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The Justice Department gives Trump an unprecedented settlement
May 20, 2026
D.O.J. gave President Trump and his family immunity from tax audits and set up a $1.8 billion fund for victims of "government weaponization." Former government lawyer Andrew Weissmann explains the…
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Fresh Air Best Of: John Lithgow / Sondheim's Tumultuous Life Review
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Through loss, Jesmyn Ward will always return to the word
May 19, 2026
Jesmyn Ward learned the term "respair" — the recovery of hope after despair — in 2020, shortly after her partner died suddenly. Her new book, ‘On Witness and Respair,’ is an essay collection on…
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Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn grew up underground & on the run
May 18, 2026
"From my very first memories, I knew that the FBI was chasing us," Zayd Ayers Dohrn says. "My parents tried to explain it in terms [like] we were like Robin Hood or we were like the Rebel Alliance in…
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Best Of: Boots Riley / Will Sharpe
May 16, 2026
Boots Riley talks about his new film, ‘I Love Boosters.' It stars Keke Palmer as the leader of a crew of women shoplifters who steal from luxury stores and sell the goods cheap to people who can't…
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Remembering Philip Caputo, who wrote an unflinching Vietnam War memoir
May 15, 2026
Philip Caputo wrote the 1977 acclaimed and unflinching memoir ‘A Rumor of War,’ about leading a Marine platoon during the Vietnam War. It taught him a painful truth. “I had discovered that I had a…
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How Trump increased China's global power
May 14, 2026
Former national security official Rush Doshi says President Trump’s 2025 sky-high tariffs on Chinese goods sparked a clash in which China prevailed. Doshi spoke with Dave Davies about the current…
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Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you
May 13, 2026
Boots Riley’s new film is called ‘I Love Boosters,’ and it stars Keke Palmer as the leader of a crew of women shoplifters in the Bay Area who steal from luxury stores and sell the goods cheap to…
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Inside a journalist’s year of using AI for (almost) everything
May 12, 2026
Tech writer Joanna Stern used AI to read medical results, respond to texts and serve as her therapist. She says her emotional connection to it was unsettling. Her new book is ‘I Am Not a Robot.’ She…
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Will Sharpe imagines Mozart's day-to-day in 'Amadeus'
May 11, 2026
Sharpe played a newly rich tech bro on vacation in Italy the second season of ‘The White Lotus.’ Now he's starring as Mozart, a musical genius who struggles to "read the room" in the new STARZ…
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Best Of: Novelist Douglas Stuart / ‘Half Man’ Actor Richard Gadd
May 08, 2026
Like the main character in his Booker Prize-winning novel 'Shuggie Bain,' writer Douglas Stuart grew up in Glasgow, working class, queer, and with a mother addicted to alcohol. His first career was…
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Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, from ‘RENT’ to ‘Hamilton’
May 08, 2026
Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller played a key role in the production of RENT, Hamilton, In the Heights, Avenue Q, and the revival of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd that starred Josh Groban. His memoir…
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Nathan Lane is being tested (and he loves it)
May 07, 2026
Nathan Lane just received a Tony nomination for his starring role as Willy Loman in ‘Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.’ He’s a veteran of the stage – often in comedic and musical roles. But in the…
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How Silicon Valley has profited by aligning with MAGA
May 06, 2026
Atlantic writer George Packer discusses how tech venture capitalists, who are heavily invested in AI and cryptocurrency, aligned with Trump and influenced policies related to their own investments…
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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s path from ‘Backtalker’ to legal scholar
May 05, 2026
Crenshaw named two of the most contested ideas in American politics: intersectionality and critical race theory. Her new book is called ‘Backtalker: An American Memoir.’ It takes us to her childhood…
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Scottish novelist Douglas Stuart on the isolation of secret-keeping
May 04, 2026
Like a number of his characters, Booker Prize-winning novelist Douglas Stuart grew up working class and queer in Glasgow. He went on to have a career in fashion, which plays into his latest novel…
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Best Of: Flea / Nick Offerman
May 01, 2026
Flea co-founded the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1982. The bass/trumpet player spoke with Terry Gross about how his music and his life have changed. “Thank God I've changed. I was a lunatic. I was 19…
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Remembering symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
May 01, 2026
We remember conductor, composer and musician Michael Tilson Thomas, who died April 22 at age 81. He was a longtime music director of The San Francisco Symphony, known for his innovation, his ability…
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Richard Gadd is looking at the ‘dangers of repression’
Apr 30, 2026
‘Baby Reindeer’ was an unexpected hit on Netflix in 2024. Now its creator and star is back with ‘Half Man,’ an HBO series about two boys who become brothers after their mothers fall in love in 1980s…
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How Trump's EPA head has transformed the agency — and sided with polluters
Apr 29, 2026
‘New Yorker’ staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the jobs of many scientists. Trump calls Zeldin "our…
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Flea’s wild path from childhood to Chili Peppers
Apr 28, 2026
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold tens of millions of albums and taken home multiple Grammy Awards. Now in his 60s, more than four decades after that band formed, Flea is releasing his first solo…
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Nick Offerman gets an emotional arc
Apr 27, 2026
Best known for his role as Ron Swanson on ‘Parks and Recreation,’ Nick Offerman plays a former professional wrestler reconnecting with his estranged daughter in ‘Margo's Got Money Troubles.’ He spoke…
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Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Oscar Isaac
Apr 24, 2026
Malala Yousafzai was 15 when a Taliban gunman shot her for advocating for girls' education in her native Pakistan. She understood that she was a target. “I had pictured it many times that this could…
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‘Schmigadoon!’ co-creator Cinco Paul satirizes Broadway
Apr 24, 2026
‘Schmigadoon!’ is now on Broadway. Adapted from the Apple TV series that lovingly satirized musicals of the ‘40s and ‘50s, we’ll hear from the co-creator, co-writer and songwriter of the series…
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The spy network that took on America's Nazi groups
Apr 23, 2026
In ‘The Secret War Against Hate,’ historian Steven J. Ross details the racist, anti-Semitic groups that sprung up after WWII, in the later half of the 20th century — and the spy network that worked…
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Inside Linda McMahon's effort to dismantle the Dept. of Education
Apr 22, 2026
A former pro-wrestling executive, Linda McMahon is now the Education Secretary Trump tasked with abolishing her agency. ‘New Yorker’ staff writer Zach Helfand explains how her WWE experience led her…
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Actor Oscar Isaac is ‘a vulture’ of his own life
Apr 21, 2026
Oscar Isaac stars in season 2 of the Emmy-winning Netflix series ‘Beef,’ which is an anthology about the unexpected consequences of everyday conflict. Isaac plays Josh, the manager of an upscale Los…
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Malala Yousafzai
Apr 20, 2026
Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai spoke with Terry Gross about bravery, marriage, and defying cultural norms. She was 15 when a Taliban gunman shot her, in response to her advocacy for girls’…
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Best Of: Actor Amanda Peet / Re-examining Toni Morrison
Apr 17, 2026
Amanda Peet is in the new film ‘Fantasy Life’ and the series ‘Your Friends & Neighbors.’ In a recent piece in ‘The New Yorker,’ she wrote about being diagnosed with breast cancer while both of her…
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John Waters, 'Pope of Trash,' turns 80!
Apr 17, 2026
We celebrate the 80th birthday of the filmmaker known as ‘The Pope of Trash’ and ‘The Prince of Puke,’ John Waters. He's spent a career violating taboos and pushing boundaries. His films include the…
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Palestinian & Israeli activists share a vision of peace
Apr 16, 2026
Israeli Maoz Inon's parents were killed by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks. Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah's brother died after being tortured in an Israeli military prison. Their new book, ‘The Future Is…