If Kill Bill Vol. 1 was Quentin Tarantino's ode to kung-fu and samurai films, NPR's Bob Mondello says Kill Bill Vol. 2 qualifies as his paean to spaghetti Westerns.
Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.
An American was found wandering shoeless on the streets of Syria's capital, Damascus, after being released from one of the notorious Syrian regime prisons.
Dommaraju unseated China's Ding Liren to become the new world chess champion. "Every chess player wants to experience this moment, and very few get the chance," Dommaraju said after the match.
The consumer outrage unleashed by the murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO echoes the anti-banking fury after the financial crisis and comes at a time when populist economic fatigue helped re-elect Trump.