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Marin Alsop is the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the São Paulo Symphony so we know she's a good conductor ... but how will she do on our quiz about conducting electricity?

After three wars, two marriages and 30 months as a POW, Walter Dixon says he's proud of his time served in the military. "I'd do it again," he says in an interview for StoryCorps.

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Demonstrators are demanding fair elections for the City Duma and for opposition candidates to be allowed on the ballot.

Wang tells the story of the real-life lie behind her film, The Farewell. Justin Chang reviews Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood. Neurologist Guy Leschziner explains the different stages of sleep.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with science journalist Harriet A. Washington about her new book, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind.

The street protests in San Juan that forced Puerto Rico's governor to resign had another, less desired effect: local businesses suffered as tourists stayed away.

Almost 150 former Obama staffers signed an op-ed criticizing President Trump's tweets directed at lawmakers of color. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks to strategist Dru Ealons, one of op-ed's signatories.

A recent NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that most Republicans support the death penalty. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Chad McCoy, a GOP lawmaker in Kentucky.

On festivals that range from Day of the Dead to Easter, Mexicans hide their true identity behind fantastic masks that conjure up both indigenous — and European — traditions.