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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide is in our minds these days.   But instead of looking back, we look forward with Josh Ruxin.  He talks to Anne about the role he's played in Rwanda's recovery.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Marita Golden tells Jim Fleming about the pernicious influence of “colorism” within the Black community.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joyce Carol Oates talks with Jim Fleming about some of the stories in her book “Faithless: Tales of Transgression.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Can meditating for 10 days change your life? It has for dozens of inmates at a maximum security prison in Alabama who signed up for a grueling, intensive course of Vapassana meditation. Jenny Phillips tells the story in her documentary film "The Dhamma Brothers."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Mandelbaum talks with Jim Fleming about the similarities between sports and warfare and religion.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mimi Sheraton, a travel writer, went to the Polish town of Bialystock to find the origins of her favorite bread from childhood, the bialy. It’s a crusty onion roll invented by the Jews.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joan Wylie Hall, author of “Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction,” talks with Steve Paulson...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In 2005, New York Times journalist Eric Lichtblau wrote a series of articles about the surveillance – without warrants – of some Americans’ international phone calls and e-mails. The Times won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting. In 2008, Steve asked Lichtblau about covering the NSA’s warrantless wire-tapping program.

 

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