NHPR and The Music Hall present Writers on a New England Stage with Diane Rehm recorded live at The Music Hall in Portsmouth. The Peabody Award-winning public radio host of The Diane Rehm Show has written four books, including one with her husband, John Rehm, about the rewards and challenges of a long marriage.

On today's show: Civics 101: Overturning a Supreme Court Ruling "Back to the Middle East" from Radio Rookie Alexis Gordon. You can listen to this story again PRX.org. Annalee Newitz is Tech Culture Editor at Ars Technica, the site where the AI-written short films Sunspring and It's No Game debuted. She wrote about them here: "Movie Written By Algorithm Turns Out to be Hilarious and Intense." Scott McCloud is the author of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art . First published in 1993, it is

On today's show: James Longhurst is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Lacrosse – in his book Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road , he reveals how the social and legal status of bicycles was debated even in the years before the automobile. "The Bike Knight" from producer Sophie Nikitas. You can listen to this story again at PRX.org . Steve Featherstone is a writer and photographer from upstate New York who made the journey to Green Bank, West Virginia

On today's show: Civics 101 - Departments of State & Defense "The Working Tapes: Phone Operator" from the Studs Terkel series on Work. Produced by Joe Richman and Sarah Kramer. Listen again at prx.org . We talked to Wisconsin Public Radio All Things Considered host Brady Carlson about "the front page of the internet", Reddit. Television viewers have likely seen dozens of autopsies, but they're not as realistic as they might seem. Rachel Wilkinson attended an autopsy at the University of

On today's show: Civics 101: Congressional Caucuses Producer Leila Day brings us the story of A Park Ranger and a Buffalo Soldier. Listen again at PRX.org . Confederate Monuments aren't just a relic of the South. David Graham wrote about the persistence of Confederate Monuments and commemorations throughout the country for The Atlantic. Read his article: " The Stubborn Persistence of Confederate Monuments " "Lottery Walk" was produced by Hillary Rea . Listen again at PRX.org . On Tumblr, outside

On today's show: Civics 101: Senate Rules Bias in algorithms. We looked at the controversy surrounding the popular FaceApp and listen back to a previous discussion with Rose Eveleth , host of the podcast Flash Forward about the inherent bias in facial recognition apps. "The Ents of Melbourne" from the podcast, HumaNature . Listen again at prx.org . 10-Minute Writer's Workshop - John Scalzi

On today's show: Civics 101: How a Case Gets to the Supreme Court New York Times Reporter Katherine Rosman looked into the dearth of books for children about the 45th President but it's certainly not the first time authors have struggled with how to write about the life of an adult that's appropriate for children. " Telling Trump's Story to Children: For Book Publishers, It's Tricky " The podcast Criminal hosted by Phoebe Judge looks into whether or not you can be arrested for flipping the bird.

On today's show: Civics 101: The Cabinet Kaveh Waddell covers technology, digital privacy, and cyber security for The Atlantic, where he dug into the trend of companies running private digital forensics labs in an article called, " CSI: Walmart ." Abigail Carroll talks about her book, Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal . Producer Dan Collison remembers an event where America's favorite past time, baseball, collided with America's number one vegetable crop: the spud. Listen to "

On today's show: Civics 101: Term Limits 700 Fathoms Under the Sea was produced by David Schulman. Listen again at PRX.org . Benjamin Ludwig is the author of Ginny Moon and he stopped by the studio to talk about his debut novel. On Monday May 1st, at 7:00p, Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH will be hosting a launch party for the book. A Series of Tubes, our semi-regular series on tech, tackles password managers.

On today's show: A conversation with Matthew Crawford about his book The World Beyond Your Head . The Memory Palace - Family Snapshot. Listen to this segment again at prx.org . Charlotte Perkins is a Senior at Kearsarge Regional High School and the New Hampshire State Champion of Poetry Out Loud . She's competing at the National Championships at the end of the month and Virginia spoke to Charlotte and her mother Beth about the experience. Overheard - A weird new video game , a mystery on a