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Two reports released recently shine a light on the decade-long trends shaping our relationships to listening, from the dominance of video to the vinyl "boom" that isn't quite.

Two new books focus on the culinary lives of these two artists. Turns out, their approaches to food provide a new way of thinking about their two very different approaches to art.

The Republican National Committee report offers the party a way forward after its 2012 failure to defeat President Obama, who was long seen as vulnerable because of a relatively high jobless rate and uninspiring economic growth.

In an increasing number of states, one party controls both chambers of the legislature and the governor's office. While both parties have contributed to the trend, the Republicans have had a lot more success with it. Reporter Nicholas Confessore credits the foresight of GOP strategists.

"A city of 8.6 million people — not a single shooting for three days," Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday. The NYPD says it has been focusing on preventing retaliatory violence.

On Saturday, 25-year-old Ash Barty brought Australia its first singles home win in the Open since the 1978 edition. The final game for the men's singles will be played on Sunday.

Two weeks ago, veteran news broadcaster Robert Trout offered a recent history of the Republican party, over the course of his political coverage. This week he turns to the Democrats. Today, Trout brings us the sounds of Democratic Conventions he covered in the 1930's and 40's, and the story of the battle between North and South for control of the party.

in Taiwan. Instead of relying on donations like American parties, the ruling Kuomintang party owns over a hundred companies, from a bank to a movie studio. Political opponents claim the income from these enterprises allow the Kuomintang to unfairly dominate Taiwanese politics.

Today, India's Prime Minister P.V. Narashima Rao said he would resign. This after his ruling party suffered huge losses in national elections. Robert Siegel talks with Edmund Roy, a correspondent with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in New Delhi, about the defeat of the largest and oldest party in India's democratic history.

The major party candidates have spent the fall competing for the votes of the political center. That means concentrating on issues with broad appeal rather than on the more controversial positions of their respective parties. But it leaves activists on both the left and right feeling uninspired by the Democratic and Republican nominees, longing to hear more about their favorite subjects. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.