Cheri Register is the author of “Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir.” She talks about her visit with her sixth grade class to the meat-packing plant where her father worked.
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When it comes to loyalty, dogs win. Now, new evidence suggests dogs and early humans formed an alliance 36,000 years ago. Together, they drove Neanderthals to extinction, then invaded and conquered the rest of the planet.
Bob Spitz tells Anne Strainchamps why John, Paul George and Ringo joined the Maharishi in Rishikesh, India.
On a foggy summer night, eleven people depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet bound for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the plane plunges into the ocean and only two people survive. This is how the new novel, "Before the Fall," opens. It's one of the best suspense novels of the year. The author is Noah Hawley, who's made a name for himself as the executive producer and writer of the award-winning TV series, "Fargo." And yes, "Fargo" is inspired by the Coen Brothers' film of the same name.
Earl Scruggs talks with Steve Paulson about his long history in blue grass and country music.
Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells Steve Paulson his subject was a thoroughly bourgeois man who chose utter penury.
Charles Eisenstein's Dangerous Idea? Questioning our core beliefs can change our world.
Pianist Christopher O'Riley agrees with Duke Ellington that there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. He has a thriving career playing both classical music and his own arrangements of Elliot Smith and Radiohead.
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