NPR14 hours agoHow the Trump White House misled the world about its family separation policyverified_publisherNPR - Terry GrossThe Atlantic's Caitlin Dickerson spent 18 months filing lawsuits for documents to put together the story of the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the border. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. "The Secret History Of The U.S. Government's …
NPR1 day agoAfter a career of cracking cold cases, investigator Paul Holes opens upverified_publisherNPR - Dave DaviesVeteran cold-case investigator Paul Holes spent decades working California crime scenes. He played a critical role in identifying former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. as the so-called Golden State Killer, a notorious serial predator who was responsible for at least 13 murders and 50 …
NPR2 days agoHow the Republican Party came to embrace conspiracy theories and denialismverified_publisherNPR - Terry GrossWashington Post columnist Dana Milbank examines how the GOP got to where it is today, with some elected leaders and candidates still endorsing the lie that Trump won. His book is The Destructionists. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I am Terry Gross. In his new book, "The Destructionists: The …
NPR2 days ago'The Last White Man' spins a deft, if narrow, fantasy about identityverified_publisherNPR - Maureen Corrigan"People are changing," says a character in Mohsin Hamid's new novel, The Last White Man. To fans of weird tales, those are deliciously ominous words, because out-of-control change is at the root of fantasies like Invasion of the Body-Snatchers, Dracula and Hamid's most direct inspiration, Kafka's …
NPR3 days ago'Lord of the Flies' with teen girls? 'Yellowjackets' actor leans into the roleverified_publisherNPR - Ann Marie BaldonadoActor Melanie Lynskey is still intimately connected with her inner, awkward teen. "I wasn't a very light teenager. I was quite sort of depressed a lot of the time," Lynskey says. "If you've ever been shy, if you've ever been awkward, it's almost impossible to stop feeling that way." Lynskey gets to …
NPR3 days ago'Reservation Dogs,' now in Season 2, remains one of the most original shows on TVverified_publisherNPR - John PowersWe all want to tell our own stories — not have them told by people who don't understand us or take our lives seriously. But that is often the fate that Native Americans have had to endure for countless decades. So when Reservation Dogs came out last year, the series was rightly hailed as …
