NPR's Scott Simon talks with Fox late-night host Greg Gutfeld about comedy in the Trump era.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Karen Russell about her new book, "The Antidote." It's an eerie novel set in the era of Dustbowl droughts.

Scientists have made progress in understanding Long COVID over the last five years. Patient advocates hope that research will continue under the Trump administration.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Alice Austen about her novel "33 Place Brugmann." Set in Brussels during WWII, it tracks the residents of one building whose lives are upended by the Nazi occupation.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to director Carson Lund about his new movie, "Eephus," about an amateur New England baseball league's last game before their stadium is demolished.

As part of our StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Specialist Henry Smithers who was among the millions of American servicemen and women deployed to Vietnam during the conflict.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the reignited rivalry between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics and Lebron James' record-breaking week.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Phillips O'Brien of St. Andrews University about the war in Ukraine, who has the upper hand, and what might that mean as the U.S. pressures Ukraine for a deal.

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