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I've been waiting for Tony Horwitz to write another big on-the-road book that crisscrosses the American cultural divide ever since his bestseller, Confederates in the Attic, came out in 1998.

For those who haven't read it, Confederates in the Attic is a revelatory and very funny first person travelogue in which Horwitz roams the South, talking to battlefield reenactors and members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, in order to grasp what he calls America's "unfinished" Civil War.

Here's an SAT word for you: "aptronym." An aptronym is a proper name that's especially "apt" for describing the person who bears it. Take Usain Bolt, the bolt-of-lighting Jamaican sprinter, or the poet William Wordsworth.

On the next Fresh Air – as our divided nation awaits the outcome of election day, we talk about the most divisive issue in our nation’s history.

Andrew McCabe became the FBI director after President Trump fired James Comey. Last March, McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, on grounds related to his authorizing an aide to speak with the Wall Street Journal about the FBI’s probe into the Clinton Foundation.

Former Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe has a new book coming out.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says it's not normal for the bureau to open investigations into the president.

"We don't have a lot of experience with investigating presidents of the United States," McCabe says.

This year, I was blown away by the Tiny Desk Contest entries I saw. We received over 6,000 entries from all across the country. We saw tiny desks up on rooftops and down on a subway platform; tucked into treetops, pickup trucks and laundromats.

On the next Fresh Air, we continue our holiday series of favorite interviews of the year with actor Rami Malek.

On the next Fresh Air, we continue our holiday series of favorite interviews of the year with actor Rami Malek.

A recent scandal shed light on students who cheat their way into college.

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Attorneys for local governments across the country unveiled a plan Friday that they say would move the nation closer to a global settlement of lawsuits stemming from the deadly opioid crisis.

On the next fresh air, our archive interviews with two people who died this week.

President Trump claims that large numbers of non-citizens are registering to vote.

This election, gun control was a central issue for many Democratic candidates in suburban districts.

Some states are benefiting from letting undocumented immigrants get a driver's license. Could these laws offer a roadmap to policymakers across the country?  Plus, former San Antonio mayor Julian Castro sits down with Steve Inskeep to talk about running for president.

On the next Fresh Air - voting rights and voting restrictions --Terry talks with ARI BERMAN, author of Give us the Ballot.

During the Great Recession, the state sold its capitol and other buildings in a sale-lease-back deal to raise money. Nearly a decade later, the state has a plan to reclaim the buildings.

Newly elected Democratic mayor Arturo Garino was busy with Election Day when the Army arrived in Nogales and started erecting coils of glistening razor wire along the tops of the border wall that separates his small U.S.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson about a federal judge's decision this week that blocked his state's Medicaid work requirement rules.

Gloria Vanderbilt was an artist, heiress, designer and philanthropist who, for many Americans, may be best remembered for her blue jeans. She died at the age of 95.

Vanderbilt's son, Anderson Cooper, announced her death Monday, airing an obituary for her on CNN.

Inside his barber shop in Bladenboro, N.C., Rodney Baxley is giving Bobby Simmons a haircut.

The two men are talking about what everyone in this part of the state has been talking about for the better part of the past month: McCrae Dowless, and the operation he was running to get out the vote for Republican Mark Harris in the congressional race in North Carolina's 9th District.

A partial shutdown is about to enter its sixth week, and federal programs that help house and feed millions of Americans are running out of funds.