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This may be Smyth's first new material in decades, but she has been busy raising six children, touring, recording, acting and providing the Netflix series Glow with its theme.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers New York Times columnist Jim Dwyer, who died from cancer this week at the age of 63.

Ron Elving joins Scott Simon to discuss the concerns over the president's recovery from COVID-19, where the U.S Senate stands on the next coronavirus relief bill and more.

Tom Goldman joins Scott Simon to discuss another outbreak in the NFL, the baseball playoffs and the life of Yankee's legend Whitey Ford.

Emma Hurt of NPR member station WABE joins Scott Simon to discuss how voters in Georgia are feeling ahead of Election Day.

The racial justice movement asks what role white people should play in the struggle. Lenny Duncan's ministry tries to answer that question. He's a Black pastor in the whitest denomination in the U.S.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Nikki Usher, a journalism professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about data showing Washington journalists congregating into "microbubbles."

Maria Tello-Ramos and her team of cognitive scientists in Scotland have discovered an innovative way hummingbirds find their food.

A small number of COVID-19 patients have survived after getting a double-lung transplant. One of those patients, Mayra Ramirez, shares the story of her surgery and ongoing recovery.

Hawke plays 19th-century abolitionist John Brown in Showtime's The Good Lord Bird. Justin Chang reviews The Forty-Year-Old Version. Kravitz looks back on his early years in the memoir Let Love Rule.

The second face-off of the general election season was scheduled for next week in Miami.

The Trump campaign is set to run about $11 million in ads in the two Midwestern states he won in 2016. But six states continue to dominate the airwaves, with Florida and Pennsylvania topping the list.

Olga Quiroga taught in the city's public schools for three decades as a bilingual educator and was known for her patience and passion for teaching immigrant students.

Scott Simon speaks to Elizabeth Neumann, formerly a top counterterrorism official at the Department of Homeland Security, about the militia plot to kidnap the governor or Michigan.

The pandemic has been devastating to American businesses, but many entrepreneurs are seeing an opportunity, with business applications up more than 10% over 2019.

NPR's Noel King talks to three African American women — Asia Cook, Maria Ramirez and Mylah Howard — who discuss race, and answer the question: What it's like to be Black in America?

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Las Vegas City Councilwoman Victoria Seaman, a Republican, about why she thinks President Trump could gain the support of some Latino voters.

With many schools closed for in-person class, working parents who can't stay home with their kids are looking for alternatives. Some houses of worship are opening their doors to families in need.

As part of our series Learning Curve, NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Rosie Reid, an award-winning teacher in California who is instructing 180 students virtually — and she has five children of her own.

NPR's Noel King speaks with Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want To Talk About Race, about systemic racism. What is it, and how does it affect people day to day?