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Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller
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How will the book about 2020 be written?
On Election Day, MPR News host Kerri Miller talks with two historians and hears from listeners about how 2020 will be remembered. 
Three book recommendations to mind your manners
The day before one of the most polarized elections of our time, and Kerri Miller offers three books with which to mind your manners. 
Talking Volumes: A conversation with Isabel Wilkerson
Kerri Miller hosts a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson about her new book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.”
Why are people finding answers in QAnon?
How an outlandish, pro-Trump conspiracy theory is gaining supporters by the thousands.
The state of federal environmental policy during the Trump years   
President Donald Trump is a vocal climate change doubter, and he was elected after promising an era of environmental deregulation that he claimed would be more friendly to business. Did he deliver? 
A procrastinator’s guide to the 2020 election
Election Day is a week away. On Tuesday’s MPR News with Kerri Miller, Secretary of State Steve Simon spent the 9 a.m. hour taking your calls and last-minute questions.
Are we entering the darkest weeks of the pandemic?
Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm and Dr. Paul Offit took listener questions on why COVID-19 may surge this winter and how we can still slow its spread. Plus, a vaccine update.
Talking Volumes: A conversation with Sarah Broom
Kerri Miller hosts a conversation with award-winning author Sarah Broom about her book “The Yellow House.”
Could 2020 be the year of the young voter?
Voter turnout among ages 18-29 increased in 2016, but less than half of those eligible to vote in that age bracket cast ballots. Will this year be different?