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1Before 2026's midterms, President Trump wants to ban mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines, and change voting rules. Legal expert Richard Hasen discusses the future of free and fair elections in America. "What's it going to mean to have to stand up to the government to make sure that people have their right to vote?" Hasen says. "I think it's very unlikely that the president would say the elections are canceled, but there's lots of things he could do with his power, with the military, with his power over federal government machinery that can make it very difficult for some people to vote." Also, book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Patrick Ryan's novel Buckeye. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap sparked a new genre of satire. Now, more than 40 years later, the band is back in a new sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. "They have grown neither emotionally or musically," Reiner says. The filmmaker spoke with Terry Gross about When Harry Met Sally, growing up around comedy legends, and starring in Norman Lear's seminal sitcom All in the Family. Also, David Bianculli reviews the new comedy series The Paper. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
The Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist has one foot in traditional bluegrass and another in improvisational jam music. He has a new album, Live at the Legion, and he brought his guitar to our studio. He spoke with Sam Briger about healing himself through songwriting, performing the day his mom died, and how being a father has changed him as a musician. "I sing now from a place of freedom and joy in my belly," Strings says. Also, jazz critic Martin Johnson reviews an album from harpist Brandee Younger. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
At 87, Oscar-winning actor Jane Fonda is pouring her energy into activism. She’ll reflect on her decades-long career, and how she first began her fitness empire to fund her activist work. Also, we hear from Spike Lee. His latest film, Highest 2 Lowest, reimagines Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 classic High and Low, but through the lens of modern-day America and hip-hop culture. Both guests spoke with Tonya Mosley. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
After 11 seasons on ER, Noah Wyle thought he was finished with medical dramas: "I spent 15 years avoiding — actively avoiding — walking down what I thought was either hallowed ground or traveled road." But then COVID happened, and he felt compelled to tell more of these stories. He spoke with Dave Davies about the making of HBO's hit show The Pitt, the medical jargon, and his mom's feedback on the show.Justin Chang reviews the new film Caught Stealing, from director Darren Aronofsky.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta's new book examines the world of pain — why we feel it, and how we can treat it. He says distraction and meditation can be useful tools for managing pain. He spoke with Terry Gross about how the brain gets pain signals wrong, alternatives to painkillers, and how a family of circus performers inspired a new drug. Gupta's book is It Doesn't Have to Hurt.Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews the HBO series Task, by the creator of Mare of Easttown, starring Mark Ruffalo. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
We look at the stormy tenure of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg discusses how RFK Jr.'s cuts to government staff and expert groups will impact everyday Americans. A vaccine skeptic, Kennedy fired the CDC director last week. Also, John Powers reviews the Prime Video thriller series Butterfly, starring Daniel Dae Kim. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Earlier this year, Fonda made headlines for delivering a fiery critique of the Trump administration during a SAG-AFTRA award acceptance speech. "This is not the time to go inward," Fonda says. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about her career onscreen and off, as an activist. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
All week we're revisiting
archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and
R&B. We listen back to a 2000
interview with former teen idol Dion. Plus we’ll hear an interview Terry Gross
recorded in 1988 with New Orleans songwriter and producer Allen Toussaint. And
jazz critic Kevin Whitehead profiles
jazz saxophonist Art Pepper, who was born 100 years ago today. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key
figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. We listen back to a 1989 interview with singer and pianist
Charles Brown. Brown is
credited with creating an expressive style of music that blended rough Texas
blues with the soft glamour of Hollywood. And we revisit a 1998 interview with
soul singer Ray Charles, who helped shape American music, beginning with his
1955 hit, “I Got a Woman.”Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. Soul singer Ben E. King began his career in the ‘50s with The Drifters but it was the '61 hit "Stand by Me" that sealed his musical legacy. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1988. We also listen back to a 1991 interview with lyricist Jerry Leiber and composer Mike Stoller, who wrote and produced music for King. Plus, we'll revisit Terry Gross' 1993 interview with Jerry Wexler, the hitmaker who coined the term "rhythm and blues."Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. Singer, songwriter, producer and talent scout Johnny Otis got his start leading a big band that had the 1945 hit “Harlem Nocturne.” Later,
as a talent scout, he discovered such performers as Big Mama Thornton, Esther
Phillips and Etta James. James' career took off in the '60s with hits including “At Last," “A Sunday Kind of Love” and “I’d Rather Go Blind."Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. Sam Phillips discovered Elvis Presley and produced his first records, which many consider Elvis’ best. He also founded Sun Records and launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich and Johnny Cash. Cash is one of the most influential figures in country music. His collaboration with producer Rick Rubin, starting in the late 1990s, transformed Cash’s image and gained him a new, young audience. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
All week we're revisiting archival interviews with key figures in early rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B. We're kicking it off with Terry Gross's interviews with Elvis Presley's guitarist Scotty Moore, who tells stories about playing with the King and recording "Blue Suede Shoes." That song was written by rockabilly musician Carl Perkins, who also spoke with Terry about his career. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
We remember British actor Terence Stamp, who died last week at age 87. He starred in the film The Limey, as an ex-con out for revenge, and in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert as a transgender performer on the road with a lip-synch club act. Stamp got his start in the ’60s, starring in the films Billy Budd, Far From the Madding Crowd and The Collector. Stamp grew up in a working class cockney neighborhood and as a teenager, when he let it be known he wanted to be an actor, his father told him, "People like us don't do things like that." He spoke with Terry Gross in 2002.Also, film critic Justin Chang reviews the new hit horror film Weapons.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich served under President Clinton from 1993 to 1997. He opens his new memoir, Coming Up Short, with an apology on behalf of the Baby Boom generation for failing to build a more just society. Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews the books Pariah and The Dancing Face.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
The New Yorker’s Ruth Marcus says Bondi has presided over the DOJ's most convulsive transition of power since Watergate, aggressively reversing policies, investigating Trump’s foes and firing staff.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Spike Lee's new film, Highest 2 Lowest, centers on a music mogul (Denzel Washington) who faces a moral dilemma when kidnappers mistakenly hold his friend's son ransom instead of his own: Will he risk it all to save a child who isn't his? The Oscar-winning filmmaker spoke with Tonya Mosley about his decades-long partnership with Denzel, an upcoming docuseries about Hurricane Katrina, and Do The Right Thing, 35+ years later. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
The Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live cast member talks with Terry Gross about his favorite pop culture in the aughts, his SNL audition, and his recent trip to China. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Writer Thomas Mallon looks back on the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when he was in his 30s, living in Manhattan. His friends were sick or dead, and he was terrified that he’d die, too. Excerpts of his journals from those years are collected in The Very Heart of It. He'll also talk about his latest novel, Up with the Sun, based on the life and murder of a little-known gay actor from the 1950s and '60s.Also, we remember jazz singer Sheila Jordan, who died Monday at age 96. And Justin Chang reviews Spike Lee's new film, Highest 2 Lowest.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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fantastic episode!
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Also, many patients think benzos equal opioid and doctors are shy because of liability.
What I see in the last 10 years with younger adult women is that they are having more babies without any thought for the future and how they will provide for them. It’s crazy to me to keep having kids when they can’t afford the first one. It’s hard enough for younger adults to get by and have a job, a home and food for their kids. But yet they continue to have another and another. I wish schools would teach girls how easy it is to get pregnant and how they’d have to provide for them.
The grad speaker was a heroine!!!! And the positive reaction shows that she was not alone. I was active during the 70's and 80's when sex was NOT SHAMEFUL. I feel such sadness that these young women are being dragged back into the the dark ages of the 1950's.
This is a really interesting conversation but the vocal fry in the voice of the guest was really grating .
Excuse me, but who the fuck wants to hear about the future of maga?? We're ready for the demise!
No--hard NO. You ALL are disgusting on so many levels. we are slipping into authoritarianism and you're sensationalizing an ex-president with cancer...while the current president--who has more scandals of consequence in a single afternoon than Biden EVER did-- and whose actions are killing people every day. I just removed ALL CNN media from my feeds
Also, men are not a monolith. Talking about men as though we all share the same patriarchal beliefs and goals is a bit dishonest and is not going to help persuade any man on the fence to come to your way of thinking. this was not done so literally or directly, but it was certainly implied in a number of statements here. There's also a lack of admission that some of the public figures and writers that perpetuate the stereotypes or expectations mentioned in this episode are themselves women.
I feel like the host and the guests both miss the point of the fact that there were diary entries going back to the 1800s all with the same theme of girls pursuing whatever the ideal was at that time. To me, the fact that each of those decades had a different ideal, and yet the girls were all still doing the same thing means that pursuing an ideal version of yourself is more of a human trait and not something that is exclusive to women.
What are ANY of these crazy lunatics doing to make the Earth a better place to be? A place women actually want to bring children into?
Teachers and doctors have no problem suggesting any adhd meds and especially in grade school. There’s so much more than adhd meds to deal with adhd or add. Especially in grade school meds are really pushed to keep the kids from fidgeting and not sitting still all day. Drs and teachers really need to learn how to approach children and their opinions on adhd meds.
Because I wasn't "hyperactive", I was teased by the cousins, etc. and punished by my understand ably clueless parents for being " absent minded " careless " lazy " "tardy". Meanwhile Stanford Benet said 149 IQ. Teacher strike destroyed my referral to the only Gifted/Talented (That's what they used to call it) program in the parish. I am living to my full potential now,, but it needn't have been so hard to get here if I had only been diagnosed when girls weren't considered hyperactive.
I wonder my potential as a female in the '70s undiagnosed ADD impulsive type. I'm grateful my family MD recognized it in my 30s. Meds AND systems in place (e.g.spiral keyring on my elbow loading/unloading car prevent locked keys in car, white board checklist, stickies could have changed my life alone) Diagnosed, got AAS. COTA/ age 47. Meds and behavior systems in place can coexist without all the judgement. BTW, don't need meds now but will never rule out arbitrarily without an expert opine
In an odd way this was comforting to learn that there is heartfelt conviction behind this project rather than just the insatiable ego of one unhealthy man. That aside, what has caused me the most anguish is the Nazi-ish power and cruelty of ICE and the lack of our constitutionally enshrined and rightfully cherished due process for the "others" who are being deported. Is white supremacy and the creation of a secret police part of Project 2025?
Also that this episode focuses only on medication is an oversimplification of what we currently know about treatment of ADHD. It takes a multi-modal approach to improve outcomes. For some people, medication is a part of that, but for others it is not. Other important things are strategies and tools for managing tasks and emotional regulation, physical exercise, nutrition, sleep, the flexibility to use unconventional strategies/accomodations at school and work.
I think one of the issues with focusing on kids is that research has to focus on what the symptoms and behavior looks from the outside. Someone may look like they aren't that impaired from the outside, but might really be struggling inside. Even when it comes to choosing the right medication. There can be a difference between what the parents and teachers feel like is the best result, vs what the kid actually feels is the best result.
Did he run what he said by his wife
did he run what he said by his wife
No thanks, too pissed for me.