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Telling the Stories of Immigrant Children
Rebecca Cammisa's Which Way Home follows children who desperately try to cross the U.S.-Mexican border. In the last several years, immigration...
Beer Summit
Jim Koch, founder and chairman of The Boston Beer Company, brewers of Samuel Adams Beer, is a pioneer of the American palate as well as a quiet...
Design
An Auteur You Can't Refuse
Francis Ford Coppola on legacy, creative control, and the state of independent film. Despite numerous Academy Awards and decades of critical...
News
Legalizing Homosexuality in India: What It Means
The activist, author, and lawyer Arvind Narrain weighs in on his country's recent de-criminalization of homosexuality. The news made headlines...
Design
Make Believe Mementos
Significant Objects turns cast-aside knickknacks into sought-after heirlooms-through the power of fiction. Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn like to...
Lifestyle
The Offal Truth
Chris Cosentino is using historical recipes to turn offal-the entrails and organs we usually discard-into a new American delicacy. If you were...
Design
The Magic Wordsmith
Maybe now Wayne White will get the respect he so richly deserves. We don't always refer to puppeteers as artists. Same goes for set designers....
Youssou N'Dour on Music, Islam, and Obama
In the wake of controversy, and in the spotlight of a new documentary, the venerable musician opens up. You have probably heard the Senegalese...
Inside America's Sausage Factory
Robert Kenner's Food, Inc. explores the gargantuan machine behind our nation's food industry. The generally abysmal food that ends up in our...
The Doctor Is Only an SMS Away
Through motorcycles and text messages, FrontlineSMS:Medic connects doctors and patients in rural Africa. In the developing...
Environment
A Tale of a Plastic Ship
David de Rothschild will soon set sail on the Plastiki, a boat constructed out of re-purposed plastic bottles. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and a...
Coolhaus Ice-cream Sandwiches
Together at last: modern architecture, ice-cream sandwiches, and wordplay. Natasha Case and Freya Estreller founded their venture Farchitecture...
Environment
An Apple a Day...
Dr. Preston Maring is bringing farmers markets to hospitals. Hospitals and food have a pretty lousy history together. It's a pairing that...
Joe Pantoliano Knows How You Feel
In character, Joe Pantoliano has led some pretty messed up lives. He betrayed humanity in The Matrix and killed for sport as the psychotic...
A Wolf in Organic Clothing
Hessnatur CEO Wolf Luedge brings some much needed teeth to the garment industry. You would be forgiven for rolling your eyes if the CEO of a...
Design
The Tim and Eric Awesome Interview, Great Job!
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are the duo responsible for the inspired lunacy that is The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! An absurdist...
Environment
Building Better Burritos
Steve Ells founded Chipotle Burritos in 1993 in Denver. Nearly two decades later, his restaurant has expanded to almost 900 locations nationwide...
Labors of Love
Every five-to-seven minutes in India, a woman dies in labor. Almost every one of these deaths-roughly 500,000 a year worldwide-is preventable....
