Month: March 2025

Just because you are no longer a practicing Catholic doesn’t mean you can’t go to church and get your throat blessed, right?

President Trump will tour the Kennedy Center today and attend its board meeting, where reports say he may rejigger how the performing arts honorees are chosen.

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Ronald Osborne was a firefighter for many years. Early in his career, while battling a house fire, his life was in danger. It was another firefighter’s quick thinking that saved him.

Writer Clay Risen describes the anti-Communist frenzy that destroyed the careers of thousands of teachers, union activists and civil servants — and connects that era to our current political moment.

Each episode HBO’s The Pitt presents an hour of a shift in a Pittsburgh ER, while each episode of Netflix’s brilliant Adolescence considers the murder of a teenage girl from a different point of view.

​Big Balls: The TED Talk; Gay-Conversion Band Camp; an all-Nordic version of “TheWiz”—and more!

Less polite language on protest paddles, sick burns in the private Slack, and other techniques for sticking it to the Republican party.

The South African actor has been speaking out about racial injustice for decades, often in collaboration with the late playwright Athol Fugard. Kunene and the King is Kani’s latest project.

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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks with video game designer and UC Santa Cruz professor A.M. Darke, about her work on a new computer algorithm that more accurately illustrates Black hair.

NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Nancy Patula, of Palm Harbor, Florida, along with Weekend Edition puzzle master, Will Shortz.