Money, Politics, and Corruption
December 10, 2012Is there any practical way to mitigate the influence of money on American politics?
Is there any practical way to mitigate the influence of money on American politics?
The chairman and CEO details his recapitalization strategy for troubled banks, and the important lessons the industry learned from the recent banking crisis.
What can we learn about Victorian life and history from an evening at the theater or a contemporaneous work of fiction and what goes into staging such a production?
How do the different ways we cook around the world define our separate traditions and cultures while also drawing us together as people?
How can introverts survive the clamoring world in which we live?
Why would an Eagle Scout father decide not to enroll his own son in the organization he loved as a young man?
How did a small group of slaves destined for a brutal life of servitude in 1839 re-gain their freedom?
How will we transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy and is such a move even possible?
Hour 2: How is it possible that hard-working people with steady jobs are still barely getting by and what can be done improve their opportunities and lives? We’ll talk this hour with David K. Shipler, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of “The Working Poor: Invisible in America” (Vintage, Paperback, 2005). Shipler will be in town to […]
What first inspired humans to travel all the way around the earth and how does the history of such exploration still inspire us today?