Chinese Explore New Perspectives on a Changed Country in the New Year
Sunday marked the start of Chinese Lunar New Year, the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. Reports record an unprecedented 3.4 billion trips made by Chinese returning home for New...
View ArticleSCOTUS Decisions Bring Landmark Change
The Supreme Court officially ended it terms yesterday and is now heading into summer break after a remarkable last few days. The Court handed down four highly anticipated decisions—two impacting race...
View Article[Unedited] Sari Nusseibeh with Krista Tippett
We experience a vision of caution and hope planted in a long view of Arab and Palestinian history, culture, and time in Palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh. His personal story is steeped in layers...
View ArticleSari Nusseibeh — The Evolution of Change
We experience a vision of caution and hope planted in a long view of Arab and Palestinian history, culture, and time in Palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh. His personal story is steeped in layers...
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest, “Wild Oversimplification” Edition
Listen to Slate's show about Kony 2012, Game Change, and Werner Herzog’s On Death Row.
View ArticleSlate: The Ode to Nixon Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon and her special guests from Yale, Beverly Gage and Anthony Leiserowitz. This week: Mitt Romney’s tax plan, climate change in the U.S., and a New...
View ArticleOpen Phones: Have You Changed Your Mind?
Have you had a change of heart recently about any of the big issues of the day? Did you change your mind on same-sex marriage or the NYPD's use of stop and frisk? What about the NSA leaker Edward...
View Article[Unedited] Wayne Curtis / Myrtle Thompson and Krista Tippett
Wayne Curtis and Myrtle Thompson are co-founder of the organization Feedom Freedom Growers. Krista spoke with them on December 16, 2011 in their home in Detroit. This interview is included in our show...
View Article[Unedited] Richard Feldman and Krista Tippett
Richard Feldman is a board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership. Krista spoke with him on December 16, 2011 in Detroit. This interview is included in our show...
View Article[Unedited] Grace Lee Boggs and Krista Tippett
Grace Lee Boggs is a philosopher and civil rights legend and the heart and soul of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership. Krista spoke with her on December 16, 2011 in...
View Article[Unedited] Gloria Lowe and Krista Tippett
Gloria Lowe is the CEO and founder of the organization We Want Green Too. Krista spoke with her on December 16, 2011 in Detroit. This interview is included in our show 'Becoming Detroit.' Download the...
View ArticleGrace Lee Boggs — Becoming Detroit: Reimagining Work, Food, and Community...
Chinese-American philosopher and civil rights legend Grace Lee Boggs turned 100 this summer. She has been at the heart and soul of a largely hidden story inside Detroit’s evolution from economic...
View Article[Unedited] Walter Brueggemann with Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett's complete and unedited conversation with theologian Walter Brueggemann. He is professor emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia. Krista spoke with him in our studios in May...
View ArticleWalter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagination
The people we later recognize as prophets, says Bible scholar Walter Brueggemann, are also poets. They reframe what is at stake in chaotic times. Hear a very special voice in conversation to address...
View ArticleBig Fish Stories Getting Littler
They came, they fished, then snap! They posed. Right in front of their Big Catch — and thereby hangs a tale.Courtesy of Monroe County Public Library For generations, tour boats have been collecting...
View Article[Unedited] David Hartman with Krista Tippett
David Hartman was an Orthodox rabbi and founder of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He authored many books, including "A Heart of Many Rooms" and "The God Who Hates Lies." This interview is...
View ArticleDavid Hartman — Hope in a Hopeless God
David Hartman died a year ago this week. The Orthodox rabbi was a charismatic and challenging figure in Israeli society, called a “public philosopher for the Jewish people” and a “champion of adaptive...
View ArticleThe Political Gabfest: The Go Ahead, Negotiate with Terrorists Edition
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson. This week: The fallout following the deal that freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, Obama makes a push on carbon emissions, and...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Change in NY-13
The meaning – and merits – of change was a theme the three Democrats vying to win the upcoming primary in New York's 13th congressional district kept returning to in Wednesday night's debate at Lehman...
View ArticleThe Jiggery-Pokery Edition
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act, the meaning and symbolism of Confederate iconography, and Pope Francis's encyclical on...
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