Novelist Jacqueline Mitchard was one of the judges for the 2002 National Book Awards. She talks about the experience.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Howard Zehr talks about restorative justice. The goal is to repair the harm done to the victims of crime so that the final outcome is positive for both victim and offender.
Could the Islamic Jihad forge an alliance with the Aryan Nations? James Jones is an authority on religious terrorism; he says militant religious groups are beginning to collaborate.
Name a problem and Washington seems unable to solve it. Poverty. Climate change. Unemployment. Immigration. Education. Enter the mayor.
Jack Vitek tells Anne Strainchamps that Generoso Pope was inspired by people's fascination with the gruesome.
Frank Ahearn is a former skip tracer, a Private Investigator who specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found.
Irene Pepperberg teaches animal cognition at Harvard and is an associate research professor at Brandeis. For thirty years, she worked with a remarkable grey parrot named Alex.
Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk says she's recently heard students demand trigger warnings before her lectures on rape, or ask that she not talk about the subject at all. She tells Steve Paulson that it’s more important than ever to teach students about rape law, because when it comes to sex, the line between what’s legal and what’s criminal is rapidly shifting.
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