Arts

Financial scams are an unfortunate phenomenon, but what happens when a fraudster messes with the wrong grandma? The very fun action-comedy Thelma imagines exactly this scenario. The movie stars June Squibb as a woman scammed by someone pretending to be her grandson. She then enlists her old friend (the late Richard Roundtree) to help get her money back.

First up, there has been a media frenzy around the fouls made against rising basketball star and Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark. Commentators and fans have called her fellow WNBA players bullies, jealous, and catty. But Code Switch co-host Gene Demby and Defector's Maitreyi Anantharaman say a lot of the people commenting misunderstand the WNBA. Host Brittany Luse learns what the new fans might be missing and how racism, sexism and homophobia could be fanning the flames of the latest hot takes. Brittany also leads Gene and Maitreyi through a game of "But Did You Know."

Then, what is up with all the deodorant being locked up in stores? It's not just you, it's a peculiar nationwide trend that Brittany is trying to understand. Vox policy correspondent Abdallah Fayyad and The Marshall Project's engagement editor Nicole Lewis join the show to explain how this is related to a big shoplifting panic and what it could mean for the shelf life of certain crime policies across the country.

At an intersection in rural Virginia a store that sells Trump souvenirs has become a lesson in tolerance for its neighbor.

Bruce Onobrakpeya, one of the pioneers of postcolonial Nigerian modernism and one of the country's most revered artists, is about to open a major exhibition at the Smithsonian.

This summer, bike riders from two Cherokee tribes are retracing the trail of tears. Along the way they'll learn about the forced removal of their ancestors.

Netflix's miniseries about Franz Kafka is loose enough to have characters break the fourth wall, and bold enough to slip from scenes of the Czech writer's life to imagined scenes from his stories.

Catherine Newman's novel Sandwich centers on a woman vacationing with her young adult children and her elderly parents. Julie Satow’s When Women Ran Fifth Avenue profiles three NYC department stores.