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Confused By The U.S. Economy? You're Not Alone Oct 22, 2025

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How are changing tariffs, the AI boom, immigration policies and uncertainty in employment and the stock market impacting the economy? Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist, explains.
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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way Oct 21, 2025

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After surviving the Taliban's 2012 attempted assassination, activist Malala Yousafzai didn't back down. She continued to advocate for girls' education across the globe. In 2014, Yousafzai became the youngest person to win a Nobel Prize, an honor that weighed on her when she went off to college. In Finding My Way, she writes about her life at Oxford and beyond. She spoke with Tonya Mosley about reliving childhood, PTSD, and her decision to get married.
Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews the new Apple TV+ docuseries Mr. Scorsese.
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Ken Burns On The American Revolution Oct 20, 2025

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Burns' new six-part PBS documentary series includes the perspectives of women, Native Americans and enslaved and free Black people — all of whom were initially excluded from the declaration "all men are created equal." The series begins Nov. 16.
Also, Lloyd Schwartz reviews a recording of Handel arias from soprano Julia Lezhneva.

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Best Of: Julian Brave NoiseCat / Laufey Oct 18, 2025

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Julian Brave NoiseCat's Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane is about the mostly Catholic missionary boarding schools which Indigenous children, including older members of his family, were required to go to get "assimilated." Many were physically and sexually abused. While making the film and writing his new memoir, NoiseCat learned why minutes after his father was born, he was abandoned in a boarding school trash incinerator room. His memoir is We Survived the Night.
Also, Grammy-winning Icelandic musician Laufey plays guitar and sings some songs for us.
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A Girl Grows Up In The Epicenter Of Gay Liberation Oct 17, 2025

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The new movie Fairyland, produced by Sofia Coppola, is adapted from the memoir by Alysia Abbott. She wrote about being the child of a gay single father at the dawn of the gay liberation movement. He raised her in 1970’s San Francisco, after her mother died. He later died from complications from AIDS. Abbott spoke with Terry Gross in 2013.
John Powers reviews the new film Blue Moon, directed by Richard Linklater.
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A Story Of Indigenous Survival & Resurgence Oct 16, 2025

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Filmmaker and writer Julian Brave NoiseCat is the son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mother. After a cultural genocide, he says, living your life becomes an existential question. "To live a life in an Indigenous way is a kind of profound thing, and it has been really beautiful to get to make art and tell stories from that position." NoiseCat spoke with Terry Gross about his father's origin story, dancing at powwows, and the bonds of kinship. His new memoir, We Survived the Night, takes its name from a translation of the Secwépemc morning greeting. His Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane is on Hulu/Disney+.
Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews Daphne Du Maurier's collection of short stories, After Midnight.
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How Trump’s Transactional Nature Led To The Ceasefire Oct 15, 2025

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Former State Department negotiator Aaron David Miller, now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, attributes the Gaza deal in part to Trump's transactional nature and breaking of traditional diplomatic crockery. Miller spoke with Dave Davies about the prospects for lasting peace and recovery in the territory.
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