Sep 4th, 2008 · Alaska governor Sarah Palin isn't sitting well with some veteran GOP operatives. David Frum, Republican strategist and former George W. Bush speech writer, says it's important to know how someone governs before giving them the job. With Palin, that's impossible, he says.
Sep 2nd, 2008 · Were the 1980s the worst years for music? NPR listeners seem to think so, according the results of our poll. When asked to pick the best year for music, nearly everyone skipped the '80s entirely. On this edition of All Songs Considered, host Bob Boilen looks back at the decade of synth pop, hair metal, and hardcore with Stephen Thompson, editor of Song of the Day, Robin Hilton, All Songs Considered producer and host of Second Stage, and Carrie Brownstein, writer for the Monitor Mix blog.
Sep 1st, 2008 · We're joined by Chris Bynum, staff writer for the New Orleans Times Picayune, and Scott Cowen, the president of Tulane University.
Aug 30th, 2008 · Joel Rose reports on a new book by writer and karaoke host Terry Obrien. It tells the story of a serial killer on the loose in Cape May, New Jersey whose victims all loved to sing karaoke.
Aug 29th, 2008 · Over the years, travel writer Jake Warga has compiled a list of travel tips. On a recent trip to Taiwan with a group of travel writers, Warga also got tips from his companions, including: Walk around the block with your luggage on your back before you set off.
Aug 29th, 2008 · Benjamin Britten's final, haunting opera Death in Venice (based on Thomas Mann's novella) finds an aging writer obsessed with one particular kind of beauty that leads to his downfall, in a production from Glimmerglass Opera.
Aug 27th, 2008 · In the latest installment of the series What If?, which explores the potential impact of a first-elected black president, writer and activist Tim Wise and writer Richard Rodriguez to discuss whether Sen. Barack Obama's popularity among whites does anything to change pre-existing negative perceptions of blacks in America.
Aug 26th, 2008 · America America is an ambitious, old-fashioned novel about politics, power and class in a small, upstate New York town. The Nixon-era tale is Canin's sixth book.