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What a year was 1913! In an exhibition in a New York Armory, American viewers confronted Cubism and abstraction for the first time. In Vienna, the audience at a concert of atonal music by Schoenberg and others broke out into a near-riot. And in Paris, Stravinsky and Nijinsky’s new ballet The Rite of Spring burst […]

What a year was 1913! In an exhibition in a New York Armory, American viewers confronted Cubism and abstraction for the first time. In Vienna, the audience at a concert of atonal music by Schoenberg and others broke out into a near-riot. And in Paris, Stravinsky and Nijinsky’s new ballet The Rite of Spring burst […]

Hayao Miyazaki’s final film is about World War II and the designer of the legendary, destructive Zero airplane. Is the outspoken pacifist wavering in his position on the war? The young novelist Helen Oyeyemi blends folk tales and realistic fiction — her new book, Boy, Snow, Bird, places Snow White in 1950s small town America, […]

Guest host Alan Cumming talks with his friend Cyndi Lauper, the protean pop singer and Tony Award winner, as well as blind photographer John Dugdale.

The director David Fincher talks about the artful violence of Gone Girl, and Jenny Slate becomes an indie comedy star with Obvious Child.

Jan. 15, 2018: What might a mass mobilization effort in support of the poor look like in 2018? The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. provided a blueprint 50 years ago that still inspires today. The Takeaway looks at the ongoing fight for economic justice, plus a look at the use of forced labor and solitary confinement at ICE facilities; what happened with Hawaii’s false missile alert; a new approach to the opioid crisis; and the long evolution of black comics. 

Dec. 20, 2017: There’s been a lot said about the Republican tax plan over the past few weeks and months, and today we’re tackling those claims head on. Plus, a look at a new study on the suburban healthcare gap; the life and death of the disgraced archbishop of Boston; an important free speech case in the Trump era; New Jersey’s dysfunctional medical examiner’s system; and the best teen writing of 2017.

September 29, 2017: ARRL, The National Association for Amateur Radio is sending a group of volunteer ham radio operators to Puerto Rico to connect disaster survivors with family members. The Takeaway explores how the group is helping hurricane victims, plus a look at the Children’s Health Insurance Program; a Supreme Court case that could deal a blow to unions; modern lessons from a veteran of the free speech movement; new movie reviews; and unlearning the myth of American exceptionalism. 

August 15, 2017: What drives people to join white supremacist groups? Timothy Zaal, a former skinhead and current speaker at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, weighs in. Plus, a look at Vice President Pence’s South American trip; political trouble for Benjamin Netanyahu, and musicians Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ sing the blues. 

How many f-bombs and gun shots determine a movie’s rating? Howard Fridkin reveals the process of rating movies. Plus, how Native Americans shaped rock and roll history, and a live performance by NPR Tiny Desk Contest winners Tank and the Bangas.