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American politics, and democracy itself, are seemingly in crisis amid today’s hyper-partisanship, legislative gridlock, and growing public distrust...

The four-day HEAR Now Festival, the audio equivalent of a film festival, returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all f...

The 92-year-old Holocaust survivor from Prairie Village, who endured internment in three Nazi concentration camps during World War II, sits down wi...

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U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith discusses her life and poetry and reads from her works on the heels of the release of her latest book, Wa...

Harvard University professor Edward Glaeser looks at joblessness among “prime age” men between 25 and 54 and the public policies he says are cr...

Retired Canadian Army Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire discusses his attempt to end the coerced recruitment and use of children as soldiers, a...

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In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog...

Urban designer Jim Kumon looks at the resurgence of small-scale urban neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Denver, and Minneapolis, among other cities, and h...