What’s Gay Today?
May 27, 2015We’ll talk to Slate’s J. Bryan Lowder, who examines the differences between gay culture past and present in his latest piece, “What Was Gay?”
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Execution Horror
May 26, 2015The death penalty has always been controversial, but with recent shortages of lethal injection drugs and a number of questionable occurrences in U.S. death chambers, there’s a new furor.
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At Home With Soldiers
May 25, 2015Elaine Lowry Brye grew up in a military family, married a service member, and they produced four future officers – one each in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. This hour, we’ll listen back to her April conversation with Krys.
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Memorial Day Special: A War Story
May 25, 2015Over the course of five years, Adam Piore gathered the stories of the surviving members of Delta Company, a Vietnam-era paratrooper unit and producer Jay Allison helped him turn the work into this special Memorial Day holiday broadcast – ‘We’ve Never Been The Same: A War Story.’
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The CIA From al Qa’ida to ISIS
May 20, 2015Michael Morell was with President Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists struck the U.S. And he was at President Obama’s side when the U.S. raided Osama bin Laden’s compound. This hour, we’ll talk to the retired deputy director of the CIA about securing peace through back-channel negotiations, which he writes about in The Great […]
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An American Spymaster’s Story
May 19, 2015This hour, we’ll talk to Jack Devine, former head of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, about the world of espionage.
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Running From The Nazis, Together
May 19, 2015It took Anthony Doerr 10 years to write his novel about a blind French girl and a German boy in exile during the Nazi occupation in France. He won a Pulitzer for it.
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Marijuana As Medicine
May 18, 2015We’ll talk the science of marijuana’s use in easing chronic pain and other health problems with Hampton Sides.
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Secrets Of 1971
May 18, 2015In 1971, eight activists broke into an FBI field office in Pennsylvania, stealing hundreds of secret files to share with member of Congress and the media.
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The Upside of Stress
May 14, 2015Resilience is essentially our brain’s way of bouncing back. And it’s proof that stress can actually have a positive effect on our wellbeing.
