Rachel Lears’ documentary “Knock Down the House” was an election cycle snapshot of uncommon excitement, its four scrappy female primary challengers for U.S. Congress — including a then-unknown Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — bringing infectious change-the-world energy to not only American politics in 2018, but the usually cut-and-dried genre of the follow-along campaign portrait. We first see AOC in “To the End” …
Emily Wells considers the AIDS crisis and climate change in her 'Regards to the End' Scott Simon talks to musician Emily Wells about her new album, "Regards to the End," which reflects on how lessons learned from the AIDS crisis can be applied to the climate crisis. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The music of Emily Wells, a classically trained violinist, electronic …
