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Army Private Bradley Manning recently went on trial in military court for turning over thousands of classified documents to the whistleblowing website…

There's good news for lovers of local, independent bookstores: people still want books. Yes, there are many choices for readers these days, but across the…

Monday, be prepared for a challenge to the conventional wisdom on worldwide population problems. Our guest is the conservative journalist Jonathan Last,…

Monday, Doug sits down with author Richard Rhodes, one of the foremost historians on the nuclear age. Rhodes is in town for a reading of his play…

Environmentalist Mark Lynas believes that nature no longer runs the Earth. We do. Managing an entire planet isn’t easy, but in his book, Lynas aims to…

New Yorker film critic David Denby asks a blunt question with the title of his latest book: Do the Movies Have a Future? Denby points out that some 600…

It seems that every time you open a newspaper or watch the nightly news, you you hear about a new tragedy, another symptom of an increasingly violent…

Salt, sugar and fat are the most prevalent ingredients in the processed foods that now dominate American appetites. According to investigative reporter…

Poet Katharine Coles has pushed the boundaries of her known world since she was a child. Three years ago, she left the comfort of the Wasatch Front to…

The journalist Paul Tough says that for decades, we’ve educated our kids under the assumption that their success depends on how much information they can…