What is Diane up to now that she’s stepped away from day-to-day hosting? She’s bringing her unique mix of curiosity, honesty, intimacy and nearly forty years of experience on air to the podcast world. Her weekly podcast features newsmakers, writers, artists and thinkers on the issues she cares most about.
In this July 26, 1990 file photo, artist Maurice Sendak signs his individual prints from "The Mother Goose Collection" in New York.
Diane talks with Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of the children's classic "Where the Wild Things Are" about his life and career.
Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers performing as 'Peter, Paul and Mary' during rehearsals for the Royal Variety Show at the London Palladium, November 8th 1965.
In the early 1960s, Peter, Paul and Mary helped bring folk music out of the coffeehouses and onto the airwaves. Their songs of protest and struggle helped define a generation. In a new book, they look back on a career that spanned five decades.
Diane Rehm steps away from the mic after 37 years
Diane says goodbye after 37 years on the air. She takes your calls and questions, and reflects on her long career.
President Barack Obama speaks during his last news conference of 2016 in the briefing room of the White House in Washington.
The Friday News Roundup: President-elect Trump continues to add to his top-level staff. Obamacare sign-ups are strong despite the law’s uncertain future. And North Carolina fails to repeal a controversial bathroom bill.
President Obama waves goodbye at the conclusion of what may be the last news conference of his presidency on December 16.
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates won last year’s National Book Award for “Between the World and Me,” an exploration of being black in America. In the latest Atlantic Magazine cover story, he looks at the legacy of our first African-American president and the role race played in this year’s election.
President-elect Donald Trump arrives Dec. 15 to speak at a USA Thank You Tour 2016 at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
The power of the executive branch: What President-elect Donald Trump can and cannot do as our nation’s chief executive.
Activists and family members of loved ones who died in the opioid/heroin epidemic march in a "Fed Up!" rally on the National Mall on September 18, 2016 in Washington, DC.
According to the CDC, opioid-related deaths surpassed 30,000 last year for the first time in history. Diane and a panel of guests discuss why the numbers continue to rise, and what public health officials, doctors and advocates say needs to happen to reverse this alarming trend.
Several thousand people protested on December 17, 2016, outside the presidential palace in Warsaw over alleged vote fraud and the rightwing government's plans to impose new restrictions on media coverage of parliament.
With the rise of populist leaders in Europe and the election of Donald Trump, some are voicing concerns about the state of liberal democracies. Diane's guests identify the elements of a stable democracy and nations that could be at risk.