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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, about this weekend's rededication of a memorial sign after after the first three were vandalized.

Messages between two Boeing pilots from 2016 show they had problems with a flight control system in the 737 Max that one describes as "egregious," but the company told the FAA the plane was safe.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Susan Glasser of The New Yorker about the Democratic presidential candidates' foreign policy positions.

Willem Dafoe tells NPR's Scott Simon about his new film, The Lighthouse. It's the story of two stranded lighthouse keepers who eat, drink and get on each other's very last nerves.

John discusses music, addiction and his new memoir, Me. Justin Chang reviews the satirical Nazi film, Jojo Rabbit. Locke shows a part of Texas we don't usually see in Heaven, My Home.

While many Catalans are outraged at the central government's crackdown on the independence movement, the huge demonstrations have obscured deep divisions in Catalan society.

What started as a fare-dodging protest by students turned violent in Santiago. The president declared a state of emergency and later suspended the subway fare increase. The military declared a curfew.

The Education Department is proposing that it collect more information on bullying and sexual assaults happening at schools, and provide less information on things like preschool suspension rates.

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Palm oil plantations have led to widespread deforestation in Indonesia. But now some farmers are turning to a different crop — damar, a kind of anti-palm oil, grown in forest-based farms.