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How Battles Over Sex, Gender And Sexual Orientation 'Fractured American Politics'

1:39pm December 19, 2017

Moral Combat author R. Marie Griffith says the fight for women's suffrage and legal birth control in the early 20th century helped create a political divide in the U.S. that still exists today.

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Why We Kiss Under Mistletoe And Toast With Eggnog

1:28pm December 19, 2017

by Wynne Davis

The holiday season is full of traditions, but where did those come from? This year the staff of All Things Considered tracked down experts to find out.

Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, The Florida Project, The Big Sick, Coco and Girls Trip all made NPR's top list.

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NPR's Favorite Movies Of 2017

10:26am December 19, 2017

You may not agree that a given film belongs on this list, or we might have left your favorite off. But movies are meant to inspire discussion and debate; why shouldn't year-end lists do the same?

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3 Books That Capture America In Poetry

9:27am December 19, 2017

Poetry reviewer Tess Taylor shares three collections she says speak to different slices of American life in a way that reminds her of Walt Whitman.

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Bitch Planet: Triple Feature Vol. 1 By Kelly Sue DeConnick,‎ Cheryl Lynn Eaton,‎ Andrew Aydin,‎ and Conley Lyons.

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Return To 'B Planet' In this Timely New Anthology

7:00am December 19, 2017

by Etelka Lehoczky

In Bitch Planet: Triple Feature, creators Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro turn a score of talented writers and artists loose in the world of their futuristic feminist dystopia comic.

Researcher Elizabeth Currid-Halkett says celebrity can be boiled down to a simple formula.

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Never Go To Vegas, And Other Unspoken Rules Of Being An A-Lister

9:00pm December 18, 2017

It can seem arbitrary the way certain people fascinate us. But researcher Elizabeth Currid-Halkett says celebrity has a formula. So does being part of any social group — perhaps even your own.

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Why Teens Find The End Of The World So Appealing

4:14pm December 18, 2017

by Elissa Nadworny

Dystopian novels are all about consequences, choices and grey areas. And psychologists say that plays right into the sweet spot of the developing teenage brain.

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For Novelist Jennifer Egan, 'The Joy Of Writing Is Being Delivered Out Of My Life'

2:19pm December 18, 2017

by Sam Briger

"I don't use my life as inspiration," says the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Her new book, Manhattan Beach, imagines the lives of the women who worked on the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II.

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'American Seafood' Author Recommends Putting 'Underloved' Fish On the Plate

2:19pm December 18, 2017

Chef and sustainable seafood advocate Barton Seaver works to get people excited about fish. He says there are lots of species that are not endangered that we should be eating, like Hake.

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Appearing on Christmas tables and at winter weddings, smør bullar cookies evoke powdery snowballs.

Smør Bullar: The Classic Danish Christmas Cookie No One Has Heard Of

1:34pm December 18, 2017

by Amy E. Robertson

For one writer, the small, buttery Danish cookie her Scandinavian-American family made during Christmas was the taste of the holidays. Turns out, the classic Danish cookie may not be Danish after all.