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Colleen Renee LaRose has been detained on suspicions she supplied materials to terrorists and traveled to Sweden to launch an attack. Her tactics helped her blend into Western society, and challenge many of the profiling tactics used to identify potential terrorist threats.
Poets can play a unique role in a country's politics, culture and social movements. They act as innovators, visionaries and truth tellers. Three poets from different cultures — Iraq, Puerto Rico and New York — talk about the role of poets and poetry in different places.
Doug Lemov, a teacher himself, believes passionately that champion teachers are made, not born. He studied successful teachers, and describes specific classroom management techniques that could help all teachers be more effective educators.
Ruy Teixeira correctly predicted a Democratic majority in 2008. As 2010 elections draw near, he returns to act as a clairvoyant, with Matt Continetti, associate editor of The Weekly Standard. Matt Bai of The New York Times Magazine fills in for Political Junkie Ken Rudin.
Talk of the Nation listeners wrote in to respond to our discussion about President Obama's plan to help finance new nuclear reactors. And teachers who wrote in identified parents as the ones to blame for young students failing in school.
The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 makes it a federal crime to claim unearned military honors. Attorney Jonathan Turley agrees that stolen valor is offensive, but argues that it's also constitutionally protected, and cannot be criminalized.
Diversity training is supposed to raise cultural awareness and increase inclusiveness in the work place. But many experts say that there is no conclusive evidence that it does either. Tell us: If you've gone through diversity training, did it make a difference?
In February, Henry Holt & Company stopped the presses on The Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino, amid questions of fraud. Motoko Rich, publishing reporter for the New York Times, shares what Pellegrino said to her about the allegations.
David Grann spent years documenting true stories of obsession and deception. He includes an improbable international impostor and the mysterious death of a Sherlock Holmes scholar in his book, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes.
Thousands converged on Selma, Ala., to mark the 45th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when hundreds of peaceful civil rights protesters set out for Montgomery, to march for voting rights. U.S. Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) reflects on the day he marched in Selma.
The Hurt Locker, a film about an explosive ordnance disposal technician in Iraq, took home many big awards. But since the movie was released, some soldiers have said that the movie doesn't portray them accurately or honestly.
- Sunday's elections were just the second national elections held since the fall of Saddam Hussein, and a major benchmark for the U.S. plans to withdraw troops. Still, Iraq's pressing problems like security, corruption and the status of Kirkuk persist.
If you drive a newer car, chances are it's controlled to a surprising extent by computers. Slate's technology columnist Farhad Manjoo says don't be afraid of the computers under the hood — they're far safer than most drivers.
Researchers decoded electrical brain signals without implanting electrodes, according to a new study. Instead, Jose L. Contreras-Vidal and colleagues monitored brain activity with EEG sensors placed on the scalp, using those signals to reconstruct hand movement and drive a robot.
A fossil in Tanzania suggests dinosaurs appeared 10 million years earlier than previously thought, according to a Nature study. Christian Sidor, of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington, discusses the origin of dinosaurs.
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