Tiffany Watt Smith joins us to talk about why we find perverse pleasure in the pain of others.
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Estrangement As Salvation
Harriet Brown joins us to talk about how walls develop between loved ones.
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Trading A C-Suite For A Cop’s Beat
Sarah Cortez joins us to talk about her reflections on what it means to protect and serve.
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Elizabeth Smart On Happily Ever After
The teenage kidnapping victim joins us to talk about her work with others who have survived traumatic events.
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You Love It When People Fail – Here’s Why
Tiffany Watt Smith joins us to talk about why we find pleasure in the pain of others.
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The President’s Book of Secrets
This hour, we’ll talk about how that information is gathered – and how presidents have used it through the years – with David Priess, who served as an intelligence officer in the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. His new book is called “The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama.”
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Finding Purpose In The Workplace
This hour, we’ll hear accounts of everyday people who’ve found jobs that provide both money and meaning with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, whose collected these tales of career success in “Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work.”
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The Modern First Ladies
This hour, as we broadcast from NPR Headquarters in Washington, we’ll talk about the many roles first ladies have served in the White House with Kate Andersen Brower. She’s the author of “First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies.”
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The Brains Of Big Stars
This hour, we’ll take what we’ve learned about how the mind works and revisit some of history’s most intriguing figures with science writer Claudia Kalb, author of “Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History’s Great Personalities.”
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A Talk About Trade
This hour, we’ll talk about the impact of Toyota and other foreign companies moving to North Texas and about the state of U.S.-China trade relations with former U.S. Trade Rep, Ron Kirk.
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Inside Saudi Arabia
This hour, we’ll get an inside look at the nation’s tension between modernity and tradition with James Jones, director of the Frontline documentary “Saudi Arabia Uncovered.”
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Rebuilding America
This hour, we’ll talk about everyday Americans already at work making the country a better place with James Fallows of “The Atlantic.”
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