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For a special episode of Microphone Check we invited Prince Paul, Mike Dean, Faith Newman, Stretch Armstrong and Ralph McDaniels to tell stories about a singularly productive year in the culture.

Former president Donald Trump, one of several candidates on the March primary ballot, has received the endorsement of the Ohio Republican Party.

The baseball playoffs are underway. Who's winning, who's losing? NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and ESPN the magazine about the Friday and Saturday's games.

Two readings, 165 years apart, addressed to a nation at a precarious political moment. Why Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 anti-slavery speech is still read — and still resonates — in 2017.

Plus a bill for "Dreamers" and a former for-profit college lobbyist leaves the Education Department.

After President Trump tweets "We cannot keep FEMA" and other assets in Puerto Rico "forever," the mayor of San Juan says he's failing at a moral duty and calls him the "Hater in Chief."

The president said he waited to visit until he could do so "without causing disruption." He sidestepped Houston and instead stopped in Corpus Christi, where Harvey made landfall, and then in Austin.

Tennessee Ernie Ford was a hugely popular singer in the 1950s and 60s. Now, a new 5-disc boxed set attempts to reintroduce Ford to a new audience. Rock critic Ken Tucker has a review.

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The well-liked Republican leading a deep-blue state is an outspoken critic of President Trump and has denounced the "debilitating politics of Washington."