Month: February 2026

The German practice of lüften, airing out your house, is becoming popular in the U.S. NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to Annette Baran from the Goethe Institute, and her husband Robert, about embracing lüften.

The first season of The Pitt was about acute problems. The second is about chronic ones.

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Julia Loktev’s documentary follows independent journalists covering the invasion of Ukraine. In Fear and Fury, historian Heather Ann Thompson revisits Bernhard Goetz’s shooting of four Black teens.

NPR reporters at the Milan opening ceremony layered up and took notes.

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On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don’t talk about. Melinda French Gates talks about learning to trust again after her divorce.

A mild-mannered young man enters into a dominant-submissive relationship with the leader of a gay biker gang. Pillion approaches the subject without judgment and with a great deal of sly humor.

We celebrate the Oscar-winning 1976 film by listening back to archival interviews with Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and actors Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks.

Early Super Bowl spots show advertisers want lots of buzz but not controversy.

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The three-day event is a chance for the top 10 skating countries to bring home a medal — and for viewers to get acquainted with the sport’s different disciplines and biggest names.

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A once anonymous R. Kelly survivor, Reshona Landfair is now ready to reclaim her voice.

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