Wonder Cabinet

When suicide bombers blow up crowded marketplaces, or a lone shooter attacks a nightclub, one question we’re always left with is why. This hour, a look at the underlying psychology of political violence.

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Mubin Shaikh

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The Reformed Radical

Do chimpanzees have spiritual experiences? A remarkable discovery in West Africa suggests they might.

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Jane Goodall

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Do Chimpanzees Have Spiritual Experiences?

We take road trips and endless highways for granted, but there are other countries where people can pay a heavy price just for getting behind a wheel.

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Finn Murphy

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Put It In Boogie Gear On the Backslide

What if the guiding principle we used in cooking, eating and growing food was love? From an Iranian-American kitchen to the chocolate forests of Ecuador, we explore new ways to express deep flavors and personal identity through food and cooking.

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Simran Sethi

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The Frightening Sameness Beneath Hundreds of Flavors

It creeps into everything: guilt that we're not good enough, fit enough, smart enough. As we peruse Instagram, all we see is the perfection of others reflecting our own failures back at us. Why do we spend so much time feeling guilty? Should we?

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Devorah Baum

When did we retreat to our Red and Blue Facebook pages? It’s not just that America is politically polarized. We live, work and play in Red and Blue tribal bubbles, filling our social media feeds with news sources that affirm our place in that order, rather than challenging it. That isolation is breeding an ugly, seething hatred of the other side that feels poisonous and dispiriting. So what can we do? In this hour, we hear how conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes lost his faith in the GOP and why a former CEO of NPR left his liberal bubble. Also, how Black Twitter has created its own safe space.

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You Don't Have To Vote Like Me To Love Me

We live, work and play in Red and Blue tribal bubbles, filling our social media feeds with news sources that affirm our place in that order, rather than challenging it. What is that isolation doing to us? What can we do to escape it?

Where do you go to find models of powerful women? The ancient world was full of them, real and mythic, but today we barely know their names. Why? This week we rediscover the women of ancient myths and legends.

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Amidst economic devastation, producer Charles Monroe-Kane asks what it takes to survive in the Rust Belt.

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Min Jin Lee,Jacqueline Woodson

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Center of the World, Ohio,What It Means To Be A Permanent Outsider,Four Girls Growing Up In 'Another Brooklyn'

Why do we have schools? To build a workforce? To create democratic citizens? 

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