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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.

TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. The actress Barbara Loden, who died in 1980, is best known for writing, directing and starring in the 1970 film "Wanda," which has become recognized as a classic of women's cinema.

Nearly every review I've read of Alfonso Cuarón's Roma has insisted that you must see it on the big screen, and it's hard not to agree. You can certainly watch and appreciate this immaculately photographed movie when it hits your Netflix queue, but it's hard to imagine its immersive storytelling and virtuoso camerawork having quite the same effect.

In New Hampshire, there's no requirement that employers offer paid leave to workers who are caring for newborns or taking care of elderly parents.

Wendy Chase campaigned last fall for a seat in the state House promising to change that — and won.