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Back to SearchMerle Haggard On Hopping Trains And Doing Time
Before he became a musician, Merle Haggard lived the kind of life that's often mythologized in song: Hopping freights and doing prison time. When he …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Are Kids With ADHD Being Treated Effectively?
ADHD has been considered a medical disorder, treatable with drugs like Ritalin, but New York Times Magazine writer Paul Tough says recent studies que…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Ryan Coogler Paid A Steep Price For The Films He Made
The director of Black Panther and Creed talks about his new genre-bending vampire movie that takes place in the Jim Crow South. It's called Sinners a…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
America's Path To 'Competitive Authoritarianism'
Harvard professor of government Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Noah Wyle Is At Home In 'The Pitt'
After 11 seasons on ER, Noah Wyle thought he was finished with medical dramas: "I spent 15 years avoiding — actively avoiding — walking down what I t…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Best Of: Richard Kind / Melinda French Gates
You've seen Richard Kind on countless TV shows and films during his 40-year career — Only Murders in the Building, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spin City, a…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
A Love Story At The Center Of The Civil Rights Movement
MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid tells the story of Medgar Evers and his wife Myrlie. Medgar was the NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, a state that lynche…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Starvation In American Jail Cells
New Yorker staff writer Sarah Stillman says she's discovered dozens of cases where people in county jails across the U.S. have died of starvation, de…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Real-Life Russian Spies Who Inspired 'The Americans'
In The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West, journalist Shaun Walker shares how agents were …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Melinda French Gates On Giving Away Her 'Absurd' Wealth
In a new memoir, billionaire Melinda French Gates writes about the end of her marriage to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and her ongoing philanthro…
8 months, 3 weeks ago