MPR News Presents

This hour explores a sea change in the number of foreign students attending U.S. colleges, which have typically attracted more than a million international students a year. The pandemic, visa restrictions, rising tuition, and a perception of safety issues in America have driven new international student enrollment down by a jaw-dropping 72 percent.

A debate from the Intelligence Squared series: “Can employers and schools require vaccines?”

Yale University historian David Blight speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival about his book “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.”

Retired NPR reporter Tom Gjelten speaks at the College of St. Scholastica about his book, “A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story.”

A short radio play by Jeffrey Hatcher called “All the Way with LBJ,” followed by discussion with former Vice President Walter Mondale, former Minnesota Attorney General Hubert “Skip” Humphrey and historian Hy Berman.

Award-winning journalist Ray Suarez speaks in St. Paul about the future of religion in America.

From the Climate One series

Atkins explores the social context in Minnesota during World War I. It was a time when Minnesotans cast a suspicious eye on immigrants who might be disloyal.

A documentary by John Biewen about Freedom Summer 1964.

A documentary from the Humankind series about post Civil War America called “The Freed People” by David Freudberg.