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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A case before the Supreme Court today could parse when it's OK to put limits on free speech. It started when a man who went to a city council meeting in Florida complained about local politicians and got arrested for it. His name

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Sam Gilliam is on the art world's hot list these days. He has a one-man show in Switzerland, commissions, sales in the six figures - pretty cool for an artist who had his heyday in the 1970s, when his unique draped paintings start

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Every state has a law mandating these buffer zones outside polling places where there can't be any campaigning at all, and these are laws the Supreme Court has long upheld. And today, the court is tackling similar, maybe even stri

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: We have some exclusive reporting now on Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen and his history of making legal threats to solve problems for his boss. For the first time, you're about to hear Cohen makes such threats on

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: In 1880, the artist Renoir wrote a friend that he was in a riverside town near Paris painting oarsman. He'd been itching to do it for a long time. I'm not getting any younger, the 41-year-old artist wrote, and didn't want to defer

美国国家公共电台 NPR Judge Gorsuch's Writings Signal He Would Be A Conservative On Social Issues

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump's pick for the U.S. Supreme Court goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing next week. For more than 10 years as a federal appeals court judge, Neil Gorsuch has been writing judicial

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: The U.S. Supreme Court is going to hear arguments today in a major First Amendment case that involves abortion. On one side are self-identified crisis pregnancy centers that seek to prevent abortions. And on the other side is the

美国国家公共电台 NPR Mel Brooks Says It's His Job To 'Make Terrible Things Entertaining'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Fifty years ago, Mel Brooks released The Producers. It was a movie about a scam to put on a Broadway musical that lost money. Years later, it became a Broadway musical about putting on that musical. And like the fictional musical

美国国家公共电台 NPR See Red In A New Light: Imperial China Meets Mark Rothko In D.C. Exhibition

DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK. Here in Washington, D.C., a single color, red, is the focus of a small exhibition at the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery of Asian Art. NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg says the show finds links between a 15th-century Min

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Americans are used to the hurly-burly of political and legal debate. But historically, presidents have been careful not to criticize individual judges or their motives. Of course, President Trump has broken with a lot of institutio

美国国家公共电台 NPR After 21 Nominations, Will Sound Mixer Kevin O'Connell Finally Win His Oscar?

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And now to a story about the longest losing streak in Oscar history. A sound rerecording mixer named Kevin O'Connell earned an incredible 20 Academy Award nominations and zero wins. This year, he could break the curse. H

美国国家公共电台 NPR Danish Filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg Gets Deeply Personal In 'The Commune'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Thomas Vinterberg is not an easy filmmaker to pin down. In English, he's leapt from science fiction to the costume drama Far From The Madding Crowd. In his native Denmark, he tends to make intensely intimate films, like his Oscar n

美国国家公共电台 NPR Giacometti's Sculptures Bare The Scars Of Our Daily Struggles

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Alberto Giacometti made drawings and paintings and sculptures. The sculptures are what he's best-known for, these long, skinny bronze bodies striding through life like shadows. Today New York's Guggenheim Museum opens a big show

美国国家公共电台 NPR Senators Grill Trump Judicial Nominees On Provocative Blog Posts

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There are more than 130 vacancies on the U.S. federal courts. And now, President Trump has started to fill some of those jobs. The number is unusually large because in the last years of the Obama administration, Republicans block

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NOEL KING, HOST: Centuries' worth of shoes are getting oohs and aahs at the New-York Historical Society. The shoes are from the personal collection of shoe designer Stuart Weitzman. The exhibit is called Walk This Way, and NPR special correspondent S

美国国家公共电台 NPR Biography Captures The Charisma And Confidence Of Photographer Inge Morath

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Next we have the story of Inge Morath, a woman who escaped Nazi Germany, became a glamorous globetrotting photographer and married the playwright Arthur Miller. She's the subject of a biography now, and NPR special correspondent