MPR News Presents

Speeches, documentaries and debates.

'Who's In Your Wallet? Hamilton, Jackson, Tubman and the Presidential Election'
The event "Who's In Your Wallet?" used recent controversy over changes to the $10 and $20 bills in America as a backdrop for analyzing this year's similarly contentious presidential election.
Bill McKibben and Terry Tamminen on climate change politics and policy
Bill McKibben of 350.org and Terry Tamminen of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation talk about the politics and policy of climate change. They say solutions will require individual and collective action....and say the environmental movement can't be made up of "just arrogant white people."
Civil Conversations Project: Brooks and Dionne on politics and philosophy
On Being's "Civil Conversations Project" features David Brooks and E.J. Dionne on politics, philosophy and public life. They say we should celebrate the American rituals that bind us together and revive the idealism of political service. And David Brooks says he wants "a little more human decency."
Westminster Town Hall Forum: choices and the end of life
Retired Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson speaks at the Westminster Town Hall Forum about expanding choices for people who are dying to ensure comfort, dignity and control at the end of life.
Conversations on the Creative Economy: Jo Ann Jenkins discusses the creative challenges of aging clients
AARP is the world's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan, social welfare organization. How can they keep up when the definition of "getting older" keeps changing? CEO Jo Ann Jenkins answered that question and more.