LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: At the age of 94, director and author Peter Brook can genuinely be called a living legend. His career has stretched for over seven decades, from groundbreaking productions of Shakespeare to his nine-hour adaptation of the S...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you think Russia's influence in the last presidential election began in 2016, a new book argues that's wrong. In Blowout, journalist Rachel Maddow - yes, that Rachel Maddow, the MSNBC host - traces the rise of oil as a powerfu...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Hollywood has been churning out superhero origin stories for decades, but a new film flips the genre on its head, telling the origin story of a supervillain. Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix as the man who would become Batman's greate...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Mike Pompeo graduated first in his class at West Point in 1986, became a tank commander, went to Harvard Law, became a Beltway lawyer, Kansas businessman, congressman, CIA director and now secretary of state. There's no doubt West...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Today marks two years since the #MeToo movement burst into plain view with The New York Times reporting Harvey Weinstein. #MeToo has brought down hordes of powerful men accused of sexual misconduct. Many of them are now attempting...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: More than 200 years ago, scholars preserved the remains of an ancient scroll by gluing them onto cardboard. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Now this seemed like such a great idea, Audie, except there was writing on the back of the papyr...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The writer Lauren Groff wants you to know she is on a rescue mission. The object of her efforts is also a writer named Nancy Hale. If you've never heard of Nancy Hale, that is precisely the point. Hale published her first sho...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Award-winning actor James Franco has been named in a lawsuit alleging he and two other men ran an acting school that sexually exploited female students. The complaint was filed yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The plaintif...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So what do undecided voters want to hear directly from presidential candidates? We're hitting the road to find out this fall. And this week, NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host Lulu Garcia-Navarro went to San Antonio for a conversatio...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: How could a community grow in population while cutting carbon emissions? That is the challenge facing the whole planet in the fight against climate change. NPR's Dan Charles reports on how Penn State University is doing that. DAN...
RUND ABDELFATAH, HOST: Hey. It's Rund here. And this week, we wanted to revisit a conversation we had a few months ago that feels pretty timely. It's with the historian Brenda Wineapple. BRENDA WINEAPPLE: The author of the forthcoming book The Impeac...
NOEL KING, HOST: In Albany, Ga., a pioneering community land trust is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week. New Communities' land trust was created as a safe haven for black farmers during the civil rights movement. And today, it's helping rura...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Well, today is a first in the impeachment inquiry. The first State Department official will testify before three congressional committees behind closed doors. It is Kurt Volker, who is U.S. special envoy for Ukraine. He resigned l...
NOEL KING, HOST: In upstate New York, hundreds of former employees of a Catholic hospital have lost their pensions after their pension fund collapsed. Now, their situation illustrates a problem that is pretty widespread. Many religious organizations...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: There is an increasingly popular material that's used to make kitchen and bathroom countertops. It's a kind of artificial stone. And public health experts say it has been linked to deaths and lung injuries in workers who have cut...
