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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Have you heard about "sacred economics"? It's Charles Eisenstein's viral idea, that we need to get our economic systems back in line with our values.

Looking for the extended interview with Eisenstein? Here it is.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Journalist Mark Pendergrast tells Steve Paulson that coffee came from Ethiopia, functioned as a patriotic symbol during the early days of the American Republic, and prolonged the slave trade in places like Brazil.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Katrina Browne produced and directed the documentary "Traces of the Trade" in an effort to come to terms with her family's legacy of slave trading. Browne talks with Jim Fleming and we hear excerpts from her film.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joseph Kanon is the author of “The Good German.” It’s a novel about the American occupation of Berlin after WWII when American soldiers faced many of the same problems they’re seeing now in Iraq.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rebecca A. Demarest brings us this story of flight in a remote island community.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jaron Lanier loves the cephalopods, like the octopus and the squid.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paule Marshall tells Steve Paulson about the neighborhood both she and her cousin were born into, recalls Brooklyn's glorious past as a hotbed of jazz, and explains why so many African-American artists chose to live in France.

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