Heavens and Hells and more – a top neuroscientist offers forty ways to imagine the afterlife.

Obama sets his course and delivers his budget. The stock market staggers. And North Korea talks of a “satellite” launch. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

SUM- After you die, you relive your life, but with like events all grouped together: 30 straight years of sleep, 1 year of reading, and so on.
EGALITAIRE- God lets everyone into Heaven, instead of sending some people to Hell. This just makes everyone miserable.
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS- You relive your life in a world made [...]

Felix Rohatyn saved New York City from bankruptcy in the 1970s. Now, at 80, he says we must be bold to save the American economy.

This just in: Television viewing is at an all-time high. And we’re doing it in more ways than ever. We’ll ask why and where, and what’s next for TV.

Young Americans borrow 90 billion dollars a year to go to college. We’ll look at a student loan system one critic calls a “scam.”

The president lays out his agenda to Congress and the nation. We’ll hear reaction from Republicans and Democrats on the partisan front lines.

The education of an American soldier, from the battlefield of Afghanistan to the political battlefield at home.

Stress tests, solvency, nationalization. Will America’s big banks soon be owned by Uncle Sam? We’ll look at Obama’s tough choices, and the way out for banks.

Obsession, madness, and death under the lush canopy of the Amazon jungle. We delve into the centuries-old mystery of “The Lost City of Z.”

We’re delighted to welcome new listeners this morning in Detroit, who will be hearing us live on WDET starting today. We’re pretty sure the conversation with Richard Florida in our first hour will get you talking — and we want to hear from you.

From the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt, Manhattan to the Mississippi, urban theorist Richard Florida explains how the economic crisis will reshape America.

We’ll see Pakistan through the eyes of acclaimed debut author Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose stories of family and class go far beyond the headlines – from bustling city to village life.

The president signs the stimulus, automakers face the music, and Hillary Clinton goes to Asia. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

“CSI” it’s not. A new report on crime labs from the National Academy of Sciences calls into question decades of forensic techniques. We’ll investigate.

Obama rolls out his bailout for struggling homeowners. We’ll look at who it helps, who it doesn’t, and whether it can solve the housing crisis.

Mitchell Seltzer gave some sharp-angled analysis in our first hour this morning on the soaring costs of health care and the administration’s new initiative to make the health care industry more efficient.  Seltzer’s research on the cost-effectiveness of medical treatments nationwide has influenced White House budget director Peter Orzag. And while his work has mostly flown under the media [...]

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The popular enchantment with the art of letter writing can be traced back to the 1730s, when the poet Alexander Pope published his correspondence as literary works. Since then, hundreds of epistolary anthologies have been compiled, attesting to the enduring power of letters to satisfy our voyeuristic yearnings while animating and explicating facts. As linguistic [...]

A groundbreaking new anthology tells the African-American story through the letters of slaves, poets, statesmen, and lovers.

The stimulus bill puts more than billion dollars toward research to cut health care costs by standardizing treatments. We’ll talk with the big thinker whose ideas are shaping the agenda.