Fresh Air

Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is

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Actor Ramy Youssef was in 5th grade and living in New Jersey when the Twin Towers fell. His new Amaz

The Georgia native has seen how Hollywood traffics in stereotypes about the American South. He talks

Michelle Williams talks about starring in Dying For Sex — a dark but funny TV series based on a true

R. Crumb created Zap Comix and such characters as Mr. Natural and Fritz the Cat. His comics were a s

When NYT critic-at-large Amanda Hess learned her unborn child had an abnormality, she turned to the

New York Times reporter Eric Lipton says the Trump family businesses, including their crypto company

Michelle Williams' FX/Hulu series Dying For Sex follows a woman with terminal cancer who decides to

Snook, who played Shiv Roy on Succession, was just nominated for a Tony for playing all the characte

We're diving into the resurgence of the pronatalism movement, the belief that having more babies wil

David Grann's book, The Wager, is about an 18th century British warship that wrecked on an island af

Fresh Air host Terry Gross lost her husband, acclaimed writer Francis Davis, on April 14. They were

A once-fringe movement claims having more babies is the only way to save civilization. NPR reporter

Journalist David Graham says the aim of the creators of the conservative action plan Project 2025 ai

Daria Burke spent several years digging into the science of how our brains and bodies carry the impr

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ryan Coogler's movies include both Black Panther films and Creed. His late

Before he became a musician, Merle Haggard lived the kind of life that's often mythologized in song:

ADHD has been considered a medical disorder, treatable with drugs like Ritalin, but New York Times M

The director of Black Panther and Creed talks about his new genre-bending vampire movie that takes p

Harvard professor of government Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into author

After 11 seasons on ER, Noah Wyle thought he was finished with medical dramas: "I spent 15 years avo