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  • Has NASA Ceded Its Mission To Elon Musk?

    Has NASA Ceded Its Mission To Elon Musk?
    Jul 30 2025
    The Atlantic journalist Franklin Foer explains how SpaceX and the Trump administration are changing the face of NASA, and why Musk's dream of Mars may come at the cost of the agency's mission.

    Also, Ken Tucker commemorates the 50th anniversary release of George Clinton's album Mothership Connection.

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  • Comic Marc Maron On Grief, Cats, And Being Openhearted

    Comic Marc Maron On Grief, Cats, And Being Openhearted
    Jul 29 2025
    As he winds down his podcast, WTF, after 16 years, Marc Maron reflects on what he'll miss: "These conversations are very real conversations for me ... and that is kind of nourishing for the spirit and the soul." He spoke with Terry Gross about being the subject of a documentary, dreams he has of his late girlfriend Lynn Shelton, and cringing at his old comedy. Maron stars in the Apple TV+ series Stick, and his new HBO comedy special, Panicked, is out on August 1.

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  • Mariska Hargitay On Freeing Herself From Generational Trauma

    Mariska Hargitay On Freeing Herself From Generational Trauma
    Jul 28 2025
    The Law & Order: SVU actor was just 3 years old in 1967 when her movie star mom, Jayne Mansfield, died in a car crash. Hargitay's new documentary highlights the intelligent woman behind her mom's crafted persona. Hargitay has a new HBO documentary about her "archeological dig" on her family, called My Mom Jayne. She also talks about learning the identity of her biological father, her love of comedy, and working with survivors of sexual assault.

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  • Best Of: Actor Leslie Uggams / Martha's Vineyard's Indigenous Past & Present

    Best Of: Actor Leslie Uggams / Martha's Vineyard's Indigenous Past & Present
    Jul 26 2025
    Actor and singer Leslie Uggams talks about her remarkable career, which started when she was 6. She was later the first Black woman to host a TV variety show. In the 1977 TV miniseries Roots, she played Kunta Kinte's daughter. More recently she's been in Empire, American Fiction, and the Deadpool films — and is still going strong at 82.

    Also, writer Joseph Lee talks about what it means to be a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe from Martha's Vineyard. His new book, Nothing More of This Land, peels back the postcard image of the Vineyard to reveal a powerful story of Indigenous identity and survival.

    Plus, rock critic Ken Tucker reviews new music from the band HAIM and Addison Rae.

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  • Remembering Lyricist Alan Bergman / The 'Outrageous' Jessica Mitford

    Remembering Lyricist Alan Bergman / The 'Outrageous' Jessica Mitford
    Jul 25 2025
    The lyrics for the songs "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life," "The Way We Were," "Nice 'n' Easy," "You Must Believe in Spring," and "The Windmills of Your Mind" were written by the husband and wife lyric-writing team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Alan Bergman died last week at the age of 99. The two wrote songs together for more than 60 years. They spoke with Terry Gross in 2007.

    The aristocratic, unconventional British Mitford sisters are the subject of the new BritBox TV series Outrageous. We listen to our 1989 interview with Jessica Mitford, who wrote The American Way of Death, an exposé of the funeral industry that became a best seller in 1963. Mitford also was a communist who refused to give information to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

    Also, TV critic David Bianculli review Dexter: Resurrection.

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  • The Shifting Landscape Of Higher Education

    The Shifting Landscape Of Higher Education
    Jul 24 2025
    The Trump administration has been pressuring elite universities, like Harvard and Columbia, with widespread demands, and threats of federal funding cuts. So why are they now investigating George Mason University? ProPublica education reporter Katherine Mangan tells us why GMU's president thinks it's driven by a backlash to DEI efforts.

    Also, jazz historian Kevin Whitehead reflects on a James Moody release. He would've been 100 this year.

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  • A Chatbot Reacts To A Book About Tech

    A Chatbot Reacts To A Book About Tech
    Jul 23 2025
    After writing chapters of her new book about how tech companies help and exploit us, tech journalist and novelist Vauhini Vara fed those chapters to ChatGPT. She told the chatbot she needed help with her writing, but her real goal was to analyze and critique the AI's advice. Her new book is Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.

    Also, TV critic and historian David Bianculli reacts to the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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  • Leslie Uggams Looks Back On Her Decades In Show Business

    Leslie Uggams Looks Back On Her Decades In Show Business
    Jul 22 2025
    Uggams performed in Beulah, Hallelujah Baby, Roots, Empire, American Fiction and the Deadpool films. She was the first Black woman to host a TV variety show. At 82, she's appearing in The Gilded Age. She spoke with Terry Gross about her long, winding career.

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