Journalist Ross Benes grew up in a small Nebraska town then moved to Brooklyn. His old friends and his new ones think differently about everything. But he gets it because, as he explains, their environments define their politics.
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PBS NewsHour’s Heatlh Care expert Phil Moeller tells us how to get the best medical care at the right price; how to find the best docs; and why Walmart, not Washington, may be paving the way to a fair and equitable system of US health care.
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From the gross corruption of public officials to the demise of hyper-masculine white guys, The Sopranos was spot on about our culture. Writer Nick Braccia deconstructs his favorite murders, scams, locations and pasta dishes then tells us if Tony really was whacked in the last episode.
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In his latest book Animal, Vegetable, Junk iconic food writer Mark Bittman warns us about the super profitable business of industrialized food: how it’s killing us and destroying the earth.
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NY Times reporter Kennth R. Rosen, himself a victim of the tough love industry, talks about the cruelties of unregulated, for-profit, adolescent treatment programs.
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Journalist Talia Lavin, author of The Culture Warlords, reports on the soul-wrecking year she spent undercover to expose neo-Nazis, Incels, and white-supremacists on the dark web.
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Harvard Professor Martin Puchner grew up in Nuremberg where his family spoke an obscure language used by fugitives: Jews, Gypsies, prostitutes, criminals. His research about it unearthed his family’s Nazi past.
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Social psychologist Devon Price exposes the American myth that tells us productivity is the measure of our self-worth; people who live on the margins are lazy losers; and we’re never doing enough.
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At your last check-up, what did your doctor ask about? Weight? Stress? Sex life? Internist Michael Stein asks his patients to talk about being BROKE, the title of his new book, which makes it brutally clear that in the United States your health is determined by your income.
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