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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with sportswriter Howard Bryant about the past week in the world of sports.

Planting wildflowers could help deter wildfires across the western U.S. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Phil Allen, a professor at Brigham Young University, about his research into the topic.

The word "deadline" has been used a lot in reference to tariffs. It got us thinking: what is the origin of the word? NPR's Scott Simon talks with Benjamin Dreyer, author of "Dreyer's English."

You may have spotted a little free library in your neighborhood — there are more than 200,000 worldwide. But how is their role changing when people increasingly read online?

The political landscape has changed significantly since Hamilton premiered in 2015 - how the show is seen has changed as well.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with actor Kristin Scott Thomas and her husband, journalist John Micklethwait. The pair wrote the screenplay for the new movie, "My Mother's Wedding."

Be they girls, or be they dogs? NPR's Scott Simon talks with Xenobe Purvis about her debut novel, "The Hounding," where rumors about five girls turn deadly in 18th-century England.

Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and are being held in dangerous conditions.

A storm is coming and two siblings pull on their boots and head to the sea. The waves crash and the rain starts to fall, but they go on in this quintessential summer adventure story.