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David Bowie
August 25, 2023 15:59 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBIt's been 50 years since David Bowie retired his famous alter-ego Ziggy Stardust onstage, stunning his fans and some of his bandmates. The film capturing that performance, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, has been restored and reissued. Bowie spoke with Terry Gross in 2002. Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new album of Verdi choruses, and Justin Chang reviews Bottoms. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Ronan Farrow On Elon Musk's Influence In Ukraine
August 24, 2023 19:08 - 45 minutes - 42.3 MBThe New Yorker writer says Elon Musk's Starlink satellites are key to providing internet to Ukraine in its war with Russia, giving Musk an influence that's "more like a nation state than an individual." Farrow won a Pulitzer for his 2017 exposé of Harvey Weinstein. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Biggie's Life & Legacy
August 23, 2023 19:43 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBJournalist Justin Tinsley discusses the life and legacy of Biggie Smalls, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in 1997: "You can't talk about the story of hip-hop without mentioning the name Biggie Smalls." Tinsley's book is It Was All A Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him. And John Powers reviews the Japanese TV series Midnight Diner. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Historian & Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust
August 22, 2023 19:54 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBGrowing up in the South, Drew Gilpin Faust rejected the narrative she was fed about slavery and the Civil War. She writes about her journey to activism and becoming the first woman president of Harvard University in Necessary Trouble. She spoke with Terry Gross about being groomed to be a Southern lady, affirmative action, and why we need to confront our uncomfortable past. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
'Louder Than A Riot' Co-Hosts Examine Misogyny In Hip-Hop
August 21, 2023 19:24 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBAs hip-hop marks its 50th anniversary, Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael, the co-hosts of the NPR podcast Louder Than A Riot, are taking a hard look back — and ahead — at a genre that male artists and hyper-masculine lyrics once dominated. The first season of Louder Than A Riot investigated the connection between hip-hop and mass incarceration. In its second and final season, the podcast examines the misogynoir that has long plagued the genre— and highlights artists that are pushing back. C...
Best Of: Christopher Nolan / R. Eric Thomas
August 19, 2023 12:15 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBChristopher Nolan's new film Oppenheimer is about the man who's known as the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. "Like it or not, we live in Oppenheimer's world and we always will," Nolan says. We also hear from humorist R. Eric Thomas. His new book of essays is called Congratulations, the Best Is Over! In it, Thomas explores what it's like to move back to his hometown of Baltimore as a middle-aged man. Later, Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel by James McBride. Learn mo...
'Reservation Dogs' Co-Creator Sterlin Harjo / Remembering William Friedkin
August 18, 2023 19:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBThe FX/Hulu series Reservation Dogs follows four teens on an Oklahoma Indian reservation who are frustrated and alienated, caught between what's left of traditional Native culture on the reservation and the broader pop culture. Co-creator and showrunner Sterlin Harjo spoke with Terry Gross last year about his own upbringing in Indian Territory. The show is now in its third and final season. Also, we listen back to an archival interview with Exorcist director William Friedkin. He died Augus...
Prisoners Find Rehabilitation & Redemption Through Music
August 17, 2023 18:51 - 44 minutes - 41 MBCriminal justice reporter Maurice Chammah recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about the power of music programs in prison. He says at a time when the criminal system is at an impasse, music, and art can cultivate hope and dignity for prisoners and possibly change how we think about the people who make it. "It allows you to really hold in your mind anger about a crime, and then separately an understanding that this is a human being and there's more to say about them than their crim...
Humorist R. Eric Thomas Wonders If The 'Best Is Over'
August 16, 2023 18:57 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBPlayrwright and humorist R. Thomas' new book, Congratulations, the Best Is Over!, is about middle age, and what it was like to reluctantly return to his hometown of Baltimore as an adult — when both he and the city had changed. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about life transitions, church, and why he doesn't want to talk about The Wire. Also, jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a new Blue Note box set by pianist Sonny Clark. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoic...
School Integration & The Achievement Gap In Shaker Heights
August 15, 2023 19:32 - 45 minutes - 42.8 MBWashington Post reporter Laura Meckler tells the story of Shaker Heights, Ohio, a town with high-performing, diverse schools — and also a pronounced achievement gap between white and Black students. Meckler's book is Dream Town. John Powers reviews Naomi Hirahara's mystery novel Evergreen. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Christopher Nolan On 'Oppenheimer'
August 14, 2023 19:01 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBChristopher Nolan talks about writing and directing the new film Oppenheimer, about the man who's known as the father of the atom bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Nolan also directed the WWII movie Dunkirk, The Dark Knight, and Inception. The film is about Oppenheimer's leading role in the race to develop the bomb before the Nazis. But after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he became an arms control advocate, opposed building the hydrogen bomb, and was targeted during the anti-communist witch hunts of the...
Best Of: Pianist Jason Moran / Author Andre Dubus III
August 12, 2023 12:08 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBPianist Jason Moran joins us at the piano to play his take on the WWI-era music of James Reese Europe. And we'll hear from writer Andre Dubus III. His new novel, Such Kindness, asks how a person gets on with life after an accident that leads to disability and flames of chronic pain. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Looking Back On The U.S. Bombing Of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
August 11, 2023 18:00 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MB78 years ago this week atomic bombs destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — and questions linger about the U.S. decision to use the weapons. For the anniversary, we're revisiting archival interviews about the bombings. Author and psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton says American justifications are based on a myth. Writer Evan Thomas concludes using the weapons likely saved countless lives — including Japanese soldiers and civilians. And Lesley M.M. Blume focuses on what U.S. mili...
Uncovering The Story Of An Institutionalized Family Member
August 10, 2023 19:20 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MBPulitzer Prize-winning writer Jennifer Senior shares the pain of her family in a new piece for The Atlantic titled, "The Ones We Sent Away." In it, Senior tells the story of her Aunt Adele, who was institutionalized for her entire life because of her intellectual and developmental disability, beginning at 21 months old. Senior found out about her aunt when she herself was 12, believing up until then that her mother was an only child. Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews the new season of ...
A Memoir Of Kidnapping
August 09, 2023 19:23 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBWhen Shane McCrae was 3, his maternal grandparents, who were white supremacists, kidnapped him from his father, who is Black. His new memoir is Pulling the Chariot of the Sun. Also, Ken Tucker reviews MeShell Ndegeocello's album The Omnichord Real Book. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Reflecting On The End Of Sight
August 08, 2023 19:41 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBAndrew Leland started losing his sight 20 years ago. He's now legally blind, although he still has a narrow field of vision, which allows him to see about 6% of what a fully-sighted person sees. In his new memoir, The Country of the Blind, he explores different kinds of perception, and shares his experience adapting to his new reality. Also, Justin Chang reviews the film Passages. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Jason Moran At The Piano
August 07, 2023 19:29 - 44 minutes - 41.7 MBMoran talks jazz and plays selections from his latest recording, which borrows from the music of James Reese Europe, the composer and musician who led the Harlem Hellfighters regiment band during WWI. Moran's new album is called 'From the Dancehall to the Battlefield,' and it features Moran's take on Europe's compositions and pop music of that time. It's available only on Bandcamp. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Best Of: Actor Richard E. Grant / Comic Leanne Morgan
August 05, 2023 12:00 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBRichard E. Grant (Withnail & I, Can You Ever Forgive Me?) was married to Joan Washington, an acclaimed dialect coach, for 35 years. He writes about their relationship and her death from cancer in the new memoir, A Pocketful of Happiness. Also, podcast critic Nick Quah reviews Dreamtown. Comic Leanne Morgan calls herself the "Mrs. Maisel of Appalachia." She says she's interested in speaking to an audience that she says gets forgotten — middle-aged women, mothers, and people in rural America...
Remembering Pee-Wee Herman Actor Paul Reubens
August 04, 2023 15:32 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBActor Paul Reubens, who created the character Pee-wee Herman, died July 30 at age 70. His joyful, odd and subversive CBS TV show, Pee-wee's Playhouse, was loved by children and adults alike. He spoke with Terry Gross in 2004. We'll also hear from Laurence Fishburne and S. Epatha Merkerson, who appeared on his show. Also, TV critic David Bianculli reflects on the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and what to watch while Hollywood production is halted. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podca...
Novelist Andre Dubus III
August 03, 2023 18:38 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBHow do you get on with life after an accident that leads to disability and chronic pain? That's the central question in Andre Dubus III's new novel, Such Kindness. He talks about the injuries he faced when he was a carpenter, and how his relationship changed with his father after the senior Dubus was struck by a car and never walked again. His previous books include Townie and House of Sand and Fog. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Congress's New Rebel Faction
August 02, 2023 18:56 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy has faced rebellions in his chamber, from the ultra conservative Freedom Caucus. Another hard right group, "the Twenty," is even more disruptive. These groups could lead us to a government to shutdown in the fall. Terry Gross spoke with New York Times congressional correspondent Annie Karni. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Actor Richard E. Grant On Living After Loss
August 01, 2023 18:57 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBRichard E. Grant (Withnail & I, Can You Ever Forgive Me?) was married to Joan Washington, an acclaimed dialect coach, for 35 years. He writes about their relationship and her death from cancer in the new memoir, A Pocketful of Happiness. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Comic Leanne Morgan
July 31, 2023 20:32 - 46 minutes - 42.1 MBThe self-described "Mrs. Maisel of Appalachia" set out to speak to an audience that she says gets forgotten — middle-aged women, mothers, and people in rural America. Morgan spoke with Tonya Mosley about breaking out in comedy later in life, and feeling like an outsider in the industry. She has a new Netflix special called I'm Every Woman. Also, podcast critic Nick Quah recommends Dreamtown. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Best Of: Writers Colson Whitehead / S.A. Cosby
July 29, 2023 12:11 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBAfter writing two Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead started writing crime novels set in Harlem. His new one, Crook Manifesto, is an entertaining read about crime at every level–from small-time crooks, to revolutionaries, cops, politicians and Harlem's elite. Also, we hear from crime writer S. A. Cosby. His new novel, All the Sinners Bleed, is about the first Black Sheriff in a Southeast Virginia county who is trying to stop a seri...
Pediatric Neurosurgeon Tells Stories From The O.R.
July 28, 2023 15:53 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBPediatric neurosurgeon Jay Wellons regularly feels the exhilaration of saving a child from near certain death — and sometimes the anguish of failing to prevent it. He's operated on various parts of the pediatric central nervous system, including performing spine surgery on an in-utero fetus. His memoir is All That Moves Us. (Originally broadcast in 2022) Justin Chang reviews The Haunted Mansion and Talk to Me. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Priv...
Hubert Humphrey's Fight For Civil Rights
July 27, 2023 19:02 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBIf you have any impression of LBJ Vice President Hubert Humphrey, it might be that of an establishment politician who defended an unpopular war in Vietnam and led the Democratic Party to defeat in 1968. But writer Samuel Freedman says the young Hubert Humphrey was a man of true principle and rare talent, fighting bigotry as mayor of Minneapolis, and waging a courageous battle to get the party to embrace civil rights. Freedman's book is Into the Bright Sunshine. John Powers reviews the new se...
Remembering Tony Bennett
July 26, 2023 23:08 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBThe legendary crooner, who died July 21, told Terry Gross in 1991 he never got tired of singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco": "I'm very grateful for that song." Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Crime Writer S.A. Cosby
July 25, 2023 18:50 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBIn S.A. Cosby's novel All the Sinners Bleed, a Black sheriff in a Southern town is tracking down a serial killer who preys on Black children. The author spoke with producer Sam Briger about how the story was inspired by the George Floyd uprising, and his own feelings about his Southern identity. Also, critic Maureen Corrigan reflects on her childhood playing with Barbies. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Colson Whitehead On 'Crook Manifesto'
July 24, 2023 20:24 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MB"My early '70s New York is dingy and grimy," the Pulitzer Prize-winning author says. Whitehead's new sequel to Harlem Shuffle, Crook Manifesto, centers on crime at every level, from small-time crooks to Harlem's elite. Later, TV critic David Bianculli reviews two new books about TV. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Best Of: Timothy Olyphant / Understanding The Crack Era
July 22, 2023 12:00 - 49 minutes - 45 MBTimothy Olyphant is best known for portraying lawmen in cowboy hats. He reprises the role of U.S. marshal Raylan Givens in the eight-part sequel, Justified: City Primeval, based on Elmore Leonard's novel. He also played Sheriff Seth Bullock in Deadwood. "We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/...
Remembering André Watts / USWNT Star Megan Rapinoe
July 21, 2023 19:23 - 46 minutes - 43 MBWe remember classical pianist André Watts, who died last week at the age of 77. He became famous overnight after performing with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic at the age of 16. Soccer star Megan Rapinoe is playing in her last Women's World Cup this month. She spoke with Terry Gross in 2020 for her memoir, One Life. Justin Chang reviews Barbie and Oppenheimer. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
The Changing Hollywood Landscape
July 20, 2023 18:26 - 45 minutes - 42 MBThe entertainment industry is in upheaval. Streamers are reckoning with not being profitable, and writers and actors are on strike. Bloomberg reporter Lucas Shaw talks about what viewers can expect. Maureen Corrigan reviews two summer reads: Do Tell and The Stolen Coast. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
How 'Toxic Fashion' Can Make Us Sick
July 19, 2023 18:17 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBIn 2018, Delta airlines unveiled new uniforms made of a synthetic-blend fabric. Soon after, flight attendants began to get sick with rashes, hair loss, and brain fog. Alden Wicker explains how toxic chemicals get in clothes in To Dye For. Also, jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a newly unearthed recording from tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
'Justified' Star Timothy Olyphant
July 18, 2023 18:36 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBOlyphant is best known for portraying lawmen in cowboy hats. He reprises the role of U.S. marshal Raylan Givens in the eight-part sequel, Justified: City Primeval, based on Elmore Leonard's novel. He also played Sheriff Seth Bullock in Deadwood. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
The Threat Of Deadly Fungal Pathogens
July 17, 2023 19:52 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBScience writer Emily Monosson says fungi and fungus-like pathogens are the most devastating disease agents on the planet, causing the extinction or near extinction of species of trees, bananas, bats, frogs and more. We also talk about life threatening fungal infections that affect the immunocompromised. Her book is Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic. Also, David Bianculli reviews the reboot of FX's Justified. Ken Tucker reviews two music books: Robert McCormick's Biography of a Phantom: ...
Best Of: Meeting Tonya Mosley/Rising Temperatures
July 15, 2023 12:00 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBTerry Gross interviews co-host Tonya Mosley about her life and work, and how they intersect in the current season of her podcast Truth Be Told. It focuses on the therapeutic use of psychedelic mushrooms to heal racial trauma. Later, Tonya talks about how rising temperatures and extreme heat will change our lives. Her guest is Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on A Scorched Planet. Film critic Justin Chang reviews the new film Joy Ride. Learn more about ...
David Sedaris' War with His Father
July 14, 2023 19:22 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MB"My father was not a good person, but he was a great character," Sedaris says. The humorist writes about his efforts to make peace with his memories of his late father in Happy-Go-Lucky. (Originally broadcast May 2022) Also, Justin Chang reviews Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
The History Of The Crack Era From People Who Lived Through It
July 13, 2023 21:08 - 45 minutes - 42 MB"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Life, Death & Rising Temperatures
July 12, 2023 18:30 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBAuthor Jeff Goodell warns a new climate regime is coming: "We don't really know what we're heading into and how chaotic this can get." His new book is The Heat Will Kill You First. Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews the memoir Through the Groves by Anne Hull. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Getting To Know Co-host Tonya Mosley
July 11, 2023 19:33 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBTerry Gross interviews new Fresh Air co-host Tonya Mosley about growing up in Detroit, her career in news, and healing racial trauma with psychedelics. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
The Legacy Of Baseball's 'Negro League'
July 10, 2023 19:51 - 45 minutes - 42 MBIn his documentary The League, Sam Pollard tells the story of the Negro National League: "They brought a different kind of style ... a kind of baseball which Major League Baseball is trying to bring back." Also, Kevin Whitehead reflects on box set of Charles Mingus. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Best Of: 'Every Body' & Intersex Identity / The Threat Of AI
July 08, 2023 12:36 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBAlicia Roth Weigel is one of three activists profiled in Julie Cohen's new documentary, Every Body. She says intersex is an umbrella term for people whose "anatomy doesn't fit super neatly into a binary box." Artificial intelligence experts recently signed an open letter warning that AI could destroy humanity. New York Times technology reporter Cade Metz explains why we are at a turning point with this technology. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR ...
Ringo Starr / Remembering Alan Arkin
July 07, 2023 18:13 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBActor Alan Arkin, who died June 29, got his start creating comic characters with the comedy troupe Second City and later won an Oscar for his role in Little Miss Sunshine. He spoke with Fresh Air in 1989. Also, we listen back to our interview with Ringo Starr on the occasion of his 83rd birthday. The Beatle told Terry Gross that he made his first drum kit out of "biscuit tins and firewood." Justin Chang reviews the comedy Joy Ride. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices...
A Recap Of The Supreme Court Term
July 06, 2023 16:48 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBNew York Times legal reporter Adam Liptak says the Supreme Court's liberal members have accused the conservative supermajority of engaging in politics and not applying established law to the questions before them. We'll talk about how the Court ended affirmative action in college admissions, limited the rights of gay people, and ended the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program, as well as the major ethical questions have been raised about several conservative justices. Learn...
'Every Body' Documentary Explores The Intersex Experience
July 05, 2023 19:58 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBAlicia Roth Weigel is one of three activists profiled in Julie Cohen's new documentary, Every Body. She says intersex is an umbrella term for people whose "anatomy doesn't fit super neatly into a binary box." Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
Janelle Monáe
July 04, 2023 12:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBMonáe is known for her Afro-futurist funk, soul and hip hop sound. She's been nominated for 8 Grammys, and last month she released her 4th album, The Age of Pleasure, where she explores lusty romance and both masculine and feminine energies. Recently Monáe came out as non-binary, using she/they pronouns. In addition to her music, she's also forged a successful career in movies, co-starring in films like Knives Out: Glass Onion, Hidden Figures and Moonlight. In 2020 Monáe spoke with Terry Gros...
Neil Diamond / Remembering Glenda Jackson
July 03, 2023 18:51 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBWe go into our archive to feature our 2005 interview with Neil Diamond. The new Broadway show A Beautiful Noise is based on his life and features his songs. Some of his most famous songs include Sweet Caroline, Solitary Man, and Girl, You'll be A Woman Soon. We'll also remember two-time Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson, who died June 15th. She was 87. Terry Gross spoke with her in 2019 when she was starring on Broadway in a production of King Lear, as Lear. Jackson also served in British Parliam...
Best Of: Laura Dern / Jeremy O. Harris
July 01, 2023 12:00 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBActor Laura Dern and her mother Diane Ladd have always shared a profession. But when Ladd was diagnosed with lung disease, the two started sharing so much more. Their new book is Honey, Baby, Mine. Award-winning playwright of Slave Play, Jeremy O. Harris, helped bring Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window to Broadway. "This play is telling us, in every scene, that no matter how much capitalism corrupts the world of our politics, we cannot lose our ideals," Harris says. "...
Remembering Broadway Lyricist Sheldon Harnick
June 30, 2023 17:16 - 45 minutes - 42 MBHarnick, along with composer Jerry Bock, wrote the enduring music for Fiddler on the Roof, as well as Fiorello and She Loves Me. He died June 23 at the age of 99. Originally broadcast in 1988, 2004 and 2014. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
How To Support Trans Kids In School
June 28, 2023 18:42 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBAidan Key explains why U.S. schools are seeing an increase in transgender students and how educators can respond to anti-LGBTQ curriculum measures. His book is Trans Children in Today's Schools. TV critic David Bianculli shares his concern about the future of Turner Classic Movies. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy