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TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. Last week the dramatic Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh made headlines and also made for riveting television.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Bill Cosby walked out of a suburban Philadelphia courthouse yesterday on what could have been his last day as a free man.

Election Day is finally here.  Republican and Democratic leaders are looking to control Congress.

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Bill Hader, became famous as a performer and writer on "Saturday Night Live" for his original characters like Stefon and his impressions of people like Vincent Price.

Samin Nosrat was 19 and a cooking novice when she ended up as an apprentice in the kitchen at Chez Panisse, Alice Waters' award-winning restaurant in Berkeley, Calif. There she watched the cooks whip up dishes without looking at cookbooks or relying on timers and she was struck by how little she understood about cooking.

Here's a little encouragement for last-minute tax filers: Your chance of being audited by the IRS this year is as low as it's been in decades.

Years of budget cuts have hollowed out enforcement of the nation's tax laws.

Terry talks with Henry Louis Gates on the Martin Luther King Day edition of Fresh Air.

On the next Fresh Air – tracking the evolution of hate in America, and the re-branding of the white supremacy movement.

The new documentary Bathtubs over Broadway is about industrial musicals, created for corporate sales conventions to help sell everything from cars to toilets.

On the next Fresh Air -- a modern day fairy tale… Children's book author and illustrator Maira Kalman and her son designer Alen Kalman.

Christina Applegate stars as a grieving widow on the Netflix dark comedy Dead to Me.

Donald Trump Jr. says in a way, Brexit and his father’s election are one and the same.

Helping your kids survive and thrive in their college years. Terry talks with psychologist B.

Helping your kids survive and thrive in their college years. Terry talks with psychologist B.

On the next Fresh Air, conflicts within the NRA and the New York State Attorney General’s investigation into the NRA’s tax-exempt status.

Terry talks with Dexter Filkins, staff writer for the New Yorker, about his new piece on national security adviser John Bolton - the hawkish, former high paid FOX news commentator, whose world view is in many ways the opposite of President Trump's isolationist tendencies.

Terry talks with Jonah Hill, co-star of Super Bad, Moneyball and The Wolf of Wallstreet.

On the next Fresh Air – Terry talks with Kevin Hart, whose standup comedy sells out stadiums.

Michael Pollan is best known for his books about food but his latest book is about the history of psychedelic drugs, and current experiments with them in therapeutic settings—to treat depression, fear of death, and addiction.

New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt has broken major stories about Trump and the Mueller investigation.

  On the next Fresh Air –Terry talks with songwriter and singer Robbie Fulks and singer and pianist Linda Gail Lewis, the younger sister of Jerry Lee Lewis.

In addition to being a cast member of Saturday Night Live, Aidy Bryant stars in a new comedy series called Shrill, that’s based on the collection of autobiographical essays by Lindy West, who identifies as fat and a feminist.

Jason Rezaian was the only American citizen reporting from Iran on a permanent basis when he was arrested in 2014, accused of being a spy and held in one of Iran’s most notorious prisons.

On the next Fresh Air -- the story of the real Green Book -- the pre-civil rights era travel guide for African Americans, a book that helped travelers find safe places to stay, eat, shop and do business.

On Monday, a talk with environmental journalist Amanda Little, author of The Fate of Food about efforts to create a global food supply for a world that will be hotter, dryer and more crowded.

Hal Blaine was the drummer who played on thousands of recordings and many hits of the 1960s and 70s.

Writer Luis Alberto Urrea talks with Terry about growing up with a border wall in his own family: he's the son of a Mexican father and American mother.

Is democracy dying? That's the subject of the October issue of the Atlantic magazine that includes an article by Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum.

Americans have always been divided, but have the Trump administration and social media made things worse? Today, we live in an era when there is a shifting understanding of how to do politics.

President Trump has a penchant for breathing new life into expressions with troubled pasts, like "America first" and "enemy of the people." It's not likely his uses of those phrases will survive his presidency.

Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right now, the provocation is the gender-neutral pronouns that some nonbinary people have asked to be called by, so that they won't have to be identified as "he" or "she.

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. The tragic death of a 7-year-old girl in U.S. custody at the border last month brought to light, among other things, the communication breakdowns between border agents and asylum seekers, who are speakers of indigenous languages with limited Spanish.

By the time someone clicks "buy" on Amazon, Jenny Freshwater's team has probably expected it.

Freshwater is a software director in Amazon's Supply Chain Optimization Technologies group. Her team forecasts demand for everything sold by Amazon worldwide.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Rachel Martin. A woman in Oregon called 911. She reported a stranger in her bathroom. She could see shadows creeping underneath the locked door.

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. For nearly four decades, the world's most famous incomplete film was "The Other Side Of The Wind," which Orson Welles began shooting in the early 1970s and hadn't finished editing at the time of his death.

On the next Fresh Air, we hear from two Oscar nominees: Rami Malek who’s nominated for his performance as Freddy Mercury, in Bohemian Rhapsody; and Adam McKay, nominated for best director and original screenplay for his film Vice.

On the next Fresh Air, our Friday series of interviews with Oscar nominees continues with Spike Lee.