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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Bryce Pardo, from the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, on the findings of a new opioid trafficking report.

The organization Sapelo Square is celebrating the experiences of black Muslims in the United States through the launch of an online exhibition.

American Nathan Chen dazzled in the men's figure skating short program at the Beijing Olympics. Chen, who stumbled in the same discipline at the last Olympics four years ago, set a world record.

President Biden said he's been told that voters don't want him to be the "President Senator." But in filling a vacancy on the Supreme Court, he's going out of his way to court old colleagues.

Fresh Air went national in 1987, and we're celebrating that 20th anniversary by revisiting some classic interviews. In this segment: German jazz artist Marty Grosz plays the music of Fats Waller. Rebroadcast from June 26, 1987.

Pianist Barry Douglas is working with the Rediscover Northern Ireland project, which seeks to raise awareness about revitalized cities and culture. He's the founder of the Camerata Ireland orchestra.

Kevin Spacey's revival of the Eugene O'Neill play A Moon for the Misbegotten opens Monday on Broadway. He initially staged the play in his role as artistic director for the historic London theater the Old Vic.

Critic-at-large John Powers reflects on what he thinks is the single greatest movie ever made about the city of Los Angeles — Killer of Sheep, an independent film made in the late '70s by Charles Burnett. It's on the Library of Congress' National Film Registry; it will be showing in selected theaters in the next few months, and it comes out on DVD this September.

We're hearing from Pulitzer Prize winners on today's show. Yesterday the Pulitzer for music was awarded to the 77-year-old jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, for his live album Sound Grammar. It was cited for its "elastic and bracing" music. When Coleman came along in the 1950s, his detractors said his rough and wayward jazz was too crazy to stand the test of time. The Pulitzer is the most recent proof of how wrong they were. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead had this review last year when the CD was released.

Cable TV channel VH1's Flavor of Love girls are headed for Charm School, a new spin-off reality show that tries to teach manners to an unlikely group of young women. Mikki Taylor, Charm School's dean of students, talks about the show.

French filmmaker Alain Resnais is best known for his nonlinear art films — but 20 years ago he began adapting plays; his latest picture, Private Fears in Public Places, is based on a 2004 dark comedy by the British writer Alan Ayckbourn.

Children of Men, the breathtaking Alfonso Cuaron film based on P.D. James' dystopian-futurist novel, has just come out on DVD. Critic-at-large John Powers takes a look at one of 2006's most talked-about movies.