There has been a swell of anti-immigrant sentiment in Italy, including attacks on the Roma population. Italy's politicians and Rome's new mayor, a former neo-fascist, are helping fuel anti-immigrant feelings.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo edited and contributed to a new volume called A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice. He says the book that he and his five fellow writers thought would be about loss and grief turned into something very different.
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Scott Simon interviews Mark Rylance, co-star in the most-performed French play, Boeing Boeing. The Broadway play also features Gina Gershon and Christine Baranski.
Scott Simon talks with writer Elaine McArdle about her recent Boston Globe piece, "The Freedom to Say No." The article examines how when given the choice, women who excel in science and engineering often choose to go into other fields.
Scott Simon talks with Mickey Rapkin about his new book, "Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory," which weaves together the drama of three groups trying to claim glory without instruments.
Scott Simon talks to Jeff Curtin, co-founder of a band called Previously on Lost. The band takes each week's episode of the TV series "Lost" and summarizes it in a song.
Brazil's government wants to harness the hydroelectric power potential of the Xingu River to meet the country's energy needs. But the ancestral inhabitants of the Amazon fiercely oppose plans to build what would be the world's third-largest dam.
Decades of uranium mining have left a legacy of cancer in the Navajo community. The Navajo Nation has banned mining on its reservation and is pushing the EPA to clean up lingering contamination.
Barry Levy, a doctor who moonlights as a musical satirist, wrote lyrics about graduation speeches and set them to the music of Mozart. Graduating senior and former NPR intern Tara Tisch-Wallace sings the lyrics.
Virtually everyone has heard the siren song of the open road at some point or another. Out of the thousands of great road songs, here are five which provide a soundtrack to that long journey we're all forced to take at least once: to try to figure out what we're supposed to be doing with our lives.
Cuban guitarist Manuel Galban became known in the U.S. after playing with Buena Vista Social Club and winning a Grammy with Ry Cooder. But Galban has long been famous in Cuba because of his work with one of Cuba's most famous groups of the 1960s.
When a roadside bomb in Afghanistan exploded earlier this month, it killed Michael Bhatia, an American academic embedded with U.S. troops. It also delivered a blow to the controversial U.S. military program that he served with.
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Utah Phillips — folksinger, storyteller and labor organizer — dubbed himself the "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest." He died last week at the age of 73.
With classical music sales waning, it's harder than ever for progressive young composers and performers to get noticed. But the independent New Amsterdam label is documenting the eclectic musical community around its classically trained 20-something founders.
Weddings are supposed to be one of the happiest days in a lifetime. But it doesn't turn out to be a fairy tale day for everyone. It's a day that can be crimped or ruined by bridezillas, grooms with cold feet and embarrasing best-man toasts.
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Gnarls Barkley is best known for its massive summer hit "Crazy," from 2006's St. Elsewhere. The duo's follow-up, The Odd Couple, meshes classic R&B with infectious hip-hop grooves and cinematic production. Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse speak with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about crafting their new album.
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Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan insists his scathing memoir is not the work of a disgruntled ex-employee — as some of his old colleagues have argued — but an effort to tell the truth to help clean up Washington.
A Texas woman shares her story and echoes a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation that older adults be vaccinated against the painful nerve infection. Also, new research shows some people have a genetic tendency to get shingles.
A farming experiment at the University of California, Davis, has found that organically grown tomatoes are richer in certain antioxidants than conventionally grown tomatoes. One researcher is on a quest to figure out why.
In the last century, Basque people fleeing Francisco Franco's dictatorship flocked to America, herding sheep across the West. "Hidden Kitchens" explores the world of Basque sheepherders and their outdoor, below-the-ground, Dutch oven cooking traditions.
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