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Sequel to 1984 rockumentary follows the band’s reunion after they experience unexpected surge in social media interest. Continue reading…

Oxford professor Ben Ansell says we are witnessing a battle between nationalism and liberalism that will write our own time indelibly into the history books of tomorrow.(Image credit: Boris Zhitkov)

The Prince of Darkness may have been closer to performing than we realized. Continue reading…

The outgoing U.S. national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, has been a top advisor and envoy to President Biden on issues of foreign policy. He talks to NPR about his view of recent events in the Middle East, the U.S. relationship with China and the future of the war between Russia and Ukraine.

At the start of this year Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was facing a crisis. Just a few months before, Hamas had breached Israel's border with Gaza, killing some 1200 people in Israel on October 7th.As the year ends, Netanyahu is spending some of it in a courtroom to fight corruption charges that have dogged him since 2019. The Israeli Prime Minister has called the charges absurd.You might think that […]

As NPR correspondent Emily Feng reported in our three-part series "The Black Gate," hundreds of thousands of Uyghur people have been detained in China. They've been subjected to torture, forced labor, religious restrictions, and even forced sterilization. In this episode from 2021, our colleagues at the history podcast Throughline explore who the Uyghur people are, their land, their customs, their music and how they've become such a target in China […]

July's novel, about a 45-year-old married woman who has an erotic affair, grapples with themes of perimenopause and sexuality. "Fear in general is why I wrote the book," the filmmaker/writer says.

She explains controversial comments about fans recording shows and regular attendees hogging the front row. Continue reading…

He also names the least favorite song he recorded with the band. Continue reading…

To each their own, but this 1979 track doesn't deserve to be the butt of the joke. Continue reading…