Episodes (Page 13)
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Peter Ames Carlin explores the making of Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run album, marking its 50th anniversary
Jennifer Senior
Peter Ames Carlin
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Eddie Palmieri, influential pianist and bandleader who shaped Afro-Caribbean music for decades, died at age 88
George Clinton
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Born to Run was a turning point for Springsteen and rock and roll, created during an existential moment when Columbia Records was near dropping him
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Sudan's conflict has displaced 14 million people through war and famine
Anne Applebaum
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Sarah Silverman's Netflix comedy special PostMortem was inspired by her parents' deaths and is cathartic in nature
Sarah Silverman
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Scott Anderson examines the 1979 Iranian revolution that transformed the country from a U.S. ally into an Islamic Republic
Scott Anderson
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Mariska Hargitay discusses her new documentary My Mom Jayne about her mother, actress Jayne Mansfield, who died in a car accident when Hargitay was 3
Marc Maron
Mariska Hargitay
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Rock historian Peter Guralnick discusses his new book The Colonel and the King about Elvis's longtime manager Colonel Tom Parker
Peter Guralnick
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Franklin Foer explains how SpaceX and the Trump administration are reshaping NASA's direction and priorities
Franklin Foer
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Marc Maron reflects on ending WTF after 16 years, emphasizing how the real conversations with guests have been spiritually nourishing
Marc Maron
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Mariska Hargitay was 3 years old when her mother, movie star Jayne Mansfield, died in a 1967 car crash
Mariska Hargitay
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Leslie Uggams, now 82, has had a remarkable career starting at age 6 and became the first Black woman to host a TV variety show
Leslie Uggams
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Lyricist Alan Bergman, who wrote famous songs like The Way We Were and The Windmills of Your Mind with wife Marilyn, died at age 99 after 60+ years of collaboration
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The Trump administration is pressuring elite universities with funding threats, and now investigating George Mason University, which President believes is backlash to DEI efforts
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Tech journalist Vauhini Vara fed chapters of her new book Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age to ChatGPT to analyze and critique the AI's writing advice
Vauhini Vara
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Leslie Uggams reflects on her decades-long career spanning from childhood performances through television variety shows to film roles
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Joseph Lee, an Aquinnah Wampanoag writer, explores Martha's Vineyard's Indigenous heritage beyond its celebrity image in Nothing More of This Land
Joseph Lee
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Stacey Abrams, known as a voting rights activist and former Georgia governor candidate, has written a thriller novel about a former Supreme Court clerk investigating murder at an AI company
Raphael Saadiq
Stacey Abrams
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Features interviews with baseball All Stars including pitcher Jamie Moyer, manager Tony La Russa, and slugger Mike Piazza discussing his confrontation with Roger Clemens in the World Series
Baseball All Stars
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Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media