Rachel Boynton's film, "Our Brand is Crisis" follows the efforts of an American political consulting firm which became involved in the Bolivian presidential election.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Marilynne Robinson is from Idaho, although she's spent years of her life on the East Coast. The Western character is something Robinson has never let go of, it still informs her life and her writing today.
Charles Monroe-Kane prepared a profile of singer/songwriter Neko Case, a country singer who's haunted by the American Dream.
Louann Brizendine tells Jim Fleming that male brains are fueled by testosterone and female brains are fueled by estrogen and that they are chemically and physically different from each other.
With the militant group ISIS threatning the stability of Iraq, we're thinking about sectarianism in the country. To get some context on the divide between Iraqi Sunnis, Shias and Kurds, we turn to David Rohde. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Beyond War: Reimagining America's Role and Ambitions in a New Middle East.
The State Department used jazz musicians as a weapon in the cold war to win hearts and minds in the Third World. Louis Armstrong, Dizy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Dave Brubek were among the so-called "jazz ambassadors."
California surgeon Leonard Schlain tells Steve Paulson that ancestral women made the connection between sex and birth and the moon and discovered time.
Jimmy Santiago Baca is a champion of the International Poetry Slam, and the author of four books of verse. He talks with Steve Paulson about the power of poetry and reads some of his own verse.
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