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  • Risk and Resilience in America Today

    How are Americans doing? Where are our strengths and weaknesses and how do we compare to each other and the rest of the world’s population? We’ll spend this hour with Kristen Lewis, co-director of the American Human Development Project and co-author of the new report “The Measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience” (NYU […]

  • Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism

    How did a small desert town on the Persian Gulf become a shining beacon of global capitalism and how has the economic downturn tarnished its image? We’ll talk this hour with the former Associated Press Persian Gulf correspondent, Jim Krane. His book “City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism” (Picador, 2010) is now […]