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Drought fears spur big fight over Utah data center

"Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary wants to build a huge data center north of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The project was greenlit, but still needs to obtain water usage rights as lake water supply is nearing a new low. KUER reporter Macy Lipkin shares more.Then, New Orleans may have crossed a “point…

What one senator saw inside Delaney Hall

Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) visited immigrants detained at Delaney Hall in Newark, N.J. Some detainees are alleging poor conditions and outside, protestors are clashing with police. Kim joins us to share what he saw inside the center.And, on Wednesday night, four Republican voted with House Democrats to…

Lizzo reclaims sexist insult on new album

Grammy-winning musician Lizzo's new album "Bitch" is out. She talks with Robin Young about her music and reclaiming and owning the word. Then, we kick off summer with music picks from Miguel Perez, producer for NPR's World Cafe. And, "Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet" is a string of text that's become ub…

Tom Perrotta’s novel 'Ghost Town' revisits a New Jersey childhood from a bygone era

In Tom Perrotta’s new novel, a successful writer named Jimmy Perrini is invited to return to his hometown in suburban New Jersey. The invitation takes him back to a difficult summer when he was in eighth grade and had just lost his mother to cancer. Ghost Town revisits that 1970s summer, one colore…

Episode 4: Robin Young, Head of Market Research, Buildium

No one is more enthusiastic about Multifamily Industry trends for small-to-medium property management companies than Buildium®’s Robin Young. And though she didn’t start her career in real estate, she’s energized by the endless opportunities to discover new insights about the property management in…

In Celeste Ng’s new novel 'Our Missing Hearts,' a boy searches for his missing mother

Celeste Ng – author of titles like Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere – says she begins her writing process by envisioning an image, then investigating something she doesn’t understand. Her new novel Our Missing Hearts is set in a dystopian near-future where xenophobia and stat…

In 'The Great Wherever' and 'Country People,' city dwellers try out rural life

In two new novels, city folk are thrown into life in the country. The Great Wherever is a multigenerational story told through ghosts. A woman living in Washington, D.C. learns she’s inherited her father’s share of a family property, a piece of farmland in Tennessee. In today’s episode, author Shan…

Punk for the People: A Conversation with Ken Casey

Ken Casey, frontman of the punk band Dropkick Murphys, talks to Here & Now's Robin Young about  channeling punk rock's protest roots to deliver a pro-democracy message. This conversation was a part of The WBUR Festival (2026), where thousands of attendees descend on Boston each year to hear mover…

'The Correspondent' is an epistolary novel, but can letters tell the whole story?

Virginia Evans’ The Correspondent became a runaway hit for its exploration of a life told through letters. When readers meet Sybil Van Antwerp she’s in her 70s, and she takes readers on a journey through her various correspondences — which include names as revered as Joan Didion and Ann Patchett. B…

John Green on 'Hollywood, Ending,' his first novel for adults

John Green is known for his influential young adult fiction like Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. His new book, Hollywood, Ending, is his first novel for adults. The story takes place during the fictional filming of a new independent movie about Andy Warhol a…