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Does money buy happiness? Our guests, Wharton economists BETSEY STEVENSON and JUSTIN WOLFERS argue that money does tend to buy happiness ...

We talk about the GOP convention including John McCain’s selection of his running mate and what we might expect to see and hear fro ...

Rebroacast — In May 2006, writer STEFAN FATSIS joined the Denver Broncos at pre-season training camp to experience from the inside ...

Rebroadcast — Paul Coates was a black nationalist, a publisher, a Vietnam Vet, and a man who had seven children by four women. He r ...

(Rebroadcast) In her book, “The Score: How the Quest for Sex has Shaped the Modern Man,” science writer Faye Flam explores ho ...

One of the challenges Barack Obama faces tonight is explaining who he is to voters who say they don’t understand him. And, will his ...

(Rebroadcast) In the 1860s Richard Gatling invented the machine gun believing it would shorten the duration of war of even eliminate war ...

Hillary and Bill Clinton will have addressed the convention. We talk about what Barack Obama must do to appeal to Hillary Clinton’s ...

(Rebroadcast) Writer ANDRE DUBUS III’s novel is “The Garden of Last Days.” It follows the lives of four people over the ...

The world’s smallest snake has been identified on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Penn State University evolutionary biologist BL ...

(Rebroadcast) MANIL SURI talks about his second novel, “The Age of Shiva.” It tells the story of Meera, a woman living in Bom ...

Lowering the Drinking Age. The Amethyst Initiative, led by former Middlebury College president, JOHN MCCARDELL, urges a “dispassion ...