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Analysis of the week in politics - it's been dominated by the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on abortion.

On the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, many of the anti-abortion movement's most ardent supporters mark the occasion in Pittsburgh, Pa., with the National Right to Life.

Pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman went on trial this week in California's State Bar Court, where the state bar is seeking to revoke his law license.

Yevgeny Prigozhin posted a message on social media claiming Wagner troops have agreed to stand down and return to bases. The Kremlin said the criminal case against Prigozhin will be dropped.

Santi Elijah Holley's An Amerikan Family follows Shakur's family tree and their work in the Black Liberation Movement. And Central Park birder Christian Cooper explains Better Living Through Birding.

How did an Australian band with no hits, modest media coverage and a ridiculous name find a massive audience? The group's metal-forward new album is a perfect example of how it weaponizes niche.

The rebellious leader of the Wagner mercenary group said he had ordered his troops back to base, but analysts say the serious challenge to the Russian president will diminish his authority.

Wagner mercenaries have halted their march on Moscow and agreed to return to their bases in Ukraine, to avoid what the Wagner chief described as "inevitable bloodshed."

A Chinese Crested pooch born with backward hind legs — a rescue once destined for death — has been crowned the "World's Ugliest Dog."

The fate of the private military company is unclear, especially after it was credited with delivering Russia recent gains in the country's war against Ukraine.

Kristie Fields, a cancer patient in Virginia was urged to go public to seek help for her medical bills. But she worried about feeding hurtful stereotypes.

The number of pedestrians killed by drivers has been climbing for over a decade. Experts say some solutions are within reach.

Less than one-fifth the largest school districts offer paid parental leave for teachers, and only a handful of states guarantee it. That leaves few options for educators who want to start a family.

A new study of astronaut blood finds that space travel reduces the expression of 100 genes related to the immune system.

Film crews thought the gown, worn by Carrie Fisher's Star Wars character, had been destroyed after the production wrapped. The auction company said it was still accepting offers on the dress.

The director of Fort Lauderdale's Stonewall National Museum & Archives, housing the country's largest lending library of LGBTQ literature, talks to WLRN about the importance of the decades-old institution at a time when state government is restricting education.

Each week on Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, you can tune in and likely hear a composer completely new to you! And on the next edition of the show, tune in for an entire program of music by composers never before featured on the program.

On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: “Nothing fancy - nothing extravagant.” That’s how Caroline Shaw describes her own work, “Thousandth Orange.” It’s “just something quite beautiful and everyday, that is enjoyed and loved and consumed and forgotten,” she continues. But then she notes how something so banal can also be completely celebrated in art - like bowls of fruit in still-life paintings.Then, we’ll hear otherworldly music grounded in photographs of abandoned Irish mansions with Oliver Leith’s “Big House:” a haunting string quartet that smears in and out of tonal centers, leans into microtonal music, and revels in blurry visions of these old photos.

Coming up on Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: In mystical Islamic Sufi tradition, the creation of the universe is described as taking place in seven days - and this idea is the main source of inspiration for Mehmet Sanlikol’s work “Seven Sufi Vignettes.” It’s music that draws on specific passages of the Koran, as well as Sufi philosophy by mystics like Rumi.Plus, a work by Lo Kristenson titled Puls. It is music composed for strings… but also not. Because in the performance instructions for this piece, the composer instructs the players to “sing the same tone as you play, let your voice coalesce with the sound of the strings.”

On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: A combination of fairly disparate events led composer Damián Ponce de León to create his piece “The Butterfly Route:” one was the consideration of the complex features flight paths of butterflies; another, the murder of a Mexican environmentalist leader who devoted his life to protect Monarch butterflies; and finally, the realization that the thyroid is actually shaped like a butterfly.Then, we’ll hear a large-scale work by Louise Alenius titled “Stille Slag,” or “Quiet Beats.” And with this music, the composer asks: “What happens to the body when you are locked up? How do you hold on to yourself in an enclosed space?”

Hot dogs were first introduced to America by immigrants in the 1800s.

On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, it is a celebration of the 200th episode of the show! And Tyler will be sharing lots of great music featured previously on the show, a mix of works highlighting all the great things today’s contemporary classical landscape has to offer.

Aidan Key explains why U.S. schools are seeing an increase in transgender students and how educators can respond to anti-LGBTQ curriculum measures. His book is Trans Children in Today's Schools.

Sands was best known for starring opposite Helena Bonham Carter in the 1985 film "A Room with a View."

After a tough year for the film industry, we were lucky to still get to see some great movies this year. We talk about the best ones and unpack what we think is ahead in 2021.