Mythili Rao

Producer, The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Your Stories on Education

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

This week the show is taking a close look at education in America, with interviews with education experts from around the country. Takeaway listeners have had a lot to say about this ...

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Former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee on Education Reform

Monday, September 24, 2012

Two years ago today the education reform documentary “Waiting for ‘Superman’” opened in theaters in New York in Los Angeles. The movie reignited a national debate about education refo...

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Pakistanis Protest American Video Deriding Prophet

Friday, September 21, 2012

Protests sparked by an American-made video mocking the Prophet Mohammad are expected to intensify across Pakistan. Ansar Abbasi, Pakistani journalist, explains why this video has ange...

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French Magazine Publishes Satirical Cartoon of Prophet Mohammad

Thursday, September 20, 2012

France is closing its schools, consulates, cultural centers and embassies in 20 countries tomorrow amid fears of a new wave of violence in the Middle East over satirical depictions of...

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Listeners Respond to Mitt Romney's '47 Percent' Comments

Thursday, September 20, 2012

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By Mythili Rao : Producer, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Some stories strike such a chord with our listeners that we’re flooded with far more responses than we can play on-air. This was certainly the case with the story of Mitt Romney’s comments about the "47 percent" of Americans who are "dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them."

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How Are Independent Voters Responding to Romney's '47 Percent' Remarks?

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Late Monday, Mother Jones released video surreptitiously shot during a fundraiser for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney in May. Romney’s team response was swift, but he st...

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Documenting America's Unseen Workers

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Teacher, veterinarian, policeman, or firefighter — they're not uncommon aspirations for kids figuring out what they want to be when they grow up.But what about a coal miner? An oil ri...

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British Archaeologists May Have Found a Lost King

Monday, September 17, 2012

Last week British archaeologists announced they’d found what appeared to be the remains of Richard III. The bones were discovered in a parking lot in the city of Leicester just more t...

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Have Swing State Voters Made Up Their Minds?

Friday, September 14, 2012

This past week, Anna Sale caught up with some swing voters to find out if their views have changed since the convention.

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Teenager Designs New Advanced Cancer Test

Thursday, August 23, 2012

In some ways, 15-year-old Jack Andraka is a normal teenager. He’s a fan of “Glee” and likes to kayak. But he’s also the mind behind a new pancreatic cancer test that is 168 times fas...

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Do Your Favorite Sports Teams Share Your Political Loyalties?

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Sports loyalties often run just as deep as political loyalties, or deeper. Sometimes they even intersect. Do you know who the owners of your favorite teams support? The answers might surprise you. 

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Obama Threatens Military Action Against Syria

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

President Obama repeated calls for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down yesterday and, for the first time, threatened military action against Syria if the Assad regime indi...

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Crick and Watson's DNA model

Harvard Geneticist Encodes Book in DNA

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

There are 70 billion copies of Harvard Medical School Genetics professor George Church’s book, "Regenesis," but very few people have read it. What gives?

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Early Facebook Investors Can Start Selling Shares Thursday

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

When they do, the markets could be overwhelmed with a deluge of Facebook shares. Henry Blodget, CEO and editor-in-chief of Business Insider, explains what's in store.

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Met Life building, Standard Chartered Bank

Regulators and British Bank Reach Settlement Over Money Laundering

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Standard Chartered has agreed to pay $340 million — a paltry sum next to the total figure linked to the banks Iranian clients. Jessica Silver-Greenberg, a reporter for The New York Ti...

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Helen Gurley Brown in 1964

Remembering Helen Gurley Brown

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Her 1962 book, "Sex and the Single Girl" was an American revelation: not only did unmarried women have sex, but they liked it, too. And as the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine from 196...

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World Peace Might Be Too Heavy for Olympians to Carry

Thursday, July 26, 2012

The Olympic Games has always meant more than just athletic battles of the world's greatest and strongest. The Games often become a forum for political protest, for social change. Is that too much to ask of the Games?

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Why The Name of the Aurora Shooter Should Be Remembered

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

When President Obama traveled to Aurora earlier this week, he agreed to not use the name of the shooter in any of his public speeches. John Cassidy, staff writer for The New Yorker, ...

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Publicity photo of American actors Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford promoting their roles on the television series The Jeffersons.

Remembering Sherman Hemsley

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Actor Sherman Hemsley, who was famous for playing George Jefferson in the 1970s sitcom "The Jeffersons," died in El Paso Texas yesterday at the age of 74. Celeste Headlee remembers Hemsley in this audio essay.

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Syrian Conflict Taking Heavy Toll on Children

Monday, July 23, 2012

Clashes continued across Syria over the weekend. As the conflict drags on, the toll of war is increasingly carried by Syria’s youngest citizens.

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