“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...

Hillary Clinton: I Hope People Inside Intelligence Agencies Are "Slow-Walking Or Refusing To Share Information With Pulte"

Marc Elias asked Hillary Clinton, on the "Democracy Docket" podcast, to weigh in on President Trump's acting Director of ...
Colorado Public Radio

Colorado’s late poet laureate sent a ‘Love Letter from the Afterlife’ to their grieving wife

Megan Falley said she found the poem her wife, Andrea Gibson, wrote to her before Gibson died of ovarian cancer last July “beautiful and stunning” and said the words have been a comfort to her. Falley ...

I Keep Having to Turn Down the Men Who Are Eager to Sleep With Me. It Hurts Us Both.

What’s not apparent from the outside is that I was treated for prostate cancer two years ago and no longer get hard. I still have mind-blowing dry orgasms while soft and concentrate on getting the ...
Nextgov

Trump says Pulte can declassify ‘whatever’ he wants, sparking fears of exposing intelligence secrets

If he doesn’t care about blowing up cyber exploits, putting foreign relationships at risk, or getting people killed, he could ...

Why Do the Minions Sound Like That? How Random Menu Items, Rosamund Pike and Six Semitones Helped Create the Minionese Language

Director Pierre Coffin voices all the Minions, having developed their voice and gibberish language with the help of 6 ...

How Tom Petty's 'Don't Do Me Like That' became his biggest hit after nearly being given away

Kept in storage for five years, what was once a throwaway track for Tom Petty proved a hit with audiences.
The New Yorker

The Paperboy’s Secret

My first job in journalism—long before I knew that I wanted to write, and decades before I became a foreign correspondent—was delivering newspapers for the Columbia Missourian. I started at 5 A.M. on ...
The Verge

Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild

Omni sent my kid’s stuffie rafting and deepfaked me in front of the Eiffel Tower. But it’s not quite the singularity. is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech.
RealClearPolitics

Trump: Netanyahu "Will Do Whatever I Want Him To Do," "He's Not Treated Right In Israel"

President Trump said Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will do "whatever I want him to do" on Iran. Trump joked that he is thinking of running for Prime Minister since he is so ...
Penn Live

Asking Eric: My mother dines with my stalker ex-fiance. It’s like I don’t have a mom

Dear Eric: I am struggling with my mother. Soon after I got engaged, my then-fiancé began stalking me at work, driving around my employer’s parking lot doing “wheelies.” I wasn’t allowed to even look ...
Oregonian

Asking Eric: Why is my mother choosing the company of my stalker ex over my safety?

Dear Eric: I am struggling with my mother. Soon after I got engaged, my then-fiancé began stalking me at work, driving around my employer’s parking lot doing “wheelies.” I wasn’t allowed to even look ...