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DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Dave Davies. Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a second Trump term, has gotten a lot of attention and criticism in the last few months. But our guest, Ken Bensinger, writes that a different organization, the America First Policy Institute, is poised to be far more…

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It is the year 2248. We live in what some would call a perfect world. There are no diseases, or hangovers. There is no fighting, except between women, for entertainment purposes. If you hear about a party, they have to let you in. It’s the law. And they can’t kick you out, no matter what…

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London-based distributor Neal’s Yard Dairy announced on Instagram that it was “the victim of a sophisticated fraud” involving high-value cheddar cheese. They are working with law enforcement to track down the culprit, and asking fellow cheesemongers to report any suspicious deals on clothbound cheddars with the tags detached. Neal’s Yard Dairy/Instagram hide caption toggle caption…

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The 1931 Spanish-language Drácula will get its first film score. It was among the early “talkies,” when filmmakers hadn’t quite yet figured out how to incorporate music into their craft. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: One of the early talkies that came out in 1931 was the Spanish-language “Dracula.” But just because it had sound didn’t mean it…

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DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m David Bianculli. Some people don’t know Randy Newman’s name, but they do know his celebrated movie songs, like “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” from “Toy Story.” Some people also know him as the guy who wrote a big novelty hit about short people. And a smaller…

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INT. APARTMENT—NIGHT Best friends REBECCA (an intern at a boutique book publisher) and HANNAH (an intern at a fashion magazine) live together in an affordable, two-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side. They’re throwing a party tonight, like they do most weekends, because their average-size, twenty-five-hundred-square-foot apartment overlooking Central Park is perfect for accommodating big…

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Artist Titus Kaphar has a new film out called Exhibiting Forgiveness. He’s shown above with his artwork From Whence I Came, ahead of his 2022 exhibition at the Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill gallery in London. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images Contemporary painter, sculptor and installation artist Titus…

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Woman of the Hour is Anna Kendrick’s feature directorial debut. She also stars as Sheryl. Leah Gallo/Netflix hide caption toggle caption Leah Gallo/Netflix In a lot of true crime stories, no one is treated as more interesting than the criminal at the center. Mildly interesting are the police, the journalists, and the family involved. But…

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It’s a challenging time for social satire: For one thing, the country sometimes seems as divided by what it finds funny as it is by politics. But Blood Test, a new novel by Charles Baxter, perhaps spans divisions because it draws upon a tried-and-true comic predicament: namely, the little guy who’s forced to punch above…

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Hello, and thank you for inviting me to speak today, and congratulations to all of this year’s graduates. Class of 20—, I am not saying that people are making me have yogurt. I do not feel pressured to purchase it, or that I need to eat it because of something that is making demands on…

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