Oscar Cásares joins host us to talk about putting a fictional – though very human – face on life at the U.S.-Mexico border, the subject of his latest novel.
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Scott Pelley’s Search For Meaning
Scott Pelley joins us to talk about what he’s learned from everyone firefighters to soldiers to sitting presidents spanning four decades.
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Millennials Can’t Move In Because Boomers Won’t Move Out
Patrick Sisson joins us to talk about how policy, shifting demographics and market forces have combined to bring us to the current situation, which he writes about for the website Curbed.
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Mass Shootings Often Start As Domestic Violence
Rachel Louise Snyder joins us to debunk myths about domestic violence, and to talk about what it will take to truly address the problem that the World Health Organization deems a global epidemic.
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Overhauling The V.A.
Isaac Arnsdorf joins us to talk about whether or not Trump has held up his campaign promise to improve the care veterans receive through the V.A. which he writes about for ProPublica.
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How To Fix The Catholic Church
As child abuse cases and alleged cover-ups across the world continue to haunt the Catholic Church, James Carroll joins us to argue that the church’s clerical hierarchy is to blame.
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The Far Left And Far Right Hate Liberals
New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik joins us to set the record straight about the definition of liberalism by introducing us to the people from history who invented the liberal tradition.
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The Reality Of Ransomware
ProPublica technology reporter Renee Dudley explains how these attacks work, how firms can sometimes recover the stolen data, and how sometimes the solution is just to pay up.
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Stop Scapegoating Big Business
Tyler Cowen, Holbert L. Harris Chair in Economics at George Mason University, joins us to make the case that corporations actually get a bad rap and are vital to the overall success of our society.
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Spelling Bees As Preparation For L-I-F-E
Youngsters who participate in spelling bees spend countless hours preparing for the contest. Northwestern anthropologist Shalini Shankar joins us to talk about how these competitors are proving that hard work at a young age sets them up for victory going forward.
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Is Racism Still A Problem? Depends Who You Ask
Juliana Horowitz joins us to talk about how Americans’ views on race break down across racial lines, which she researched for the Race in America 2019 survey from the Pew Research Center.
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A New Breed of Conspiracy Theory
Nancy L. Rosenblum, Senator Joseph Clark Research Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard, joins us to talk about a new breed of conspiracy theorist – one who believes an idea to be true and uses repetition and bold assertions to turn fiction into fact.
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