More than 30 million Americans live in small towns. And lots of us will drive through small towns on road trips this summer. Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow just completed the first comprehensive study in half a century of small-town living. Here's his conversation with Anne...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Urban sprawl is a staggering problem in China as a result of the on-going Chinese industrial revolution.
Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
Judy Pascoe tells Steve Paulson about her novel “Our Father Who Art in a Tree.” A young girl’s father dies unexpectedly, but she finds his spirit lives in the backyard tree.
Charles R. Cross talks about his book, "Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain."
Richard Hand describes several of the programs that made that period the Golden Age of radio.
Jane Goodall is the name best known in the world when you talk about chimpanzees.
Phillip Jenkins is the author of “The Next Christendom: The Coming of Age of Global Christianity.” Jenkins tells Steve Paulson that Christianity may be declining in the nations of the industrialized West, but Pentecostalism is experiencing explosive growth in Latin America and Africa.
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