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The benefits of older workers
Ageism limits opportunities for older people and can diminish their sense of value. Coming up at 9 a.m. on Thursday, MPR News host Chris Farrell and his guests talk about how to find purpose later in your career and in retirement.   
How can we avoid loneliness and social isolation as we age?
More than a third of people over the age of 50 feel lonely. And nearly as many feel isolated. MPR News guest host Chris Farrell and his guests talk about how to connect the disconnected.
Mariah Levison and Rob Fersh help people find consensus on how to solve divisive issues, ranging from prison reform to what art should hang in the Minnesota Capitol. Learn how they do it in this MPR News Talking Sense conversation hosted by MPR News correspondent Catharine Richert.
How do we create belonging for newcomers to our communities? That’s the topic of this North Star Journey Live conversation recorded at the international student potluck at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn.
Navigating change in higher education
MPR News host Angela Davis talks with the first African American president of St. Catherine University about her commitment to empowering women and helping first-generation college students navigate higher education.
Richard Flanagan’s exploration of history, family and human interconnection in ‘Question 7’
Australian author Richard Flanagan recently became the first writer to win both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Best Book of Nonfiction. The latter prize was for his memoir “Question 7.” In it he examines his own life through a series of interconnections stretching across history and spanning the globe.