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How the diesel shortage is being felt globally

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:36:00 +0000

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Bloomberg reporter Chunzi Xu about the state of gas and diesel prices across the country.

Life Kit: How to throw a theme party

Andee Tagle — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:36:00 +0000

NPR's Life Kit has tips for throwing a theme party that packs a punch, whatever the occasion.

Fresh Air Weekend: Steve Bannon’s Chinese Benefactor; Broadcaster Jemele Hill

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:59:00 +0000

New Yorker writer Evan Osnos traces the path of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. Maureen Corrigan reviews The Year of the Puppy, by Alexandra Horowitz. Hill looks back in the memoir Uphill.

‘Wait Wait’ for Oct. 29, 2022: With Not My Job guest Hasan Minhaj

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:58:00 +0000

Hasan Minhaj got his big break as a correspondent on The Daily Show, and since then has won a Peabody for his show Patriot Act. But, what does he know about Rob Gronkowski, a former Patriot who acts?

Fresh Air’s Halloween special, with horror masters Stephen King and Jordan Peele

Terry Gross — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:34:00 +0000

King talks about what terrified him as a child — and what frightens him as an adult. Peele talks about the fears that inspire his filmmaking. Originally broadcast in 1992, 2013 and 2017.

A director critically reexamines his 1980s childhood in ‘Armageddon Time’

Justin Chang — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:34:00 +0000

James Gray has made a loving re-creation of a time and place he knows well — but this is no rosy nostalgia trip. This film is a tough-minded movie about race, class, assimilation and white privilege.

Inside Initiative 82: Should D.C. end the tipped minimum wage?

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:06:42 +0000

Plus, Montgomery County Council Vice President Evan Glass (D-At Large) talks about passing Thrive Montgomery 2050, a contentious general plan.

Arena Stage’s Molly Smith reflects on choice, retirement, and her final act of theatrical protest

Rebecca Cooper — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 12:27:50 +0000

Audiences have until Nov. 6 to see "My Body No Choice" at Arena Stage, the last show that Smith is directing before she retires next year.

Lessons For The Media In An Anti-Democratic Age

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0000

Former Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan discusses her life in the news, and the role she thinks journalism should play in upholding American democracy.

In Knoxville, the burden of medical debt reinforces a long history of segregation

Noam Levey — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 22:46:00 +0000

Black communities in the U.S. suffer disproportionately from health care debt. The reasons go back to segregation and a history of racist policies that have limited Black wealth.