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How much money would it take to feel financially secure?
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- How much money would it take to feel financially secure? · 45 minPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mona Chalabi spent five years following 10 Americans living across the economic spectrum – from those living paycheck-to paycheck to top wage…
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- Novelist Min Jin Lee on the promise and perils of Western education · 44 minMin Jin Lee’s new novel American Hagwon is her first in nearly a decade. ‘Hagwon’ is the Korean term for private tutoring centers. It’s the third installment of a four-part…
- Jordan Firstman captures the highs and lows of being a ‘Club Kid’ · 44 minFirstman's new film, Club Kid, is about a gay party promoter whose life is upended when he discovers he has a young son. "Arlo teaches Peter to grow up, and I think Peter teaches…
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- Who benefits when massive AI data centers come to town? · 44 minFrom Virginia to Kansas, the battle over data centers has reached the ballot box this midterm election. Communities are voting on whether to limit or ban the massive facilities…
- How the killing of Jordan Neely on the NYC subway divided America · 44 minJordan Neely, a Black unhoused man in crisis, was frightening fellow passengers on the New York City Subway. A white former Marine named Daniel Penny put Neely into a chokehold…
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- 'New Yorker' cartoonists confess to nightmare kitchens · 45 minNew Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein confess to the horrors lurking behind their kitchen cabinets and refrigerator doors – and the comedy they find in…
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- Platinum songwriter Jimmy Webb · 44 minHall of Fame songwriter Jimmy Webb talks about writing some of the 1960s songs he’s best known for: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” and “MacArthur Park.” Now…
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- Meshell Ndegeocello turns familiar songs inside out · 45 minGrammy-winning singer, bassist, and composer Meshell Ndegeocello helped shape the sound that became known as "neo-soul," but she's spent more than three decades resisting the…
- Best Of: Mahershala Ali / Writer Yiyun Li · 48 minIn his new film, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali plays a devout Muslim father and hit man whose life is upended when he suddenly has to…
- Remembering Eva Marie Saint / 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50 · 46 minThe actor Eva Marie Saint died last week at age 102. She won an academy award for her first film role in On the Waterfront opposite Marlon Brando, and in Alfred Hitchcock's North…
- Inside the Musk/Bezos space race · 43 minAtlantic staff writer Josh Tyrangiel says Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos each want to colonize the moon, mine its resources and launch thousands more satellites -- but their only real…
- Why the Arctic is a new source of global tension · 45 minAs polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, making the region a new zone of super-power competition. Writer Rana Foroohar spoke with Dave Davies about the…
- After losing her sons, Yiyun Li learned to ‘suffer better’ · 44 minIf you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Li’s teenage sons both died by suicide six years…
- Mahershala Ali · 46 minIn his new action thriller, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Mahershala Ali plays a devout Muslim father and hit man whose life is upended when he suddenly has to care for…
- A John Prine Appreciation · 45 minPrine, who died in 2020, would’ve turned 80 this weekend. A five-day event in and around his native Chicago is underway, including a tribute concert. The beloved folk…
- Veteran White House reporter April Ryan’s ‘Blacklash’ · 44 minRyan has spent decades pressing presidents for answers. She talks about access, power, race and how asking questions put her in President Trump's crosshairs. She spoke with Tonya…
- How Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought the culture wars to the military · 45 minNew York Times military and Pentagon reporter Greg Jaffe says Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has disproportionately blocked promotions of Black and women senior officers, and…
- ‘Showbiz!’ entertainer Murray Hill became what he didn’t see · 44 minMurray Hill's character on HBO’s Somebody Somewhere, Fred Rococo, is a soil scientist trans man who hosts a queer cabaret. “[He] is me dialed down to like a 2,” he tells Terry…
- Michael Douglas · 45 minMichael Douglas is one of the most recognizable actors of our time, but in 1987, many still knew him as Kirk Douglas's son. That year, he starred in Fatal Attraction and Wall…
- Best Of: Kyle MacLachlan / Inside the ‘romance scam’ · 49 minKyle MacLachlan was just 23 when he auditioned for Lynch's adaptation of Dune. The two would go on to work together on the cult classics Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. “The worlds…
- Celebrating minimalist composer Steve Reich · 46 minOften called one of the fathers of minimalist music, Reich created a vocabulary that has influenced nearly every form of music: Classical, electronic, jazz, and pop. To…
- Sheryl Crow · 46 minThe Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has a new album, Pick You Up, out Oct. 9. She spoke with Fresh Air guest interviewer Sam Fragoso (Talk Easy) about touring with Michael…
- New drones, deadlier attacks: Dystopian reality in Ukraine · 46 minZanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist, is just back from her fourth visit to Ukraine. She says Russia has ramped up production of missiles and deadly drones…
- Mahmoud Khalil’s 104 days in ICE Detention · 45 minKhalil was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and fled the country at 18. He had a green card to be in the United States, and had become one of the most visible faces of…
- Kyle MacLachlan was David Lynch’s ‘submersible’ into dark places · 46 minMacLachlan was just 23 when he auditioned for Lynch's adaptation of Dune. The two would go on to work together on the cult classics Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. “The worlds that…
- Best Of: Rhiannon Giddens / Investigating Diddy’s Rise & Fall · 48 minRhiannon Giddens doesn’t usually make pop music, but she wrote and played the banjo riff on Beyoncé’s country single, “Texas Hold ‘Em.” She comes from the Black string band…
- Bluegrass virtuoso Billy Strings · 47 minThe Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist has one foot in traditional bluegrass and another in improvisational jam music. He has a new album, So Much for Goodbyes…
- Investigating the system that protected Sean “Diddy” Combs · 46 minSean Combs founded Bad Boy Records and spent three decades as one of the most powerful men in hip hop. Now he's serving a federal prison sentence. Rolling Stone reporter Cheyenne…
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- Inside the 'modern slavery' where cyber scammers are victims themselves · 46 minWIRED’s Andy Greenberg explains how a cybercrime operation in Southeast Asia trapped computer engineers into defrauding victims of billions of dollars. Plus he discusses the scam…
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- Actor Danielle Brooks has blessings to count · 45 minBrooks grew up in a church where her mom was a minister and her dad a deacon. She went on to play Taystee in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. Now she co-stars in the…
- Colin Kaepernick is still fighting – for justice and for his football career · 46 minIt has been 10 years since former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem, in protest of police brutality against Black people. Once the season…
- Best Of: Life in the Mojave Desert / Director of ‘The Uprising’ · 49 minAuthor Claire Vaye Watkins lives in the Mojave Desert, just like the protagonist in her new novel, Yellow Pine. In the book, it’s an area being developed by an energy company…
- Stories of survival & loss at Ground Zero · 46 minFor the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, we go into our archive for voices of those who were there. Deputy Fire Chief John “Jay” Jonas spoke with Terry Gross about being…
