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Asylum Seekers May Face More Danger in Mexico as Border Patrol Begins Screenings
The Takeaway
The Remain in Mexico policy change is also placing migrants in danger.
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Ideas Festival 2020: Letting Prisoners Vote
The Brian Lehrer Show
In democracies around the world, felons vote. Now that Bernie Sanders has made this a 2020 campaign issue, we kick off our "Ideas Festival" series with a look at how this would work. -
De Blasio Donors Face Their Own 2020 Decision
If Mayor Bill de Blasio makes his bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination official, he’s not the only one making big decisions. His donors also have choices to make.
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China Puts New Tariffs On $60 Billion Of U.S. Goods, And Stock Prices Reel
U.S. stock markets plunged on the news, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by more than 600 points, or 2.4%, for the day. -
Executive Privilege Fight Inches Democrats Closer To Impeachment
Congressional Democrats are warming to the idea of beginning impeachment proceedings if it is a mechanism to get the Trump administration to cooperate with their oversight efforts. -
Newark Is Seeing a Surge of Brazilian Asylum-Seekers
More migrants are fleeing economic hardship in Brazil, and they're finding an established Brazilian community in Newark. But they may not be able to stay. -
Bill Expanding New York City's Speed Camera Program Signed Into Law
After the bill stalled in Albany last year, the legislation now reinstates, and greatly expands, a program that supporters say has reduced traffic fatalities by 55 percent. -
Mayor Charles Evers, Mississippi 1969
Fifty years ago this month Charles Evers was elected Mayor of Fayette, Mississippi, surmounting the state's entrenched system of African-American voter suppression.
Arts and Culture
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Did This Novel About LSD Trials Get It Right? We Ask Someone Who Was There
T.C. Boyle's Outside Looking In fictionalizes Timothy Leary's hallucinogenic drug experiments in the 1960s. A graduate student who participated says Boyle did a "great job describing the zeitgeist." -
Carrie Battan on the Sudden Success of SoundCloud Rap
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Once a marginal, willfully weird genre for amateurs, SoundCloud rap has lately created some of the biggest hits in hip-hop. -
'Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics And Men'
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Director Sacha Jenkins on new docuseries "Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics And Men" - Edit Bucket
Tech and Media
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Trump's Financial House of Cards
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After a bombshell report from the New York Times, we go back to the origin myth of Trump's success. -
San Francisco Police Raid Journalist's Home After He Refuses To Name Source
Police obtained a warrant to search the home of freelance videographer Bryan Carmody as part of an investigation into a leaked police report concerning the death of public defender Jeff Adachi. -
Conan O'Brien Settles Joke Theft Lawsuit — And Makes Fun Of NPR's New Music
"Short of murder, stealing material is the worst thing any comic can be accused of," O'Brien writes. The case was due to go to a jury trial within weeks.
Music For Your Day
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Weekly Music Roundup: Philip Bailey and Lila Downs
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Week of May 13: This week, looking back to the 70s with Philip Bailey of Earth Wind & Fire, Lila Downs, and Doomsquad. Plus Flying Lotus teams up with Anderson .Paak, and more. -
Watch: Combo Chimbita Channels the Spirits Via Latinx Psych-Funk
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Hear tropical psych-rock from Combo Chimbita, a quartet based in New York City by way of Colombia. They bring their future-funk-trancey-cumbia dance party to play in-studio. -
#4234: New Works By Composers Who Happen to Be Women
New Sounds
Listen to new music by saxophonist/composer Shelley Washington and songs by German composer Alev Lenz, featuring the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Plus works by Kelly Moran and Nicole Lizée. -
Watch: Intimate Atmospheric Pop by Helado Negro
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Songwriter and electronic musician Helado Negro makes spacey folky electro-pop that pulses with gentle power. He performs music from his latest, 'This Is How You Smile', in-studio. -
Watch: Cosmic Funk by The Comet Is Coming
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London-based trio The Comet Is Coming makes rooms of people dance, incorporating electronic music, hip hop, psych, and rock. They play their sweaty cosmic funky dance jazz, in-studio.
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Mon, May 20 | Black Icons of Podcasting: Tracy Clayton
You may recognize her as half of the much-loved BuzzFeed podcast Another Round, or the brand new Netflix podcast Strong Black Legends.
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Tues, May 21 | A Night of Muslim Dramas
For this special Ramadan installment of Micropolis, we are showcasing some of the best, most provocative recent works of theater and TV starring and written by Muslim-Americans.
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Fri, May 31 | The Takeaway: Politics With Amy Walter
On the one year anniversary of the launch of Politics with Amy Walter from The Takeaway, the show takes a look back at the history of the electoral college.
