Andrew Limbong
Stories
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Politics
Federal agency responsible for library and museum funding gets a visit from DOGE
Keith E. Sonderling is the new acting head of The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country. President Trump issued an executive order last week saying he aims to close the agency.
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Books
Nobel Prize-winning author takes on 'everyday, ordinary' things in new novel
Author Abdulrazak Gurnah was a surprise winner of the Nobel prize for his multigenerational saga of displacement and loss during the colonization of East Africa called Afterlives. He's back with a new book – Theft – that has a tighter focus – on a group coming of age in Tanzania in the early 2000s.
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National
Trump wants to get rid of pennies. We go to a coin shop to examine their value
With the news that President Trump wants to get rid of the penny, we stopped by one coin collecting shop to find out their reaction.
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The authors of two new memoirs discuss the emotional toll of sharing your trauma
Two new memoirs, How to Sell Out and Trauma Plot wrestle with the question — is it worth it to mine the worst parts of your life for a book? Authors Chad Sanders and Jamie Hood talk about how they tally up the emotional costs of memoir-writing.
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Arts & Life
New novel asks: How much can a male friendship take?
Eric Puchner's new novel, Dream State, was just named the latest Oprah book club pick. It's about a love triangle that tests the decades-long friendship of two college friends.
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Business
Federal workers navigate uncertainty as the Trump administration slashes the workforce
After weeks of chaos and upheaval in the federal workforce, thousands still remain uncertain about their future.
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A new Robert Frost poem was discovered and published. Is it any good?
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Asia
A Uyghur linguist's journey from detainee to activist in exile
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Writer Mark Greaney on 'Midnight Black,' the latest in the Gray Man series
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Politics
Is Elon Musk a threat to the MAGA base?
NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Sohrab Ahmari, U.S. editor for the UnHerd, about his recent essay on that website entitled "Elon Musk is a danger to Trumpism."
