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Home for the Holidays

Talking turkey, politics and gratitude — and how to keep everything running smoothly

Home for the Holidays: Kim Severson of the New York Times joins Steven to talk about how to keep things polite around the holiday table. They'll talk politics and turkey: How to be a good guest, especially when the food tastes terrible. For hosts: What to do about picky eaters, or a partygoer who's had too much egg nog.

The Civilist with Steven Petrow

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Human Intelligence: A Holiday Tale


Kurt Andersen’s version of a Christmas story doesn’t have your typical talking snowman or mistletoe. Instead, this holiday tale involves extraterrestrial surveillance and melting polar ice caps. "Human Intelligence," was produced for radio by <a class="guestlink" href="/people/jonathan-mitchell/">Jonathan Mitchell,</a> and stars Melanie Hoopes, John Ottavino, and Ed Herbstman. The unabridged version was published in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061230936/studi360-20/" target="_blank">"Stories: All New Tales,"</a> an anthology edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/studio360/podcast/~4/2oYrb7BXtCs" height="1" width="1" alt="" />

Studio 360

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Afghan Uncertainty, Space History, Big Data, Christmas Cards


The Takeaway

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Trump and Reagan, A Christmas Treasure, Women in Combat


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EXCLUSIVE: The Takeaway's Memorial Day Special

Happy Memorial Day from The Takeaway. Today, we pay tribute to America's service members, dig into the vice presidential guessing game, and examine the state of the Supreme Court. Here's our show order:<ul><li><a href="http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/e.mayhew">Dr. Emily Mayhew</a> works at London’s Imperial College. She is the author of "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wounded-History-Western-Front-World/dp/0199322457">Wounded</a>," which traces a soldier's journey from injury on the front-lines of World War I to recovery in Britain. Dr. Mayhew explains how the "Great War" forever changed battlefield medicine.</li></ul><ul><li>Kharisma James is a decorated two-time combat veteran of the United States Army. She's also a mom. She has her sights set on becoming a qualified nurse, and El Paso Community College (EPCC) has given her a chance to reach her goal. EPCC, which enrolls over 1,000 veterans each semester, is one of the five schools we’ve been profiling in our <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/takeawaycommunitycollege/">Community College Challenge</a> series.</li></ul><ul><li>Since Justice Antonin Scalia died in mid-February, the U.S. Supreme Court has been smack in the middle of a bitter political battle. The Republican-controlled Congress has refused to consider the appointment of Judge Merrick Garland, who President Obama has chosen to replace Scalia. <a href="https://twitter.com/ahoweblogger">Amy Howe</a>, editor and reporter at <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/author/amy-howe/">SCOTUSBlog</a>, explains how Congressional sclerosis has affected the court itself.</li></ul><ul><li>Staff Sergeant Kevin Snow is an Iraq War veteran. He suffered a brain injury in 2007 when a grenade exploded on his base. Today he struggles with PTSD. Kevin and his wife Adrienne Snow talk about how close they came to divorce, and how much their lives have changed.</li></ul><ul><li>Who will Donald Trump pick as his running mate, and who might potentially team up with Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders? Takeaway Washington Correspondent <a href="https://twitter.com/toddzwillich">Todd Zwillich</a> looks at the runners and riders in the 'Veepstakes.'</li></ul><ul><li>58,220 Americans died during the Vietnam War, and today, 1,621 Americans are still officially missing or unaccounted for. One of them is Tech Sergeant Melvin Holland, or Mel as he was known to family and friends. <a href="http://kuow.org/people/patricia-murphy">Patricia Murphy</a>, military and veterans affairs reporter for member station KUOW in Seattle, says that Mel's family is urging the Pentagon not to give up the search for his remains.</li></ul>

Food

Is that Manischewitz? The Kosher wine is a hit in some Caribbean communities.

Arts, Culture & Media

Vintage Valentines to Confuse and Amuse

Antonio Trujillo holds a cigarette while resting on a bench, in Pamplona, northern Spain

Environment

Big tobacco is forced to pay for cigarette butt pollution in Spain, but smokers may soon be on the hook

Peru protests reveal ethnic and regional divides

A security personnel speaks to people from inside the main gate of Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi, India

Free speech

Blocking BBC documentary on Gujarat riots goes against India's democratic values, journalist says

LGBTQ

LGBTQ Russians are fleeing to Central Asia

The book includes haunting photos from inside the ghetto, along with its record of the medical effects of starvation. 

Warsaw Ghetto’s defiant Jewish doctors secretly documented the medical effects of Nazi starvation policies 

One of the main dishes at The Pork House includes a crunchy roasted pork with beans and fresh vegetables and is paired with the Brazilian national drink: caipirinha. 

Pork paradigm shift: This high-end São Paulo restaurant features pig ears and tails

A general view of Mes Aynak valley is seen some 25 miles southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2, 2022. Buildings on top are offices of Chinese mining company MCC that won the contract to exploit the world's second-largest copper mine.

Afghanistan

A Chinese company strikes a deal with the Taliban to extract oil from Afghanistan

Security officials and rescue workers gather at the site of suicide bombing, in Peshawar, Pakistan

Violence

Suicide bomber kills 34, wounds 150 at mosque in NW Pakistan

In this June 19, 2017, file photo, a person types on a laptop keyboard in North Andover, Massachusetts. 

Cybersecurity

'Ransomware Diaries:' Going undercover with the leader of LockBit

Ukraine

Wagner mercenary group recruits Africans held in Russian prisons

Skinny Lister

Music

Irish punk bands, and some punks in Ireland you should already be listening to

Orthodox Jewish men in costume read from a scroll of the biblical Book of Esther for the Jewish carnival holiday of Purim. The story tells the tale of an ancient Persian king whose viceroy hatches a plot to kill the Jews of the kingdom, a plot that is thw

Belief

Iranians and Israelis are in a battle over history — and the holiday of Purim

Sausages and meat grill on a charcoal barbecue in a garden in Hanau near Frankfurt, Germany, June 7, 2016.

Here's a little history behind those sausages you'll grill for Fourth of July

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