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forget red or blue. in governors race, its all...

The half-mile long,quiet twin streets of Palisade Avenue and Westwood Boulevard maintain transformed...

recipe: madhur jaffreys mangoes mumtaz

(aam mumtaz)for the pralineOlive or peanut oil,for greasingcup chopped unsalted, raw pistachioscup...

horrors from floridas juvenile detention system

Coming up on today's reveal:Wildfires are continuing to burn in parts of Northern...

recipe: melissa clarks harvest tart with pumpkin,...

Harvest Tart with Pumpkin,Roasted Red Peppers, Olives and Smoked PaprikaTime: 2 1/2 hours plus...

criminal justice reform, ponzi schemes, the...

Coming up on today's indicate:On Thursday,Senators Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley announced...

christie researching options on syrian refugees

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie expects to know by Wednesday whether he has any option to block...

vote: americas greatest innovation

Over the last several weeks,we've been asking you to partake in our challenge, "The Search...

americas greatest innovation: listener wildcard...

Over the final several weeks,we've been asking you to partake in our challenge, "The Search...

recipe: madhur jaffreys punjabi style beets with...

(punjabi chukandar ki sabzi) 2 tablespoons olive or peanut oil1⁄8 teaspoon ground...

when you were a teen on 9 11

The things that happen to us when we’re teenagers play a major role in shaping our understanding...

global risks and hotspots in 2016

Ian Bremmer,president of Eurasia Group and the author of Superpower: Three Choices for...

life review - exuberantly grisly alien rip off

Rebecca Ferguson,Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds play an enjoyably gory game of hide-and-seek with...

reasons to love new jersey

EveryTell us why you cherish your shore town,hiking trail, cheap gas...or one of the many other...

thanksgiving parade brings out kids of all ages

There are some things so quintessentially current York that current Yorkers don't do. Tourists...

monday morning politics; the jerome avenue...

Coming up on nowadays's expose:Politico national political reporter Gabriel Debenedetti talks...

primaries in texas; state of emergency in nycha;...

Coming up on nowadays's show: Joan Walsh,national affairs correspondent for The Nation and a...

summer sounds: submit your stories

When we asked our listeners to send us their summer sound recordings,we weren't sure how many...

we made you a just for fun thanksgiving reading...

Thanksgiving is all approximately spending time with people you care approximately. But before that...

episode one: boarding call

In The New Yorker Radio Hour’s début episode,the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, and speaks...

life review - pattinson gives a dull performance...

There is no chemisty between Robert Pattinson,who plays Life photographer Dennis Stock, and Dane...

what should lawmakers do in response to the death...

What Should Lawmakers Do in Response to the Death of the 7-Year-Old Migrant?We speak with unique...

meet the new nyc transit chief; women at work; nyc...

Coming up on nowadays's show:The former head of Toronto's transit system,Andy Byford,...

president trumps infrastructure plan; teenagers...

Coming up on today's demonstrate: Nora Bensahel,distinguished scholar in residence at the...

things to be thankful for

Even in very tough times,we want to pause and give thanks - not just for friends and family and the...

charles darwin charles dickens four hour work...

We all operate at different levels of ambition: some just want to collect by and bask in...

life review - jake gyllenhaal hits the retro...

Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds play members of a scientific team investigating material from Mars that...

translating the untranslatable

On today’s Please Explain,we’ll attempt to understand what it’s like to translate the...

a parade marred by violence

A legal aid for Governor Cuomo was in critical condition after being hit by a stray bullet in...

judy woodruff once thought she could do it all

All this week we're talking to women and mothers who have harnessed smarts,spirit, and...

the case for deleting your social media accounts ...

A familiar ding comes from your pocket,you look up from what you’re doing and reach for the...

cuomo administration slow to launch gun control...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has hailed the SAFE Act as a significant piece of gun-safety legislation in the...

tips for getting power, and keeping it

Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Dacher Keltner, a professor of...

nyc transplants: is this everything you thought it...

Many people slither to unusual York with hopes of Broadway stardom,financial success, and other...

drone footage captures the us postal service...

About 90 miles north of here,a series of fires, fanned by high winds, and have destroyed 191000...

subway stations will be temporarily closed for...

Governor Cuomo and the MTA announced late final week that some subway stations will be entirely...

how we really feel about police presence

This conversation is fragment of a larger spy at findings from a Public Agenda/WNYC poll of...

watch tom petty (rip) and the heartbreakers...

It was already a terrible day. Then came the news (retracted,then later sadly confirmed by The novel...

it s not easy being spraynard

The pop-punk band Spraynard can sell out a show pretty quickly,but they’re not quitting their day...

your summer sound stories

Storytellers achieve their improvisation and creativity to the test by making up...

have you broken your new years resolution yet?

Our latest Please define is all about fresh Year’s Resolutions -- how to make them,how to keep...

jason aldean performs i won t back down on snl-a...

Just days ago,Jason Aldean was performing on stage in Las Vegas when bullets started reigning down,...

how leonard cohen david bowie faced death...

When Leonard Cohen released You Want it Darker in late 2016,some suspected that it would be his...

what are you ambivalent about?

Ambivalence,the state of experiencing conflicting beliefs or feelings simultaneously, is something...

90,000 fans sing i won t back down at university...

Tom Petty grew up in Gainesville,Florida, in the backyard of the University of Florida. On Saturday,...

hugh hefner (rip) defends the playboy philosophy ...

"Mr. Hefner's magazine is most widely known for its total exposure of the human female," says...

why nyc is the one place that helps you let go of...

whether someone asked you to name every single possession you own off the top of your head,could you...

krista tippetts guide to life

Krista Tippett's Peabody award winning public radio program "On Being" aims to explore big...

governors reform proposals; hearing nycha; new...

Coming up on nowadays's show:Alphonso David,counsel to the governor, talks about two of Gov....

john hockenberry and our metoo moment

Suki Kim,writer and the author of Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North...

dale henderson of bach in the subways performs...

Dale Henderson,internationally renowned cellist, joins us to discuss "Bach in the Subways" and...

7 foot tall clown with a golden voice sings chris...

Back in April,Ayun Halliday gave you a glimpse into the world of "Puddles Pity Party," the 6’8”...

a senator calls for prison reform, after time on...

In 2009,Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith lied about about a campaign malfeasance, and he received a...

staring into the abyss

Amid the relentless news that bombards us each day,it's easy to feel a sense of despair –...

we googled your newsy loose ends of 2015

Were you following a news tale this year and suddenly lost the thread? Or do you...

salman rushdies latest novel, terrence mcnallys...

The practice of city and state governments spending billions of dollars on professional sports...

watch iggy pop debbie harry sing a swelligant...

rapid/fast survey: Who’s best fit to regain at the heart of Cole Porter? The suave sophisticate...

terrence mcnallys new memoir in plays

Since his first play,“And Things That depart Bump in the Night,” which premiered in 1965, and...

guest picks: sonia manzano

Sonia Manzano stopped by to talk approximately her career on Sesame Street and her memoir Becoming...

the presidents parade; the dossier, guide to...

Coming up on nowadays's display:Rick Noack,Washington Post foreign affairs reporter, discusses...

on the power of teaching philosophy in prisons

Philosophy is often seen as an arcane academic discipline,in competition with the hard sciences or...

discovering hudson yards the smart city movement

Over the next decade,the Hudson Yards development seeks to not only change how novel Yorkers view...

if your whole life just turned upside down, here s...

In case you haven’t figured it out yet,life rarely goes according to diagram. We often gain...

elvis costello spills the secrets behind his...

Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool,grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star...

can science help us overcome racism?

The National Geographic just released "The Race Issue," which examines how, despite its...

six months after the womens marches, what now?

It's been six months since Donald Trump's inauguration,and just as many since...

what you can do to help the ongoing refugee crisis

On World Refugee Day, David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, and...

taking the easy way out isn t lazy, it s the best...

How often maintain you heard the phrase,“Anything worth doing is hard? Whenever I struggled...

how to negotiate the nonnegotiable

whether the U.S. and Cuba can put their differences aside,what's stopping any political clash...

6 ways to make time for creativity during the work...

I like to believe that no matter what type of person you are or what kind of job you do, there’s...

less stuff, more life

In their new documentary,Minimalism: A Documentary About the vital Things, bestselling...

terrence mcnallys career pushing boundaries in...

This is a rebroadcast of our interview with Terrence McNally,which originally aired on Sept. 8,...

fifty years of chasing the waves

A remarkable wave might last ten or fifteen seconds,but a dedicated surfer spends a lifetime chasing...

the fourth plan subway fix

Five years in the making,the Regional way Association released its fourth-ever (since its 1922...

passing in america

"Passing" is when a person is regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from...

4 signs you ll never be completely satisfied...

What ties you to your cubicle? Are you afraid to quit because you think it’ll be the end of your...

when should we open the box?

We wait for all sorts of things: the morning subway,a Friday paycheck, news from the doctor and...

what beauty trends from the 90s you should still...

In the late 1990s,the only thing more exciting than the release of a new Disney Channel Original...

3 ways to bounce back financially after draining...

It’s embarrassing, but foreign currency doesn’t always feel “genuine” to me. “3000 yen?...

8 places outside of the us you should road trip...

While traveling can be a fun and liberating experience in and of itself,nothing declares absolute...

5 ways to make sure you don t burn out during your...

Sin City. Las Vegas. The Strip. The small oasis in the desert that is Nevada is a place where the...

mint theater packs four teresa deevy plays into...

Jonathan Bank,the Mint Theater’s producing artistic director, joins us to discuss directing Teresa...

pandamonium breaks out in finland over cuddly loan...

These days,fluffy and clumsy pandas are the undisputed internet darlings. Few, whether any at all,...

combating abortion stigma, one show at a time

Growing up in a fairly liberal,middle-lesson neighborhood in Chicago, sex education was always...

6 design tools that prove you don t need to drop...

We all love to design things. Whether its putting a trendy filter on an Instagram shot or creating a...

how to make friends in a new city when you re...

You know what’s tough? Meeting good friends in a unusual city when you’re an adult. It’s not...

9 fears i needed to accept before i could leave my...

I feel afraid a lot these days. I chose to be an entrepreneur,which means I beget to craft my own...

9 things you ll regret not doing before leaving...

There comes a unhappy time in everyone’s semester abroad when you realize it’s coming to a...

did you keep your 2015 resolution?

Forty-five percent of us design New Years resolutions but only 8 percent of people manage to hold...

winter is coming, and this is how we know

Every year,WNYC broadcasts the Winter Solstice concert assign on by sax player and environmental...

choosing between your best friend and fiance

Critics raved after Emma Jane Unsworth’s novel,Animals, was published in the UK final year. The...

the falsity of the term post truth

Slate columnist Dan Engbertalks approximately his cover epic for Slate called, “LOL Something...

jeremiah moss on the hyper gentrification of nyc

Jeremiah Moss,creator of the award-winning blog, “Vanishing New York, and ” joins us to discuss...

being south asian in america

Indian American racial justice activist Deepa Iyer,former executive director of South Asian...

the 2017 tony winners on the leonard lopate show

We've had some great conversations with many of the people behind the 2017 Tony winners....

recyclable art: progressive russian artists who...

Andrei Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov,a duo of contemporary artists from the Russian city of Krasnodar...

good math: one hour of running can add seven hours...

Running may not beget the same popularity it did in the latter part of the 20th century,as more...

i m overcoming my fear of being openly gay

I’ve been out for four years but am still afraid to be openly homosexual. I don’t intellect...

everything you want to say to the friend you...

I know I have disappointed you. But believe it or not,it was never my intention to get you feel that...

filmele cursa vietii mele si no limits prezinta...

Filmele documentare “Cursa Vietii Mele” si “No Limits” vor rula la cinematograful Grand...

thegreatlisten 2015

StoryCorps,the verbal history project that launched in 2003, has created an app to bring the...

ruth bader ginsburg, internet superstar

When Shana Knizhnik was in law school she created the Notorious R.B.G. Tumblr as a digital tribute...

city vs. suburb mentality

This conversation is portion of a larger see at findings from a Public Agenda/WNYC poll of residents...

when a perfect cover up falls apart

Playwright Topher Payne and actors Mikaela Feely-Lehmann and Christopher J. Hanke discuss the New...

the beauty of mathematical symmetries

This is a rebroadcast of an interview that originally aired on July 22,2015.The hallmarks of the...

using foster care as punishment

Journalists Stephanie Clifford and Jessica Silver-Greenberg join us to discuss their recent story...

down in flames: $100 million lawsuit filed over...

The Fyre Festival,the schadenfreude event of the season, has developed into a $100 million...

never taking chances is the worst thing you can do...

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed...

10 ways to clear your mind by taking advantage of...

There’s no reason to get knocked off balance when plans and relationships fade sideways this...

i went to a gender reveal party, and it proved we...

Congratulations to all you smug mommies and daddies-to-be. With the absurd trend of gender reveal...

ruth bader ginsberg, internet superstar

When Shana Knizhnik was in law school she created the Notorious R.B.G. Tumblr as a digital tribute...

the secret nuclear test site in kazakhstan

The Soviet Union conducted nuclear tests for decades in a barren patch of North Eastern Kazakhstan....

a summer sounds audio journey

Click above to hear an audio essay,written by Brian Lehrer reveal producer Shumita Basu. It’s a...

how to know which condom to choose

Do you grab your tried-and-valid condom box at the drugstore without a moment thought every time? Do...

how to stay confident after quitting your job to...

That moment when you step off the airplane back onto your domestic ground,oh man, what a moment. One...

yes, you can still travel the world when you have...

It’s nearly impossible to leave college without a pile of student debt that you know youll have to...

social media actually changed my relationship with...

When it comes to social media,many of us don’t realize just how much we get out of it. I spent...

what we can learn from zara s domination of the...

rapid/fast question:Have you heard of Amancio Ortega? Chances are,you haven’t. So, who is this...

6 ways to turn your bachelorette pad into a...

I live in a 400 square-foot studio apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. On a superb day,I can...

the red planet shows glimpses of blue

NASA scientists have confirmed that there is flowing water on Mars - not just frozen water at the...

saying no to the goldwater rule

Bandy X. Lee,M.D., M.Div., and faculty member in the Law and Psychiatry Division of Yale School of...

god and guns: alabama moves to let church form...

On April 11,the Alabama Senate voted to allow a megachurch in the city of Birmingham to create its...

fred lee s social network: top parties help pumped...

While 2016 was filled with much loss,turmoil and disbelief, the year also brought many examples of...

i m an undocumented immigrant

“Ranked 9th,4.0+ GPA, $282200 in awarded scholarships, or Upenn C/o 2020,and I’m also...

ask do i want to let this in my life? to save...

How much crap in your house attain you really need? attain the piles of crap you have add to your...

the orlando shooting was an act of hate

As a trans person,the idea of violence is not current to me. Across the country, trans and...

why nobody cares about that stupid thing you did...

My cramped sister texted me in a fit of nerves. She was panicking because she’d gotten drunk on...

what kind of bitch are you? (quiz)

I hate being a bitch. I’d really rather just never be mean to anybody. But then I also beget a...

what i have learned as a queer survivor of...

Growing up in a small town in the Midwest,I wasnt precisely taught how to be a “good” lesbian. I...

momming it solo

In our latest episode,we talk to a woman who always knew she wanted to be a mom, but the way she got...

6 months after the womens marches, howre you...

On the six month anniversary of the Women's March on Washington, Phoebe Robinson hears...

over a dozen arrested in swedens largest crackdown...

Amid mounting pedophilia scandals which bear swept the Nordic countries,Swedish police bear carried...

two czechs touring the world in a 40 year old...

Two 28-year-old Czechs who absorb embarked on their round-the-world journey in a Soviet-made car...

5 weird hobbies you can only get involved with on...

Being the modern kid on campus is as freeing as it is overwhelming. There are few experiences in...

here s what no one tells you about settling down...

It hit me while I was waiting at the arrivals gate at O’Hare. My suitcase with the broken wheel...

why i m so grateful i didn t get married in my 20s

It finally happened. Yours truly graduated from the wild,salacious, manic sh*t storm of her...

women in policing

We hear from former Portland chief of police Penny Harrington,Forest Grove chief of police Janie...

talk with radiolab about your addiction

Radiolab is looking into the efficiency of unique drugs being offered as treatment options for...

i would have carried her to the moon

There’s nobody like your first treasure. They're your rock,your queen, your Capricorn, or...

rising to the cover of vogue, falling after the...

Jonathan Capehart guest hosts!Leslie Michelson advises how to be a smarter health care consumer....

investigating immigrant detainee deaths in nj, the...

Hannan Adely and Monsy Alvarado investigates the deaths of immigrant detainees at detention centers...

psychedelic psychology: lsd can treat anxiety and...

Recent years acquire seen significant research into the potential therapeutic aspects of psychedelic...

gold medal ribbon

I’ve always said that the sincere test of a person’s character is during times of...

you can call me fat

My entire life,people gain stared at me with a sense of contempt. They stared at me at sports...

this isn t a bad dream. it s just reality.

I first started writing this piece in support of gun control measures after Christina Grimmie was...

9 couples from the 90s who set all of our...

Being a ’90s kid,I can honestly say I blame my high expectations for care for on the couples I saw...

the evolution of mother daughter relationships, as...

We all travel through these multiple stages with our moms. As we develop,we learn that we can in...

6 ways i will honor my late mom on mother s day

It’s about that time again when flower companies are getting more delivery requests than normal....

why hiking was the only thing that helped me feel...

The cure to loneliness is learning how to be content with one’s own company. At least,that’s...

singing and dancing along with the women of the...

Tony nominee Michael John LaChiusa discusses his new musical,First Daughter Suite,” along with...

connect, not consume

Seth Godin,blogger, founder of Yoyodyne and Squidoo, and the author of We Are All Weird: The Rise of...

life - video review

In an extract from this weeks Guardian film demonstrate,Peter Bradshaw and Xan Brooks review Anton...

a health crisis for black mothers and babies in...

Linda Villarosa, journalist who is the director of the journalism program at the City College of...

chic tip: create new holiday traditions around...

As I shared at the beginning of final year,a Gratitude Journal is a wonderful way to be mindful of...

professor stephen hawking: humanity has 100 years...

Professor Stephen Hawking has called on mankind to redouble its efforts to colonize other...

finns furious over war execution scene, drowned...

As Finland gets alert to celebrate the centenary of its independence,a commemorative coin depicting...

spicy truth: the secret of popular turkish...

It appears that a current Turkish butcher and chef Nusret Gokce,also known as Salt Bae, who became...

do you remember? neuroscientists revolutionize...

How are memories made and stored? A team of neuroscientists believe they have the retort,and it...

break the ice in israel: govt delays election so...

The "Oops!... I Did It Again" star and American pop icon Britney Spears has such a enormous...

love it or hate it, marmite is at yeast great for...

Divisive it may be,but research by UK scientists suggests a daily spoonful of Marmite could boost...

grave anxiety: swedish church resists strained...

Exhausted Swedish undertakers have had enough and refuse to sink coffins into graves manually,which...

swedish migration board goes postal as passports...

Across the globe,the sluggishness of snail mail by itself is a perennial cause of anger. In Sweden,...

turn off the radio

Let me tell you approximately my Sunday. Sunday is kind of “my” day. It’s my guarenteed day...

what you need to realize to start living out your...

“Dr. Smith*!!! He’s awake now!! Nearly two weeks ago,I woke up in a hospital bed to those words....

12 ways to fake confidence, as told by someone who...

Tonight during my drive domestic,speeding down the speed trap that is San Vicente, I realized I am a...

cativa romani pasionati de land rover si calatorii...

Cativa romani aventurieri au decis sa-si petreaca vacanta de iarna intr-un mod mai putin obisnuit: o...

the art of wabi sabi (or things you will learn...

You are 37 when you first topple in love – properly,passionately, the way you dreamed of when you...

ending poverty. reporting on the national security...

Jeffrey Sachs on what has changed — and hasn't — in the decade since he wrote The close of...

the 100 year journey honouring pioneers in the...

Sharad recently captured the thoughts of entrepreneur and mining CEO, Rana Vig approximately his...

new yorkers respond to humanitarian crisis in...

United States Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY 17th district),representing the Lower Hudson Valley,...

5 all men with beards are tired of hearing

Having a beard is something all bearded men seize pride in. It is a badge of honor — a marquis...

3 reasons why strong people have the most...

What does it mean to be strong? It’s not the same thing that it meant thousands of years ago....

john kerrys mission in syria, preventing medical...

novel Yorker editor David Remnick looks atJohn Kerry's approach to negotiating Syria and the...

echoes of wars gone by: syrian children greet...

Russian troops arriving in the Syrian mountain village of Brabishbo were showered with flowers,...

ministry of defense declassifies name of russian...

The Russian Ministry of Defense has released current photos of 'Sergei Ivanovich', an...

swedish brochure teaches migrants how to have sex,...

Of late, Swedish social media users own been boiling over a controversial instructional brochure for...

no need to explain cause of miscarriage … excuse...

Dear Carolyn Adapted from a recent online discussion. DEAR CAROLYN: I found out that I miscarried...

obama: cap class time devoted to standardized...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Targeting one of education’s most divisive issues, President Barack Obama on...

6 never ending perks that come with having your...

She’s the Lorelei to your Rori. You guys have your own unique language. You know what she’s...

french luxury brand offers $2,145 clone of ikeas...

The latest luxury shopping bag launched by French fashion house Balenciaga has been found to bear...

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