Dave Davies

Senior reporter for WHYY, contributor to NPR

Dave Davies appears in the following:

'NYT Cooking' writer Melissa Clark wants to make it easier to cook dinner

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Clark says she's always looking for shortcuts in the kitchen — including ways to use fewer pans. Her latest cookbook is Dinner in One: Exceptional & Easy One-Pan Meals.

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Trump sees hate as a civic good, 'N.Y. Times' journalist Maggie Haberman says

Monday, October 10, 2022

Haberman talks about Trump's tactics for dealing with the media and explains why he's more concerned about the Mar-a-Lago documents than the Jan. 6 hearings. Her new book is Confidence Man.

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How McKinsey cashed in by consulting for both companies and their regulators

Monday, October 03, 2022

When McKinsey Comes to Town authors Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe say the consulting firm helped companies boost tobacco and opioid sales — while at the same time working for the FDA.

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'Mercury Rising' explores treacherous U.S. attempts to control space

Friday, September 30, 2022

Historian Jeff Shesol recalls the early days of the space program, when Cold War fears ruled and no one knew if John Glenn would survive America's first orbital flight. Originally broadcast June 2021.

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The Colorado River water shortage is forcing tough choices in 7 states

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Forty million people rely on the river. ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten says that water scarcity in the West hasn't been recognized as the national emergency that it is.

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Law professor unearths cases of racial violence from the Jim Crow era

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

In her new book, By Hands Now Known, Margaret Burnham reports on little-known cases of racial violence in the Jim Crow era, including crimes that went unreported and murderers who were never punished.

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A novelist's time in the MMA cage informed his book on memory loss and identity

Monday, September 26, 2022

John Vercher trained in mixed martial arts as a young man. His novel, After the Lights Go Out, is about a veteran MMA fighter struggling to remember everyday things. Originally broadcast June 2022.

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Monkey thieves, drunk elephants — Mary Roach reveals a weird world of animal 'crime'

Friday, September 23, 2022

Roach researched animal misbehaviors for her book, Fuzz. She says animals tend to ignore the rules we try to impose on them — and they often have the last laugh. Originally broadcast Sept. 14, 2021.

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With 'Succession', Matthew Macfadyen finds himself a long way from Mr. Darcy

Friday, September 16, 2022

The British actor played a brooding Mr. Darcy in the '05 film adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. Now he's won an Emmy for playing a scheming Midwesterner on Succession. Originally broadcast Jan. 2022.

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'Friday Night Lights' author tackles a historic WWII football match-up

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Buzz Bissinger revisits a football game among Marines that took place on a Pacific island in 1945, while they were waiting to engage in the assault on Okinawa. His new book is The Mosquito Bowl.

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How YouTube became one of the planet's most influential media businesses

Thursday, September 08, 2022

Like, Comment, Subscribe author Mark Bergen says YouTube has ushered in a world of abundant content and creativity, of influencers and hustlers, of information overload and endless culture wars.

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John McEnroe grapples with his legacy as tennis' bad boy

Tuesday, September 06, 2022

McEnroe reflects on his career in a new Showtime documentary: "I was very taken aback, actually, when I went to Wimbledon in London for the first time, and I was like, 'Wow, they're so polite here.'"

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Texas' ban on firms who don't invest in firearms and fossil fuels is costing taxpayers

Thursday, September 01, 2022

Texas laws bar Wall Street firms from operating in the state if they stop investing in firearms and fossil fuels. An analysis shows that has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars this year.

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How the ultrawealthy devise ways to not pay their share of taxes

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Journalist Jesse Eisinger says a trove of IRS data acquired by ProPublica shows that many of America's billionaires avoid paying any taxes — sometimes by claiming big deductions from posh hobbies.

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'Danger Zone' author warns of growing tension between China and the U.S.

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

China scholar Michael Beckley says China is engaged in the largest military buildup since World War II, and is being increasingly aggressive with its Asian neighbors and with the U.S.

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Comic Mo Amer draws on his Palestinian and Texan roots in a new Netflix series

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Amer grew up in Kuwait, where he enjoyed a comfortable life — until he was 9, and the first Gulf War forced his family to flee to the U.S. in 1991. His new series is Mo.

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This former GOP hatchet man didn't support Trump — but still enabled him

Monday, August 22, 2022

As a Republican operative, Tim Miller worked with extreme right-wing media outlets and fed the populist outrage that helped radicalize much of the GOP voter base. His new book is Why We Did It.

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'Dopesick' author turns her attention to the citizen volunteers combatting addiction

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Author Beth Macy and harm reduction specialist Michelle Mathis talk about grassroots and community efforts to address the opioid crisis. Macy's latest book is Raising Lazarus.

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After a career of cracking cold cases, investigator Paul Holes opens up

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Holes spent more than 20 years investigating crimes in California and played a critical role in identifying Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. as the so-called Golden State Killer. His new book is Unmasked.

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How white nationalists in Texas terrorized refugees after the Vietnam War

Monday, August 01, 2022

Kirk Wallace Johnson tells the story of a bitter conflict that arose along the Gulf Coast when Vietnam war refugees began trawling for shrimp in the area. His book is The Fishermen and the Dragon.

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