A Widow, Not A Wife: ‘Smacked’ Explores An Ex-Husband’s Secret Addiction This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. Like a lot of people, my guest Eilene Zimmerman had certain preconceptions …
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How Amazon Became ‘Inescapable’ – the Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos This is FRESH AIR. I’m Dave Davies in for Terry Gross. Amazon started as an online bookseller, but …
After 30 Years Apart, An Immigration Lawyer Reunites His Mother With Her Parents COTT SIMON, HOST: Luis Cortes Romero shared a video on his Twitter feed this past week. In …
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Winnie Harlow : How I define beauty I wanted to start off by asking a question to everyone in the room, and you can take a minute to think about …
Farida Nabourema : Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship? Here’s how to know. A few weeks ago, somebody tweeted during the midterm elections in the United States …
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A.J. Jacobs: My year of living biblically I thought I’d tell you a little about what I like to write. And I like to immerse myself in my topics. I …
Five Things You May Not Know About Child Marriage RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: NPR’s Jennifer Ludden usually covers issues about changing family dynamics here in the U.S., but a recent reporting …