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Journalist Lesley Hazleton says that if you want to understand headlines from the Middle East today, you have to understand the story of Islam’s first…

Every 67 seconds, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s disease. That’s more than 5 million people and the number is growing. Add to that the…

Thursday we’re asking if the occupation of a federal office in Oregon is a Mormon enterprise, and if so, what kind of Mormonism? The Bundy brothers…

It sounds like science fiction, but a cyberattack on America's power grid could be launched from a single laptop anywhere in the world. The results would…

When Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were laid to rest in May of 1934, thousands of people thronged to get a glimpse of the notorious outlaws. Bonnie and…

The philosopher Roman Krznaric has spent years thinking about empathy, and he suggests you forget the idea that it’s some fluffy, feel-good concept.…

Tuesday, we’re talking about the effects of nuclear weapons on people who lived near uranium mines and downwind from testing sites during and after the…

Why is it that we care for the dead? The philosopher Diogenes suggested that his corpse simply be tossed over the city wall, but it’s an idea that seems…

Thursday, we begin our coverage of the Sundance Film Festival with the story of John Hull. Hull went blind in 1983 and he knew that if he didn’t try to…

Monday, we continue our Sundance coverage with AUDRIE & DAISY. The two teen girls were raped and this documentary examines the fallout of shaming and…