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Luc Jasmin III has played a political behind-the-scenes role for years. Now he's running for elected office.
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Writer Mitchell S. Jackson says loving America means telling the truth about its past, even when its uncomfortable. He reflects on the country's 250th birthday.
Arts & Culture
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On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart will be discussing three different studies of the bizarre. Steven Spielberg’s aliens-come-runnin’ feature “Disclosure Day," followed by a couple of surprising suspense/horror hits, Curry Barker’s “Obsession” and Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms." -
Who doesn’t like the Toy Story movies? The fifth installment of Pixar’s first franchise is now in theaters, and Nathan Weinbender says it’s an entertaining family adventure that mostly sticks to the same formula as its predecessors.
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The Netflix documentary "Queen of Chess" tells the story of the first woman chess grandmaster, Hungary’s Judit Polgár, Dan Webster says.
Events
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EventsStop by your local Farmers' Market this summer and visit with SPR staff and volunteers at various Farmers' Markets in our region. -
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Spokane Public Radio is a media partner for Spokane Bike Everywhere Month 2026.
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A 1978 protest by wheelchair users won a right many now take for granted: boarding a city bus. NPR's Joe Shapiro and Colorado Public Radio's Stephanie Wolf explain.
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In his book 'The Midnight Special', author Colin Asher traces how prisons and the criminal justice system shaped American music, from Lead Belly and Johnny Cash to Tupac.
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On Independence Day, NPR's Don Gonyea returns to the city where he started his career to reflect on the auto industry, the Great Migration and the people who built Detroit.
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Detroit and Windsor, Canada have shared a fireworks tradition for generations. At the start of summer, thousands of people still gather on both sides of the border to celebrate together.
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Republicans stripped Planned Parenthood and several other healthcare providers of Medicaid funding for one year, but now clinics can resume billing Medicaid for non-abortion services.
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Poets like Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes have written movingly about America. -
We say goodbye to longtime NPR arts reporter Elizabeth Blair with this encore of her piece on one of the most American of songs: "This Land is Your Land."
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Today's Independence Day celebrations may be tamped down by severe heat and, according to a NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, worry about the future.
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Authorities in Beijing broke their silence about a small plane that crashed into the skyscraper headquarters of one of China's largest state-owned financial conglomerates.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Michele Steele discuss the World Cup and speculate about LeBron James.
