Friday, October 31, 2008

The Last Weekend; Voting; Switching Parties; Letters; A Little Light Night Music with James Isaacs

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Incredible Shrinking Economy; Personal Foreclosure; Presidential Transitions; Can a Computer Game Predict the Election?; World Series Radio; “Octavian Nothing: Volume II”

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Election; “The View” and the Election; Athlete Brain Injuries; JP Morgan; Balsphemy in Afghanistan; Russian Translators

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Children and Guns; Short Selling Your Home; Ballot Questions; Moraine, Ohio, Faces GM Plant Closure; Movie: Ballast

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Monday, October 27, 2008

The Presidential Race; John McCain: Mistakes of his Father; The Few, The Proud, The College Bound; Guantanamo Bay Trial; The Starbucks Economy; Salem Witch Judge

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Stock Market; Keith Jarrett; Two Families Named McCain; Sports; Charlie Kaufman

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Housing; Mixed Race; How Did John McCain Pick Sarah Palin; Googling Discoveries; Dollhouse Village Exhibit

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Politics; Is it Socialism?; Tax Revolts; Massachusetts; Girl Talk

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Florida Voting Early; History of Voting; Disabled Children and Politics; Election-Related Children’s Book

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Monday, October 20, 2008

Politics; Energy and the Environment; Older Workers; Mental Health and Executive Job Loss; Texting

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Friday, October 17, 2008

The Presidential Race in the Polls; Retirement; An Old Fashion Bank; Letters and Sports; Fifty Writers and Fifty States

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Acorn; Why Are The Markets Still in a Free Fall?; Joe The Plumber; The View from Argentina; Dead Cat Bounce; The Gabe Dixon Band

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Debate Preview; Small Businesses Caught in Credit Crisis; Shirt Stories; Words from a Bailout; Hell Drivers

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

U.S. and the Banking Business; Pakistan, India, and Kashmir; An Uncertain Charlotte; Tim and Tom

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Monday, October 13, 2008

Politics; Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman; Uighurs; Mammouth Cave; National Anthem at Baseball Games; FDR Banking Chat

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Friday, October 10, 2008

Where’s The Bottom?; Semantics Are Important … No, Really; From the Campaign Trail; Anti-Bailout Ad Man; Container House

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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Saving America’s Middle Class; Meltdown in Iceland; Mexico Under Seige; Should Salaries Be Made Public; Politics and Food

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Housing; Executive Pay; The Trial of Saddam Hussein; Lucky Smoke; Senate Races Get Nasty

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Lender of Last Resort; The Candidates’ Healthcare Plans; Round Two; Record Homeless in Massachusetts; Monsterology

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Monday, October 6, 2008

Banks in Crisis; Lehman CEO in Hot Seat; Electoral College Doomsday; The Story Behind “Flash of Genius”; Ani DiFranco Red Letter Year

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Friday, May 18, 2012
The Appian Road, in the Monti Aurunci area of Italy. (Robert Kaster/University of Chicago Press)

For many people, this time of year is an occasion for road trips — up and down the coasts, across the U.S., through Europe. For Robert Kaster, it was a time to venture along the most ancient roads of all time: the Appian Way in Italy.

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Friday, May 18, 2012
(Michael M. Phillips/Wall Street Journal)

It was supposed to be a calm ride for marines travelling in Zaranj, along Afghanistan’s border with Iran, but a suicide bomb changed that. Photographer Michael Phillips witnessed the scene unfold and joins us.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Musician John Fullbright at Here & Now studios at WBUR in Boston. (Jesse Costa/Here & Now)

Okemah, Okla., is the birthplace of folk legend Woody Guthrie. It’s also the hometown of singer-songwriter John Fullbright, who at just 24, is already being compared with folk great Townes Van Zandt.

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