culture

Why overturning Roe isn't the final goal of the anti-abortion movement

1:45pm June 23, 2022

by Terry Gross

Law professor Mary Ziegler explains how the anti-abortion movement upended the GOP establishment and helped push the courts to the right. Her new book is Dollars for Life.

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Arts

In 'Elvis,' an icon remains an icon, and little else

12:30pm June 23, 2022

by Aisha Harris

Baz Luhrmann's latest spectacle tackles the life of Elvis Presley, as filtered through his shady longtime manager.

PFLAG En Español members celebrate Pride in Los Angeles.

Arts

50 years ago, PFLAG's founder marched with her gay son. How's it keeping up in 2022?

10:06am June 23, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

PFLAG was started almost 50 years ago when gay people and their families were isolated and stigmatized. Now, the organization is finding new families to support and new legal battles to fight.

Arts

Encore: Exhibit takes visitors closer to the National Museum of the American Latino

7:27am June 23, 2022

by Miranda Mazariegos

The National Museum of the American Latino in Washington won't be finished for a decade. For now, a pop-up exhibit at the National Mall highlights Latino history. (Story aired on WeSAT on 6/18/22.)

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Belle, an English setter, arrives to compete in the sporting group at the 146th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in Tarrytown, N.Y.

Trumpet the bloodhound wins Westminster Kennel Club dog show

11:33pm June 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

The winner becomes the first bloodhound to win the annual canine competition.

Fourth-grader Lucy Kramer (foreground) does schoolwork at her home, as her mother, Daisley, helps her younger sister, Meg, who is in kindergarten, in 2020 in San Anselmo, Calif.

Raising kids is 'Essential Labor.' It's also lonely, exhausting and expensive

12:41pm June 22, 2022

by Terry Gross

In her book, author Angela Garbes makes the case that the work of raising children has always been undervalued and undercompensated in the U.S. Then came the pandemic, and everything got harder.

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The Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall is one of four sites selected as possible locations for two new museums.

Arts

The Smithsonian selects four possible sites for new museums for women and Latinos

12:34pm June 22, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

The National Women's History Museum and the National Museum of the American Latino were authorized by Congress in 2020.

A dolphin's sense of echolocation allows it to coordinate efforts to hunt prey, see "through" other creatures and form three-dimensional shapes using sound.

The human sensory experience is limited. Journey into the world that animals know

12:09pm June 22, 2022

by Terry Gross

In his new book, An Immense World, science writer Ed Yong explores the diversity of perception in the animal world — including echolocation, magnetic fields and ultraviolet vision.

The rapper Logic, whose latest album, Vinyl Days, was released June 17.

Logic is ready to do things his way

5:04am June 22, 2022

In an interview with Morning Edition, rapper Logic explains the central message of his new album, Vinyl Days: "I rap good! Let's just be honest here."

Here's what makes poetry and gardens a perfect pair, according to 2 poet-gardeners

5:10pm June 21, 2022

Writers and gardeners Ross Gay and Tess Taylor and about what gardens and poetry can bring — including the reminder to breathe and nourish the body and soul.