Wisconsin Public Radio reporter Gil Halstead considers himself a veteran of the anti-war movement.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Hannah Holmes tells Jim Fleming what’s really in those dust bunnies under the bed and that we all have traces of the Gobi desert and space dust on our stuff.
When people let go of religion, they often let go of the fellowship and community that go along with the faith. But Greg Epstein is trying to change that. As Harvard University's Humanist Chaplain, he's forging new models of community-building without God.
Herbert Siguenza wrote and performs a one-man play called "Cantinflas." It's based on the life and works of Mario Morena who performed as "Cantinflas" and was the Latin Charlie Chaplin.
Haggai Matar is an eighteen year old Israeli “refusenik.” He tells Steve Paulson why he’ll go to prison rather than serve in the Israeli army in the Occupied Territories.
For his book "Evicted: Poverty And Profit In the American City," Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond spent more than a year living in some of Milwaukee's poorest black and white neighborhoods. He says evictions lock entire families into an endless cycle of poverty, and are far more common than they used to be.
George Packer is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of “The Assassins’ Gate.” He’s just back from his fifth trip to Iraq...
Emma Gatewood had 11 children and 23 grandchildren when she became the first woman to hike the Appalachian Trail, at age 67. She became a folk hero and helped save the Trail. Ben Montgomery brings us her story.
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