Amy Ray and Emily Saliers - The Indigo Girls - have been a mainstay of the music festival circuit for years. They just released their 14th studio album, "One Lost Day." They stopped by our studio to reflect on women, the music industry, coming out, and the decline of women's music festivals.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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James Yee was the Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay prison until he was falsely accused of treason and imprisoned without trial.
Atheist and humanist A.C. Grayling says we don't need religion for inspiration or morality, and he believes religion has done more harm than good. Grayling talks about two of his latest books: a humanist bible and a humanist manifesto.
James Hood recalls what it was like to be among the first Black teenagers to attend the University of Alabama during the administration of George Wallace.
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez served as Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004, during which period the scandal at Abu Ghraib took place.
How important is this discovery of hominin fossils in the Rising Star Cave? Paleoanthropologist John Hawks says it overturns many of our assumptions about human prehistory, and also raises profound questions about what these human-like creatures thought about death and ritual.
Glenn Kurtz was a child prodigy of sorts and headed for a big concert career as a classical guitarist. But it didn't happen. Now he's playing again but for the joy of it.
Harriet Brown had a smart, happy daughter who was stricken in adolescence by anorexia.
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