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Robert Siegel talks with Hugh Pope of the Wall Street Journal about his latest book, Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World. Pope follows the history of the Turkic people — an ethnic group covering some 140 million people in Central Asia.

Sergio Luzzatto, author of The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy, describes how Benito Mussolini's body has been beaten, buried, exhumed, stolen, hidden and turned into a shrine by his followers. He says the struggle over the remains reflects Italy's struggle to become a republic and leave fascism behind.

A hyper-local news site in New York started accepting stories from a writer in Ukraine. Why was the outlet covering a story taking place thousands of miles away?

Journalist Steven V. Roberts was writing about his family when his mother produced letters she had exchanged with his father years ago. Roberts talks about his parents and his new book, My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family.

This month, hear new music from Hop Along, Emile Haynie, Whitehorse, Leon Bridges and more.

Download a free sampler of tunes hand-selected by our panel of public-radio hosts, including new music from Oil Boom, Damien Rice, Melody's Echo Chamber and Lost Midas.

Finally out from under the oppressive rule of their tyrannical employers, NPR Music's fearless interns finally get to speak their minds. It's time for the bigwigs to step aside and let the interns sing the praises of the music their bosses have overlooked in 2010.

On the 300th anniversary of his birth, hear how music by Johann Sebastian's son Carl Philipp Emanuel bridged the gap between the old-fashioned Baroque and newfangled music by Haydn and Mozart.

As some evangelicals push to restrict civil rights for trans people, other Christians use similar sacred texts and traditions to build a theology that embraces trans lives as part of God's creation.

Throughout the pandemic, some people have avoided catching COVID — despite multiple exposures. Do their immune systems have some type of protection that others are missing?