How close are we to electing a woman as president? Journalist Rebecca Traister says "next election close."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Malcolm Gladwell talks about the power of our tendency to make snap judgements and how important it is for our survival as a species.
Here's our final poem to share for this National Poetry Month, Jim reading Max Garland's "A Lesson in Love."
Patrick McGilligan talks about how Alfred Hitchcock chose his leading men, and what makes “Vertigo” the cinematic classic it is.
In May of 2014, while covering the war in Syria, Anthony Loyd and photographer Jack Hill, both working for The Times of London, were kidnapped by Syrian rebels. Loyd was severely beaten and shot twice. Both were eventually able to escape to Turkey.
Do you think the French ban on smoking in all public places is an encroachment on personal liberty that threatens French culture? Richard Klein sure thinks so.
Philipp Blom tells Anne Strainchamps about some of history's great pack-rats, and what purposes their collections served.
Joyce Tenneson is a portrait photographer whose new book is a collection of flower photos. Her work celebrates flowers at every stage of their life cycle.
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