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John Edgar Wideman on Emmett Till's Father
John Edgar Wideman, writer, MacArthur fellow and two-time PEN/Faulkner Award-winner, and author of Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File(Scribner, 2016), explores the story of Emmett Till's father who was executed by the Army ten years before the l
The Role of Facebook in the Election
Facebook is facing critics, both internally and externally, who are concerned about the company's role in the presidential election. New York Times reporter Mike Isaac discusses the news — or fake news, as the case may often be — from your Facebook feed.
Normalizing the Trump Presidency
Hua Hsu, a contributing writer for newyorker.com and The New Yorker, an associate professor of English at Vassar College and former fellow at the New America Foundation, and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific (Harva
President Obama's Reassurance Tour
President Obama begins his last foreign tour as POTUS in hopes of reassuring world leaders that his successor, Donald Trump, won't be a threat to the diplomacy the current administration has cultivated. Eli Stokols, national political reporter for POLITI
The Hidden Logic Behind Our Motivations
Do we focus too much on the wrong incentives? Are bonuses the best worker inspiration, or do intangible motivations provide greater motivation? Behavioral economist at Duke University and the author of Payoff: The Hidden Login That Shapes Our Motivations
Dear President: "For Black Men Like My Grandfather, Being Gay Equaled Failure At Manhood."
Robert Jones, a writer and winner of the 2014 Black Weblog Award for Best LGBT Blog, discusses his essay about growing up as a gay black man, and the expectations around race and masculinity. This is part of Dear President: What You Need to Know About Ra
Listener Call In: How Has Your Religious Community Responded to the Election's Results?
Listeners call in to discuss how their weekend spiritual and religious congregations talked about the results of Tuesday's elections. (Pt. 1) @BrianLehrer Homily at student Mass at Columbia U. last night pointed out Gospel this time of year is (incidenta
The Politics of Rural Resentment
Kathy Cramer, Political Science professor and the director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service at University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (Universi
Moving Forward: How Americans Are Responding to the Start of the Trump Era
As the transition toward a Donald Trump presidency begins, Heather McGhee, President of Demos Action and Demos Org, discusses how Americans have been responding to the election and the events that have followed, and what the progressives need to do going
How We Treat Our Incarcerated
Bill Moyers, managing editor for BillMoyers.com and creator the of documentary "Rikers," and Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, professor of law at New York University Law School and author of Just