Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Ken Burns On The Revolutionary War
25 Oct 2025
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We know Malala as the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, the girl who survived a Taliban bullet at 15 fo...
Remembering NPR 'Founding Mother' Susan Stamberg
24 Oct 2025
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As longtime co-host of All Things Considered, Stamberg was the first woman to anchor a national new...
Guillermo Del Toro Finally Makes His Own 'Frankenstein'
23 Oct 2025
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When Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was a kid growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he woul...
Confused By The U.S. Economy? You're Not Alone
22 Oct 2025
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How are changing tariffs, the AI boom, immigration policies and uncertainty in employment and the st...
Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way
21 Oct 2025
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After surviving the Taliban's 2012 attempted assassination, activist Malala Yousafzai didn't back ...
Ken Burns On The American Revolution
20 Oct 2025
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Burns' new six-part PBS documentary series includes the perspectives of women, Native Americans and ...
Best Of: Julian Brave NoiseCat / Laufey
18 Oct 2025
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Julian Brave NoiseCat's Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane is about the mostly Catholic mission...
A Girl Grows Up In The Epicenter Of Gay Liberation
17 Oct 2025
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The new movie Fairyland, produced by Sofia Coppola, is adapted from the memoir by Alysia Abbott. Sh...
A Story Of Indigenous Survival & Resurgence
16 Oct 2025
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Filmmaker and writer Julian Brave NoiseCat is the son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mot...
How Trump’s Transactional Nature Led To The Ceasefire
15 Oct 2025
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Former State Department negotiator Aaron David Miller, now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment...
Remembering Diane Keaton
14 Oct 2025
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The incomparable Diane Keaton died last week at age 79. Her career spanned more than five decades an...
Mitch Albom Is A 'Walking Example Of A Second Chance'
13 Oct 2025
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Albom's new novel, Twice, asks a question most of us have daydreamed about: what if you could go ba...
Best Of: Dwayne Johnson / Comic Cristela Alonzo
11 Oct 2025
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WWE superstar Dwayne Johnson plays MMA fighter Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine. "T...
Jane Goodall
10 Oct 2025
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Today we’re remembering renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, known for her work researching the be...
National Guard Deployment In American Cities
09 Oct 2025
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President Trump has deployed National Guard troops to Portland, Chicago and D.C., and while Democrat...
Laufey Is Unapologetically Herself
08 Oct 2025
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Icelandic jazz-pop star Laufey spoke with Terry Gross about her classical training in cello, breaki...
'Dopesick' Writer Returns To Her 'Fractured' Hometown
07 Oct 2025
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Journalist and Dopesick author Beth Macy returned to the Ohio factory town where she grew up to fin...
Poet Ada Limón On Writing In Uncertain Times
06 Oct 2025
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As the nation’s 24th Poet Laureate, Ada Limón has spent her career writing about the hardest part...
Best Of: Scarlett Johansson & June Squibb / Mark Ronson
04 Oct 2025
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Oscar-nominated actors Scarlett Johansson and June Squibb talk about their new film, Eleanor The G...
Al Pacino & Sidney Lumet: 'Dog Day Afternoon' At 50
03 Oct 2025
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A film about a man trying to fund a gender-affirming operation by robbing a bank sounds like a moder...
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
02 Oct 2025
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The WWE superstar considered pursuing a career in mixed martial arts before realizing, "I don't like...
Implications Of The DOJ Targeting The President’s Critics
01 Oct 2025
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President Trump is pressuring the Department of Justice to pursue his political enemies, like former...
Mark Ronson On DJing In The '90s
30 Sep 2025
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Oscar and Grammy-winning music producer Mark Ronson says nothing beats the rush of a great DJ set. "...
Comic Cristela Alonzo
29 Sep 2025
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For the first seven years of her life, Cristela Alonzo lived in an abandoned diner in a south Texas...
Best Of: Samin Nosrat / Elizabeth Gilbert
27 Sep 2025
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After the tremendous success of Salt Fat Acid Heat, chef and author Samin Nosrat realized she neede...
Jimmy Kimmel's Path To Late Night
26 Sep 2025
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With Jimmy Kimmel Live! at the center of a free speech debate, we're revisiting Kimmel's 2013 inter...
Scarlett Johansson & June Squibb On 'Eleanor The Great'
25 Sep 2025
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Actor Scarlett Johansson makes her directorial debut with Eleanor The Great, about a 94-year-old w...
Samin Nosrat Is Embracing 'Good Things'
23 Sep 2025
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After the tremendous success of Salt Fat Acid Heat, chef and author Samin Nosrat realized she neede...
Elizabeth Gilbert On Love, Loss, And Liberation
22 Sep 2025
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Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir, All the Way to the River, is an unflinching personal account of add...
Best Of: Jude Law / Pedro Pascal
20 Sep 2025
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Jude Law now stars in the thriller series Black Rabbit on Netflix. He spoke with Tonya Mosley abou...
Robert Redford, Over The Years
19 Sep 2025
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The legendary actor died Tuesday at age 89. He spoke with Terry Gross about his movies, creating the...
Jude Law
18 Sep 2025
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Jude Law's new Netflix series Black Rabbit with Jason Bateman follows two brothers in New York Cit...
How Charlie Kirk Became A Voice Of Conservative Youth
17 Sep 2025
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In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination on Sept. 10, NYT reporter Robert Draper talks with Ter...
Mary Roach On Our Remarkable, Replaceable Bodies
16 Sep 2025
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Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits an...
The Cost Of Gun Violence On Black Life
15 Sep 2025
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee's new memoir, A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost ...
Terry Gross On 50 Years Of Fresh Air (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso)
14 Sep 2025
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This month marks 50 years of Terry Gross as the host of Fresh Air. What began in 1975 as a local ex...
Best Of: Rob Reiner On 'Spinal Tap II' / Billy Strings
14 Sep 2025
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Rob Reiner talks with Terry Gross about directing the new sequel to Spinal Tap, the mockumentary abo...
Inside Netflix's 'Adolescence'
12 Sep 2025
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The Netflix miniseries follows a 13-year-old accused of murdering a girl from his school. Co-creator...
NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner
11 Sep 2025
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Veteran Air Force linguist Reality Winner was working at the NSA in 2017 when she leaked a classifie...
The Future Of Free And Fair Elections
10 Sep 2025
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Before 2026's midterms, President Trump wants to ban mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines,...
Rob Reiner's 'Spinal Tap' Still Goes To 11
09 Sep 2025
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Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap sparked a new genre of satire. Now, more than 40 yea...
Bluegrass Star Billy Strings
08 Sep 2025
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The Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist has one foot in traditional bluegrass and anothe...
Best Of : Jane Fonda / Spike Lee
06 Sep 2025
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At 87, Oscar-winning actor Jane Fonda is pouring her energy into activism. She’ll reflect on her d...
Noah Wyle, Star Of 'The Pitt'
05 Sep 2025
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After 11 seasons on ER, Noah Wyle thought he was finished with medical dramas: "I spent 15 years av...
How Does Pain Work? Dr. Sanjay Gupta Explains
04 Sep 2025
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CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta's new book examines the world of pain — why we f...
RFK Jr.'s Impact On Americans' Health
03 Sep 2025
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We look at the stormy tenure of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. New York ...
Jane Fonda Is Not Backing Down
02 Sep 2025
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Earlier this year, Fonda made headlines for delivering a fiery critique of the Trump administration ...
Roots of Rock and R&B: Dion and Allen Toussaint
01 Sep 2025
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All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly an...
Roots of R&B: Charles Brown & Ray Charles
30 Aug 2025
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All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly an...
Roots of R&B: 'Stand By Me'
29 Aug 2025
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All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly an...
Roots of R&B: Johnny Otis & Etta James
27 Aug 2025
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All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly an...
Roots of Rock: Sun Records & Johnny Cash
26 Aug 2025
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All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly an...
Roots Of Rock: "Blue Suede Shoes"
25 Aug 2025
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All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly an...
Remembering Actor Terence Stamp
22 Aug 2025
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We remember British actor Terence Stamp, who died last week at age 87. He starred in the film The L...
Robert Reich: The Baby Boomers Fell Short
21 Aug 2025
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Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich served under President Clinton from 1993 to 1997. He opens hi...
The Dramatic Overhaul Of The Justice Dept.
20 Aug 2025
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The New Yorker’s Ruth Marcus says Bondi has presided over the DOJ's most convulsive transition of ...
Spike Lee On Dynamic Duos & Reimagining Kurosawa
19 Aug 2025
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Spike Lee's new film, Highest 2 Lowest, centers on a music mogul (Denzel Washington) who faces a mo...
Bowen Yang's 'Wicked' White Lie
18 Aug 2025
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The Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live cast member talks with Terry Gross about his favorite pop c...
Thomas Mallon
15 Aug 2025
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Writer Thomas Mallon looks back on the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when he was in his 30s, li...
Best Of: AI's Writing Critique / The Rise And Fall Of Condé Nast
15 Aug 2025
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After writing chapters of her new book about how tech companies help and exploit us, tech journalist...
Pedro Pascal Got Fired A Lot
14 Aug 2025
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Chilean-born actor Pedro Pascal has faced countless on-screen challenges, including cosmic battles a...
Musician Charley Crockett's Road From Busking To The Grammys
13 Aug 2025
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Crockett grew up poor and got his start in music busking for tips on the street and in the subway. H...
Jeff Hiller's Big Break Came In His 40s
12 Aug 2025
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Hiller spent years scraping by in Hollywood by taking on various small roles and commercials. Then h...
Daniel Dae Kim Fakes His Own Death In 'Butterfly'
11 Aug 2025
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Daniel Dae Kim became the first actor of Asian descent to be nominated for a Tony, for his performan...
Best Of: Making 'Born To Run' / Why We Can't Sleep
09 Aug 2025
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This month marks the 50th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen's album Born to Run. We'll talk with Pete...
Remembering Eddie Palmieri / Funk Innovator George Clinton
08 Aug 2025
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We remember Eddie Palmieri, the pianist, bandleader and composer whose contributions to Afro-Caribbe...
The Making Of Springsteen's 'Born To Run'
07 Aug 2025
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Bruce Springsteen's groundbreaking album, Born to Run, came out 50 years ago this month, marking a t...
The Nihilistic War In Sudan
06 Aug 2025
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Fourteen million people in Sudan have been displaced by war and famine. The Atlantic's Anne Applebau...
Sarah Silverman Gets the Last Laugh in 'PostMortem'
05 Aug 2025
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Silverman's father and stepmother are buried under one tombstone that reads: "Janice and Donald, who...
How The 1979 Revolution Transformed Iran
04 Aug 2025
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For decades, Iran has been an adversary of the United States. Scott Anderson examines the Iranian re...
Best Of: Mariska Hargitay / Marc Maron
02 Aug 2025
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Emmy-winning Law & Order: SVU actor Mariska Hargitay talks about her new documentary, My Mom Jayne, ...
Correcting The Record On Elvis's Manager
31 Jul 2025
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Terry Gross talks with rock historian Peter Guralnick, author of the definitive two volume biography...
Has NASA Ceded Its Mission To Elon Musk?
30 Jul 2025
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The Atlantic journalist Franklin Foer explains how SpaceX and the Trump administration are changing ...
Comic Marc Maron On Grief, Cats, And Being Openhearted
29 Jul 2025
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As he winds down his podcast, WTF, after 16 years, Marc Maron reflects on what he'll miss: "These co...
Mariska Hargitay On Freeing Herself From Generational Trauma
28 Jul 2025
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The Law & Order: SVU actor was just 3 years old in 1967 when her movie star mom, Jayne Mansfield, di...
Best Of: Actor Leslie Uggams / Martha's Vineyard's Indigenous Past & Present
26 Jul 2025
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Actor and singer Leslie Uggams talks about her remarkable career, which started when she was 6. She ...
Remembering Lyricist Alan Bergman / The 'Outrageous' Jessica Mitford
25 Jul 2025
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The lyrics for the songs "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life," "The Way We Were," "Nice 'n' Ea...
The Shifting Landscape Of Higher Education
24 Jul 2025
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The Trump administration has been pressuring elite universities, like Harvard and Columbia, with wid...
A Chatbot Reacts To A Book About Tech
23 Jul 2025
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After writing chapters of her new book about how tech companies help and exploit us, tech journalist...
Leslie Uggams Looks Back On Her Decades In Show Business
22 Jul 2025
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Uggams performed in Beulah, Hallelujah Baby, Roots, Empire, American Fiction and the Deadpool films....
Martha's Vineyard's Indigenous Past & Present
21 Jul 2025
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In Nothing More of This Land, Aquinnah Wampanoag writer Joseph Lee takes readers past the celebrity ...
Best Of: Stacey Abrams / Raphael Saadiq
19 Jul 2025
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Stacey Abrams is known as a voting rights activist, former candidate for Georgia governor, and found...
In The Dugout With Baseball All Stars
18 Jul 2025
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As Major League Baseball celebrates a memorable All Star Game, we feature some of our favorite baseb...
Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media
18 Jul 2025
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Act now to ensure public media remains free and accessible to all. Your donation will help this esse...
The Dominance & Decline Of The Condé Nast Magazine Empire
17 Jul 2025
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For decades, Condé Nast publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair were consequential tastemakers. ...
Rising Floods, Cuts To FEMA And Future Chaos
16 Jul 2025
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ProPublica Editor-at-Large Abrahm Lustgarten says the deadly flooding in Central Texas — which has...
Stacey Abrams On American Autocracy & Her New Chapter
15 Jul 2025
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Abrams isn't running for office — but she's not ruling it out, either. "Politics is a tool ... for...
The 'Jailhouse Lawyer' Who Freed Innocent People — Including Himself
14 Jul 2025
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While serving a life sentence for a murder he didn't commit, Calvin Duncan studied law, hoping to ap...
Best Of: A 'Failed' Child Star / A Novel About Pregnancy Post-Roe
12 Jul 2025
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Tamara Yajia grew up Jewish in Argentina, intent on becoming a child star. But just when her break w...
Danzy Senna Writes Herself (& Other Mixed-Race People) Into Existence
11 Jul 2025
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Novelist Danzy Senna spoke with Terry Gross about racial identity, growing up with a Black father an...
SCOTUS & The Reconception Of American Constitutional Order
10 Jul 2025
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New York Times reporter Adam Liptak discusses the Supreme Court's decisions to limit the power of lo...
Doula & Novelist Leila Mottley On The Nuance Of Young Parenthood
09 Jul 2025
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Leila Mottley gained critical acclaim at 19 with her debut novel Nightcrawling, which was longlisted...
Raphael Saadiq's Secret To Creative Success: 'Dare To Suck'
08 Jul 2025
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Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Raphael Saadiq talks about his...
Can't Sleep? You're Not Alone
07 Jul 2025
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Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jennifer Senior has had insomnia for 25 years. Her new piece in The At...
Best Of: 'Hamilton' Producer Jeffrey Seller / Ebon Moss-Bachrach On 'The Bear'
05 Jul 2025
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Jeffrey Seller has been a key behind-the-scenes figure for some of the Broadway's biggest hits inclu...
How Louis Armstrong Became The First Black Pop Star
04 Jul 2025
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Author Ricky Riccardi says Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the entire...
A 'Failed Child Star' Looks Back On Her Unconventional Childhood
03 Jul 2025
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Tamara Yajia grew up Jewish in Argentina, intent on becoming a child star. But just when her break w...
How Communities, Families & The Economy Are Impacted By ICE
02 Jul 2025
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Jacob Soboroff of NBC News says the Trump administration promised to deport the "worst of the worst"...
Remembering Renowned Broadcaster Bill Moyers
01 Jul 2025
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Longtime TV correspondent and commentator Bill Moyers died last week at age 91. Before he began his ...
A Theater Kid's Path To Broadway Producer
30 Jun 2025
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Jeffrey Seller has been a key behind-the-scenes figure for some of the Broadway's biggest hits inclu...