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The House is set to vote Tuesday to end President Trump’s border wall emergency. It’s Election Day in Chicago, voters select a new mayor. And, Walmart is eliminating is greeter positions.
David Greene talks to D’Angelo McDade, executive director of Chicago anti-violence group the Peace Warriors, about his work with student activists from Parkland, Fla.
Simone Biles has made public her account of sexual assault by an ex-doctor with USA Gymnastics. David Greene talks to Mark Alesia, of The Indianapolis Star, about proceedings against Larry Nassar.
Vanna White has spent the last 35 years turning letters on the game show Wheel of Fortune. She says her job can seem silly, but she loves it: “You can’t solve the puzzle if I don’t turn the letter!”
Jason Reynolds’ new book follows a 15-year-old who must make a crucial decision after the murder of his brother, all in the time it takes for an elevator to travel 60 seconds to the ground floor.
David Greene traveled to Shelbyville, Tenn., to see how the White Lives Matter rally was experienced by two very different people in the small town.
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Jason Reynolds’ new book follows a 15-year-old who must make a crucial decision after the murder of his brother, all in the time it takes for an elevator to travel 60 seconds to the ground floor.
In the next chapter of the sci-fi Netflix series, out Friday, the show’s central children begin to grow up. Brothers Matt and Ross Duffer discuss their instant cult classic.
The actor’s new collection of short fiction — his debut book as an author — is called Uncommon Type, and each story has something to do with the machine close to his heart.
Though he said he was retiring in 2012, Jackie Chan is back in The Foreigner, his first American action movie in seven years. But what he really wants is to “make a drama film without one punch.”
Stock prices have more than tripled since the bull market began in 2009. David Greene talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution.
Dean says he sees echoes of the Watergate scandal in the Trump administration: “We wrote what you shouldn’t do. We wrote the book on it. And Trump doesn’t even seem to know what happened.”
Nolan’s latest film marks the first time he has tackled a true story: the heroic evacuation of British troops by civilians in small boats at the beginning of World War II.
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art can only display a fraction of its collection at any given time. Now, you can text a word or emoji and the museum will send back a corresponding work of art.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is repealing Obama-era regulations for Internet providers. He tells NPR he prefers taking targeted action against actual harms, not preemptively regulating hypothetical ones.
Bush has dedicated billions to combat AIDS in Africa and recently traveled to the continent. If nothing had been done about the pandemic during his time in office, he said, “I would’ve been ashamed.”
Marin (who has been collecting Chicano art for years) writes about the art of Cheech and Chong’s comedy in Cheech Is Not My Real Name ... But Don’t Call Me Chong!
Stephin Merritt — by his own estimation, “the least confessional singer-songwriter in history” — unpacks his most confessional work.