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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Single women are the most potent political force in America today. Rebecca Traister explains why young millenial women are delaying marriage -- just as Susan B. Anthony predicted.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Andrew Carroll directs the Legacy Project, which is dedicated to preserving war-time correspondence. He also organized pocket-sized “Armed Services Editions” of several books and distributed them to American troops.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anne Strainchamps surveys the enchanting world of children's literature.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Abby Frucht talks with Judith Strasser about her latest - "Polly's Ghost."  Polly, the narrator, is learning how to be a ghost.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Alex Kerr tells Jim Fleming that the administration of daily life in Japan is completely divorced from politics and that Japan spends some 40 percent of its budget on construction.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Constitution quoting religious fanatics with guns taking over government land might seem as extreme as you could take your beliefs in god and country. But you can take it further. Christian Picciolini is the former leader of the US’s first neo-Nazi skinhead organization. He too was acting out of patriotism. He was also acting out of hate and white supremacy. The title of his 2015 memoir, “Romantic Violence” says it all. But Christian quit being a neo-Nazi skinhead. And in 2010, he co-founded a nonprofit peace advocacy groups called Life After Hate that helps youth leave extremist groups. Charles Monroe-Kane sat down with Christian for a frank discussion on racism.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Amy Tan takes on the comic misunderstandings that arise when Americans seek enlightenment in China in her new novel.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ann Marlowe describes her heroin habit in a memoir called “How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z.”

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