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In this membership-drive mini-series, we get to know about hobbies and building skills and finding communities for fun. Today, Ellen Day, ceramicist and the founder and director of the BrickHouse Ceramic Art Center in Long Island City, shares her passion for pottery. Read the full article here

We air highlights from our February Get Lit with All of It book club event with author Tananarive Due. We spent the month reading her novel, The Reformatory, which follows a young Black boy named Robert who’s sent to the Gracetown School for Boys and has to learn how to survive such a violent place, as ghosts…

We air highlights from our February Get Lit with All of It book club event with author Tananarive Due. We spent the month reading her novel, The Reformatory, which tells the story of a terrifying segregated reformatory for boys in Jim Crow-era Florida, and a young boy who is sent there. The boy learns he can…

Thousands of his supporters lined the streets of the Russian capital. We hear from a mourner. Show more Thousands of his supporters lined the streets of the Russian capital for his funeral service and burial. We hear from a mourner. Also on the programme: we get rare access to Iran, where parliamentary elections are taking…

On today’s show:  After news broke this week of two separate overcrowded locations housing dozens of migrants from Africa, Amaha Kassa, founder and executive director of African Communities Together, talks about the challenges facing African asylum seekers in the city. Stephen Dubner, host of “Freakonomics Radio” and the co-author of the Freakonomics books, talks about their…

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In 1944, a brilliant, young Harvard physics student named Ted Hall was recruited to work on the super-secret mission that had already assembled the country’s top scientists: the Manhattan Project. Soon, Hall was on his way to Los Alamos, where he worked on the implosion mechanism for the nuclear bomb. As the project started to…

Paul Giamatti stars in The Holdovers as a pompous and disliked teacher at a boys boarding school in the ’70s. He’s now up for an Oscar for best actor. Giamatti spoke with Sam Briger about the role and reuniting with director Alexander Payne, 20 years after Sideways. Also, we remember comic and Curb Your Enthusiasm…

Thursday on the NewsHour, death and desperation in Gaza as more than a hundred people trying to pull food from an aid convoy are killed. President Biden and Donald Trump hold dueling events at the Texas border, showcasing conflicting immigration policies. Plus, women who have struggled to get pregnant share their experiences and views on…

January’s personal consumption expenditures report showed that prices were up 2.4% from the same time last year, suggesting that  inflation remains in a cooling trend. The report also found that incomes jumped 1% last month — the biggest monthly gain in three years. Plus, why some customers with high-yield savings accounts aren’t getting promised rates,…