Diane’s farewell message
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
Two experts on American English, Allan Metcalf, author of How We Talk (Houghton Mifflin) and Joseph Pickett, editor of the American Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin), join Diane to talk about regional dialects and how they’re changing, new words entering our vocabulary, and everything else that sets the English spoken in the U.S. apart from the rest of the Anglophone world.
Guests
- Allan Metcalf Author of "How We Talk" (Houghton Mifflin) and expert on American English
- Joseph Pickett Editor of the "American Heritage Dictionary" (Houghton Mifflin) and expert on American English
Most Recent Shows
Reflections on 100 days of the Trump administration
Diane takes the mic one last time at WAMU. She talks to Susan Page of USA Today about Trump’s first hundred days – and what they say about the next hundred.
Rep. Jamie Raskin on countering “MAGA chaos”
Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin was first elected to the House in 2016, just as Donald Trump ascended to the presidency for the first time. Since then, few Democrats have worked as…
How deportations ignited a clash between the White House and the courts
Can the courts act as a check on the Trump administration’s power? CNN chief Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic on how the clash over deportations is testing the judiciary.