Curious City is supported by the Poetry Foundation, with a reminder that Chicago is the pulse of poetry.

Coming up, an evening of poetry and music, celebrating the Rapprary, Chicago's library, preserving rap and hip-hop as vital literary art forms.

October 16th at the Poetry Foundation building in River North.

Learn more at poetry foundation.org.

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Sources and Methods, the new National Security podcast from NPR.

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America is changing.

And so is the world.

But what's happening in America isn't just the cause of global upheaval.

It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.

I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.

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