Interviews

According to a new note on The Wall Street Journal's style book, much of its coverage painted millennials with a broad and sometimes insulting brush.

'Millennials': Be Careful How We Use This Label

12:40am December 10, 2017

by Michel Martin

The Wall Street Journal announced that it would consider how it uses the term "millennial." Linguist Ben Zimmer weighs in on whether this term has painted a whole generation with too broad a brush.

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Sports

Barbershop: Russia Olympic Ban, NFL Hitting And More

6:05pm December 09, 2017

On this week's Barbershop, NPR's Michel Martin talks sports and culture with journalism professor and sports commentator Kevin Blackistone, CNN's AJ Willingham, and documentarian Bryan Fogel.

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National

SoCal Wildfire Victim Tells Her Story

6:05pm December 09, 2017

The ongoing SoCal wildfires have burned more than 100,000 acres, forced thousands of people to evacuate, and destroyed hundreds of structures. Cal Fire says there is no end in sight.

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Reaction To Trump's Appearance At Mississippi Civil Rights Museum

6:05pm December 09, 2017

President Trump appears at the grand opening of the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum even as the NAACP and civil rights activists say his presence is an insult.

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'Desert Bus': Even In Virtual Reality, It's Still 'Boring'

6:05pm December 09, 2017

Desert Bus may be the world's most boring video game. Players drive a bus from Arizona to Nevada in real time, an eight-hour trip. Now the game has a sequel - just as boring, but in virtual reality.

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Arts

What About Sexual Harassment On Wall Street?

6:05pm December 09, 2017

Many of the recent sexual assault allegations have surfaced in industries dominated by men. NPR's Michel Martin talks to Wall Street executive Sallie Krawcheck about sexual harassment in finance.

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James Franco plays eccentric filmmaker Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist. Franco says Wiseau "looks sort of like a mix between a vampire and a pirate and Michael Jackson. ... He has long black hair that looks like it's dyed with magic marker."

Fresh Air Weekend: James Franco; 2017's Word Of The Year; Guillermo Del Toro

10:28am December 09, 2017

Franco tackles a Hollywood story "unlike any other" in The Disaster Artist. Linguist Geoff Nunberg says "tribalism" is his word of the year. Del Toro talks about his new film, The Shape Of Water.

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Wayne Lo (left) is serving two life sentences at a Massachusetts prison for killing two people, including Greg Gibson's (right) son, Galen.

Books

25 Years Later, He Speaks To The Man Who Killed His Son

9:08am December 08, 2017

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of a shooting at Simon's Rock college in Massachusetts, a father whose son was killed that day sits down with the man who pulled the trigger.

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Robert Hakiza, who started a soccer tournament to unite refugees in Africa, sits on a bench in Washington, D.C.

He Brought Refugees Together With A Soccer Ball

3:06pm December 06, 2017

by Sasha Ingber

When Robert Hakiza was a boy, he used to play soccer with kids regardless of their ethnicity. Could the sport help cut through ethnic tensions at a refugee camp in Uganda?

Politics & Government

Examining 'God's Plan' For Vice President Mike Pence

11:09am December 05, 2017

by Rachel Martin

Rachel Martin speaks with McKay Coppins, whose profile of Vice President Mike Pence for The Atlantic looks at the fine line Pence must walk between his beliefs and the president.

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