This week, the Indian election is on our minds, so we turn to one of Indian's most celebrated writers, Arundhati Roy.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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There's a big debate among ecologists right now over whether we can have hope in the face of climate change. Science writer Emma Marris says we need it. And it’s not just newspaper headlines and environmental campaigns that need to change, we need to rethink “nature.”
Mamak Khadem talks with Anne Strainchamps about "Good Night Songs of the Revolution" – music she created for an art installation to mark the Iranian Revolution 30 years ago.
European leaders are once again trying to hash out an agreement with Greece to resolve its debt crisis. If a deal isn’t reached, Greece could leave, or be removed from, the Eurozone. That could trigger an even bigger crisis—one that could easily spill over to the U.S. British historian Adam Tooze says this is about the future of Europe, the ongoing struggles of capitalist economies, and the fate of the American Empire.
Jason Zasky edits the failuremagazine website. He just loves a good comeback story and shares a few with Anne Strainchamps.
Laila Lalami tells Jim Fleming that Muslim women are trapped between two competing world views, neither of which knows how to help them or asks them what they want for themselves.
Civil rights historian Philip Dray discusses how the presence of TV cameras at the trial of the men who murdered Emmett Till changed the way the country viewed lynching.
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