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My taste doesn't naturally gravitate toward feminist dystopian fiction, but such stories are ubiquitous these days. Their influence seeps far beyond the classic novel and Hulu series of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, as well as the literary fiction it's inspired like Naomi Alderman's The Power and Leni Zumas' Red Clocks.

For decades, government officials in Switzerland stockpiled essential staples such as sugar, rice and coffee. The government now says coffee "is not essential for life."

On the next Fresh Air, writer Hillary Frank talks with Terry Gross about the childbirth injury she sustained, and the difficulty she had getting it treated.

Near the end of John Le Carré's great spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, one of the agents notices that his car's passenger door is unlocked. He instantly begins wondering how that happened.

Tara Westover's memoir Educated is about growing up in rural Idaho, where she didn't go to school, and never saw a doctor while her family stored food and weapons for a confrontation with the government.

It was a daunting task. Amid a major renovation, Jani Mussetter needed a lot of appliances: a washer, dryer, refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher and stove. As she visited showrooms in January, a stressful thing kept coming up: warnings of a price increase on Feb.

TED Radio Hour investigates the biggest questions of our time with the help of the world's greatest thinkers. Can we preserve our humanity in the digital age? Where does creativity come from? And what's the secret to living longer? In each episode, host Manoush Zomorodi explores a big idea through a series of TED Talks and original interviews, inspiring us to learn more about the world, our communities, and most importantly, ourselves.

TED Radio Hour is a co-production of NPR and TED.

Temp agencies are seeing the resumes of federal employees pile up. But many of these applicants have been rebuffed as furloughed workers are seen as too temporary for even temp jobs.

President Trump leaves Thursday for the G-20 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a packed schedule ahead of him and a number of looming questions that could determine whether the trip is a success or a mess.

On the next Fresh Air – Terry looks back at the year in movies and TV with our film critic JUSTIN CHANG and our TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI.

On the next Morning Edition, Texas lawmakers wrestle over the line between stopping voter fraud and hurting voter rights.

From sports drinks to protein powders, from compression therapy to cupping — there's a whole industry of products and services designed to help us adapt to and recover from exercise.

But does any of it work? That's the question science writer Christie Aschwanden set out to answer in her new book, Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery.

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This is FRESH AIR. Our next guest, Brian Palmer, is a journalist, photographer and filmmaker who directed the film "Full Disclosure," based on his time embedded with Marines in Iraq.

I'm not sure that any creature is more marvelous than the honeybee, with its highly evolved social organization, its ability to create honey, and, of course, the stinger that causes us to take heed whenever we hear buzzing.

Last week, Facebook announced the most serious security breach in its history, in which unknown hackers were able to log onto the accounts of nearly 50 million Facebook users.

That breach was just one of several crises plaguing the world's largest social media platform.

Serious data breaches and the Russian disinformation campaign in 2016 have put Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, under scrutiny as the mid-term elections approach.

The Democratic presidential primaries are more than a year away. But candidates are already focused on a crucial task - winning over black voters.

On the next Morning Edition, young e-cigarette smokers are multiplying. Would a ban reverse that trend? Also, baseball season got here fast! But has the game become too slow for fans? Hear news, and stories you'll talk about all day on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.

President Trump has been making the case to draw down U.S. troops from Afghanistan.