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This week on Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam explores how unconscious ideas about the family shape the way we think about politics.

Ghislaine Maxwell's defense attorneys rested their case after just two days of calling witnesses. Maxwell says she's being tried in lieu of Epstein, who died in federal prison.

This week, the World Series features two of professional sports' most famously hapless franchises: the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians. Both teams have gone decades without a championship.

The U.K. justice minister has pardoned thousands of gay men convicted under "gross indecency" laws, which made homosexuality illegal until 1967.

Calm has mostly returned to the streets of Minneapolis after almost two weeks of protests over George Floyd's death. Now, residents are taking stock of the physical damage left by looters.

Two-thirds of Americans say President Trump has increased racial tensions after the death of George Floyd, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.

The Vanishing Half is about African American twins — one lives as a black woman, the other "passes" as white. Passing is "an act of self-creation and also an act of self-destruction," Bennett says.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., about the protests sparked by George Floyd's death and the president's response to them.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Elisa Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, about the latest monthly jobs report published Friday.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with David North about his and his husband's quarantine project, A Doorway to Imagination, that went viral and brightened people's days in the past couple of weeks.