Bob Alper is a rabbi; Ahmed Ahmed is an actor and comedian. The two comics decided to perform together making use of their ethnicity to make people laugh.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Mamet talks with Steve Paulson and says the secret to writing a successful screenplay is to focus on what happens next. That's all the audience cares about.
Cary Sudler is descended from a slave-holding plantation family. He discovered that he shares the Sudler name with both black and white families in the area around the old plantation.
Rabbi Arik Ascherman, executive director of Israel’s Rabbis for Human Rights, tells Jim Fleming his organization hopes to protect the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie splits her time between the U.S. and her native Nigeria...
Rapper Boots Riley is an activist who uses hip hop lyrics like a political weapon.
Primatologist Barbara J. King tells Steve Paulson about her belief that the rudimentary qualities of religion can be seen in the behavior of the great apes.
In the days of tall ships and explorers, people collected exotic wonders in cabinets of curiosities, wunderkameren. Writer and teacher Heather McDougal has long loved those early days of science. Her blog's called "Cabinet of Wonders."
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