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Making Democracy Fun

Correction: This interview refers to a survey finding that only 22% of Americans trust government at all levels. The actual survey was limited to trust in the federal government, and found that 22% of Americans trusted the government in Washington "almost always or most of the time".

We all know it's important to be involved in local government, but can political participation also be fun? Josh Lerner thinks so. He believes local governments could boost the fun factor in the political process by borrowing a few ideas from game design.

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Kurt Hoelting on Living Local

A commercial fisherman and wilderness guide in the Pacific Northwest, he set out to spend a year living within 60 miles of his home.

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Jason Reitman on "Thank You for Smoking"

Jason Reitman wrote and directed the film "Thank You for Smoking."  We hear some very funny and totally subversive clips.

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Mario Vargas Llosa on the dictator Trujillo

Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American fiction. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010.  He also once ran for president of his native country, Peru.  Politics and literature are the driving forces in his life.

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Lendol Calder on Debt

Lendol Calder says being in debt is a good thing.  He tells Steve Paulson that consumer credit drives the world economy.

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Linda Kauffman on Sensational Art

Linda Kauffman talks with Jim Fleming about artists who make deliberately provocative and sensational art.  She feels it’s a good thing to challenge our beliefs about what can be seen.

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Richard Zacks on Captain Kidd

Richard Zacks, author of “The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd,” tells Jim Fleming that Kidd, was a privateer - a pirate hunter - not a pirate.

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Jeremy Narby UNCUT

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