ICE Campus Arrests & The 'Struggle For The Soul' Of America
02 Apr 2025
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As ICE agents arrest international students at campuses across the U.S., immigration law professor D...
Writer, Critic & Curator Hilton Als Looks For The Silences
01 Apr 2025
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As a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Hilton Als's essays and profiles of figures like Toni ...
'Adolescence' Co-Creator/Actor Asks Not Whodunnit, But Why
31 Mar 2025
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The Netflix miniseries follows a 13-year-old accused of murdering a girl from his school. Co-creator...
Best Of: A Writer Grapples With A Life-Changing Accident / The Post WWII 'Red Scare'
29 Mar 2025
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Hanif Kureishi began his new memoir just days after a fall left him paralyzed. He describes being co...
After A Friend's Suicide, A Writer Inherits His Grieving Dog
28 Mar 2025
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Sigrid Nunez's 2018 novel The Friend won the National Book Award. It's now a film, starring Naomi Wa...
The Former Jihadist Trying To Remake Syria
27 Mar 2025
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Atlantic writer Robert Worth talks about Syria's transitional president, Ahmed al-Sharaa. He was the...
Amanda Knox Is 'Free,' But Is That Enough?
26 Mar 2025
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Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in an Italian prison for a murder she didn't commit. After her e...
Inside The 'Mad House' Of Congressional Disfunction
25 Mar 2025
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The MAGA-controlled 118th House passed only 27 bills that became law — the lowest number since the...
A Legal Scholar On 10 Laws 'Ruining America'
24 Mar 2025
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Legal scholar Elie Mystal talks about his new book, Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining Ameri...
Best Of: Seth Rogen / Can The Dems Win Back The Bros?
22 Mar 2025
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Seth Rogen created a new AppleTV+ series, The Studio, which is a satirical look at how executives in...
50 Years Of 'Rocky Horror'
21 Mar 2025
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show is 50 years old, and still going strong in midnight theaters. We're li...
The Political Battle For The Bros
20 Mar 2025
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Popular podcasts in the "manosphere" helped sway young men to go MAGA in the 2024 election. New York...
The Promise & Peril Of AI
19 Mar 2025
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Rivlin says regulation can help control how AI is used: "AI c...
Seth Rogen Lands The 'Tragic' Job Of Studio Head
18 Mar 2025
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In his new Apple TV+ series The Studio, Seth Rogen plays an anxious Hollywood executive desperate to...
The Red Scare & America's Conspiratorial Politics
17 Mar 2025
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Writer Clay Risen describes a political movement which destroyed the careers of thousands of teacher...
Best Of: Comic Bill Burr / Actor Simu Liu
15 Mar 2025
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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...
Texan-Palestinian Comic Mo Amer
14 Mar 2025
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Amer's Netflix comedy series about his life, Mo, is now in its second season. His family is Palestin...
Remembering The South African Playwright Who Defied Apartheid
13 Mar 2025
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Athol Fugard's plays, like Blood Knot and Master Harold and the Boys, were about the emotional and p...
Comic Bill Burr [Extended Version]
13 Mar 2025
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Burr talks with Terry Gross about processing his abusive childhood, a therapeutic mushroom trip, and...
The Gutting Of The Department Of Education
12 Mar 2025
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The Department of Education is reportedly eliminating 50% of its workforce. Washington Post writer L...
The Campaign To Silence Journalists & Undermine Free Speech
11 Mar 2025
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In 2019, Justice Clarence Thomas raised the prospect of overturning one of the most consequential fr...
Comic Bill Burr On Musk, Magic Mushrooms & Healing From His Childhood
10 Mar 2025
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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...
Best Of: Jazz Clarinetist Doreen Ketchens / 'White Lotus' Actor Natasha Rothwell
08 Mar 2025
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We're joined by a New Orleans institution — clarinetist and vocalist Doreen Ketchens. She's got s...
Remembering New York Dolls Frontman David Johansen
07 Mar 2025
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The 1970s band The New York Dolls made only two studio albums, but the group was hugely influential,...
Actor Simu Liu On Diving In The Dark
06 Mar 2025
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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...
How Did DEI Become Part Of A Political Agenda — And A Slur?
05 Mar 2025
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Georgetown professor Ella Washington and Harvard professor Frank Dobbin discuss the beneficiaries an...
Mardi Gras With New Orleans Jazz Clarinetist Doreen Ketchens
04 Mar 2025
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Known as "Lady Louie," Doreen Ketchens has been a fixture of the French Quarter for nearly four deca...
How A Writer's Life Changed In A Second
03 Mar 2025
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Hanif Kureishi began his new memoir just days after a fall left him paralyzed. He describes being co...
Best Of: Growing Up Murdoch / DOGE's Cuts To The Federal Workforce
01 Mar 2025
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Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins describes the rivalry among the children of 93 year-old media ti...
Jeremy Strong / Sebastian Stan / Adrien Brody
28 Feb 2025
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The Academy Awards are this Sunday. We hear from the two stars of the film The Apprentice, Sebastian...
Natasha Rothwell Checks Back Into 'The White Lotus'
27 Feb 2025
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In the new season of The White Lotus, Natasha Rothwell reprises her role of spa manager Belinda, a w...
The Ripple Effect Of Musk's Government Purge
26 Feb 2025
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DOGE has eliminated thousands of federal jobs and canceled more than 1,000 contracts. Harvard profes...
The Murdoch Family's Real-Life 'Succession' Rivalry
25 Feb 2025
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Rupert Murdoch and his oldest kids are battling over who controls his media empire when the 93-year-...
The Battle For The Soul Of The Catholic Church
24 Feb 2025
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In Jesus Wept, investigative journalist Philip Shenon examines the last seven popes, and how efforts...
Best Of: Louis Armstrong's Early Years / Our Anti-Social Century
22 Feb 2025
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We talk with author Ricky Riccardi about how Louis Armstrong became the first Black pop star and pro...
Andrew Scott Doesn't See Ripley As A Monster
21 Feb 2025
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In the series Ripley, Andrew Scott plays a con artist with no conscience. The actor says it was impo...
A Family Forged By Haiti's Coup
20 Feb 2025
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Rich Benjamin's grandfather, Daniel Fignolé, was a popular Haitian labor leader who became Haiti's ...
How Regime Change Happens In America
19 Feb 2025
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During President Trump's first term, journalist Anne Applebaum reported on how he was moving toward ...
What Measles Outbreaks Tell Us About Public Health In America
18 Feb 2025
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"Measles thrives on being underestimated," Dr. Adam Ratner says. The highly infectious disease was t...
Are Trump's Executive Orders Legal?
17 Feb 2025
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Constitutional scholar, historian, and New York Times staff writer Charlie Savage joins us this Pres...
Best Of: Sebastian Stan / Questlove On The Genius Of Sly Stone
15 Feb 2025
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Musician and documentary filmmaker Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is back to talk about his new Hulu doc...
'SNL' Turns 50: Aykroyd, Franken, Zweibel & Lovitz
14 Feb 2025
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For Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary, we're featuring interviews with some of the early cast m...
'Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Makes The Camera 'An Organ'
13 Feb 2025
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RaMell Ross's Oscar-nominated film, Nickel Boys, centers on two young Black men attempting to surviv...
How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful In The Trump Administration?
12 Feb 2025
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New York Times journalist Eric Lipton explains how Musk's companies are benefiting as he cuts federa...
For Sebastian Stan, 'The Apprentice' Playing In Theaters Was The Win
11 Feb 2025
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Sebastian Stan is up for an Oscar for his portrayal of President Trump early in his career, when Roy...
Questlove On Sly Stone & The Burden Of Black Genius
10 Feb 2025
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Questlove is back to talk about his new documentary about Sly Stone and his band the Family Stone. T...
Best Of: Ariana Grande / Inside A Dominatrix's Dungeon
08 Feb 2025
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We talk about the cultural phenomenon of Wicked with star Ariana Grande. She's nominated for an Osca...
Remembering British Singer Marianne Faithfull
07 Feb 2025
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Discovered at a Rolling Stones party at the age of 17, Marianne Faithfull broke out in the early '60...
A Dominatrix/Writer Takes Readers Into A Dungeon
06 Feb 2025
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After publishing her first novel when she was 21, Brittany Newell started working as a dominatrix. T...
Trump's Plan For Gaza / The U.S. Military's Recruiting Crisis
05 Feb 2025
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Last night, President Trump proposed a plan to displace all the Palestinians from Gaza, and get Jord...
Ariana Grande Loves Being In A 'Beautiful Coven'
04 Feb 2025
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As a kid, Ariana Grande loved singing karaoke with her family. "I looked up to Whitney and Mariah an...
Parenting A Child With Terminal Cancer
03 Feb 2025
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Sarah Wildman's daughter Orli died from cancer when she was 14. "She would sometimes ask me, 'What d...
Best Of: 50 Years Of SNL Musical Guests / Black History Through Blues
01 Feb 2025
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Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is the co-director of a new documentary about the music of Saturday Night...
For 'Severance' Star Adam Scott, Work & Life Can't Be Separated
31 Jan 2025
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The Apple TV+ drama series Severance is back for its second season. It's a dystopian take on work-li...
How Louis Armstrong Became The First Black Pop Star
30 Jan 2025
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Author Ricky Riccardi says Louis Armstrong's innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist helped set the ...
This Anti-Social American Life
29 Jan 2025
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Research shows we're spending more time alone than ever before. Atlantic writer Derek Thompson says ...
What The Color Blue Tells About Black History
28 Jan 2025
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Award-winning author and scholar Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, fro...
Questlove Digs Into 50 years Of 'SNL' Musical Hits (And Misses)
27 Jan 2025
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Questlove's documentary, Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music, airs tonight on NBC. It highli...
Best Of: Jesse Eisenberg / Pamela Anderson
25 Jan 2025
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Jesse Eisenberg talks about writing, directing and starring in the film A Real Pain. Eisenberg and K...
Remembering David Lynch
24 Jan 2025
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Filmmaker and painter David Lynch died January 15 at age 78. He spoke with Terry Gross in 1994 about...
Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency
23 Jan 2025
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Bloomberg investigative reporter Zeke Faux says the Trump family's new crypto businesses have earned...
Pamela Anderson Is Still Reinventing Herself
22 Jan 2025
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Pamela Anderson's role as a lifeguard on Baywatch made her a global sex symbol in the '90s. But she ...
Jesse Eisenberg Hated Bar Mitzvahs As A Kid
21 Jan 2025
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Eisenberg's film, A Real Pain, follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includ...
MLK, The Organizer & Radical Thinker
20 Jan 2025
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NYT columnist and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom and scholar Eddie Glaude Jr. reflect on the st...
Best Of: Learning From Silence / Comic Roy Wood Jr.
18 Jan 2025
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Writer Pico Iyer lost everything in a 1990 California wildfire. After being rendered homeless and s...
The True Story Of Abuse And Injustice Behind 'Nickel Boys'
17 Jan 2025
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big scre...
The Secret History Of The Rape Kit
16 Jan 2025
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Rape kits were widely known as "Vitullo Kits" after a Chicago police sergeant. But a new book tells ...
How Losing Everything In A Wildfire Led Pico Iyer To Seek Silence
15 Jan 2025
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In 1990, writer Pico Iyer watched as a wildfire destroyed his mother's Santa Barbara home, where he ...
Can The U.S. Aquire Greenland? & Other Q's About Trump Foreign Policy
14 Jan 2025
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In the past, Donald Trump talked about keeping America out of foreign conflicts — but lately he's ...
Roy Wood Jr. Thinks Of Comedy As Journalism
13 Jan 2025
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A good comedian has to "know what regular people are going through," Roy Wood Jr. says. In his new H...
Best Of: Tilda Swinton / Adrien Brody
11 Jan 2025
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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...
Joan Baez / Suze Rotolo / Al Kooper On Dylan
10 Jan 2025
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A Complete Unknown – the film about Bob Dylan is in theaters. We're featuring interviews with thre...
Remembering Jimmy Carter (Part II)
09 Jan 2025
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The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross in 1995, 2001 and 2005 about poetry, Sept. 11 and his conc...
Tilda Swinton Thinks About Her Death
08 Jan 2025
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In Pedro Almodóvar's film The Room Next Door, Tilda Swinton plays a woman with late-stage cancer wh...
Adrien Brody Was Made For 'The Brutalist'
07 Jan 2025
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Adrien Brody won a Golden Globe for his role in The Brutalist, as a Hungarian-Jewish architect and H...
Getting In Sync With Your Inner Clock
06 Jan 2025
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In an experiment, science journalist Lynne Peeples spent 10 days in an underground bunker, with no e...
Best Of: Comic Ronny Chieng / Writer Miranda July
04 Jan 2025
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After Trevor Noah started anchoring The Daily Show in 2015, he brought on Ronny Chieng as a field co...
Comic Nikki Glaser On Roasts & Hurt Feelings
03 Jan 2025
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The comic is hosting the Golden Globes this Sunday. She spoke with Terry Gross back in July about ro...
Alex Van Halen / Selena Gomez
02 Jan 2025
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We continue our series featuring some of our favorite interviews from 2024, this time with Alex Van ...
Sterling K. Brown Was Told By Hollywood To Lose The "Smart-Guy Thing"
01 Jan 2025
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Brown won an Emmy for his portrayal of Christopher Darden in The People v. O.J. Simpson, and another...
Mark Ruffalo Hates The Hulk Suit
31 Dec 2024
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Ruffalo played a debauched cad in Yorgos Lanthimos' bawdy, dark comedy Poor Things. It was a big dep...
Remembering President Jimmy Carter (Part I)
30 Dec 2024
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Jimmy Carter died Sunday at age 100. The 39th president spoke with Terry Gross a few times over the ...
Maggie Rogers / Kathleen Hanna
28 Dec 2024
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In 2021, burnt out from the intensity of her early career, Maggie Rogers considered quitting music e...
Connie Chung Regrets Being A Good Girl
27 Dec 2024
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This year TV news journalist Connie Chung wrote a new tell-all memoir. It's about breaking into the ...
Jeremy Strong Sees Acting As An Escape From Self
26 Dec 2024
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Jeremy Strong is nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as lawyer and political hitman Roy Cohn i...
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen
25 Dec 2024
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The new biopic A Complete Unknown follows a young Bob Dylan as he arrives in New York and changes Am...
David Byrne's Christmas Playlist
24 Dec 2024
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The singer-songwriter and Talking Heads frontman presents some of his favorite holiday music — inc...
Jon Batiste, Holiday Edition / Questlove Christmas
23 Dec 2024
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Jon Batiste joins us from the piano and plays some of his favorite Christmas songs. It's part two of...
Best Of: Billie Eilish & Finneas / The Colbert Cookbook
21 Dec 2024
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Award-winning sister-brother duo Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell talk about their songwriting pr...
Bonnie Raitt / Francis Ford Coppola
20 Dec 2024
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This month, musician Bonnie Raitt and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola were both honorees of the Kenne...
Miranda July Wants Women To Read Their Inner Lives In 'All Fours'
19 Dec 2024
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Filmmaker and writer Miranda July, whose novel All Fours is on many best books of the year lists, an...
The Looming TikTok Ban
18 Dec 2024
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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...
Billie Eilish & Finneas
17 Dec 2024
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The Grammy Award-winning singer says working with a vocal coach "honestly changed my life." Eilish a...
Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job
16 Dec 2024
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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...
Someone Once Told Elton John He Would Never Be A Pop Star
15 Dec 2024
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Pop sensation Elton John wrapped up his farewell tour in 2023, only to pop up in a surprise concert ...
Best Of: Jon Batiste's 'Beethoven Blues' / Visual Artist Mickalene Thomas
14 Dec 2024
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Jon Batiste joins us at the piano to play his reimaginings of Beethoven, and more. His new album is ...
Cynthia Erivo Sings With 'A Bit Of A Smile'
13 Dec 2024
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The British actor and singer played abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Harriet, and Aretha Franklin in G...
Cynthia Erivo Sings With 'A Bit Of A Smile'
13 Dec 2024
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The British actor and singer played abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Harriet, and Aretha Franklin in G...
Stephen & Evie Colbert Share The Taste Of Home
12 Dec 2024
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Late Night host Stephen Colbert and his wife Evie McGee Colbert join Terry Gross to talk about famil...
The Housing Shortage, Explained
11 Dec 2024
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The U.S. is short approximately 4 million homes. Wharton professor Ben Keys traces the beginning of ...