Month: September 2022

Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy, a party with neo-fascist roots, has claimed victory in a general election, making her Italy’s first female prime minister and installing the most far-right government since the fascist era of Benito Mussolini. What do you think?

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MOUNT PLEASANT, SC—Remarking that at the very least she should have begun to fear for her safety, local man James Weir told reporters this week that he was a little insulted by how unthreatened the woman walking alone in front of him seemed. “I know it’s wrong, but I can’t help but feel a little weird about the fact…

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You look successful enough to afford private sessions! What did you say you do, again? A comedy writer—wow!

After two years of pandemic closures, audiences are back at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to find a season of diverse plays. But for many, change has come too soon.

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Ned Fulmer was an original member of The Try Guys, a group that attracted a large YouTube following by trying unusual antics. Now he has departed the group following revelations of infidelity.

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NPR’s Juana Summers talks with Namwali Serpell about her new novel — The Furrows: An Elegy.

NPR’s Ailsa Chang chats with Brandon Kyle Goodman about their new book You Gotta Be You: How to Embrace This Messy Life and Step Into Who You Really Are.

The massive sound of The Aristocrat of Bands, a highly respected HBCU marching band, and the overflowing history of gospel combine on a single album (with a great title) — ‘The Urban Hymnal.’

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