Archeologist Alexander Stille talks to Steve Paulson about the paradox involved in his work – sometimes digging up old treasures can destroy them.
Archeologist Alexander Stille talks to Steve Paulson about the paradox involved in his work – sometimes digging up old treasures can destroy them.
Rose O’Neale Greenhow, a Southerner by birth and conviction, became a social power in Washington and ran a successful spy ring for the Confederacy.
What have the recent leaks about the NSA's surveillance program have revealed? Computer scientist and independent scholar Susan Landau gives us her perspective, and weighs in on the questions of inquiries, and checks and balances.
You can also hear our extended conversation with Landau.
A great in American soul music, the Reverend Al Green has spent his life testifying on stage and in the pulpit to the power of grace, love and happiness.
Andre Agassi tells Steve Paulson about his father who was driven to make him a champion, but whom he does not consider to have been abusive.
Girl loses self, solo hikes 1,000 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, and finds herself. Cheryl Strayed's best-selling memoir "Wild" is now a movie, starring Reese Witherspoon. Cheryl makes the case for walking as a life-saving act.
Anne Strainchamps goes looking for hope about the world's environmental problems among the children of Randall Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin.
Abram de Swaan is a Dutch sociologist who studies the politics of language. He tells Steve Paulson that English is the worldwide language of business and diplomacy, though many wish it weren’t.