Fresh Air

02 Aug 2025

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Emmy-winning Law & Order: SVU actor Mariska Hargitay talks about her new documentary, My Mom Jayne, ...

31 Jul 2025

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Terry Gross talks with rock historian Peter Guralnick, author of the definitive two volume biography...

30 Jul 2025

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The Atlantic journalist Franklin Foer explains how SpaceX and the Trump administration are changing ...

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...

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...

26 Jul 2025

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Actor and singer Leslie Uggams talks about her remarkable career, which started when she was 6. She ...

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...

24 Jul 2025

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The Trump administration has been pressuring elite universities, like Harvard and Columbia, with wid...

23 Jul 2025

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After writing chapters of her new book about how tech companies help and exploit us, tech journalist...

22 Jul 2025

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Uggams performed in Beulah, Hallelujah Baby, Roots, Empire, American Fiction and the Deadpool films....

21 Jul 2025

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In Nothing More of This Land, Aquinnah Wampanoag writer Joseph Lee takes readers past the celebrity ...

19 Jul 2025

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Stacey Abrams is known as a voting rights activist, former candidate for Georgia governor, and found...

18 Jul 2025

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As Major League Baseball celebrates a memorable All Star Game, we feature some of our favorite baseb...

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...

17 Jul 2025

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For decades, Condé Nast publications such as Vogue and Vanity Fair were consequential tastemakers. ...

16 Jul 2025

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ProPublica Editor-at-Large Abrahm Lustgarten says the deadly flooding in Central Texas — which has...

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...

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...

Sat, 12 Jul

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Tamara Yajia grew up Jewish in Argentina, intent on becoming a child star. But just when her break w...

Fri, 11 Jul

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Novelist Danzy Senna spoke with Terry Gross about racial identity, growing up with a Black father an...

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:48:22 +0000

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New York Times reporter Adam Liptak discusses the Supreme Court's decisions to limit the power of lo...

Wed, 09 Jul

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Leila Mottley gained critical acclaim at 19 with her debut novel Nightcrawling, which was longlisted...

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:57:05 +0000

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Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Raphael Saadiq talks about his...

Mon, 07 Jul

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Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jennifer Senior has had insomnia for 25 years. Her new piece in The At...

Sat, 05 Jul

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Jeffrey Seller has been a key behind-the-scenes figure for some of the Broadway's biggest hits inclu...

Fri, 04 Jul

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Author Ricky Riccardi says Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the entire...

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:13:04 +0000

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Tamara Yajia grew up Jewish in Argentina, intent on becoming a child star. But just when her break w...

Wed, 02 Jul

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Jacob Soboroff of NBC News says the Trump administration promised to deport the "worst of the worst"...

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:43:38 +0000

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Longtime TV correspondent and commentator Bill Moyers died last week at age 91. Before he began his ...

Mon, 30 Jun

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Jeffrey Seller has been a key behind-the-scenes figure for some of the Broadway's biggest hits inclu...

Sat, 28 Jun

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What happens when a former federal government employee turns his lens on the psychology of panic? Yo...

Fri, 27 Jun

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After surviving many close calls as a war correspondent — from bullets, mortars and the threat of ...

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:06:21 +0000

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Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Robin Givhan talks with Tonya Mosley about her new book, Make It Ours:...

Wed, 25 Jun

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Ebon Moss-Bachrach has won two Emmys for his portrayal of Cousin Richie, the abrasive and ornery coo...

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:32:40 +0000

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Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour has called Trump's bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities a once-in-a-gen...

Mon, 23 Jun

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Journalist Carter Sherman says Gen Z — people ages 13 to 28 — are having less sex than previous ...

Sat, 21 Jun

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Benicio del Toro talks about his leading role in Wes Anderson's new film, The Phoenician Scheme. He'...

Fri, 20 Jun

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Edmund White, one of the most eloquent and perceptive chroniclers of gay life and culture, died June...

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:00:59 +0000

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When painter, sculptor, and installation artist Titus Kaphar's life was upended by his estranged fat...

Wed, 18 Jun

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Dan Taberski's award-winning podcast Hysterical investigates a bizarre and unsettling phenomenon: a ...

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:18:15 +0000

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In his new memoir, Comedy Samurai, Larry Charles reflects on his career in comedy — from writing f...

Mon, 16 Jun

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The Atlantic staff writer Elizabeth Bruenig talks about her decision to serve as a witness to state-...

Sat, 14 Jun

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Poet and novelist Ocean Vuong talks with Tonya Mosley about his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness. ...

Fri, 13 Jun

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Wilson, who has died at the age of 82, was the creative force behind The Beach Boys. He wrote and pr...

Fri, 13 Jun

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Benicio del Toro talks about his leading role in Wes Anderson's new film, The Phoenician Scheme. He'...

Wed, 11 Jun

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Washington Post Reporter Hannah Natanson says DOGE's mass firings made the government more inefficie...

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:23:13 +0000

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MSNBC political analyst Molly Jong-Fast's mother Erica Jong became famous from her 1973 novel Fear o...

Mon, 09 Jun

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Okatsuka is known for her bowl haircut — and for finding humor in the dysfunction of her immigrant...

Sat, 07 Jun

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Playing Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy, made Desi Arnaz a star. Behind the scenes, he created what bec...

Fri, 06 Jun

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Do you have trouble remembering names and faces, or where you put your keys? Neurologist Dr. Charan...

Fri, 06 Jun

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Poet and novelist Ocean Vuong joins us to discuss his new novel, The Emperor of Gladness. Set in a f...

Wed, 04 Jun

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The Trump administration has frozen around 3 billion dollars in Harvard grants and contracts, and is...

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:47:54 +0000

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Mark Hamill played Luke Skywalker, one of the most iconic heroes in movie history. His latest film, ...

Mon, 02 Jun

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The success of I Love Lucy is often credited to Lucille Ball's comedic talent, but biographer Todd P...

Sat, 31 May

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Comic Sarah Silverman talks about her new Netflix special, PostMortem, about the death of her father...

Fri, 30 May

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Filmmaker and stunt coordinator David Leitch says it's easier to do stunts himself than direct his s...

Thu, 29 May 2025 18:54:16 +0000

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Silverman's father and stepmother are buried under one tombstone that reads: "Janice and Donald, who...

Wed, 28 May

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The Atlantic writer George Packer calls JD Vance the most interesting figure in the Trump administra...

Tue, 27 May 2025 18:47:39 +0000

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James Patterson's books have sold over 400 million copies worldwide. He says he often gets ideas for...

Mon, 26 May

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For the holiday weekend, we're revisiting our recent interview with Questlove. His documentary, SLY ...

Sat, 24 May

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Professors and educators are now turning to A.I. to prepare lessons, teach, and even grade students'...

Fri, 23 May

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We remember Broadway composer Charles Strouse, who died May 15 at age 96. He wrote the music for the...

Thu, 22 May 2025 18:38:01 +0000

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Walton Goggins talks with Tonya Mosley about growing up poor in the Deep South, the travel that chan...

Wed, 21 May

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Colleges and universities have been trying to fight against students using tools like ChatGPT to do ...

Tue, 20 May 2025 18:49:46 +0000

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CNN host Jake Tapper's book, Original Sin, co-authored by Alex Thompson, describes a president who s...

Mon, 19 May

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Escola gives former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln a wild second act in the Tony-nominated play Oh, Ma...

Sat, 17 May

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Ramy Youssef's new animated comedy series, #1 Happy Family USA, is about an Egyptian American Muslim...

Fri, 16 May

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There's a new documentary about the '60s British band The Zombies. It's called 'Hung Up on a Dream' ...

Thu, 15 May 2025 18:24:57 +0000

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Journalist Amy Larocca says our society's obsession with optimization and self-care has reached a fe...

Wed, 14 May

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ProPublica reporter David Armstrong began investigating the pharmaceutical industry when he learned ...

Tue, 13 May 2025 18:43:33 +0000

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Actor Ramy Youssef was in 5th grade and living in New Jersey when the Twin Towers fell. His new Amaz...

Mon, 12 May

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The Georgia native has seen how Hollywood traffics in stereotypes about the American South. He talks...

Sat, 10 May

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Michelle Williams talks about starring in Dying For Sex — a dark but funny TV series based on a tr...

Fri, 09 May

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R. Crumb created Zap Comix and such characters as Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat. His comics were a s...

Thu, 08 May 2025 19:45:43 +0000

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When NYT critic-at-large Amanda Hess learned her unborn child had an abnormality, she turned to the ...

Wed, 07 May

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New York Times reporter Eric Lipton says the Trump family businesses, including their crypto company...

Tue, 06 May 2025 18:17:39 +0000

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Michelle Williams' FX/Hulu series Dying For Sex follows a woman with terminal cancer who decides to ...

Mon, 05 May

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Snook, who played Shiv Roy on Succession, was just nominated for a Tony for playing all the characte...

Sat, 03 May

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We're diving into the resurgence of the pronatalism movement, the belief that having more babies wil...

Fri, 02 May

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David Grann's book, The Wager, is about an 18th century British warship that wrecked on an island af...

Thu, 01 May 2025 18:39:41 +0000

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Fresh Air host Terry Gross lost her husband, acclaimed writer Francis Davis, on April 14. They were ...

Wed, 30 Apr

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A once-fringe movement claims having more babies is the only way to save civilization. NPR reporter ...

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:50:27 +0000

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Journalist David Graham says the aim of the creators of the conservative action plan Project 2025 ai...

Mon, 28 Apr

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Daria Burke spent several years digging into the science of how our brains and bodies carry the impr...

Sat, 26 Apr

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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ryan Coogler's movies include both Black Panther films and Creed. His late...

Fri, 25 Apr

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Before he became a musician, Merle Haggard lived the kind of life that's often mythologized in song:...

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:43:59 +0000

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ADHD has been considered a medical disorder, treatable with drugs like Ritalin, but New York Times M...

Wed, 23 Apr

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The director of Black Panther and Creed talks about his new genre-bending vampire movie that takes p...

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:17:47 +0000

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Harvard professor of government Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into author...

Mon, 21 Apr

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After 11 seasons on ER, Noah Wyle thought he was finished with medical dramas: "I spent 15 years avo...

Sat, 19 Apr

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You've seen Richard Kind on countless TV shows and films during his 40-year career — Only Murders ...

Fri, 18 Apr

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MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid tells the story of Medgar Evers and his wife Myrlie. Medgar was the NAACP fi...

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:16:00 +0000

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New Yorker staff writer Sarah Stillman says she's discovered dozens of cases where people in county ...

Wed, 16 Apr

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In The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West...

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:54:25 +0000

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In a new memoir, billionaire Melinda French Gates writes about the end of her marriage to Microsoft ...

Mon, 14 Apr

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Kind is the announcer and host sidekick on the Netflix show Everybody's Live with John Mulaney. "I d...

Sat, 12 Apr

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Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jason Isbell sings about his split from musician Amanda Shires on h...

Fri, 11 Apr

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The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning comedy series returns for a fourth season this week. It's about t...

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:28:05 +0000

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Johnson & Johnson recently lost a bid to settle lawsuits that claimed its talc powder products, incl...

Wed, 09 Apr

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President Trump's sweeping tariff policy has upended the global economy. Zanny Minton Beddoes, the e...

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:43:22 +0000

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Author Chris Whipple says Biden's family and closest advisors operated in denial regarding his abili...

Mon, 07 Apr

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When David Tennant was three, he told his parents he wanted to grow up to play Doctor Who on TV. As ...

Sat, 05 Apr

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Amanda Knox was convicted — and ultimately exonerated — for the murder of her roommate Meredith ...

Fri, 04 Apr

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It's been 20 years since the debut of NBC's hit mockumentary sitcom The Office. To celebrate the ann...

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:20:26 +0000

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Isbell sings about his split from musician Amanda Shires on his latest album, Foxes in the Snow. "Wh...

Wed, 02 Apr

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As ICE agents arrest international students at campuses across the U.S., immigration law professor D...

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:07:27 +0000

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As a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Hilton Als's essays and profiles of figures like Toni ...

Mon, 31 Mar

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The Netflix miniseries follows a 13-year-old accused of murdering a girl from his school. Co-creator...

Sat, 29 Mar

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Hanif Kureishi began his new memoir just days after a fall left him paralyzed. He describes being co...

Fri, 28 Mar

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Sigrid Nunez's 2018 novel The Friend won the National Book Award. It's now a film, starring Naomi Wa...

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:33:16 +0000

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Atlantic writer Robert Worth talks about Syria's transitional president, Ahmed al-Sharaa. He was the...

Wed, 26 Mar

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Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in an Italian prison for a murder she didn't commit. After her e...

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:08:41 +0000

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The MAGA-controlled 118th House passed only 27 bills that became law — the lowest number since the...

Mon, 24 Mar

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Legal scholar Elie Mystal talks about his new book, Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining Ameri...

Sat, 22 Mar

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Seth Rogen created a new AppleTV+ series, The Studio, which is a satirical look at how executives in...

Fri, 21 Mar

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show is 50 years old, and still going strong in midnight theaters. We're li...

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:12:30 +0000

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Popular podcasts in the "manosphere" helped sway young men to go MAGA in the 2024 election. New York...

Wed, 19 Mar

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Rivlin says regulation can help control how AI is used: "AI c...

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:10:23 +0000

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In his new Apple TV+ series The Studio, Seth Rogen plays an anxious Hollywood executive desperate to...

Mon, 17 Mar

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Writer Clay Risen describes a political movement which destroyed the careers of thousands of teacher...

Sat, 15 Mar

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Bill Burr knows exactly where his sense of humor comes from. He learned at an early age that if he c...

Fri, 14 Mar

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Amer's Netflix comedy series about his life, Mo, is now in its second season. His family is Palestin...

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:21:15 +0000

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Athol Fugard's plays, like Blood Knot and Master Harold and the Boys, were about the emotional and p...

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:41:55 +0000

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Burr talks with Terry Gross about processing his abusive childhood, a therapeutic mushroom trip, and...

Wed, 12 Mar

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The Department of Education is reportedly eliminating 50% of its workforce. Washington Post writer L...

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:31:56 +0000

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In 2019, Justice Clarence Thomas raised the prospect of overturning one of the most consequential fr...

Mon, 10 Mar

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Bill Burr knows exactly where his sense of humor comes from. He learned at an early age that if he c...

Sat, 08 Mar

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We're joined by a New Orleans institution — clarinetist and vocalist Doreen Ketchens. She's got s...

Fri, 07 Mar

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The 1970s band The New York Dolls made only two studio albums, but the group was hugely influential,...

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:45:14 +0000

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In 2012, three deep-sea divers were on a routine dive in the North Sea when one of the divers became...

Wed, 05 Mar

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Georgetown professor Ella Washington and Harvard professor Frank Dobbin discuss the beneficiaries an...

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:21:11 +0000

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Known as "Lady Louie," Doreen Ketchens has been a fixture of the French Quarter for nearly four deca...

Mon, 03 Mar

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Hanif Kureishi began his new memoir just days after a fall left him paralyzed. He describes being co...

Sat, 01 Mar

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Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins describes the rivalry among the children of 93 year-old media ti...

Fri, 28 Feb

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The Academy Awards are this Sunday. We hear from the two stars of the film The Apprentice, Sebastian...

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:56:40 +0000

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In the new season of The White Lotus, Natasha Rothwell reprises her role of spa manager Belinda, a w...

Wed, 26 Feb

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DOGE has eliminated thousands of federal jobs and canceled more than 1,000 contracts. Harvard profes...

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:31:58 +0000

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Rupert Murdoch and his oldest kids are battling over who controls his media empire when the 93-year-...

Mon, 24 Feb

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In Jesus Wept, investigative journalist Philip Shenon examines the last seven popes, and how efforts...

Sat, 22 Feb

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We talk with author Ricky Riccardi about how Louis Armstrong became the first Black pop star and pro...

Fri, 21 Feb

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In the series Ripley, Andrew Scott plays a con artist with no conscience. The actor says it was impo...

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:10:45 +0000

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Rich Benjamin's grandfather, Daniel Fignolé, was a popular Haitian labor leader who became Haiti's ...

Wed, 19 Feb

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During President Trump's first term, journalist Anne Applebaum reported on how he was moving toward ...

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:11:11 +0000

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"Measles thrives on being underestimated," Dr. Adam Ratner says. The highly infectious disease was t...

Mon, 17 Feb

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Constitutional scholar, historian, and New York Times staff writer Charlie Savage joins us this Pres...

Sat, 15 Feb

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Musician and documentary filmmaker Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is back to talk about his new Hulu doc...

Fri, 14 Feb

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For Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary, we're featuring interviews with some of the early cast m...

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:45:02 +0000

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RaMell Ross's Oscar-nominated film, Nickel Boys, centers on two young Black men attempting to surviv...

Wed, 12 Feb

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New York Times journalist Eric Lipton explains how Musk's companies are benefiting as he cuts federa...

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:54:39 +0000

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Sebastian Stan is up for an Oscar for his portrayal of President Trump early in his career, when Roy...

Mon, 10 Feb

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Questlove is back to talk about his new documentary about Sly Stone and his band the Family Stone. T...

Sat, 08 Feb

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We talk about the cultural phenomenon of Wicked with star Ariana Grande. She's nominated for an Osca...

Fri, 07 Feb

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Discovered at a Rolling Stones party at the age of 17, Marianne Faithfull broke out in the early '60...

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:47:00 +0000

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After publishing her first novel when she was 21, Brittany Newell started working as a dominatrix. T...

Wed, 05 Feb

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Last night, President Trump proposed a plan to displace all the Palestinians from Gaza, and get Jord...

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:34:04 +0000

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As a kid, Ariana Grande loved singing karaoke with her family. "I looked up to Whitney and Mariah an...

Mon, 03 Feb

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Sarah Wildman's daughter Orli died from cancer when she was 14. "She would sometimes ask me, 'What d...

Sat, 01 Feb

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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is the co-director of a new documentary about the music of Saturday Night...

Fri, 31 Jan

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The Apple TV+ drama series Severance is back for its second season. It's a dystopian take on work-li...

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:24:46 +0000

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Author Ricky Riccardi says Louis Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the ...

Wed, 29 Jan

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Research shows we're spending more time alone than ever before. Atlantic writer Derek Thompson says ...

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:59:07 +0000

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Award-winning author and scholar Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, fro...

Mon, 27 Jan

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Questlove's documentary, Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music, airs tonight on NBC. It highli...

Sat, 25 Jan

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Jesse Eisenberg talks about writing, directing and starring in the film A Real Pain. Eisenberg and K...

Fri, 24 Jan

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Filmmaker and painter David Lynch died January 15 at age 78. He spoke with Terry Gross in 1994 about...

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:08:10 +0000

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Bloomberg investigative reporter Zeke Faux says the Trump family's new crypto businesses have earned...

Wed, 22 Jan

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Pamela Anderson's role as a lifeguard on Baywatch made her a global sex symbol in the '90s. But she ...

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:52:25 +0000

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Eisenberg's film, A Real Pain, follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includ...

Mon, 20 Jan

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NYT columnist and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom and scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. reflect on the st...

Sat, 18 Jan

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Writer Pico Iyer lost everything in a 1990 California wildfire. After being rendered homeless and s...

Fri, 17 Jan

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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big scre...

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:04:49 +0000

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Rape kits were widely known as "Vitullo Kits" after a Chicago police sergeant. But a new book tells ...

Wed, 15 Jan

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In 1990, writer Pico Iyer watched as a wildfire destroyed his mother's Santa Barbara home, where he ...

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:47:02 +0000

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In the past, Donald Trump talked about keeping America out of foreign conflicts — but lately he's ...

Mon, 13 Jan

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A good comedian has to "know what regular people are going through," Roy Wood Jr. says. In his new H...

Sat, 11 Jan

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Tilda Swinton stars as a woman with cancer who decides she wants to end her life in the new Pedro Al...

Fri, 10 Jan

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A Complete Unknown – the film about Bob Dylan is in theaters. We're featuring interviews with thre...

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:11:59 +0000

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The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross in 1995, 2001 and 2005 about poetry, Sept. 11 and his conc...

Wed, 08 Jan

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In Pedro Almodóvar's film The Room Next Door, Tilda Swinton plays a woman with late-stage cancer wh...

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:52:29 +0000

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Adrien Brody won a Golden Globe for his role in The Brutalist, as a Hungarian-Jewish architect and H...

Mon, 06 Jan

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In an experiment, science journalist Lynne Peeples spent 10 days in an underground bunker, with no e...

Sat, 04 Jan

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After Trevor Noah started anchoring The Daily Show in 2015, he brought on Ronny Chieng as a field co...

Fri, 03 Jan

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The comic is hosting the Golden Globes this Sunday. She spoke with Terry Gross back in July about ro...

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:40:07 +0000

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Wed, 01 Jan

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Brown won an Emmy for his portrayal of Christopher Darden in The People v. O.J. Simpson, and another...

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 08:00:59 +0000

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Ruffalo played a debauched cad in Yorgos Lanthimos' bawdy, dark comedy Poor Things. It was a big dep...

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Jimmy Carter died Sunday at age 100. The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross a few times over the ...

Sat, 28 Dec

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In 2021, burnt out from the intensity of her early career, Maggie Rogers considered quitting music e...

Fri, 27 Dec

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This year TV news journalist Connie Chung wrote a new tell-all memoir. It's about breaking into the ...

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Jeremy Strong is nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as lawyer and political hitman Roy Cohn i...

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The new biopic A Complete Unknown follows a young Bob Dylan as he arrives in New York and changes Am...

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 08:00:59 +0000

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The singer-songwriter and Talking Heads frontman presents some of his favorite holiday music — inc...

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Jon Batiste joins us from the piano and plays some of his favorite Christmas songs. It's part two of...

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Award-winning sister-brother duo Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell talk about their songwriting pr...

Fri, 20 Dec

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This month, musician Bonnie Raitt and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola were both honorees of the Kenne...

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:41:16 +0000

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Filmmaker and writer Miranda July, whose novel All Fours is on many best books of the year lists, an...

Wed, 18 Dec

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A new law gives TikTok a January 19 deadline to sell to a non-Chinese company or face a nationwide b...

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:45:03 +0000

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The Grammy Award-winning singer says working with a vocal coach "honestly changed my life." Eilish a...

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When Ronny Chieng got a job as a correspondent and then anchor at The Daily Show, he kept the news t...

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Pop sensation Elton John wrapped up his farewell tour in 2023, only to pop up in a surprise concert ...

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Jon Batiste joins us at the piano to play his reimaginings of Beethoven, and more. His new album is ...

Fri, 13 Dec

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The British actor and singer played abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Harriet, and Aretha Franklin in G...

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:21:42 +0000

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Late Night host Stephen Colbert and his wife Evie McGee Colbert join Terry Gross to talk about famil...

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The U.S. is short approximately 4 million homes. Wharton professor Ben Keys traces the beginning of ...

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:31:44 +0000

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Danielle Deadwyler stars in the Netflix adaptation of the August Wilson play The Piano Lesson. She s...

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The former band leader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert returns to talk with Terry Gross about...

Fri, 06 Dec

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Herzog reflects on the curiosity that's fueled his career in the memoir, Every Man for Himself and G...

Fri, 06 Dec

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Musician Jerron Paxton is known for performing music from the 1920s and '30s. He just came out with...

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:07:38 +0000

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Are you hyper-vigilant about your health, constantly monitoring yourself and panicking when you feel...

Wed, 04 Dec

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Economist David Wessel talks about Trump's plans on tariffs and tax cuts, and the potential economic...

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:01:07 +0000

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In Mickalene Thomas' work, Black women are front and center. "We've been supportive characters for f...

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We're going to hear from a musician whose music is vibrant, exciting and new — even if it sounds l...

Sat, 30 Nov

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A new film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning August Wilson play The Piano Lesson is now on Ne...

Fri, 29 Nov

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The animated film Piece By Piece traces Pharrell Williams' early life as a boy growing up in Virgini...

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:00:59 +0000

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About 25 years ago, the acclaimed cellist asked a high school student to help him name his instrumen...

Wed, 27 Nov

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Ira Gershwin wrote the lyrics for some of the most enduring songs in the Great American Songbook, in...

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:07:32 +0000

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August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson is about a conflict in a Black family o...

Mon, 25 Nov

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During her years as a military linguist, Bailey Williams pushed her body to extremes. She later lear...

Sat, 23 Nov

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Michael Schur wrote for the The Office, and created The Good Place, and co-created Parks and Recreat...

Fri, 22 Nov

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Author Scott Eyman explains how silent film actor Charlie Chaplin was smeared in the press, scandali...

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:32:51 +0000

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Michael Schur wrote for the The Office, and created The Good Place, and co-created Parks and Recreat...

Wed, 20 Nov

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Trump has called the press the "enemy of the people" and threatened retribution, including jailing r...

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:12:41 +0000

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The actor-singer-entrepreneur stars in Emilia Pérez, the new Spanish-language musical about a carte...

Mon, 18 Nov

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In his new Hulu comedy series, Interior Chinatown, Jimmy O. Yang plays a waiter who inadvertently be...

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Atlantic staff writer Annie Lowery suffers from a rare liver condition that causes severe chronic it...

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Kerri Russell stars in the Netflix political drama The Diplomat as a foreign service officer tapped ...

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:49:45 +0000

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In Richard Price's new novel, Lazarus Man, a five-story building collapses, upending the lives of th...

Wed, 13 Nov

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With wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and Ukraine, and with high tariffs on the horizon, The Economist Editor-...

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:47:36 +0000

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We've all had bug bites, or dry scalp, or a sunburn that causes itch. But what if you felt itchy all...

Mon, 11 Nov

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Author Phil Klay says Trump has been willing to politicize the military to push his partisan agenda ...

Sat, 09 Nov

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Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino talks with Terry Gross about growing up in the South Bronx with a sing...

Fri, 08 Nov

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Comic Jenny Slate spoke with Terry Gross earlier this year about finding comedy in her feelings, mot...

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:10:24 +0000

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In Savings and Trust, historian Justene Hill Edwards tells the story of the Freedman's Bank. Created...

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Irish actor Saoirse Ronan returns to Fresh Air to talk with contributor Ann Marie Baldonado about he...

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 20:35:23 +0000

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We remember renowned composer, arranger and producer Quincy Jones and listen back to Terry Gross's 2...

Mon, 04 Nov

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Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino talks with Terry Gross about growing up in the South Bronx with a sing...

Sat, 02 Nov

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Alex Van Halen has written a new memoir about forming the rock band Van Halen with his brother Eddie...

Fri, 01 Nov

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We remember actor Teri Garr, who died last week at age 79. She charmed audiences in her film roles a...

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:16:05 +0000

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New Yorker journalist David Kirkpatrick says a government command hub is tasked with tracking and pr...

Wed, 30 Oct

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New York Times reporter Ken Bensinger says the America First Policy Institute, which has nearly 300 ...

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:15:56 +0000

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Alex Van Halen has written a new memoir about forming the rock band Van Halen with his brother Eddie...

Mon, 28 Oct

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eliza Griswold says complaints about homophobia, white privilege a...

Sat, 26 Oct

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The HBO series Somebody Somewhere is about a 40-something woman who returns home to Kansas to care f...

Fri, 25 Oct

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The witty, cynical and often tongue-in-cheek songwriter Randy Newman is the subject of a new biograp...

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:38:02 +0000

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When painter, sculptor, and installation artist Titus Kaphar's life was upended by his estranged fat...

Wed, 23 Oct

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Writer Nick Harkaway grew up hearing his dad read drafts of his George Smiley novels. He picks up le...

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:45:55 +0000

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New Yorker writer Susan Glasser says Musk has spent $75 million to support Trump. If elected, Trump ...

Mon, 21 Oct

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Growing up in Manhattan, Kansas, Bridget Everett and her "blue sense of humor" never quite fit in. A...

Sat, 19 Oct

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Grammy-winning producer, singer, songwriter and rapper Pharrell Williams has a new animated biopic c...

Fri, 18 Oct

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We're revisiting our interview with Tom Petty, whose hits include "American Girl," "Breakdown," and ...

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:29:32 +0000

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Former Inspector General Glenn Fine oversaw investigations of the mishandling of documents in the Ok...

Wed, 16 Oct

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Legal scholar Mary Ziegler talks about the legal battles shaping reproductive rights across the U.S....

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:56:25 +0000

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Mosab Abu Toha was able to escape Gaza, along with his wife and three young children. The award-winn...

Mon, 14 Oct

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Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, was working on a memoir when she died in 2023. ...

Sat, 12 Oct

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Jeremy Strong played Kendall Roy on HBO's Succession. He's now starring in The Apprentice, as Donal...

Fri, 11 Oct

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We remember singer Cissy Houston, who died Oct. 7 at the age of 91. She got her start in gospel and ...

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:51:52 +0000

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Internationally-acclaimed writer Etgar Keret, who lives in Tel Aviv, reflects on the protests in Isr...

Wed, 09 Oct

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Best-known for his role as Kendall Roy in HBO's Succession, Jeremy Strong now stars as lawyer and po...

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:57:52 +0000

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The animated film Piece By Piece traces Pharrell's early life as a boy growing up in Virginia Beach ...

Mon, 07 Oct

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Will Ferrell and his longtime friend and former SNL writing partner Harper Steele traveled from New ...

Sat, 05 Oct

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Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about his trip to Senegal and reflects on his ancestors taken from that side ...

Fri, 04 Oct

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Beloved British actor of stage and screen Maggie Smith died last week at age 89. Though the Oscar-wi...

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:42:20 +0000

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David Wessel, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, compares the candida...

Wed, 02 Oct

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More often than not, U.S. history classes fail to include the contributions of Latino people. Leguiz...

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:18:39 +0000

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In his new book, Coates reflects on his time in Senegal, as well as trips he took to South Carolina ...

Mon, 30 Sep

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The host of the Food Network's Barefoot Contessa tells Tonya Mosley about a disastrous party she thr...

Sat, 28 Sep

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Todd Phillips, the director and co-writer of the new musical sequel to Joker, shares what it was lik...

Fri, 27 Sep

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25 years ago, the TV series The West Wing premiered. It was a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional ...

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:06:16 +0000

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New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz describes Michigan's uncommitted, thousands of pro-Palestinian, ant...

Wed, 25 Sep

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Orange Is the New Black actor Uzo Aduba grew up the daughter of Nigerian immigrants in a predominant...

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:51:41 +0000

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Mueller deputy Aaron Zebley looks back on the investigation of Trump's ties to Russia and explains w...

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After his 2019 hit Joker, Todd Phillips knew he wanted to do more with the character. Joker: Folie à...

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Pioneering television journalist Connie Chung gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what it took for ...

Fri, 20 Sep

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Florida's population has quintupled since writer Carl Hiaasen grew up near Fort Lauderdale in the '5...

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:35:00 +0000

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NYT senior political correspondent Maggie Haberman, who has spent years covering former President Tr...

Wed, 18 Sep

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TV news journalist Connie Chung has written a new tell-all memoir. It's about breaking into the boys...

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:51:15 +0000

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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner spent years investigating the forme...

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In the horror movie The Substance, Demi Moore plays an aging actress who uses a black-market drug to...

Sat, 14 Sep

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Journalists Ryan Mac and Kate Conger talk about the chaos Elon Musk created inside Twitter, how Musk...

Fri, 13 Sep

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James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mafusa in The Lion King, and once the...

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:17:08 +0000

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Democrats and Republicans learned from the legal fight over the 2020 elections, New York Times repor...

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After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk instituted sweeping changes. He laid off or fired about 75% ...

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:31:26 +0000

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Investigative journalist Jessica Pishko says that a growing group of "constitutional sheriffs" have ...

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The After Midnight host was initially unsure about sharing her bipolar II diagnosis on-stage. But, s...

Sat, 07 Sep

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's new memoir, Lovely One, gives us a rare glimpse into h...

Fri, 06 Sep

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25 years ago, The Sopranos premiered on HBO and changed expectations of what TV could be. There's a ...

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:24:38 +0000

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New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick says anti-fascists are using extra judicial methods to do what t...

Wed, 04 Sep

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talks with Tonya Mosley about her teen years, her time a...

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 19:10:31 +0000

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Novelist Danzy Senna spoke with Terry Gross about racial identity, growing up with a Black father an...

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To wrap up our series, we're closing with director Spike Lee and actor Samuel L. Jackson. Lee spoke ...

Sat, 31 Aug

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In 2022, E.T. and Jaws director Steven Spielberg talked about how he fell in love with film, and how...

Fri, 30 Aug

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The 1964 spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars turned Clint Eastwood into a star. He had a famous s...

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:41:47 +0000

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We continue our Classic Films and Movie Icons series and feature archival interviews with Dennis Hop...

Wed, 28 Aug

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Our special series of archival interviews continues with two of the GOATs: Meryl Streep, the actor w...

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:01:19 +0000

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We continue our Classic Films and Movie Icons series with two performers who gained fame as kids: Br...

Mon, 26 Aug

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From now through Labor Day we're featuring interviews from our archive with great actors and directo...

Sat, 24 Aug

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We begin our series celebrating classic movies with Terry Gross' 1988 interview with On the Waterfro...

Fri, 23 Aug

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We remember Phil Donahue, the daytime talk show host who pioneered thoughtful discussions on controv...

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 19:24:14 +0000

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Georgetown professor and foreign policy analyst Daniel Byman discusses Ukraine's daring offensive in...

Wed, 21 Aug

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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Rohde argues that since 2016, Trump has...

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:33:35 +0000

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As 50,000 people attend the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, we look at the history of pol...

Mon, 19 Aug

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In The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, Ellis-Taylor plays the outspoken ringleader among three w...

Sat, 17 Aug

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Pediatric surgeon and founder of the Black Doctors Consortium Dr. Ala Standford talks with Terry Gro...

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Homicide: Life on the Streets, the critically acclaimed police procedural set in Baltimore, is comin...

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:50:31 +0000

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As democrats prepare for their national convention in Chicago next week, we take stock of a presiden...

Wed, 14 Aug

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Casey Michel shines a light on Americans lobbying for foreign governments in Washington, in many cas...

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:26:32 +0000

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Poet and writer Safiya Sinclair grew up in a devout Rastafari family in Jamaica where women were sub...

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Joe Moore, a former Army sniper turned FBI informant, shares how he infiltrated the KKK and helped f...

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In 1982, eight science fiction films were released within eight weeks of each other. Chris Nashawaty...

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We commemorate the 79th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by revisiting a h...

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:31:19 +0000

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Filmmaker Greg Kwedar and formerly incarcerated actor Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin discuss their new...

Wed, 07 Aug

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When the pandemic hit, Dr. Ala Stanford set up shop in parking lots, churches and mosques where she ...

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:16:07 +0000

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Each year, nearly half a million migrants cross the perilous stretch of jungle between South and Cen...

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Dr. Theodore Schwartz has been treating neurological illnesses for nearly 30 years. He says being a ...

Sat, 03 Aug

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Comic Nikki Glaser talks with Terry Gross about finding the line between offensive and funny, hurt f...

Fri, 02 Aug

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We go into the Fresh Air archive to remember two remarkable women: Bernice Johnson Reagon was one of...

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:43:08 +0000

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Grammy-winning singer, guitarist and producer Brittany Howard fronted the band Alabama Shakes before...

Wed, 31 Jul

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In 1982, eight science fiction films were released within eight weeks of each other: E.T., Tron, Sta...

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:17:41 +0000

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Paul W. Downs co-created the HBO Max show with his wife, Lucia Aniello and their friend and collabor...

Mon, 29 Jul

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The comic made headlines after the roast of Tom Brady. She spoke with Terry Gross about finding the ...

Sat, 27 Jul

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Jon M. Chu, the director of Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights is now directing the film adaptatio...

Fri, 26 Jul

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We remember comic and actor Bob Newhart, who died last week at the age of 94. In his stand-up comedy...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:58:56 +0000

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Hezbollah, the militant group based in Lebanon, shares Hamas' goal of destroying the state of Israel...

Wed, 24 Jul

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Chu takes his inspiration from his dad, a Chinese immigrant who worked both the front room and the k...

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:04:03 +0000

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Autocracy, Inc. author Anne Applebaum says today's dictators — including Putin and Xi — are work...

Mon, 22 Jul

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Filmmaker and stunt coordinator David Leitch says it's easier to do stunts himself than direct his s...

Sat, 20 Jul

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Humorist/writer Shalom Auslander's new memoir is a satirical look at all the ways a sense of "feh," ...

Fri, 19 Jul

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We remember actress Shelley Duvall, who died at the age of 75. Best-known for her role in The Shinin...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 19:03:58 +0000

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Humorist Shalom Auslander has written for decades about growing up in a dysfunctional household with...

Wed, 17 Jul

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PBS FRONTLINE documentarians Tom Casciato and Kathleen Hughes spent 34 years following two working-c...

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:11:03 +0000

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Julianne Nicholson says when strangers recognize her on the street, they're never quite sure how the...

Mon, 15 Jul

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We talk about the weapon the shooter used in the attempted assassination of former President Trump. ...

Sat, 13 Jul

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner's new novel, Long Island Compromise, centers on the kidnapping of a rich busin...

Fri, 12 Jul

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Martin Mull, who died June 27, appeared in the 1970s series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and later st...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:03:08 +0000

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David Madland of the Center for American Progress says new, "good" jobs are on the rise, but many of...

Wed, 10 Jul

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Disgraced financier Bernie Madoff scammed investors out of approximately $68 billion. Investigative ...

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:26:48 +0000

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Jill Ciment met her husband in the 1970s when she was a teenager and he was almost 50. At the time o...

Mon, 08 Jul

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Brodesser-Akner's new novel, Long Island Compromise, centers on the kidnapping of a rich businessman...

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Comedian Michelle Buteau stars in the new comedy Babes, which follows best friends as they take dif...

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For the 40th anniversary of Talking Heads' masterpiece concert film, Stop Making Sense, A24 remaster...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000

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A few years ago, Bon Jovi stopped performing because of a vocal cord injury. The Hulu docuseries Tha...

Wed, 03 Jul

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David Tatel is a former civil rights lawyer who spent 30 years as a judge on the D.C. Circuit, the n...

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 22:23:39 +0000

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As a comedy writer for shows like The Late Late Show with James Corden, Ian Karmel spent most of his...

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 01:42:10 +0000

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New Yorker writer Emily Nussbaum discusses the lawsuits brought forth by the Love is Blind cast memb...

Sat, 29 Jun

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If you've ever wondered what conversations were like between Donald Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci duri...

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British singer/guitarist Richard Thompson spoke to Fresh Air in 1994 and 2022 about about his format...

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:48:16 +0000

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New York Times political correspondent Shane Goldmacher has been following the flood of campaign fi...

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Buteau says covering the news of the 2001 terrorist attacks crystalized her desire to go into comedy...

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:49:51 +0000

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Bazawule is best-known for directing 2023 adaptation of The Color Purple: The Musical. He also co-di...

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New York Times correspondent Peter Goodman illuminates the breakdown of the global supply chain duri...

Sat, 22 Jun

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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson still remembers the first time he heard The Sugarhill Gang's 1980 hit "Ra...

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The award-winning playwright talks about his provocative Slave Play, which earned 12 Tony nomination...

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:03:53 +0000

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Von Furstenberg and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy discuss Woman in Charge, a Hulu documentary abou...

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Oyelowo produced and stars in the Paramount+ series about Bass, a formerly enslaved man who went on ...

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:35:14 +0000

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During his decades-long career, Dr. Fauci worked with seven different presidents to manage various p...

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Einbinder co-stars with Jean Smart in the HBO Max series Hacks. Her new Max special is Everything Mu...

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About 25 years ago, acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma asked a high school student to help him name his inst...

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Hall of Famer Satchel Paige started his career pitching in the Negro leagues and later became a majo...

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Journalist Alexia Fernández Campbell says that some freed men and women were given titles to land f...

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'The Always Sunny in Philadelphia' co-creator and co-star bought a Welsh football club during the pa...

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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson still remembers the first time he heard The Sugarhill Gang's 1980 hit "Ra...

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Dunne grew up in Beverly Hills, in a family of storytellers — including his father, author Dominic...

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Comic, actor and filmmaker Julio Torres came to the U.S. from El Salvador in his early 20s — and h...

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:57:37 +0000

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While reporting on Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement, Farrow unearthed details of the Nationa...

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Whitehead's sequel to Harlem Shuffle centers on crime at every level, from small-time crooks to Harl...

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:18:59 +0000

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How do you get on with life after an accident that leads to disability and chronic pain? That's the ...

Thu, 30 May 2024 20:13:30 +0000

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Yohance Lacour's Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast, You Didn't See Nothin', tells the story of Lenard C...

Wed, 29 May

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Tue, 28 May 2024 18:45:13 +0000

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When journalist Rachel Somerstein had an emergency C-section with her first child, the anesthesia di...

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Fri, 24 May

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The fifth installment of the Mad Max series of post-apocalyptic action films is roaring into theater...

Thu, 23 May 2024 19:42:55 +0000

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In Fat Leonard, journalist Craig Whitlock tells the story of a defense contractor who plied Navy com...

Wed, 22 May

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In 2021, burnt out from the intensity of her early career, Maggie Rogers considered quitting music e...

Tue, 21 May 2024 19:01:25 +0000

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The SNL alum co-stars with Carol Burnett in Palm Royale, an Apple TV+ series about a former pageant ...

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Musician, activist, and punk pioneer Kathleen Hanna talks about being at the epicenter of the '90s r...

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Filmmaker Roger Corman, the "King of the B" movies, died last week at the age of 98. He made hundred...

Thu, 16 May 2024 19:42:58 +0000

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Wallace is known for his celebrity profiles, but his new memoir, Another Word For Love, is about his...

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The Economist Middle East correspondent Gregg Carlstrom explains why some Arab leaders hate Hamas, f...

Tue, 14 May 2024 19:35:56 +0000

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Williams was thrust into the public eye as a kid, when he starred in Everybody Hates Chris. Now, pla...

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Kathleen Hanna's band Bikini Kill was the epicenter of the riot grrrl feminist punk movement of the ...

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WNBA star Brittney Griner talks about the physical and emotional hell of her nearly 300 days in Russ...

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Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer has been adapted into a series on H...

Thu, 09 May 2024 18:46:41 +0000

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We remember painter and sculptor Frank Stella, whose early work was considered revolutionary. He die...

Wed, 08 May

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#BlackLivesMatter. #OscarsSoWhite. #ICantBreathe. Filmmaker Prentice Penny's docuseries about Black ...

Tue, 07 May 2024 18:07:24 +0000

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Griner spent nearly 300 days incarcerated in Russia after authorities at the Moscow airport found tw...

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Climate journalist Zoë Schlanger explains the fascinating science behind how plants learn, communic...

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In a new Hulu docuseries, Jon Bon Jovi looks back on his career and his recovery after vocal surgery...

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The New York Times described Paul Auster as the "Patron Saint of Literary Brooklyn." He died Tuesday...

Thu, 02 May 2024 19:27:23 +0000

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Congress and President Biden say TikTok must shed its financial ties to China or face a ban in the U...

Thu, 02 May 2024 00:04:00 +0000

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In The Demon of Unrest, author Erik Larson chronicles the five months between the election of Abraha...

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:58:21 +0000

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Leigh Bardugo is best known for her YA Shadow and Bone series. Her adult novel, The Familiar, center...

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A few years ago, Bon Jovi stopped performing because of a vocal cord injury. The Hulu docuseries Tha...

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Songwriter, guitarist and singer St. Vincent talks about her new album, All Born Screaming. Also, we...

Fri, 26 Apr

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Green's YA novel, Turtles All the Way Down, has been recently adapted to film (on MAX May 2). Green ...

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:29:04 +0000

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Nearly a year after the Hollywood writers' strike started, the entertainment industry remains in flu...

Wed, 24 Apr

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Journalist Susan Page talks about Barbara Walters's groundbreaking career as a newswoman and her sig...

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:44:35 +0000

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The songwriter, guitarist and singer known as St. Vincent took her stage name from St. Vincent's Hos...

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Journalist Ari Berman says the founding fathers created a system that concentrated power in the hand...

Sat, 20 Apr

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Writer Salman Rushdie talks about the knife attack that nearly killed him — and his life since the...

Fri, 19 Apr

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Longtime PBS news anchor Robert MacNeil died last week at 93. He spoke with Terry Gross a few times ...

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:45:17 +0000

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Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser says mergers and acquisitions have created food oligopolies t...

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Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:06:29 +0000

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Rushdie was onstage at a literary event in 2022 when he was attacked by a man in the audience: "Dyin...

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Andrew Scott stars as a con artist with no conscience in the new Netflix series Ripley. It's an adap...

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Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire is the latest film starring two of cinema's biggest monsters. Today ...

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Atlantic journalist Stephanie McCrummen says foreign interests are acquiring Serengeti territory in ...

Wed, 10 Apr

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What happens to the body in the deep sea? You need oxygen to survive, but too much oxygen can be dea...

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:28:52 +0000

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Linguist Amanda Montell says our brains are overloaded with a constant stream of information that st...

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Andrew Scott (best known as "hot priest" from Fleabag) plays con artist Tom Ripley in the Netflix ad...

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NCAA/WNBA star Sue Bird spoke with Terry Gross about her career, coming out publicly, and fighting f...

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HBO's Curb your Enthusiasm comes to an end Sunday night, after 25 years and 12 seasons. We're featur...

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:46:34 +0000

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The Guardian's reproductive health reporter Carter Sherman says efforts are underway in a number of ...

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"A lot of things started going wrong from the very beginning," historian Hampton Sides says of Cook'...

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A global pandemic, school shootings, climate change, war: Children and teenagers are experiencing an...

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Retired point guard Sue Bird holds the record for most career assists in the WNBA, with 3,234 over t...

Sat, 30 Mar

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Beyoncé's highly anticipated country album, Cowboy Carter, is out today. One of the musicians on it...

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:49:32 +0000

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Author Nancy Nichols says that for men, cars signify adventure, power and strength. For women, they ...

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ProPublica reporter Abrahm Lustgarten says in the coming decades it's likely tens of millions of us ...

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Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker co-founded the band Sleater-Kinney together 30 years ago, and bec...

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Catherine Coldstream spoke with Terry Gross about her years as nun in a Carmelite monastery. She tal...

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Reporter Jake Adelstein's memoir, Tokyo Vice, is about covering the organized crime beat in Japan. T...

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:12:05 +0000

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Marijuana has been legalized in some states, but ProPublica's Sebastian Rotella says there's still a...

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Catherine Coldstream spoke with Terry Gross about her years as nun in a Carmelite monastery. She tal...

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:29:11 +0000

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Christine Blasey Ford describes what it was like to come forward and testify that Brett Kavanaugh se...

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NPR Politics correspondent Sarah McCammon grew up in a white evangelical church that taught her to n...

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Jenny Slate talks about childbirth and motherhood, the subjects of her new comedy special, Seasoned ...

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Michael Cecchi-Azzolina has worked in several high-end New York City restaurants — adrenaline-fuel...

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:20:52 +0000

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We talk with Peter Pomerantsev, whose new book, How to Win an Information War, is about the man he d...

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Schitt's Creek star Eugene Levy visits distant lands and tastes exotic foods as the host of the Appl...

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:15:46 +0000

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The comic/actor returns. Now she has a 3-year-old daughter, who she sings to in the voice of her cha...

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Comic, actor and filmmaker Julio Torres came to the U.S. from El Salvador in his 20s. His new film, ...

Sat, 09 Mar

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New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos recently interviewed Biden for his new profile about the presiden...

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Emma Stone has two Oscar nominations for Poor Things: One for best actress and one for best picture,...

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:53:26 +0000

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Writer, director and producer Ed Zwick has made dozens of films and TV shows including Legends of th...

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In a wide-ranging conversation with The New Yorker, President Biden proclaimed that he is the best o...

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:22:54 +0000

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As a war correspondent, Rod Nordland faced death many times over. But in 2019, Nordland confronted a...

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The Emmy-winning host of RuPaul's Drag Race describes himself as "an introvert masquerading as an ex...

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Denis Villeneuve remembers watching the 1984 movie version of Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel Dune...

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Paul Giamatti stars in The Holdovers as a pompous and disliked teacher at a boys boarding school in ...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:04:20 +0000

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Why do many Christian nationalists think Trump is chosen by God to lead the country? We talk with Br...

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Villeneuve remembers watching the 1984 movie version of Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel Dune and t...

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:18:22 +0000

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Busy Philipps plays Mrs. George, a "cool mom" seeking the approval of her teen daughter in the new m...

Mon, 26 Feb

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Charan Ranganath recently wrote an op-ed about President Biden's memory gaffes. He says forgetting i...

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Mark Ruffalo is nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Poor Things. He pla...

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In his Oscar-nominated biopic Maestro, Bradley Cooper was determined not to imitate the legendary Le...

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:37:45 +0000

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As Donald Trump seeks to gain the Republican presidential nomination, he faces 91 felony charges acr...

Wed, 21 Feb

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Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:13:03 +0000

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Wright is up for an Oscar for best actor this year for the film American Fiction, where he plays a n...

Mon, 19 Feb

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From relentless campaigning to snubs and speeches, the Academy Awards have often reflected a cultura...

Sat, 17 Feb

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Fri, 16 Feb

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Sterling K. Brown won an Emmy for his portrayal of Christopher Darden in The People v. O.J. Simpson,...

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:30:40 +0000

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How is New York City coping with the 175,000 migrants from the Southern border? New York Times repor...

Wed, 14 Feb

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We remember Peabody award-winning broadcast journalist Bob Edwards, who died on Saturday at the age ...

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:55:17 +0000

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Ruffalo plays a debauched cad in Yorgos Lanthimos' bawdy, dark comedy Poor Things. The role was a bi...

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Molly Ringwald became a film icon in the '80s after starring in a trio of films: Sixteen Candles, Th...

Sat, 10 Feb

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Journalist Michele Norris has spent the last 14 years collecting what she describes as "an archive o...

Fri, 09 Feb

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We remember Wayne Kramer, the guitarist of the late '60s proto-punk band MC5. The revolutionary band...

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:02:28 +0000

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Award-winning ProPublica reporter Topher Sanders has spent the last two years investigating America'...

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The civil rights leader Medgar Evers is maybe more known for his assassination in 1963 than the work...

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:08:05 +0000

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When Mark Daley and his husband, Jason, became foster parents to two brothers, they fell in love wit...

Mon, 05 Feb

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Journalist Michele Norris has spent the last 14 years collecting what she calls "an archive of the h...

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Emma Stone is nominated for an Oscar for her starring role in Poor Things. She spoke with Terry Gros...

Fri, 02 Feb

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Oppenheimer and Barbie have been nominated for 13 and 8 Oscars, respectively. We feature our intervi...

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:15:49 +0000

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Kai Wright's WNYC podcast, Blindspot, revisits the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, focusing in...

Wed, 31 Jan

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Stone has two Oscar nominations for Poor Things: One for best actress and one for best picture, as a...

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:42:10 +0000

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Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly from Central America, arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border every...

Mon, 29 Jan

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NBC journalist Antonia Hylton spent more than a decade piecing together the history of Maryland's fi...

Sat, 27 Jan

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Tracee Ellis Ross co-stars in the new movie American Fiction, which is nominated for five Oscars, in...

Fri, 26 Jan

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We remember composer and classical music satirist Peter Schickele, whose alter ego was "P.D.Q. Bach....

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:34:17 +0000

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New York Times correspondent David Sanger says that Iran and its proxies are posing new challenges: ...

Wed, 24 Jan

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Tracee Ellis Ross co-stars in the Oscar-nominated movie American Fiction. For eight seasons, she sta...

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:51:30 +0000

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Time correspondent Simon Shuster has been interviewing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since...

Mon, 22 Jan

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Dr. Uché Blackstock was one of the first doctors to raise the alarm that COVID-19 was disproportion...

Sat, 20 Jan

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Ava DuVernay's new film Origin explores a new way to consider the historical subjugation of Black pe...

Fri, 19 Jan

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HBO's Succession swept at the Emmys, winning six awards for its fourth and final season. We compiled...

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:40:52 +0000

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Home schooling is now America's fastest growing form of education, but Washington Post reporter Pete...

Wed, 17 Jan

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Filterworld author Kyle Chayka examines the algorithms that dictate what we watch, read and listen t...

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:16:47 +0000

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You may have heard about the pioneering research of anthropologist Margaret Mead, but do you know ab...

Mon, 15 Jan

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Award-winning director Ava DuVernay's new film Origin explores a new way to consider the historical ...

Sat, 13 Jan

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Actor Sterling K. Brown co-stars in the new film American Fiction. We'll talk about his role in that...

Fri, 12 Jan

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The Grammy-Award winning baritone first auditioned to play the Demon Barber of Fleet Street back in ...

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:15:41 +0000

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Washington Post reporter Julian Mark talks about the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, ...

Wed, 10 Jan

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Giamatti says his latest movie, filmed at various prep schools in Massachusetts and directed by Alex...

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:03:59 +0000

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Annie Liontas experienced three brain injuries in the span of one year, which led to dizziness, memo...

Mon, 08 Jan

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Brown won an Emmy for his portrayal of Christopher Darden in The People v. O.J. Simpson, and another...

Sat, 06 Jan

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Bradley Cooper talks about writing, directing, and starring in the new film Maestro, in which he por...

Fri, 05 Jan

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We remember Tom Smothers, of the comic folk duo the Smothers Brothers, who died last week at the age...

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:23:48 +0000

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Bloomberg News reporter Emma Court explains how these so-called "miracle" weight loss drugs work, an...

Wed, 03 Jan

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In her new cookbook, Maydān: Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond, Rose Previte writes about what it's l...

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 19:52:47 +0000

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In his new biopic Maestro, Bradley Cooper was determined not to imitate the legendary Leonard Bernst...

Mon, 01 Jan

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We start the new year with Barbra Streisand, and listen back to the interview we recorded in Novembe...

Sat, 30 Dec

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Taraji P. Henson stars as jazz singer Shug Avery in the new musical adaptation of The Color Purple. ...

Fri, 29 Dec

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Our dark week continues with a performance by and conversation with two of the best traditional jazz...

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 19:14:07 +0000

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We continue our series of some of our favorite interviews of the year with co-founder and lead MC of...

Wed, 27 Dec

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When Shields was 11 months old, she was in soap commercials and print ads. At the age of 12, she sta...

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 19:13:19 +0000

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Canadian musician Allison Russell talks and sings about the abuse she endured from her racist adopti...

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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson has put together a playlist of some of his favorite Christmas recordings...

Sat, 23 Dec

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It's a David Byrne Christmas. The cofounder and frontman of Talking Heads has put together a playlis...

Fri, 22 Dec

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From now until the end of 2023, we're listening back to some stand-out interviews from this year. Ti...

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:34:17 +0000

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Cage has been acting for almost 45 years, and has appeared in more than 100 films. Dream Scenario is...

Wed, 20 Dec

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The singer-songwriter and Talking Heads frontman presents some of his favorite holiday music — inc...

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:43:52 +0000

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Braugher died of lung cancer last week at age 61. He's best known for his portrayals of police in tw...

Mon, 18 Dec

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This Christmas, the film adaptation of the musical The Color Purple hits the big screen. For award-w...

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Humorist and author David Sedaris is a public radio regular – his 'Santaland Diaries' first aired ...