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It Is about Ukraine. It Isn’t About Ukraine.
Impeachment: A Daily Podcast
As House Dems pump the gas on the probe, and the Judiciary committee prepares for its second hearing on Monday, we look at the strategy that goes into drafting impeachment articles.
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Jamie Lee Curtis, the Original Scream Queen
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The actor, who shot to fame in “Halloween,” won’t watch a scary movie. Plus, Dexter Filkins talks to an embattled journalist about the brutality of India’s Hindu-nationalist regime. -
Fading Minds: Why there's still no cure for Alzheimer's
Specials
The larger story of the inflated hopes and maddening complexity of trying to end this disease.
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The Survivor: A Massive Sculpture From Syria Has Her Own Story to Tell
After three thousand years and hundred of hours of reconstruction, one of the most iconic objects excavated from Tell Halaf is now at the Met. -
Lessons From That Other Impeachment
On the Media
In recent months, analogies to the Clinton and Nixon eras have been frequent. But what about our first presidential impeachment? -
Jamie Lee Curtis, the Original Scream Queen
The New Yorker Radio Hour
The actor, who shot to fame in “Halloween,” won’t watch a scary movie. Plus, Dexter Filkins talks to an embattled journalist about the brutality of India’s Hindu-nationalist regime. -
Kirsten Gillibrand's Concern for U.S. Troops
The Brian Lehrer Show
2020 contender and New York senator wants to take back Congress' war powers -
Gunman In Naval Air Station Pensacola Attack Was A Saudi Aviation Student
Four people are dead and eight people were injured in the shooting. Deputies who responded to the scene engaged the attacker in a shootout in a classroom building.
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Donald Byrd's Theory of Disruption
A new dance opening tonight with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater tells the story of a race riot 98 years ago. -
'Made in Bangladesh' and the African Diaspora International Film Festival
All Of It
The director of the film "Made in Bangladesh" and the co-director of the African Diaspora International Film Festival. -
The 2019 #ShopListener Gift Guide
The Brian Lehrer Show
Listeners share their local businesses for our Holiday #ShopListener Gift Guide. - Edit Bucket
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The Double Standard In How The Media Covers 2020 Democratic Candidates
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How the media helped shape which candidates made it this far... and who didn't. -
Northwestern University Student Paper Sparks Debate About Student and Professional Journalism
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Recent events at Northwestern University have sparked a debate about student journalism. -
We Need To Talk About Poland
On the Media
A special hour with lessons on truth, conspiracy, history & the battle over the future.
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Weekly Music Roundup: Reggie Watts, Bonny Light Horseman, and Xenia Rubinos
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This week, new songs from the creator of Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell, late night TV show bandleader Reggie Watts, the mercurial Beck. Plus, new music from Xenia Rubinos and Antibalas. -
Rwandan Band The Good Ones Offers Strength and Peace
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The Good Ones are a band Rwandan genocide survivors who make acoustic folk songs. With intricate harmonies and unique instruments, the band performs their latest music, in-studio. -
L.A. Band La Santa Cecilia Sparks Joy With Salsa-Punk
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Los Angeles-based band La Santa Cecilia draws upon their Mexican-American roots, and dips into cumbia, jazz, rock, klezmer, as they see fit. They play new and old tunes, in-studio. -
Watch: Chamber Soul-Pop by yMusic and Emily King
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Prolific chamber sextet yMusic and pop-soul songwriter Emily King, present a one-of-a-kind collaboration that might meld orchestral instruments with contemporary R&B, in-studio. -
Drummer Marcus Gilmore Creates Continuous Melodies
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Drummer and composer Marcus Gilmore carries on the creative openness of his drum elders and underscores the drum set as melodic instrument (as augmented by Sunhouse Sensory Percussion.)
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Tues, Dec 17 | Get Lit with All of It: Little Women
Join Alison Stewart, host of WNYC’s All Of It, for the next installment in their monthly book club series featuring the perennial classic Little Women. Alison will be joined by bestselling authors Kate Bolick (Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own), and Anne Boyd Rioux (Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters) to discuss what has made this holiday favorite an intergenerational classic. Why do we still look at the March sisters as prototypes, and how will a new generation of readers react to the upcoming Greta Gerwig adaptation this Christmas?
Plus, a performance by Molly Burch! Buy a ticket for yourself and read along with Alison and Team All Of It, or buy a table and get your whole book club to come along!
