Cheeni Rao came from a successful Indian family and attended an elite American college. But he ended up a junkie on Chicago's South side.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Are you feeling a little cynical? Maybe a little down? Have no fear, we have a documentary to cure what ails you. It’s called “The Gnomist.” As in garden gnomes. And if you think this is some sort of post modern ironic bait and switch you could be no further from the truth. Our producer Charles Monroe-Kane caught up with the film’s director, Sharon Liese, to find out what happened with garden gnomes along the Tomahawk Creek Trail in Overland Park, Kansas. A place now dubbed The Firefly Forest.
Daniel Wilson, author of “How to Survive a Robot Uprising” tells Jim Fleming the secret is to go for their sensors!
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.
David Myers tells Jim Fleming humans are terrible at predicting what will make them happy and seem to be much more resilient than they give themselves credit for.
E.L. Doctorow's latest novel is called "The March" and is about the devastating effect on the South during the Civil War of General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Washington Post reporter David Finkel was embedded with the soldiers of Battalion 2-16 for eight months in 2007 during the Surge in Iraq.
Francine Segan is the author of “Shakespeare’s Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook.” She gives an inside view of the kind of dinner party William Shakespeare might have known
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