After a six-year wait, Martin’s "A Dance With Dragons" finally hits bookstores.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Americans’ lives have improved by every objective measure, but we don’t feel any better off than our parents. Everyone seems to think that living well requires twice the income they have - no matter how much they earn.
Gary Rosen edited a book called “The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq.” He describes the various lines of thought within the Conservative camp.
Henry the Eighth needed a "fixer" to make his break from the Church of Rome and his many marriages legal in England. That man was Thomas Cromwell.
Seth Kane Kwei launched a revolution in Ghanaian funeral practices in the early 1950s, when he redesigned a chief's traditional palaquin into a coffin. His grandson, Eric Adjetey Anang, is now carrying on his grandfather's work, making coffins that reflect the trades, accomplishments and dreams of the deceased.
Eugene Thacker talks to Anne Strainchamps about what horror and philosphy have in common in this UNCUT interview from our "Horror" show.
Scottish Parliament member George Galloway turned the tables on the senate subcommittee who accused him of profiting from the Iraq food-for-oil scandal.
Reporter Greg Bruno traveled around India and Nepal to investigate how Chinese influence is shaping the lives of Tibetans far away from home.
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