Linguist and lawyer Rosemary Salomone talks about the implications for a world dominated by English – from legal issues to class divisions.
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It’s time to retire retirement
Bradley Schurman, founder and CEO of The Super Age, a global strategic research and advisory firm, discusses what he sees as a social and market force tipping point: when 20 percent or more of a given population is over age 65.
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Channeling your anger for change
Philosophy professor Myisha Cherry talks about why the fight against racism means breaking rules and making people angry.
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Tips for joining the Great Resignation
This hour, we’ve got help for millions of Americans taking advantage of a workers’ job market.
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Strangers are friends you haven’t met yet
Valarie Kaur is a Sikh activist, lawyer, filmmaker and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, and she joins us to talk about her approach to conflict resolution and why she says every interaction we have should begin with love.
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Pharaohs wrote the playbook for today’s dictators
UCLA Egyptologist Kara Cooney discusses her research into the Egyptian pharaohs and why their system of rule and religious beliefs can help us to understand why the many still so often give power to the few.
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It’s surprisingly expensive to be homeless
Lori Teresa Yearwood talks about the fines and fees that those who find themselves homeless incur – and the devastating consequences they have on the path to recovery.
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How immigration laws support white supremacy
Reece Jones talks about his research into nativism and white supremacy and how panicked views about immigration from the fringe made it to the mainstream.
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What’s so great about Texas?
Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times discusses why, after filtering tens of thousands of towns with populations over a thousand, he arrived at the conclusion that cities in North Texas are among the most desirable in the country.
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The global poor need mental health care, too
Vox reporter Dylan Matthews discusses the work of the Happier Life Institute, which found that access to psychotherapy should be central to foreign aid and charity work abroad in order to increase well-being.
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On disability and discrimination
Jan Grue talks about justice for people with disabilities and why he believes, even with gains in disability rights, the world would still like to keep the differently-abled in the shadows.
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The race to save coffee from extinction
Sarah Sax of High Country News joins us to discuss how climate change and questionable farming practices are harming crops and ways researchers are trying to breed more sustainable beans.
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