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What does election night look like from behind the bar? Seasoned bartenders Rosie Schaap and Ben Wiley stop by and tell us.

Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Angwin explains the rise of license plate tracking and how surveillance of seemingly mundane activities is growing. Her...

On today's show: find out about Adolf Hitler's secret plot to seize the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius the XII. Then, a look at why it's so hard to predict the...

Historian Mary Elise Sarotte explains that the opening of the gates on the night of November 9, 1989, was an accident, and looks at the factors that...

Thomas Ricks, an adviser on national security at the New America Foundation, discusses the lives of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, and how they stood up...

Seth Mnookin examines the role scandal has played on America's current media climate: Hard News. Music: Music: Soundtrack from Talk Radio by Stuart Copeland...

Oscar Hijuelos shares some of what he's been reading and watching lately after appearing on The Leonard Lopate Show.

Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout discuss The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, published for the first time than 65 years after her death. The 566 letters...

A conversation with the controversial performance artist William Pope, The Friendliest Black Artist in America. Music: Milt Hinton "Jon John"

Word maven Patricia T. O'Conner takes your calls on the English language. A few things she wants to talk about today are the words "ask" vs. "axe," and how the...

Emmy award-winning journalist Lynne Joiner chronicles the experiences of John S. Service, a U.S. Foreign Service officer in wartime China. Her biography...

Where you choose to live is as important as choosing a spouse or a career, says Richard Florida. Also: Irish novelist Anne Enright. Philip Gourevitch on how...

Navy doctor Richard Jadick talks to guest host Julie Burstein about the harrowing work of performing surgery on the front lines in Iraq. Later on, director...

George W. Bush's decisions, their ongoing repercussions. Adam Nimoy on "For the Love of Spock." One season in high school football. The Attica Prison uprising...

* BASIC TOMATO SAUCE A good, Basic Tomato Sauce is a kitchen staple throughout Italy . My recipe appears below, and it's also available, ready-to-use, at some...

Vince Gill and Doug Green talk about their Western Swing band, The Time Jumpers. They were nominated for Grammy awards for Best Country Album and Best Vocal...

Scientific and technological advancements have played a major role in everything from curing diseases and treating depression, to making athletes faster and...

Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras discusses her new movie about WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange and why she thought John Podesta's emails were, in fact,...

Restaurant trends with the critics; Marcus Samuelsson's The Red Rooster Cookbook; ten restaurants that changed America; and a guide to the world of spices.

Test your NYC knowledge in our multi-borough trivia quiz for listeners! Also: in time for Valentine's Day, Please Explain is all about the science of...

Anna Sale guest hosts today! Margaret Talbot on the word gap. A Somali refugee who flees to South Africa. The competition between the Met and MOMA. The...

For the second part of this week's installment of Strapped: A Look at Poverty in America, Dr. Benard Dreyer, Professor of Pediatrics at New York University...

Open phones! And Lawrence W. and Cornelia R. Levine discuss the letters Americans wrote to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in response to his Fireside...

Consistently voted the best dining city in the nation, New York is home to 20,000 restaurants. A conversation with New York Times food columnist Florence...

Harvard professor of law Randall Kennedy looks at racial politics and the Obama presidency, and examines the complex relationship between the first black...

Aasif Mandvi hosts. Joe Hickman on Guantanamo Bay, Larry Gonick on cartoons and Algebra, Vikram Gandhi on the new season of Vice, Derrick Pitts discusses the...

Carol Bergman, editor of the new essay collection called Another Day in Paradise: International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories, is joined by...

Keith Glass, a longtime agent for basketball players, tells us why he feels the NBA is in trouble. Then, artists Dorothea Rockburne and Lynda Benglis look back...

Svante E. Cornell, Cassandra Cavanaugh, and John Boit on the challenges facing the Southern Caucasus. Svante E. Cornell is editor of the Central Asia Caucasus...

Tab Hunter was fashioned into a movie star by studio executives in the 1950s. In Tab Hunter Confidential, he describes how he struggled to keep his...

Journalist Mark Lynas traveled from Alaska, Mongolia, Pacific islands, and Peru to see first-hand the effects of global warming. His new book is High Tide: The...

Mia Farrow recently offered her own freedom in exchange for that of an imprisoned Darfuri rebel. On today's Underreported, she talks about why she thinks the...

Rachel Kadish talks about her latest novel "The Weight Of Ink" the story of two remarkable women in two different times of London.

Bill Morgan, author of Literary Landmarks: The Book Lover's Guide to New York, joins Nancy Bass Strand, of The Strand bookstore fame, to explore the ins and...

Early this month, researchers at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced that they found convincing evidence of a new particle called...

Aconversation with Afghan woman, Zoya. She discusses her clandestine war of resistance against the Taliban and religious fanaticism at the risk of her own...

In the 1970s, the House of Saud (which includes members of Osama bin Laden's immediate family) began courting American politicians in a bid for political...

Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo describes her efforts to get the government to investigate allegations that a U.S. multinational corporation was responsible for the...

MSNBC host Chris Hayes talks about the push to pass immigration reform, the NSA scandal, and why so many Americans have lost trust in their government. Then,...

Dan Fagin tells the true story of a small New Jersey town ravaged by industrial pollution. When a cluster of childhood cancers was scientifically linked to air...

Carol Burnett's life in entertainment. Judy Collins' first studio album in 4 years. A documentary about officer-involved shootings. Rachel Moran's journey...

Find out how the U.S. can become the world leader in science and technology once again. Also: interactions between humans and robots, and humans and horses....

Is the United States really united? Angela Glover Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh discuss race in America and their book Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground:...

AQ Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear program, has admitted to selling nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran, and North Korea. Late last week a Pakistani ordered...

David Greenberg on how the political spin sausage is made. Ian Buruma shares his grandparents' remarkable love story. Tessa Hadley on her new novel. The...

Our latest Please Explain is about preserving with author Emily Paster.

Journalist Souad Mekhennet discusses her trip from Germany where the 9/11 plotters were radicalized to the Turkish-Syrian border where ISIS is fighting for...

David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt from the liberal media organization Media Matters describe how Fox News has changed under the leadership of its president Roger...

Two CUNY Graduate Center professors discuss how austerity policies put working-class and minority university students at a disadvantage.

Find out how you can reduce your impact on the planet...and save money at the same time! Ed Begley Jr. shares his tips for living a more affordable and...

Amphibians are going extinct faster than any other group of organisms. Now zoos and other institutions all over the world are working together to create an...

Nine lives in the world's largest refugee camp. "Intensio" merges ballet with visual art. The 12th annual "Under the Radar" festival. An inside look at...