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Journalists Ryan Mac and Kate Conger talk about the chaos Elon Musk created inside Twitter, how Musk

James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mafusa in The Lion King, and once the

Democrats and Republicans learned from the legal fight over the 2020 elections, New York Times repor

After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk instituted sweeping changes. He laid off or fired about 75%

Investigative journalist Jessica Pishko says that a growing group of "constitutional sheriffs" have

The After Midnight host was initially unsure about sharing her bipolar II diagnosis on-stage. But, s

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's new memoir, Lovely One, gives us a rare glimpse into h

25 years ago, The Sopranos premiered on HBO and changed expectations of what TV could be. There's a

New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick says anti-fascists are using extra judicial methods to do what t

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talks with Tonya Mosley about her teen years, her time a

Novelist Danzy Senna spoke with Terry Gross about racial identity, growing up with a Black father an

To wrap up our series, we're closing with director Spike Lee and actor Samuel L. Jackson. Lee spoke

In 2022, E.T. and Jaws director Steven Spielberg talked about how he fell in love with film, and how

The 1964 spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars turned Clint Eastwood into a star. He had a famous s

We continue our Classic Films and Movie Icons series and feature archival interviews with Dennis Hop

Our special series of archival interviews continues with two of the GOATs: Meryl Streep, the actor w

We continue our Classic Films and Movie Icons series with two performers who gained fame as kids: Br

From now through Labor Day we're featuring interviews from our archive with great actors and directo

We begin our series celebrating classic movies with Terry Gross' 1988 interview with On the Waterfro

We remember Phil Donahue, the daytime talk show host who pioneered thoughtful discussions on controv