Rachel Solomon
Stories
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Is Marriage For White People? With Ralph Richard Banks
Though it was once the norm to get hitched right out of high school, marriage has declined throughout American society. This development is the most
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Amy Tan: Creative Minds Do Not Think Alike
Amy Tan’s mother wanted her to become a doctor and a concert pianist. Instead, Tan chose to write fiction, a career that was out of line with her Chinese
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"Cinderella Ate My Daughter" With Peggy Orenstein
Pink is no longer just a color for young girls — it’s a lifestyle. It celebrates girlhood, but more alarmingly, it fuses girlhood to an obsession with
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"Faith And Madness On The Alaska Frontier" With Tom Kizzia
Alaska journalist Tom Kizzia spent a decade following the Pilgrims, a modern-day Alaska pioneer family. With his wife and fifteen children, Papa Pilgrim
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"The Science Of Consequences" With Susan Schneider
There are consequences to all of our actions — positive and negative, large and small, delayed and immediate. Biopsychologist Susan Schneider talks about
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"Revolutionary Summer" With Historian Joseph Ellis
In the summer of 1776, 13 colonies seceded from the British Empire. The British sent the largest armada across the Atlantic to quell the rebellion; and a
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Climate Change, Coal And The Pacific Northwest With Bill McKibben
In 1989, Bill McKibben wrote what is considered the first book on climate change for a general audience. More than two decades after “The End of Nature,”
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How Benjamin Franklin Enlightened America With Jonathan Lyons
When Benjamin Franklin (and friends) brought the ideals of the Enlightenment to a nascent United States, he laid the foundation for the political
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Environmental Debt With Amy Larkin
Environmental debt — global warming, extreme weather, pollution — is weakening the global economy. Amy Larkin, formerly of Greenpeace, discusses how the
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Defeating Bullying With Emily Bazelon
Bullying isn’t new, but the internet and social media have morphed it into something much more sinister. It’s too easy to post a cruel message or photo