MPR News Presents a broadcast of the Westminster Town Hall Forum featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, discussing his new book: "Thank you for Being Late."
Heather Mac Donald says in recent years police are backing off, and criminals are emboldened in a phenomenon she's dubbed "The Ferguson Effect." Mac Donald spoke in Minneapolis about the dangers of anti-police sentiment.
What will the future of America's economy look like? Will trade deals be dissolved? Will manufacturing jobs return? Will wages and interest rates go up - or down? And will Americans ever believe what economists tell them?
Some residents of New Ulm, Minn., served in the Pacific and in Europe during World War II. Coming from a town with deep roots in Germany, New Ulm residents share their struggles and experiences from the draft to the end of the war.
The WHO announced that Zika is no longer an official "global health emergency," but America's chief of infectious diseases says it's too early to downgrade the emergency status.
Former Jt. Chiefs chairman Mike Mullen says we should drop the D in PTSD. It's not a disorder, it's a normal response you'd expect from the horror of war.
Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report says she's not entirely surprised by the election results, because the anxiety about globalization and cultural, demographic and technological change made many Americans constantly uneasy.
NPR's Robert Siegel spent more than a year visiting with college students about their choice of school, and asked how it all turned out. How have they handled the finances? And do they feel well-positioned for the future? The program is called "College Choice: the Value of It All."
Sports, race, politics and social change. LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, Serena Williams... are more African-American athletes speaking out on race and other social issues? Or is it reminiscent of earlier eras with Muhammad Ali, Paul Robeson and Jesse Owens?