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Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

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Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller
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Where readers meet writers, Fridays at 11 a.m. Listen live or stream later on your favorite podcast app.

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Planning for end of life when you’ve still got time left to live

Planning for end of life when you’ve still got time left to live

A doctor and a journalist share why they believe that planning for death is more comforting than you might think.
by Kerri Miller and Marcheta Fornoff

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What happens when Americans lose faith in institutions?

What happens when Americans lose faith in institutions?

Political scientist Julia Azari writes that while American institutions are at the root of today’s political crisis, there are reasons to stay hopeful about U.S. democracy.
by Kerri Miller and Marcheta Fornoff

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Dumbing down vocab with Anatoly Liberman

Dumbing down vocab with Anatoly Liberman

Our vocabulary changes with the times — gaining new definitions and ditching outdated ones. MPR News’ Kerri Miller spoke with etymologist Anatoly Liberman about why we're dumbing it down and moving on from snobbish words.
by Kerri Miller

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How should journalists cover President Trump?

How should journalists cover President Trump?

President Trump is unlike any other president. How should newsrooms adapt to cover the current political world?
by Tiffany Hanssen and Kelly Gordon

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What’s behind the U.S. labor shortage?

What’s behind the U.S. labor shortage?

Americans are quitting their jobs at record rates. Guest host Tiffany Hanssen engages in a conversation about the U.S. labor shortage.
by Tiffany Hanssen and Jeffrey Bissoy

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Test your trivia knowledge on our Labor Day quiz show

Test your trivia knowledge on our Labor Day quiz show

Don’t worry if you missed out on our live quiz show this morning with Stephanie Curtis and Sean McPherson. Here, we prepared 10 questions on a grab bag of topics for some Labor Day fun.
by MPR News Staff

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Women of Faith: What other religions teach us about our own

Women of Faith: What other religions teach us about our own

The final conversation in our Women of Faith series is with Barbara Brown Taylor, who describes how teaching world religions to college students stretched and reformed her own faith in her new book “Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others.”
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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