Month: June 2025

NPR’s Anastasia Tsioulcas discusses the closing arguments in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of hip hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.

NPR’s Andrew Limbong leads a conversation about what constitutes a great premise for a movie – and why a good one sticks with you, even if the film doesn’t.

The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers “to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines” garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.

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NPR’s Scott Simon remembers the astonishing career of former White House press secretary and long-time public broadcasting journalist Bill Moyers, who died this week at the age of 91.

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Filmmakers stuff the killer-robot sequel with extraneous plot threads, but preserve the B-movie appeal of the original.

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This week, we’re live in Portland with special guest Anna Kendrick and panelists Paula Poundstone, Karen Chee, and Josh Gondelman

In the Bay Area, a number of drag artists have started incorporating climate action into their performances. They say the art form is a natural vehicle for the message, given its roots in activism.

After surviving many close calls as a war correspondent, Norland was diagnosed with a lethal brain tumor in 2019. He died June 22. In this 2024 interview, he reflected on facing mortality.

Hulu’s Emmy Award-winning series about a restaurant in Chicago returns for Season 4, with a cast of emotionally real characters and a set of writers determined to defy expectations.

Guy was one of the first guitarists to use electronic feedback and distortion. Now, at age 88, he has a cameo in Ryan Coogler’s supernatural horror film Sinners. Originally broadcast in 1993.