What's it like to hang out with the U.S. president? Journalist Michael Lewis found out when he shadowed Barack Obama for 8 months, even playing in one of Obama's pick-up basketball games.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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You'll have to know the great expectations of Cornell students to be successful for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!
Aerobatic pilot Josh Ramo is also a journalist and the author of “No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World’s Most Dangerous Sport.” He talks about the thrills and perils of pushing planes and pilots to the limits of their endurance.
Jill Lepore does a reality check on Tea Party claims to the founding fathers.
Mike Tidwell is a freelance journalist who thinks he’s found the biggest environmental catastrophe in America. In this pre-Katrina interview, Tidwell talks about the time he spent with shrimpers in the bayou country and what they taught him about the devastating price we’re paying for the way we control floods on the Mississippi River.
Filmmaker Astra Taylor believes our digital life is undemocratic -- that we're concentrating power into the hands of giant tech companies, who make money off our posts and tweet. She tells Anne Strainchamps why she believes there should be greater regulation of the Internet.
Naomi Klein discusses how countries impose "disaster capitalism" on countries to get otherwise unpopular policies accepted.
Richard Marcinko is CEO of a private security firm which trains mercenaries and he candidly tells Steve Paulson about waging war and interrogating prisoners from a mercenary's point of view.
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