'Soul Of America' Makes Sense Of Nation's Present By Examining Its Past
Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross who's preparing for a WHYY event today. Our guest presidential...
View ArticleKeith Hernandez On Baseball, 'Seinfeld' And Being His Own 'Worst Enemy'
Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. You might know our guest, Keith Hernandez, as a...
View ArticleObama Staffer Looks Back On His White House Years: 'It Can Take A Real Toll'
Ben Rhodes was 24 years old and working on a city council campaign in Brooklyn on Sept. 11, 2001, when a hijacked plane hit the World Trade Center. He stood on the street, watching with a group of...
View ArticleFormer FBI Counter-Terrorism Agent Reflects On 'Messing With The Enemy'
Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. My guest Clint Watts has spent a fair chunk of...
View Article'I Could Never Fake It': Nick Offerman On Striving For Nonchalance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrLZgP-OR6s Nick Offerman has made a career out of playing colorful cranks — most notably, Ron Swanson, the hyper-masculine boss on the NBC comedy series Parks and...
View Article'Fresh Air' Remembers Anthony Bourdain, A Chef Devoted To Global Street Food
Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross, who's away this week. Like so many, we were shocked today to learn of...
View ArticleJournalist Warns Cyber Attacks Present A 'Perfect Weapon' Against Global Order
Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's away today. The day before Christmas Eve in 2015, the lights...
View ArticleBehind Bars, Mentally Ill Inmates Are Often Punished For Their Symptoms
By some accounts, nearly half of America's incarcerated population is mentally ill — and journalist Alisa Roth argues that most aren't getting the treatment they need. Roth has visited jails in New...
View ArticleHow Dark Money, Gerrymandering And Democratic Complacency Altered Wisconsin...
Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton was so confident of carrying Wisconsin...
View ArticleAccused Russian Agent Maria Butina's Story Reveals Pro-Putin Views In The U.S.
Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who is giving the keynote address at the Podcast Movement conference,...
View ArticleJournalist Held Captive By Pirates Says Focus And Forgiveness Were Crucial
Kidnapped by Somali pirates, journalist Michael Scott Moore spent two and half years in captivity. At times he was held on land, other times at sea. Once, when he was on a 160-foot tuna boat, he tried...
View ArticleTony Shalhoub On 'Mrs. Maisel' And Questioning His Worth As An Actor
Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross who's off this week. Our guest today, actor Tony Shalhoub, has been...
View ArticleScientists Are 'Spying On Whales' To Learn How They Eat, Talk And ... Walked?
We think of whales as creatures of the sea, but scientists now believe that 40 million to 50 million years ago, whales had four legs and lived at least part of their lives on land. "We can tell that...
View ArticleIn The Wake Of Charlottesville, Journalist Begins 'Documenting Hate' In America
Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. The rage and violence that marked the Unite The...
View ArticleDispatches From A 'Dopesick' America
There's no shortage of statistics about the depth of America's opioid epidemic — there were 72,000 overdose deaths just last year — but numbers don't tell the whole story. Beth Macy takes a...
View ArticleHow An Israeli Journalist's Coverage Of The Palestinian Conflict Inspired...
Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. If you were a fan of "The Wire," the HBO series that took viewers inside the lives of...
View Article'The Crown' Creator Sees Britain's Royals As 'Just A Regular Family'
Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Let's continue our series of Emmy nominees. The Netflix drama series "The Crown" is nominated for 13...
View ArticleNeil DeGrasse Tyson Examines The 'Unspoken Alliance' Between Science And War
Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. This summer when President Trump proposed a sixth branch of the U.S. military called the...
View ArticleThe Central Question Behind Facebook: 'What Does Mark Zuckerberg Believe In?'
Last week, Facebook announced the most serious security breach in its history, in which unknown hackers were able to log onto the accounts of nearly 50 million Facebook users. That breach was just one...
View ArticleThe 'Weaponization' Of Social Media — And Its Real-World Consequences
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