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Fresh Air

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Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries. Support public media by joining NPR+ at plus.npr.org. [http://plus.npr.org/] You’ll get perks for over 25 NPR podcasts, including weekly bonus episodes and curated playlists of archive interviews from Fresh Air. And subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Fresh Air Weekly, to get interview highlights, staff recommendations, gems from the archive, and the week's interviews and reviews all in one place. Sign up at www.whyy.org/freshair

11 HOURS AGO

The story of the world's first super-terrorist

National security writer Joby Warrick tells the story of “Carlos the Jackal,” the world’s most notorious terrorist of the ‘70s and ‘80s. He became so famous for his brazen attacks and playboy lifestyle that, once, when he was releasing hostages from a hija...

The story of the world's first super-terrorist

1 DAYS AGO

Lisa Kudrow

Lisa Kudrow is up for two Emmys for the final season of The Comeback, about an actress who will endure almost anything to keep working. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about her character’s delusion and how the show has captured different eras of Hollywood. Ku...

Lisa Kudrow

3 DAYS AGO

Best Of: Colman Domingo / Writer Leïla Slimani

Colman Domingo is nominated for two Emmy Awards this year, for two very different roles: in the Netflix comedy The Four Seasons and in the final season of HBO's Euphoria. He spoke with Tonya Mosley about the transition from dramatic roles to comedy, and gu...

4 DAYS AGO

‘The Dog Stars’ novelist Peter Heller / Remembering rock critic Dave Marsh

The Dog Stars, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Josh Brolin and Jacob Elordi, is about two men who become unlikely compatriots when a pandemic wipes out much of the country's population. Adventure writer Peter Heller spoke with Dave Davies in 2012 abo...

5 DAYS AGO

‘Wonder Man’ star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II on cancellation and confidence

Two weeks after being nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Wonder Man, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II found out that the series had been cancelled. He says Marvel could do more to support Black-led projects. Abdul-Mateen spoke with co-host Tonya Mosley abo...

‘Wonder Man’ star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II on cancellation and confidence

6 DAYS AGO

Challenges the U.S. military is facing in Iran

Defense analyst Stacie Pettyjohn says while the U.S. military is facing long-range missile shortages, prolonged deployments, and vacated regional bases, Iran is building cheaper weapons quickly. She tells Dave Davies the U.S. military is scrambling to adju...

Challenges the U.S. military is facing in Iran

Aug 18

Jason Segel is not afraid of the ‘dirty underneath’

Segel returns to talk with Terry Gross about his Emmy-nominated series Shrinking, in which he plays a therapist who suffered a nervous breakdown in the wake of his wife’s death. Segel opens up about his own therapy, acting opposite Harrison Ford, and overc...

Jason Segel is not afraid of the ‘dirty underneath’

Aug 17

What evolution reveals about eating, dieting and fat

When you’re dieting to lose weight, human evolution is often working against you. We’ll talk about why with Daniel Lieberman, author of Fed Up and founder of Harvard’s Department of Evolutionary Biology. He spoke with Terry Gross about diets he’s tested, ...

What evolution reveals about eating, dieting and fat

Aug 15

Best Of: 'Spider-Man' dir. Destin Daniel Cretton / Novelist Harriet Clark

Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to break box office records, after having the biggest U.S. opening weekend in history. Tonya Mosley talks with the film’s director, Destin Daniel Cretton. Long before Marvel, he worked in a group home for at-risk teens. ...

Aug 14

Reckoning with America’s history of slavery

Poet and writer Clint Smith says we are taught to think of slavery as something that happened a long, long time ago. But then he learned that his grandfather's grandfather had been enslaved. “This person who was so central to my life and my own identity is...

Reckoning with America’s history of slavery

Aug 13

Colman Domingo loves a challenge

Colman Domingo is nominated for two Emmy Awards for two very different performances — in the Netflix comedy The Four Seasons and in HBO's Euphoria. "I can go very deep with my characters," he tells co-host Tonya Mosley. He talks about doing comedy with mas...

Colman Domingo loves a challenge

Aug 12

The race for tech supremacy: The U.S. vs. China

China produces at least 70% of the world’s drones, electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries and solar cells. And with the U.S. stockpile of munitions diminished from the Iran war, would the U.S. have what it needs to defend Taiwan if China invaded? Terry G...

The race for tech supremacy: The U.S. vs. China

Aug 11

‘Spider-Man’ director Destin Daniel Cretton

Cretton grew up in Hawaii, and says movies expanded his perspective: “That is how I traveled. That is how I was exposed to other cultures. That's how I understand how kids grew up in high school on the mainland,” he tells co-host Tonya Mosley. He explains ...

‘Spider-Man’ director Destin Daniel Cretton

Aug 10

Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy

Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place. Durán traces their fringe ideologies from blogs, manifest...

Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy

Aug 08

Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin

Seven years ago, New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino coined the term “Instagram Face.” Now we talk about how current beauty standards are changing our relationship to reality. “It seems more explicitly anti-human right now than ever before,” she tells To...

Aug 07

Remembering ‘The Man Who Listens to Horses’

The internationally acclaimed horseman Monty Roberts defied the conventional method of breaking horses and developed his own gentler approach — based on horses' non-verbal language. He died on July 31st at 91. Roberts spoke with Terry Gross in 1997, at the...

Remembering ‘The Man Who Listens to Horses’

Aug 06

Novelist Claire Vaye Watkins on the beauty & brutality of the desert

Claire Vaye Watkins' new novel, 'Yellow Pine,' is about a group of misfits and activists in the Mojave desert, fighting a corporate solar development. Living in the desert is "not for everybody," she tells Terry Gross. Her home, near Death Valley, is stagg...

Novelist Claire Vaye Watkins on the beauty & brutality of the desert

Aug 05

How Trump made an estimated $2.2 billion last year

New York Times reporter Eric Lipton discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigations into Trump’s conflicts of interest and whether he’s exploiting the power of the presidency for self-enrichment. Lipton spoke with Terry Gross. Subscribe to our free w...

How Trump made an estimated $2.2 billion last year

Aug 04

Jean Smart bids farewell to ‘Hacks’

The fifth and final season of the HBO comedy series ‘Hacks’ is nominated for 24 Emmys, including one for Smart as best actress in a comedy series. The writers “raised the bar every single season," Smart tells guest interviewer Aarti Shahani. They talk abou...

Jean Smart bids farewell to ‘Hacks’

Aug 03

Miss America ‘68, women’s lib, and the politics of beauty

Historian Micki McElya’s book, ‘Liberation Summer,’ revisits September 1968, when three groups of women converged on the Atlantic City boardwalk: feminists protesting the Miss America Pageant, contestants in the first-ever Miss Black America Pageant, and w...