The State Of The Working Class
March 28, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about issues important to workers – and what workers are looking for in a candidate – with Sherry Linkon, a professor at Georgetown who edits the Working-Class Perspectives blog.
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Inside Saudi Arabia
March 28, 2016This hour, we’ll get an inside look at the nation’s tension between modernity and tradition with James Jones, director of the Frontline documentary “Saudi Arabia Uncovered.”
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The Future Of Tent City
March 24, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about what will happen to the people who live there once the City of Dallas closes the homeless encampment.
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A Girl’s Double Life: In Person And Online
March 24, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how social media has forced teenage girls to grow up at an accelerated pace with Nancy Jo Sales, author of “American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers.”
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Gender Equality At Work
March 23, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how American women have fought for equal rights in the workforce with the author of “Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work.”
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Girls And Autism
March 23, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how about how girls are being better diagnosed and treated for the condition, the subject of a recent report in Scientific American magazine.
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The Individual Versus The Common Good
March 22, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about individual rights versus the good of the whole with Colin Woodard, author of “American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good.”
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Friendship From Dorm To City
March 22, 2016This hour, we’ll talk with Hanya Yanagihara about her story of how friends who met in college started a life together in New York City. She writes about what turned their close relationship into something resembling a family in her novel “A Little Life.”
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A World Tour Of Prisons
March 21, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about strategies that prisons on other continents are using to rehabilitate inmates with the author of “Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World.”
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All By Myself
March 21, 2016This hour, we’ll talk with Olivia Laing about loneliness, how we connect with other people and the walls we put up to keep others out, the subject of her memoir “The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone.”
Krys Boyd has been host and managing editor of KERA-FM’s flagship midday talk show Think since 2006.
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