Nicole Smith pilots an Army Apache AH 64 attack helicopter. She is the only African American female to do so.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Margaret MacMillan tells Jim Fleming how a lot of today’s troubles in the Middle East stem from the way the Versailles Treaty after the First World War carved up the Ottoman Empire with no consideration of the Arabs’ political aspirations.
Jane Yolen likes to re-invent the stories about King Arthur. In her version, it’s Guinevere who first pulls the sword from the stone!
Perhaps one of the most obvious and important cultural divides in the United States is between the political right and left.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Steve Paulson about his research into the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republican, and how we might begin to speak across the gap.
Mark Robert Rank tells Steve Paulson that American society is structured to accept a certain amount of poverty but that other capitalist societies have chosen to do things differently.
Jim Crace's novel "The Pesthouse" takes place in America after an un-named eco-disaster has decimated the population and destroyed much of our hi-tech civilization.
Reality TV manipulates the lives of its participants but we watch it anyway. Why are we so hooked?
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently “The Pig Who Sang to the Moon.” He says that farm animals have rich, complex emotional lives.
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