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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: There's this great recurring sketch from the Comedy Central show Key And Peele where Jordan Peele plays President Obama and Keegan-Michael Key plays his alter ego, the guy who's actually allowed to say what Obama thinks. He's cal

美国国家公共电台 NPR How The TV And Movies Are Using Gen X Nostalgia

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: If you are like me, a proud member of Generation X, you've probably noticed a lot of TV shows and movies are referencing that golden era or just coming 'round again. This year, Netflix rebooted the sitcom that first gave us the O

美国国家公共电台 NPR Steve Bannon Out At Breitbart News

Steve Bannon Out At Breitbart News KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Breitbart News has announced this afternoon that its larger-than-life chairman is out. Stephen Bannon's departure is directly linked to his blistering assessment of President Trump's intelligenc

美国国家公共电台 NPR New Picture Book Illustrates How 'Love' Is Always Around

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: And sometimes children's books tell you everything you need to know. MATT DE LA PENA: (Reading) In the beginning, there is light and two wide-eyed figures standing near the foot of your bed. And the sound of their voices is love.

美国国家公共电台 NPR 25 Years After The Tanks, Tear Gas And Flames, 'Waco' Returns To TV

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Twenty-five years ago, it seemed all eyes were fixed on Waco. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT) WALTER RODGERS: The federal agents came under heavy and sustained fire as they approached a ranch owned by Texas religious

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'The Eagle Huntress,' A Mongolian Girl Sets Out To Prove Her Elders Wrong

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Last Call: Send Us Your Commercials For 'Nicer Living' Project

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today the United States Supreme Court considers just what you can trademark. Most familiar names and logos are registered trademarks, from the McDonald's golden arches to the apple on an iPhone. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In the last t

美国国家公共电台 NPR This Food Critic Will Take The Taco. Again. And Again. And Again.

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: How many tacos is too many tacos? That is a question that our next guest can answer. He is the food critic for The San Antonio Express-News, and he says he will eat a taco every day in 2017 and write about the experience. And thi

美国国家公共电台 NPR Father Argues Against Radicalism In 'Letters to a Young Muslim'

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Omar Saif Ghobash is a Muslim. His two sons are Muslim. He says he worries they're being taught a hateful version of Islam, not an inclusive one. So he sat down and wrote to them, and the collection of writing is now a book calle

美国国家公共电台 NPR Judd Apatow On His Characters: 'If Everyone Is Mature, There Is No Comedy'

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Judd Apatow started writing stories from his own life into his comedy on the late-90s TV show Freaks and Geeks. It was about a kid named Bill Haverchuck. When Judd Apatow was young, he says he would make himself hamburgers or gri

美国国家公共电台 NPR We Asked People What They Know About Taxes. See If You Know The Answers

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Tomorrow is the deadline for filing your taxes. And this year, NPR wanted to find out how much people actually know about the tax system. We partnered with the Ipsos polling company and asked a set of questions about things like

美国国家公共电台 NPR ABC Announces Plan To Revive 'American Idol'

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: It seems like it was only yesterday that my friends here on the show said goodbye to American Idol. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: Fifteen years of bad tryouts. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, AMERICAN IDOL) UNIDEN

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fact-Checking Republicans' Defense Of The GOP Health Bill

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Many House Republicans are back in their districts this week after voting for a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. A few are holding town hall meetings. And in some cases, those town halls are loud. (SOUNDBITE

美国国家公共电台 NPR Don't Be Fooled: 'Generation Wealth' Is More About Wanting Than Having

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Plastic, surgery, private jets, toddlers in designer clothes, magnums of champagne served by costumed fairies who fly through the air - looking through the 500-page book Generation Wealth, you see all of that. It's a new collecti

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Angel Of History' Says 'I Will Not Forget'

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美国国家公共电台 NPR New Biography Celebrates E.B. White, Who Really Was 'Some Writer!'

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Eddie Izzard: Coming Out Gave Me The Confidence For Everything Else

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Before I talk to Eddie Izzard about his new book, Believe Me: A Memoir Of Love, Death And Jazz Chickens, I think we need to hear about the jazz chickens. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) EDDIE IZZARD: Cows go roo (ph). Sheep go

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Hemingway Didn't Say That' (And Neither Did Twain Or Kafka)

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Even with all the VA clinics and hospitals, that $180 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, even with all those resources, the day-in-and-day-out care of disabled veterans often falls to their own family mem

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fidget Spinner Emerges As Must-Have Toy Of The Year

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The must-have toy of the year has emerged, and it is called the fidget spinner. And, Robert, I understand you are seeing one of these for the first time. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: I am unwrapping it right now for the first time to see

Khizr Khan Says He Would Live This Week A 'Hundred Million Times' Over

Khizr Khan Says He Would Live This Week A 'Hundred Million Times' Over KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Khizr Khan can't go anywhere without being noticed. People hold doors for him, cry when they see him, even jump out of cars to hug him. He became known around