What's on This Week

01.22.2017
Crowded place
How do you cope with unpleasant people? Like the jerk in the next cubicle or your loud-mouth brother-in-law?  When there’s no escape and you’re stuck with someone you can’t stand...
03.27.2016
(was 01.22.2017)
Nearly 20 million households in America are one paycheck away from losing their homes. For many of these families, keeping a roof over their head means having to choose between...

On Our Minds

Running
Occasionally, we have interviews that need to be heard before we can fit them into a full show. They're too exciting to keep to ourselves. Instead, they become a special...
Larry Brilliant is a doctor, co-founder of the digital social network the Well, and he was the first executive director of Google.org. But back in the Sixties, he was a...
Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad just won the 2016 National Book Award. Steve Paulson spoke with him about this powerful, sweeping epic. Hear an excerpt of...
This month the National Book Awards will announce this year’s winners. Among the finalists is Jacqueline Woodson’s novel “Another Brooklyn.” It’s her first adult novel in two...
One of the most horrific episodes in American history occurred on December 29, 1890. The U.S. Cavalry surrounded an encampment of Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in...

From Aleppo to Chicago

Mariela Shaker on finding her way out of Syria. More on her journey on Medium.

 

Mariela Shaker on finding her way out of Syria.

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