Animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell is the author of "For the Love of a Dog" and the host of the public radio program "Calling All Pets."
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Should the Star Spangled Banner really be our national anthem? John Hasse gives a short history of patriotic songs, and suggests alternatives for the national anthem.
Karal Ann Marling tells Anne Strainchamps that American Christmas traditions led to an improvement in the status of women and helped nurture manufacturing industries from candy to cardboard.
Joshua Blu Buhs is an independent scholar and the author of "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend." But he tells Steve Paulson he doesn't really think the creature exists.
Economist E. Glen Weyl has invented a market-driven voting system that he believes is much fairer and more democratic than one-vote-per-person majority rule. It's called Quadratic Voting and it starts with giving everyone a bunch of tokens, or chips, along with a simple mathematical formula for voting.
Noam Chomsky may be America's most prominent radical intellectual. An outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy, he says the mainstream media simply won't acknowledge his political perspective.
Michael Keith recalls his nomadic life with his divorced, alcoholic father. He never had enough to eat, and got into trouble, but decided who he didn’t want to be.
When Kemp Powers was a boy, he and his best friend were playing with a gun. There was an accident. Powers talks with Anne Strainchamps about the shooting and its effect on his life.
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