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Are we there yet? It's been a rough week.

We're in the midterms home stretch

Are we there yet? It's been a rough week.

from Left, Right & Center

Ryan Lochte is back in the United States, but two other members of the US Olympic swimming team are still in Brazil with their passports on hold and another is unaccounted for.

US swimmers lied about gunpoint robbery in Rio

Ryan Lochte is back in the United States, but two other members of the US Olympic swimming team are still in Brazil with their passports on hold and another is unaccounted for.

from To the Point

Just four days before South America's first Summer Olympic Games, there's still widespread fear that Rio is unprepared to stage a global spectacle.

Is Rio ready for the Olympic Games?

Just four days before South America's first Summer Olympic Games, there's still widespread fear that Rio is unprepared to stage a global spectacle.

from To the Point

More from KCRW

The U.S. continues to take a firm stance on China. When does censorship go too far? Plus, California’s gas inventory may hurt its neighboring state, Nevada.

from Left, Right & Center

At a time of book bans and the withholding of critically important struggles in our history, our education system has increasingly failed to provide our young with the tools to become…

from Scheer Intelligence

Four years after protesters called to defund the police, voters worried about crime are poised to toss out a reformer D.A. and pass a tough-on-crime bill.

from KCRW Features

Fewer people in the world had access to the personal moments experienced by Steve Wasserman, Heyday Books publisher, former LA Times Book Review editor and former editor at several of…

from Scheer Intelligence

Does “working class” mean what it used to? Is fracking getting more attention than it deserves? Plus, KCRW examines what came out of one culture war in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

from Left, Right & Center

SoCal Democrats anxious to help win the presidential election for Kamala Harris are road-tripping to swing states where they can make a bigger impact.

from KCRW Features

A ballot initiative would expand the number of LA County supervisors and create a new executive job, in the biggest change to local governance in generations.

from KCRW Features

An audio folk story examining the tradition of Black watermelon long-haulers, who drive to farms in the South for watermelon and sell them in Black neighborhoods around the US.

from Lost Notes

Amidst the hype, excitement and nervousness of the election, the bigger picture of what the United States is and how it operates often gets lost on people.

from Scheer Intelligence