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Speeches, documentaries and debates.

Aspen Ideas Festival: 'Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage'

Aspen Ideas Festival: 'Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage'

Isabel Sawhill of Brookings explores the social and economic consequences of the great increase in unmarried parents. She believes family structure has a big impact on child well-being, and can improve social mobility and reduce the class divide.

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Minnesota's 1965 Voting Rights Act champions

Minnesota's 1965 Voting Rights Act champions

Civil rights pioneer Dr. Josie Johnson and four members of Minnesota's 1965 congressional delegation talk about the importance of voting and democracy.

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LBJ's 'We Shall Overcome' speech on voting rights

LBJ's 'We Shall Overcome' speech on voting rights

50 years ago today, August 6, 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which he considered his most important legacy. Hear LBJ's March 1965 address to Congress, remembered as his "we SHALL overcome" speech.

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Documentary: The 'Hiroshima Countdown'

Documentary: The 'Hiroshima Countdown'

This documentary, which was originally broadcast in 1985, explores the history of the development of the bomb and the consequences of using it.

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Aspen Ideas Festival: Longevity in the 21st century

Aspen Ideas Festival: Longevity in the 21st century

Stanford researcher Laura Carstensen says the majority of children spending time on playgrounds in the developed world right now will live to be one hundred, and even older. In most of human history, life was short. What are the challenges for an aging society?

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Aspen Ideas Festival: Is math important?

Aspen Ideas Festival: Is math important?

At the Aspen Ideas Festival they posed an interesting question: Is math important? Teachers in some other countries think kids need more understanding of math fundamentals instead of the high-falutin' stuff. Which kinds of math are actually important to know? and why??

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Poaching and Terrorism: The Race to Protect Wildlife and National Security

Poaching and Terrorism: The Race to Protect Wildlife and National Security

From America Abroad: "Poaching and Terrorism: The Race to Protect Wildlife and National Security." A documentary about the illegal killing of large animals in Africa. Wildlife trafficking is a national security issue, too, because billions of dollars are making their way to terror groups and organized crime.

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Attorney General Loretta Lynch on terrorism and criminal justice

Attorney General Loretta Lynch on terrorism and criminal justice

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the terror threat is morphing and expanding well beyond al Qaida to "independent contractors of terrorism." And Lynch believes racial violence is the original domestic terrorism in America. The Attorney General's discussion at the Aspen Security Forum ranged from guns to Guantanamo.

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