Longtime PBS news anchor Robert MacNeil died last week at 93. He spoke with Terry Gross a few times over... more

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Alua Arthur works with families, caretakers, and people close to death who want to be intentional about the end of... more

Rushdie was onstage at a literary event in 2022 when he was attacked by a man in the audience: "Dying... more

Growing up, when Diarra Kilpatrick watched murder mystery shows with her grandmother, she never saw Black women driving the narrative.... more

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Atlantic journalist Stephanie McCrummen says foreign interests are acquiring Serengeti territory in Northern Tanzania, effectively displacing indigenous cattle-herders from their... more

What happens to the body in the deep sea? You need oxygen to survive, but too much oxygen can be... more

Linguist Amanda Montell says our brains are overloaded with a constant stream of information that stokes our innate tendency to... more