Month: October 2025

NPR’s Mia Venkat explains to Scott Detrow what the internet couldn’t stop talking about this week.

Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States.

(Image credit: Ivan Kashinsky)

Uno de los géneros más escuchados en las Américas, los fotógrafos Karla Gachet e Iván Kashinsky documentan la cumbia en Colombia, México, Ecuador, Perú, Argentina y Estados Unidos.

(Image credit: Ivan Kashinsky)

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow’s new Netflix film. It’s an unnerving scenario — but it’s also thrilling to watch.

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That room was where I slept and changed clothes for more than a decade, but it was also the processing plant for every thought and feeling that entered my little brain.

Roberts plays a Yale professor whose life unravels after one of her colleagues is accused of sexually assaulting a student. After the Hunt is an academic potboiler that muddles its central issue.

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President Trump is deploying National Guard troops to U.S. cities, erasing “woke” in the military and striking alleged drug boats off Venezuela. The Atlantic‘s Nancy Youssef discusses what this means.

ICE wants YOU to put your LEFT foot in then put your LEFT foot out then DO the hokeypokey and TURN IN your brother-in-law whom YOU didn’t realize THIS would AFFECT.

The Hungarian writer, known for his apocalyptic works, has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in literature. He joins the ranks of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Toni Morrison.

Alysia Abbott’s memoir about growing up in 1970s San Francisco with her gay, single father, has been adapted into a film directed by Andrew Durham and produced by Sofia Coppola.