Rachel Solomon
Stories
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Inside The Presidents Club With Nancy Gibbs And Michael Duffy
Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover were from opposing parties, but they became friends when Truman took office after Franklin Roosevelt's death and needed...
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‘The Boy Who Shot The Sheriff’ With Nancy Bartley
In 1931, Asotin County Sheriff John Wormell was shot and killed by a 12-year-old boy. Herbert Niccolls, Jr., was almost hung by a lynch mob before he...
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Online Reputation As Currency With Joshua Klein
In today’s world: Avis discounts car rentals based on its Twitter followers; Carnival Cruise Lines offers upgrades based on Klout scores; Amazon is this...
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Nuclear Weapons Today With Joseph Cirincione
The Cold War might be over, but the nuclear weapons and the threat of destruction remains. Joseph Cirincione is the president of Ploughshares Fund, a...
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Inside The Teenage Brain With Daniel Siegel
The teenage brain can be a mystery to adults. UCLA psychiatry professor Daniel Siegel debunks myths about adolescence to show how teens learn new skills...
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Dave Isay On The 'Ties That Bind'
Ten years ago, Dave Isay began StoryCorps by building a soundproof booth in Grand Central Terminal. People arrived in pairs to interview each other...
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Fifty Years After ‘Eichmann In Jerusalem’ With Seyla Benhabib
In 1963, one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century was published. “Eichmann in Jerusalem” presented Adolf Eichmann not as a sociopath, but as an ordinary person who simply believed his actions were normal. The author of this book, political theorist Hannah Arendt, refers to this theory as the “banality of evil.” Arendt was a Jew who fled Germany in the early 1930s.
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Fifty Years After ‘Eichmann In Jerusalem’ With Seyla Benhabib
In 1963, one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century was published. “Eichmann in Jerusalem” presented Adolf Eichmann not as a sociopath — but as an ordinary person who simply believed his actions were normal. The author of this book, political theorist Hannah Arendt, refers to this theory as the “banality of evil.” Arendt was a Jew who fled Germany in the early 1930s.
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‘Making Feminist And Queer Movements More Inclusive’ With Julia Serano
Julia Serano has challenged exclusion in the feminist and queer movements for years. As an activist and trans woman, Serano was shocked to see some...
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Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
As humans, we’re designed to work together with certain groups of people while fighting off others. In modern times though, our tribes have been forced...