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Aspen Ideas Festival: Are the founding fathers overrated?

Aspen Ideas Festival: Are the founding fathers overrated?

David Rubenstein asks, and tries to answer, the question, "Are the Founding Fathers overrated?" He says they were talented and courageous people, who deserve all the credit they get for putting the country together and creating a durable constitution... but they could not figure out a way to deal with America's biggest original defect: slavery.
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Truth, Politics and Power: A North Korea update

Truth, Politics and Power: A North Korea update

The U.S. and South Korea this week commenced computer-simulated military drills designed to prepare for a possible war with a nuclear-capable North Korea. Former NPR host Neal Conan explores the diplomatic and military situation with a former negotiator, a former high level Pentagon official and a historian.
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Listen live to NPR special: solar eclipse across America

Listen live to NPR special: solar eclipse across America

Monday, August 21st the solar eclipse will darken the skies along a path from Oregon to South Carolina. It's the first eclipse that will be seen from coast to coast in 99 years. Millions will don special glasses or watch through pinhole projectors. Eclipse enthusiasts say totality never disappoints.

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Aspen Ideas Festival: Walter Isaacson on how we can be more like da Vinci

Aspen Ideas Festival: Walter Isaacson on how we can be more like da Vinci

The best-selling biographer says that while we can't be Albert Einstein or Sir Isaac Newton, we can all try to be more like da Vinci. "We can try to be curious -- playfully curious and inquisitive, which was his ultimate trait," he said.
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Thread Book Hour: Authors take on American empathy and the edge of the world

Thread Book Hour: Authors take on American empathy and the edge of the world

The Thread features a conversation with novelist Stephanie Powell Watts about race, class and life in small-town America. Plus, hear from the author of a new novel about a quarter-life crisis at the South Pole.
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America's history of impeaching presidents

America's history of impeaching presidents

An historian, a political scientist and NPR legal affairs reporter Nina Totenberg explain the presidential impeachment process, and our past two experiences: the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton.
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