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Get Well Soon! is an online artwork of more than 200,000 comments from the GoFundMe website. Visit the Get Well Soon! site.

Arts

Artists Turn GoFundMe Comments Into A 'Get Well Soon!' Card For A Sick System

1:53pm September 29, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

"We're thinking about it as an archive of well wishes, but an archive that shouldn't exist, that exists because of a terrible structural inequality that we all face," says artist Sam Lavigne.

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Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller is sworn in before testifying on July 24, 2019 before a House Judiciary Committee hearing about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

A Lead Prosecutor On Mueller's Team Weighs In On Where The Investigation Fell Short

1:46pm September 29, 2020

by Dave Davies

Federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann says the Mueller investigation was fundamentally shaped by the president's power to fire the team and to pardon key witnesses. His new book is Where Law Ends.

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'Leave The World Behind' Is A Signature Novel For This Blasted Year

1:27pm September 29, 2020

by Maureen Corrigan

A family on vacation opens the door of their remote Airbnb rental one night to an older couple who claims to be the home's owners. Rumaan Alam's thrilling novel is about race, class and self-delusion.

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Kennedy Center Hosts First In-Person Concert Since Lockdown

5:59pm September 28, 2020

by Elizabeth Blair

After closing its doors in March and laying off hundreds of workers, the Kennedy Center held its first concert Saturday night (9/26). Renee Fleming and Vanessa Williams performed for an audience of about 40 people. NPR's Elizabeth Blair was there.

The LatinxPitch for Kid Lit group just held their first Twitter event where writers and illustrators pitched ideas.

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Arts

New Groups Aim To Get More Latinx Stories To Young Readers

4:37pm September 28, 2020

by Mandalit del Barco

Kids don't often get to read stories about Latinos; statistics show the American publishing industry is overwhelmingly white. Several new groups of writers, editors and agents are out to change that.

'The Bomb' Presents A 'Secret History' Of Nuclear War Planning In America

2:21pm September 28, 2020

by Dave Davies

Author Fred Kaplan reveals how U.S. presidents, their advisers and generals have thought about, planned for — and sometimes narrowly avoided — nuclear war. Originally broadcast Jan. 27, 2020.

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Rev. Al Sharpton speaks at the 2020 March on Washington, officially known as the Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks, at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28 in Washington.

Al Sharpton: Policing In America Will Change Because Of George Floyd's Death

12:35pm September 28, 2020

by Steve Inskeep

Rev. Al Sharpton spoke with NPR about his new book Rise Up. Of George Floyd's death, he said: "I had begun to see, by the time of the funeral, there had been a movement that was unlike others."

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(Clockwise from upper left) Joshua Caleb Johnson in The Good Lord Bird, Rafe Spall in The Salisbury Poisonings, Whoopi Goldberg in The Stand, Nicole Kidman in The Undoing, Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Amelie Smith in The Haunting

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NPR's Fall TV Preview: 23 Suggestions For What To Watch Next

5:00am September 28, 2020

It feels like a minor miracle that there are so many high-quality shows coming to the small screen this season. Four NPR critics share their picks to keep you entertained during a challenging year.

All About the Story: News, Power, Politics, and the Washington Post, by Leonard Downie, Jr.

'All About The Story' Is A History Of Newspapering — And A Primer On Media Ethics

4:38am September 28, 2020

by Annalisa Quinn

Former Washington Post leader Len Downie is well-placed to offer a look at 50 years in news — but he also writes of times he had to weigh the public's right to know against national security.

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Michelle Buteau On Her Long Career And New Netflix Special

7:42am September 27, 2020

Host Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to comedian Michelle Buteau about her new Netflix special, Wecome to Buteaupia.

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