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Mary Bassett
Why your doctor should care about social justice
13:50
Kandice Sumner
How America's public schools keep kids in poverty
7:10
Nadia Lopez
Why open a school? To close a prison
9:04
Monica Palacio
Why the District of Columbia should get an equal right to vote
13:01
Rich Benjamin
My road trip through the whitest towns in America
21:38
Dave Isay
Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear
18:00
David Rothkopf
How fear drives American politics
9:22
Trevor Aaronson
How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists
20:01
Kevin Rudd
Are China and the US doomed to conflict?
5:23
Anthony Hazard
The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you
11:48
Ben Wellington
How we found the worst place to park in New York City -- using big data
5:39
Alex Gendler
History vs. Christopher Columbus
6:17
Dan Barasch
A park underneath the hustle and bustle of New York City
3:23
Kenneth C. Davis
What you might not know about the Declaration of Independence
3:36
Doug Levinson
What gives a dollar bill its value?
4:15
Nicki Beaman Griffin
The fight for the right to vote in the United States
4:32
Jeff Steers
Who won the space race?
3:35
Belinda Stutzman
How is power divided in the United States government?
18:18
iO Tillett Wright
Fifty shades of gay
3:41
Christina Greer
Gerrymandering: How drawing jagged lines can impact an election
12:21
Ed Gavagan
A story about knots and surgeons
4:34
Jay Walker
The world's English mania
23:05
Anna Deavere Smith
Four American characters
11:11
Ben Katchor
Comics of bygone New York
24:37
David Rockwell
A memorial at Ground Zero
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