Luis Alberto Urrea tells Jim Fleming about the business of smuggling illegal aliens across the Arizona desert and the tremendous mortality rate of this dangerous passage.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ever wonder what caused the outbreak of World War One? Oxford historian Margaret MacMillan recounts its origins on its 100th anniversary.
Merian C. Cooper dreamed up the original "King Kong." Cooper was an Indiana Jones - type figure himself.
Open relationships are no vestige of the swinging seventies. Although we don't know how many people have opened up, sex-educator Tristan Taormino says that you probably know someone in an open relationships, you just might not know that you know.
Taormino tells Steve Paulson that there are myriad manifestations of "open..."
What if Karl Marx were alive today and came back for a visit? That's the premise of the one-man show "Marx in Soho," starring Brian Jones and written by the late historian Howard Zinn.
Jay Rubin is the author of “Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words.” He talks about why he first read Murakami, and talks about some of his stories, especially one called “The Elephant Vanishes.”
Peter Carey's novel "True History of The Kelly Gang" has been described as "a spectacular feat of literary ventriloquism." Carey tells Steve Paulson that's because he wrote the book in another voice.
What will extraterrestrial life look like? Paul Davies thinks it might be stranger than you can imagine.
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