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On today’s show: New Yorker contributor Andrew Solomon talks about his conversations with Peter Lanza, father of Adam Lanza, who killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Harper’s contributor Justine van der Leun tells us about spending two years getting to know the people living in a township outside Cape Town, South Africa. For our new series Strapped: A Look at Poverty in America, Sasha Abramsky and Chris Wimer talk about about how we have defined poverty over time. And Mohsin Hamid discusses his novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.

Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

From sports to professional and life coaches, today’s entire show is about coaching. We’ll hear from you on what made your most beloved coaches so good at the job, and what was lacking in the not so great ones. Are coaches responsible for the health of their players? And do they have an obligation to not put their egos first? Stefan Fatsis of Slate and NPR considers these questions, from the little leagues on up to the professional level. Plus: New York Times Magazine critic Sam Anderson on how the most successful sports coaches tend to emphasize more than just athleticism; a life coach explains life and career coaching; and a coach and teacher Natalie Randolph on her experience as one of the first women to be head coach of a high school football team. 

The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

In this episode: When the members of Run-DMC wrote “My Adidas” -- an ode to their sneakers of choice -- back in 1986, they weren’t trying to broker a corporate sponsorship. But they got one anyway, making history as the first-ever hip hop group to get an endorsement deal by a major corporation. It’s just one of the stories told in the VH1 documentary The Tanning Of America, based on the book of the same name by Steve Stoute. We talk with the marketing firm CEO and former music executive about how the American economy came to embrace hip hop culture.

Then: New York rapper Le1f talks about tricking Das Racist into rapping over voguing beats, his non-beef with Macklemore, and performs tracks off of his new EP, Hey, in the Soundcheck studio.

And: A hip hop edition of Soundcheck's series, That Was a Hit?!?, about the surprising pop chart success of a song by the rapper Candyman that became a phenomenon in 1990.

Hear new music for trumpet from a collaboration by Volker Goetze & Ablaye Cissoko for trumpet and kora featuring their tribute to “Haiti” on this New Sounds show.  Also, listen to works by Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen, and by the American trumpet manipulator Jon Hassell.  Plus, hear one of the stranger works written for trumpet by La Monte Young from a concert recording made by WNYC in 1993, the "Melodic Version of the Second Dream of the High Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from the Four Dreams of China."  That, and more.