Central Europe and South Asia with several more outbreaks of violence being directly attributed to new features released in limited beta form last week on social media platform Tram.
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The Talented Mr. Vance
Tram founder Venice Parish has pledged his company will act with all due consideration before launching the final release version of the new tools to its 4 billion users globally.
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The Talented Mr. Vance
If I pulled the plug over the back door, nothing flies, nothing moves.
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The Talented Mr. Vance
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
On the Sunday story from Up First, a whistleblower inside the federal government says Doge employees may have taken sensitive data from government systems and covered their tracks.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
There's really no way to tell what or where that data is now.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
There was Barbenheimer summer, then Bratt summer. What will this season bring? Maybe it's the season of actual good superhero movies like The Fantastic Four and Superman. For a guide to the movies and TV we're most excited about this summer, listen to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
These days there is a lot of news. It can be hard to keep up with what it means for you, your family, and your community. Consider This from NPR is a podcast that helps you make sense of the news. Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a story and provide the context, backstory, and analysis you need to understand our rapidly changing world. Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
The scary new movie Sinners from the director of Black Panther finds Michael B. Jordan playing twin brothers. It's got vampires, it's got great music, and it's a fun one to see with a big crowd.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
This is the most excited I've been about a movie in a very long time.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
We'll tell you why you should see Sinners on the biggest screen you can. Listen to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
On The Indicator from Planet Money podcast, we're here to help you make sense of the economic news from Trump's tariffs. It's called in game theory a trigger strategy or sometimes called grim trigger, which sort of has a cowboy-esque ring to it. To what exactly a sovereign wealth fund is. For insight every weekday, listen to NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
Listen now to the Sunday story on the Up First podcast from NPR.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
At NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour, we sort through a lot of television. And we've found some recent TV comedies we really like that you don't want to miss. And we'll tell you where to watch them in one handy guide. Listen to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
Imagine, if you will, a show from NPR that's not like NPR, a show that focuses not on the important but the stupid, which features stories about people smuggling animals in their pants and competent criminals in ridiculous science studies, and call it Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me because the good names were taken. Listen to NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
For the presidency, I'm indebted to Almighty God. I'm in charge of the country, and I need to serve all the American people and not just the political machine.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
The origins of the modern civil service. Listen to ThruLine wherever you get your podcasts.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
When Malcolm Gladwell presented NPR's Throughline podcast with a Peabody Award, he praised it for its historical and moral clarity. On Throughline, we take you back in time to the origins of what's in the news, like presidential power, aging, and evangelicalism. Time travel with us every week on the Throughline podcast from NPR.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
Do you remember when discovering a new artist felt like finding buried treasure? At All Songs Considered, NPR's music recommendation podcast, we put that kind of magic back into discovering new tracks. We're here to make the hunt for new music easy, delivering you the cream of the crop from every genre. We'll help you make music feel fun again, only on All Songs Considered from NPR.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
Keeping up with the news can feel like a 24-hour job. Luckily, it is our job. Every hour on the NPR News Now podcast, we take the latest, most important stories happening and we package them into five-minute episodes so you can easily squeeze them in between meetings and on your way to that thing. Listen to the NPR News Now podcast now.
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Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
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The Real-Life Russian Spies Who Inspired 'The Americans'
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The Real-Life Russian Spies Who Inspired 'The Americans'
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The Real-Life Russian Spies Who Inspired 'The Americans'
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The Real-Life Russian Spies Who Inspired 'The Americans'
Take a deep breath and give politics another chance with the NPR Politics Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts.
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The Real-Life Russian Spies Who Inspired 'The Americans'
Look, we get it. When it comes to new music, there is a lot of it, and it all comes really fast. But on All Songs Considered, NPR's music recommendation podcast, we'll handpick what we think is the greatest music happening right now and give you your next great listen. So kick back, settle in, get those eardrums wide open, and get your dose of new music from All Songs Considered, only from NPR.
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His Cancer Meds Were Nearly $1K A Pill. How Did That Happen?
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His Cancer Meds Were Nearly $1K A Pill. How Did That Happen?
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His Cancer Meds Were Nearly $1K A Pill. How Did That Happen?
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Trump's Tariffs & The Radical Remaking Of The Global Economy
Do you remember when discovering a new artist felt like finding buried treasure? At All Songs Considered, NPR's music recommendation podcast, we put that kind of magic back into discovering new tracks. We're here to make the hunt for new music easy, delivering you the cream of the crop from every genre. We'll help you make music feel fun again, only on All Songs Considered from NPR.
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Trump's Tariffs & The Radical Remaking Of The Global Economy
Having news at your fingertips is great, but sometimes you need an escape. And that's where Shortwave comes in. We're a joy-filled science podcast driven by wonder and curiosity that will get you out of your head and in touch with the world around you. Listen now to Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.
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Trump's Tariffs & The Radical Remaking Of The Global Economy
These days there is a lot of news. It can be hard to keep up with what it means for you, your family, and your community. Consider This from NPR is a podcast that helps you make sense of the news. Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a story and provide the context, backstory, and analysis you need to understand our rapidly changing world. Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR.
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Trump's Tariffs & The Radical Remaking Of The Global Economy
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Trump's Tariffs & The Radical Remaking Of The Global Economy
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Trump's Tariffs & The Radical Remaking Of The Global Economy
If you need a break from headline whiplash, listen to NPR's All Songs Considered. On our latest installment of music to calm the nerves and recalibrate your day, we reflect on the goodness of others and the enduring power of love through the songs of Max Richter, Leah Bertucci, Ruichi Sakamoto, and more. Listen to new episodes of All Songs Considered every Tuesday, wherever you get podcasts.
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How Did DEI Become Part Of A Political Agenda — And A Slur?
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How Did DEI Become Part Of A Political Agenda — And A Slur?
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How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
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What The Color Blue Tells About Black History
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What The Color Blue Tells About Black History
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What The Color Blue Tells About Black History
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What The Color Blue Tells About Black History
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What The Color Blue Tells About Black History
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America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism'
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America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism'
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America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism'
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Seth Rogen Lands The 'Tragic' Job Of Studio Head
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Billie Eilish & Finneas
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The Campaign To Silence Journalists & Undermine Free Speech
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The Campaign To Silence Journalists & Undermine Free Speech
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Mardi Gras With New Orleans Jazz Clarinetist Doreen Ketchens
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Mardi Gras With New Orleans Jazz Clarinetist Doreen Ketchens
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Mardi Gras With New Orleans Jazz Clarinetist Doreen Ketchens
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Mardi Gras With New Orleans Jazz Clarinetist Doreen Ketchens
At this year's Oscars, Anora took home the award for Best Picture, Zoe Saldana and Kieran Culkin also picked up wins, and Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo delivered a show-stopping opening number. For a recap of all the highlights, listen to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR.
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Remembering The South African Playwright Who Defied Apartheid
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Remembering The South African Playwright Who Defied Apartheid
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Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)
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Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)
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Having A Child In The Digital Age
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Having A Child In The Digital Age
How the hunt for gangster Al Capone launched the IRS to power.
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Having A Child In The Digital Age
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A Dominatrix/Writer Takes Readers Into A Dungeon
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Terry Gross Remembers Her Late Husband, Francis Davis
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Terry Gross Remembers Her Late Husband, Francis Davis
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Terry Gross Remembers Her Late Husband, Francis Davis
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Best Of: Seth Rogen / Can The Dems Win Back The Bros?
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Best Of: Seth Rogen / Can The Dems Win Back The Bros?
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Best Of: Ariana Grande / Inside A Dominatrix's Dungeon
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Best Of: Ariana Grande / Inside A Dominatrix's Dungeon
I've always loved coming to New York stories, and judging from the acclaim that's greeted the new Bob Dylan movie, America does too. Dylan, played by Timothee Chalamet, arrives in the Greenwich Village of 1961. In no time, this complete unknown is embraced by the burgeoning folk scene of Greenwich Village, thanks in part to the city's gift of proximity.
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But I wonder about the longevity of the coming-to-New York genre. These stories of arrival and promise fulfilled are almost always nostalgic, predating the New York of obscenely high rents. And does a dreamer even need to come to New York, or any city for that matter, in the age of the Internet? In a New York minute, Kay Sohini vanquished my doubts.
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Best Of: Ariana Grande / Inside A Dominatrix's Dungeon
Her debut book, a graphic memoir called This Beautiful Ridiculous City, affirms the enduring power of New York and the power of literature to give people the courage to cross all manner of borders. Sohini is a South Asian graphic artist who grew up in the suburbs of Calcutta, living, as she says, in a sprawling ancestral house with four generations and far too many territorial people.
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Best Of: Ariana Grande / Inside A Dominatrix's Dungeon
From a young age, she was a loner and a reader, a reader peculiarly drawn to New York stories. Everybody writes about New York with so much tenderness, even when they are sick of it, Sohini says. And so from afar, she began to read her way into New York. Years later, Sohini broke away from a long, abusive relationship with a man who she says made a room smaller just by walking into it.
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Best Of: Ariana Grande / Inside A Dominatrix's Dungeon
Staking her escape on little more than her years of reading and a modest fellowship to grad school, the wounded Sohini flew to New York. Through understated language and jolting comic-style images, Sohini tells a vivid, multidimensional New York story of her own. There's her odyssey, a capsule history of modern India, and always references to books, books, books.
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Best Of: Ariana Grande / Inside A Dominatrix's Dungeon
This beautiful, ridiculous city engages with a good slice of the essential New York City literary canon— From Anne Petrie to Fran Lebowitz, E.B. White to Dylan Thomas, Colson Whitehead, Nora Ephron, and fellow graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel. Like all these chroniclers of the city, Sohini sometimes questions her illogical attachment to such a difficult place.
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wondering if I am forever doomed to love things and people whose reciprocation is fraught with contradictions. But New York, in image and reality, saved her, and her love for the city remains hardy. One New York City writer Sohini doesn't mention is Gay Talese, who's hailed, along with Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, as a pioneer of new journalism.
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Talese, now in his early 90s, has written a lot of great pieces about New York – many of which are gathered together in a new book called A Town Without Time. The very first piece Talese published in Esquire in 1960 leads off this collection. It's called New York is a City of Things Unnoticed.
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Among the thousands of things Talese notices are the night workers, truck drivers, cops, hacks, cleaning ladies who line up for movies in Times Square at 8 a.m. Other essays here ruminate on the oft-overlooked Verrazano Narrows Bridge and mobster Joe Bonanno. Worth the price of this collection alone is Talese's masterpiece, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.
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This 1966 profile of old blue eyes packs the sparkle, fizz, and complexity of genuine New York seltzer. Here's Talese reading from the opening of that profile as originally heard on This American Life.
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Just as Sohini assures us that New York still draws in dreamers, Talese reminds us that New York is already riddled with ghosts, many of them tough-talking and hard-drinking. Eight million stories and counting about the city, but still room for more.
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Starting in the 1950s, there was a push to get meat onto Americans' plates at every meal.
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This month, Shortwave is featuring a science and dog collab for the ages. Because sometimes scientists need help and have to call in dogs to get the research done. Their powerful noses have earned some of them a job as conservation detection dogs, helping biologists sniff out things that are hidden or hard to find, like whale poop in the ocean.
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On the ThruLine podcast, the myth linking autism and vaccines was decades in the making and was a major moment for vaccine hesitancy in America, tapping into fears involving the pharmaceutical industry and the federal government.
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We've all been there. Running around the city, looking for a bathroom, but unable to find one. Do you have a restroom we could use? A very simple free market solution is that we could just pay to use a bathroom, but we can't. On the Planet Money podcast, the story of how we once had thousands of pay toilets and why they got banned. From Planet Money on NPR, wherever you get your podcasts.
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A lot has changed in higher education since President Trump took office.
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On the Sunday Story, how members of the Class of 2025 are feeling about the state of higher ed and their own futures. Listen now to the Sunday Story on the Up First podcast from NPR.
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At this year's Oscars, Onora took home the award for Best Picture, Zoe Saldana and Kieran Culkin also picked up wins, and Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo delivered a show-stopping opening number. For a recap of all the highlights, listen to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR.
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First impressions are always important. That's not just for dates or for your in-laws. At the NPR Politics Podcast, we know that first impressions are important for any presidential term, too. So all this month, we're reviewing the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second stint. What's been done, what's to come, and what might change.
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Like so many Americans, my dad has gotten swept up in conspiracy theories. These are not conspiracy theories. These are reality. I spent the year following him down the rabbit hole, trying to get him back. Listen to Alternate Realities on the Embedded Podcast from NPR.
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The sale has laid bare one of the Jenner family's biggest secrets.
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Kylie Cosmetics is not nearly as big of a business as they spent years leading the entire world, including Forbes, to believe. While we can't prove that those tax returns that Jenner sent us were fake, we're pretty sure now that they were. Given these findings, Kylie Jenner is no longer a billionaire.
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So there is a new cover girl on the cover of Forbes magazine.
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It's staggering. She's on the cover of Forbes magazine.
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And then I find myself on NPR talking about the whole debacle. Natalie Robamed profiled Kylie Jenner for the magazine. So we put the question to her. What does self-made mean to Forbes?
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To what extent is immigration as an issue part of your problem with working class voters?
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People voting for the other side and not for you, feeling that Democrats are not serious about the issue in ways that concern them.
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On the evening of October 24, 1871, in Los Angeles, an angry group of white men descended upon a neighborhood where some of the city's very small population of Chinese residents lived.
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Many historians believe it's the biggest mass lynching event in American history.
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Birthright Citizenship
And maybe they thought, this can't happen here. San Francisco was much bigger, more cosmopolitan, and had a much bigger Chinatown.
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In what started as a labor strike, a group of angry men, driven by the idea that Chinese immigrants were taking their jobs by working for less, marched towards Chinatown and started setting buildings on fire. They killed four men that night.
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Anti-Chinese violence had landed on the doorstep of Wong Kim Ark's family. Eventually,
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When Wong Kim Ark's family left the United States after the 1877 anti-Chinese riots in San Francisco, they never came back.
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Something that would have been really challenging in the U.S. because there were so few Chinese women and because Chinese men were legally barred or socially discouraged from marrying outside their race.
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But he didn't stay long. After several months, he returned to the United States to work. And he repeated this process again a couple of years later, going back to China to visit his wife and his growing family. But in 1895, on what he must have expected to be another uneventful trip from China to San Francisco…
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In August of 1895, Wong Kim Ark was sitting on a steamship, detained and watched over by guards. He was there because, according to the government, he was not a U.S. citizen, even though he had documentation showing he was born in San Francisco. It must have been a lonely, bitter feeling to be just a few miles from his hometown, rejected by his own government. But he wasn't alone.
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Almost immediately, a group of people started working to get him out.
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The Chinese Six Companies, also known as the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
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They frequently hired lawyers, white lawyers, to help Chinese laborers who were subject to deportation under the law.
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Birthright Citizenship
So while Wong Kim Ark sat imprisoned on the steamship, his case headed to a California district court.
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Birthright Citizenship
the district court was faced with a monumental decision, one that hinged on a single sentence in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
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Birthright Citizenship
The 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution after the Civil War to achieve, quote, equal protection of the laws. It was intended to make sure newly emancipated Black Americans had full, equal citizenship and rights. Some of the most impactful Supreme Court cases have hinged on this amendment. There's Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the constitutionality of segregation.
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Brown v. Board of Education, which reversed that. Even Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the right to abortion. Wong Kim Ark's case focused on a specific part of the 14th Amendment, the Citizenship Clause.
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That phrase, jurisdiction thereof, it's key because the court had to decide what makes a person a U.S. citizen. Do all people born on U.S. soil fall under its jurisdiction, its laws? Or is jurisdiction about where your loyalties lie? Are Chinese people living in the United States really subject to U.S. laws? Or should they be considered subjects of the emperor of China?
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Birthright Citizenship
And then, what does this legal argument mean for all immigrants across the country? Could this same logic be applied to birthright citizens from Europe?
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Julie Novkov is the dean of Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY, and co-author of American by Birth, Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship.
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Birthright Citizenship
Wong Kim Ark was still stuck on a steamer off the coast while his case played out in court. It had been months, and he was right in the middle of a bigger battle between the U.S. government and Chinese Americans.
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Finally, in the fall of 1895, the court came to a decision. He wins. He wins.
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Wong Kim Ark was technically free, but his victory was short-lived.
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the government appealed the case up to the Supreme Court. They did this because they wanted to enforce and expand the Chinese Exclusion Act. Even the president at the time, Grover Cleveland, was in full support of excluding Chinese immigrants.
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So the government did it. It appealed the case all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. And the Solicitor General, the lawyer who represents the government in front of the Supreme Court, was right out of central casting.
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Holmes Conrad came from a prominent slave-owning family. He had spent the Civil War as an officer, fighting for the Confederacy. And here's some nice irony for you. Because he fought for secession during the Civil War, Conrad actually had his citizenship revoked.
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Meanwhile, Wong Kim Ark, after being detained those horrible four months on ships, was back to his hardscrabble life in San Francisco. He was earning money and sending it to his wife and kids in China. And all the while, the government was trying to beat him in court, questioning his citizenship.
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Yet behind the scenes, he's got an all-star, high-powered legal team on his side, paid for by the Chinese six companies.
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Many big businesses had a keen interest in the Wong Kim Ark case. They needed labor, cheap labor, to expand and be profitable. So they jumped to support Wong Kim Ark's case.
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Evarts and Ashton had argued cases before the Supreme Court before, but... I would have to think that they were pessimistic at this point. The two of them were coming off a loss in a high-profile case involving a Chinese client. Going into this case, they had every reason to doubt the outcome, an outcome that would be potentially devastating for Wong Kim Ark and thousands like him.
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This episode contains depictions of racist violence. Now, on to the show.
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The United States v. Wong Kim Ark is one of the most important Supreme Court cases in U.S. history, a case that would shape the relationship between immigrants and the U.S. government and further define who gets to call themselves an American.
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So what did this have to do with Sandra Wong and her dad? What was his relationship to Wong Kim Ark?
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I'm Randa Abdel-Fattah. And you've been listening to ThruLine from NPR.
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Casey Minor. Fact-checking for this episode was done by Kevin Vogel.
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And I didn't have that opportunity. She became obsessed with learning more about the story her father never told her. She went searching through all the records she could find.
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Music for this episode was composed by Ramtin and his band, Drop Electric, which includes Navid Marvi, Sho Fujiwara, Anya Mizani. We're going to be talking about the art of cinematic storytelling at the On Air Fest in Brooklyn on February 21st. Want to come? Go to onairfest.com and use the code THROUGHLINE40 to get 40% off your ticket.
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After all her research, here's the story she pieced together. Wong Kim Ark brought Sandra's father, Wong Yuk Jim, to San Francisco from China in the 1920s. Wong Kim Ark claimed Sandra's father as his son, but it's possible her dad was his grandson. So this would make Wong Kim Ark... My father's grandfather.
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Finding out the truth was bittersweet. And there's a question Sandra still thinks about. Why didn't her dad tell her? You know, there are secrets.
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Pain. Shame. Maybe it's because at the center of this story is one troubling fact — Wong Kim Ark, Sandra's great-grandfather, was born in the United States. Yet as a young adult, he was prevented from returning to San Francisco, his birthplace, after visiting family in China because of, quote, his race, language, color, and dress.
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And he did fight. With help from the Chinese-American community, Wong Kim Ark's case made it to the Supreme Court. He fought for his right to be here.
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On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order denying birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. who do not have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. More than 20 states have sued the Trump administration in response, contending that his action disregards over 125 years of legal precedent.
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And a federal judge has already blocked President Trump's executive order.
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On that boat was a passenger from San Francisco, a young man returning from visiting his parents' homeland of China.
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A U.S. customs agent declared that Wong Kim Ark was not allowed to step foot onto U.S. soil.
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