Paul Krugman wrote an article called “For Richer” for the New York Times Magazine. He tells Steve Paulson that there is a widening chasm between the super rich and the rest of us.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jonathan Pieslak, author of "Sound Targets: American Soldiers and the Music in the Iraq War," talks with Jim Fleming about how U.S. forces use music and who they listen to.
Writer Ayelet Waldman was struggling...with her marriage, her kids, her life.Then she took daily microdoses of LSD for a month and found a kind of beauty and calm she hadn’t known for years.
Ruth Ozeki's novel, "A Tale for the Time Being," is just out in paperback. Anne Strainchamps talks to Ozeki about her book, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Janice Galloway has written a novel called “Clara.” It tells the life story of Clara Schumann, the gifted pianist who was the wife of composer Robert Schumann.
Peter T. Kilborn talks about the "new rootless professional class" that consists of mid-level managers and executives who move every few years (sometimes enormous distances, or to foreign countries) to advance their careers.
Take a look at any portrayal of the Dark Ages and you might come away believing it was a gruesome and violent time, but is that historically true?
Urban sprawl is a staggering problem in China as a result of the on-going Chinese industrial revolution.
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