Election experts share concerns about the midterms
Ahead of the midterms, we talk with two election experts about President Trump’s efforts to interfere with voting. Richard Hasen, director o...
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Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross, the show features inti...
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David Treuer traces America's relationship with violence back to the frontier
Ojibwe writer David Treuer’s new book, The Savage Mind: An American Legacy , is written as a letter to his three children. It examines how t...
Meshell Ndegeocello turns familiar songs inside out
Grammy-winning singer, bassist, and composer Meshell Ndegeocello helped shape the sound that became known as "neo-soul," but she's spent mor...
Best Of: Mahershala Ali / Writer Yiyun Li
In his new film, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother , Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali plays a devout Muslim father and hit man whose lif...
Remembering Eva Marie Saint / 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50
The actor Eva Marie Saint died last week at age 102. She won an academy award for her first film role in On the Waterfront opposite Marlon B...
Inside the Musk/Bezos space race
Atlantic staff writer Josh Tyrangiel says Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos each want to colonize the moon, mine its resources and launch thousands m...
Why the Arctic is a new source of global tension
As polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, making the region a new zone of super-power competition. Writer Rana Forooh...
After losing her sons, Yiyun Li learned to ‘suffer better’
If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline . Li’s teenag...
Mahershala Ali
In his new action thriller, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Mahershala Ali plays a devout Muslim father and hit man whose life is upend...
A John Prine Appreciation
Prine, who died in 2020, would’ve turned 80 this weekend. A five-day event in and around his native Chicago is underway, including a tribute...
Veteran White House reporter April Ryan’s ‘Blacklash’
Ryan has spent decades pressing presidents for answers. She talks about access, power, race and how asking questions put her in President Tr...
How Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought the culture wars to the military
New York Times military and Pentagon reporter Greg Jaffe says Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has disproportionately blocked promotions of...
‘Showbiz!’ entertainer Murray Hill became what he didn’t see
Murray Hill's character on HBO’s Somebody Somewhere , Fred Rococo, is a soil scientist trans man who hosts a queer cabaret. “[He] is me dial...
Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas is one of the most recognizable actors of our time, but in 1987, many still knew him as Kirk Douglas's son. That year, he st...
Best Of: Kyle MacLachlan / Inside the ‘romance scam’
Kyle MacLachlan was just 23 when he auditioned for Lynch's adaptation of Dune . The two would go on to work together on the cult classics Bl...
Celebrating minimalist composer Steve Reich
Often called one of the fathers of minimalist music, Reich created a vocabulary that has influenced nearly every form of music: Classical, e...
Sheryl Crow
The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has a new album, Pick You Up , out Oct. 9. She spoke with Fresh Air guest interviewer Sam Fragoso ( Tal...
New drones, deadlier attacks: Dystopian reality in Ukraine
Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist , is just back from her fourth visit to Ukraine. She says Russia has ramped up produc...
Mahmoud Khalil’s 104 days in ICE Detention
Khalil was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and fled the country at 18. He had a green card to be in the United States, and had b...
Kyle MacLachlan was David Lynch’s ‘submersible’ into dark places
MacLachlan was just 23 when he auditioned for Lynch's adaptation of Dune . The two would go on to work together on the cult classics Blue Ve...