Friday, November 28, 2008

Mumbai, Day Three; A Cycle of Violence; Day of Mourning for Retailers?; Malls Are New Main Street, USA; Thanksgiving Leftovers

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

The Gift; The iLimb Hand; Dinner from the Homefront; A Vegas Thanksgiving; Uncle Lach and the Snow Geese

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Holiday Travel; A Conversation with Rose Styron; The Economy; Word of the Year?; Calvin Trillin

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Billions More for the Bailout; Mindless Eating; Keeping Gates?; Daycare Centers Feeling Economic Downturn; Cleve Jones on “Milk”

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Monday, November 24, 2008

Citigroup; Why Did Conservatives Blow It?; Obama’s Economic Team; Where Is Matt Harding?; Techie Thanksgiving

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Chinese Cyber-Spying; Reviving Old Instruments; KKK; The Week in Sports; “Sports Night”; Listener Letters

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Al-Qaida in 2008; Children of Jihad; Obama’s Team So Far; Joan Baez

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Pirates; A New New Deal?; The Use of the Word “Dignity” in Ethical Debates; Ethnic Potato Dishes for Thanksgiving

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Are There Any Jobs Out There?; Auto Bailout; Cult of Clean; Obama Day; The Man Behind “WALL-E”

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Congress is Back; Salaries for College Presidents; Forgiveness of Debt; Sex Week; Bebe Neuwirth

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Friday, November 14, 2008

World Economic Summit; Brazil’s Economy; Performance Reviews; Endangered Mammals; A Life List of Music

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Auto Industry Bailout; Should the Obamas Send Their Daughters to DC’s Public Schools?; Secretary of Education; Palin TV; Google and the Flu; Deerhoof

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Is the Bailout Working?; Homeowner Help; Closing Gitmo?; Model Vice-Presidency; Presidential Pardons; The Barefoot Contessa

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Economy Update; A Soldier’s Song; Statesmen Portrait Artist; Cutting Through Red Tape at the V.A.; Colonel John Ripley

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Economy; Cleaning Out Foreclosures; Obama’s Priorities; Organic or Conventional?; Soldiers’ Children

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Friday, November 7, 2008

Obama Economy; Black on the Inside; Supreme Court; This Week in Sports; Listener Letters; God on Trial

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Thursday, November 6, 2008

Whither the Republicans?; What’s next in Iraq?; California’s Proposition 8; Gun Sales; Gregory Maguire’s Cowardly Lion

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Obama Wins; Inside the Campaigns; The Historic Election; From Jim Crow to President Elect Obama

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Election Day; Waiting for Election Results; Campaign Dirty Tricks; Election Day Poem; The Hidden Persuaders

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Monday, November 3, 2008

Live Free and Vote; Election Pinwheel; Alaska on the Eve; Pranksters Reach Governor Palin; Election Day Trifecta; John Adams Composer

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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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