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It's Been a Minute is a weekly one-hour engaging conversation -- a timely and topical look back at the week's news, with pop culture features and interviews.

Launched as a twice-weekly podcast in June 2017, It's Been a Minute became a one-hour weekly radio program beginning October 6, 2017, designed to engage audiences on weekend mornings with timely and topical discussions.

Each week, It's Been a Minute features people in the culture who deserve your attention, plus weekly wraps of the news with journalists in the know. Join us to make sense of the world through conversation

In their books Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner use the tools of economics to explore real-world behavior. They tell stories about cheating schoolteachers, self-dealing real-estate agents, and crack-selling mama’s boys. WNYC is now bringing those Freakonomics stories — and plenty of new ones — to the radio, with Dubner as host. Just like the books, Freakonomics Radio explores “the hidden side of everything.” It tells you things you always thought you knew but didn’t, and things you never thought you wanted to know, but do.

Vikings were ruthless warriors, but also preserved art. This has inspired a new album of Lullabies for Piano and Cello from composer Gabríel Ólafs.

Lilia Chanysheva was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in the latest in a series of lengthy prison terms handed down to Kremlin political opponents. Women are increasingly singled out for repression.

The theater was sweltering. There was no script. And yet it was a swift, entertaining show.

Gov. Greg Gianforte banned the app on state government electronic devices last December, and has said he is concerned about people's user data being compromised by the Chinese government.

The president has extended the student loan repayment pause into 2023. Biden said he wants to give lawsuits against debt cancellation time to play out, and the Supreme Court time to weigh in.

Superman faces a challenge that reveals the show's beating heart and turns him into an average guy with a battleship-size nemesis: cancer that has stricken his beloved. The season finale airs Tuesday.

A new PBS American Masters documentary showcases the influence of Little Richard, a dynamo performer who never let himself be defined for long by any one musical category or sexual identity.

Between labor conflicts and the constantly changing landscape of what even constitutes television, this is going to be a tricky year for predictions. We have some anyway.