America at a Crossroads series of 11 documentaries is scheduled to launch on Sunday, April 15 and will run nightly through Friday, April 20, 9:00 - 11:00 p.m. (ET). Additional films will air as specials following the premiere.
America at a Crossroads is a major public television event premiering on PBS in April 2007 that explores [...]
I know there is a small group of people that read this blog–mainly friends and family. So I’m curious what you, the reader would like from these posts? Entertainment? Education? Information? Debate? News? Community?
The funny thing is that there is no real topic here, except what I run into on a daily basis whether that [...]
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. became the world’s greatest super power. Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor for President Carter, offers an in-depth analysis of how each of our presidents since 1991, George H.W Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, has performed in this unprecedented role.
Listen now to Zbigniew [...]
“I would rather be in a Kenyan slum then in hotel in transient hotel in New York City.”
“I would say that being poor in the U.S. is a cross between being poor in Japan and being poor in Mexico, because there is a combination of shame and anger.”
“In America we feel entitled to be rich [...]
Where the evangelical right has come from and where is the going politically? More international, more environmental?
Journalist Dan Gilgoff is the author of the new book The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War
‘The Jesus Machine’ Tracks James Dobson’s Rise, Fresh Air (NPR)
Not that I would know, but Author Laura Sessions Stepp has a new book about young women today. It’s called Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both.She warns teens and twenty-somethings of the heavy emotional cost of “hooking up” with no commitment or entanglement.
Listen at NPR
At first, I thought this was a joke. Then, i read the quotes on the homepage, and remembered that you have to pay for a GoogleAd link, so it’s costing someone money to promote.
Next up, is Heather Has Two Republicans Parents. :-)
Oil was once an alternative fuel, much easier to come by than whale blubber and less poisonous to the air than coal. This is among the nuggets you might learn from Lisa Margonelli in her new book Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline. It takes her from local gas [...]
On the drive to work I head on Morning Edition (NPR), that a new study shows that if you teach students that their intelligence can grow and increase, they do better in school.
All children develop a belief about their own intelligence, according to research psychologist Carol Dweck from Stanford University.
“Some students start thinking of their [...]
Ishmael Beah has written a memoir about his years as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Orphaned by the civil war there, he was carrying an AK-47 by the age of 12. Pumped up by drugs, he was forced to kill or be killed.
Listen at NPR