With the militant group ISIS threatning the stability of Iraq, we're thinking about sectarianism in the country. To get some context on the divide between Iraqi Sunnis, Shias and Kurds, we turn to David Rohde. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Beyond War: Reimagining America's Role and Ambitions in a New Middle East.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jean Edward Smith is the author of "FDR," and tells Jim Fleming about Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court-packing scandal of 1937.
Novelist Jane Hamilton reads her favorite novel endings.
Martha Ackmann is the author of “The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight.” Ackman says that in 1960, female astronaut trainees were expected to fly in full make-up, Chanel suits and high heels.
Redmond O’Hanlon is travel writer who’s braved the Congo, Borneo and the Amazon. This time around, he tries his luck on a trawler in the icy Atlantic in dangerous waters.
Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor nearly died from a massive stroke at the age of 37. The experience taught her life lessons on how the mind perceives the world.
John Lloyd Young is starring as Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons in "Jersey Boys." He tells Anne Strainchamps why he decided to become an actor.
You know that the first settlers called Manhattan "New Amsterdam"? But the Dutch didn't just bring their sailing prowess and placenames with them. Russell Shorto thinks that liberal Dutch ideas about politics and society came too, and shaped the New World.
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