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Congress moves to loosen toxic air pollution rules

The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.

Living Less Unsustainably: Air Travel and "Super-emitters"

While doing research on green tags, or carbon offsets last month, I was surprised to see how variable miles flown per person is. Some people fly often,…

Ethan Hawke plays abolitionist John Brown in <em>The Good Lord Bird</em>,<em> </em>a new Showtime series<em> </em>based on the novel by James McBride.

Fresh Air Weekend: Ethan Hawke; Lenny Kravitz

Hawke plays 19th-century abolitionist John Brown in Showtime's The Good Lord Bird. Justin Chang reviews The Forty-Year-Old Version. Kravitz looks back on his early years in the memoir Let Love Rule.

<em>Top Chef</em> host Padma Lakshmi began collecting cookbooks and recipes in her teens. In the new Hulu series, <em>Taste the Nation, </em>she travels the country to learn how foods from different cultures contributed to American cuisine.

Fresh Air Weekend: Padma Lakshmi; Patrick Stewart

Lakshmi explores immigrant cooking on Taste the Nation. Ken Tucker reviews Bob Dylan's new album. Stewart is back as Jean-Luc Picard in the CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard.

Colin Jost, here in 2018, first joined <em>Saturday Night Live</em> as a writer 15 years ago. "It's a world that I love so much," he says of the show.

Fresh Air Weekend: Colin Jost; Matthew Rhys

SNL's Colin Jost acknowledges that his clean-cut image can rubs people the wrong way. Justin Chang reviews the romantic comedy Palm Springs. Actor Matthew Rhys talks about playing Perry Mason.

Seth Rogen's new memoir is called <em>Yearbook</em>.

Fresh Air Weekend: Seth Rogen; Jean Smart

Rogen shares the comedy advice he got at 12 that he still thinks about. Justin Chang reviews The Disciple. Smart is in two series: Mare of Easttown and Hacks, about women comics of two generations.

Robert De Niro (from left) stars with Al Pacino and Ray Romano as a mob hit man in Martin Scorsese's <em>The Irishman.</em>

Fresh Air Weekend: Martin Scorsese; 'Boys & Sex'

Scorsese explores gangsters and redemption in The Irishman. Kevin Whitehead reviews Ow!, by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin. Peggy Orenstein says young men "feel cut off from their hearts."

"I will be a storyteller 'till the day I die," Reese Witherspoon says. "It's really what I was born to do."

Fresh Air Weekend: Reese Witherspoon; Judd Apatow

Witherspoon talks about The Morning Show and her efforts to create more roles for women in Hollywood. Ken Tucker reviews Kirk, by DaBaby. Apatow discusses his mentor, comic Garry Shandling.

Charlize Theron attends a screening of <em>Bombshell</em> in early December. Theron, who also produced the film, says she wanted to portray the "nuance" of sexual harassment: "It's not black and white," she says.

Fresh Air Weekend: Charlize Theron; Julie Andrews

Theron portrays the "gray area" of sexual harassment in the new film, Bombshell. Ken Tucker picks his top 10 albums of 2019. Andrews wrote her new memoir with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton.

John Mulaney relayed stories from his childhood and his time at <em>SNL</em> in his 2018 Netflix comedy special <em>Kid Gorgeous.</em>

Fresh Air Weekend: John Mulaney; Natasha Lyonne

Former SNL writer Mulaney was "absolutely terrified" to host the show. David Bianculli reviews What We Do in the Shadows. Lyonne says her own near death experience informed her work on Russian Doll.

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