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Tracking the hot-button issues driving this year's midterms politics

Elena Burnett, Domenico Montanaro, Emily Feng

Record high oil prices, war with Iran, and controversial immigration policies are just some of the issues for voters. NPR's Domenico Montanaro talks about covering this year's complex midterms.
Novelists Tayari Jones and Meg Wolitzer share notes on mothers in fiction

Justine Kenin, Elena Burnett

Ahead of Mother's Day, we brought together two novelists -- and friends -- Tayari Jones and Meg Wolitzer, to talk about what they love about reading and writing about mothers.
Ahead of a royal U.S. tour, U.K. ambassador speaks on transatlantic tensions

Elena Burnett, Juana Summers, Patrick Jarenwattananon

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Christian Turner, the United Kingdom ambassador to the United States, about current tensions between the two countries and King Charles' state visit to D.C. this week.
Don Schlitz, Grammy Award-winning writer of 'The Gambler,' remembered

Elena Burnett, Justine Kenin

Grammy-winning country songwriter Don Schlitz passed away this month at 73. He was the writer behind songs such as Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler" and Randy Travis' "Forever and Ever, Amen".
Spy novelist James Wolff dives deep into psychology of espionage in new book

Elena Burnett, Mary Louise Kelly, Courtney Dorning

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with James Wolff, the pseudonym of a former British intelligence officer who now writes about them in spy novels. His latest book is Spies and Other Gods.
At 86, Ian McKellen is still taking on new projects like 'The Christophers'

Sarah Handel, Mary Louise Kelly, Elena Burnett

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sir Ian McKellen about playing a sour painter in The Christophers and why the 86-year-old actor hopes to never retire.
The secret campaign within the Pentagon to bring AI into combat

Elena Burnett, Mary Louise Kelly, Courtney Dorning

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Bloomberg reporter Katrina Manson about her new book, Project Maven, and the secret campaign within the Pentagon to bring AI into combat.