Ancient history

Novelist Claire Messud talks with Marco Werman about a trip she took to Beirut in 2010. Messud had always wanted to visit the city, because her father had spent some of his childhood there but in 2010, her father was very ill in a hospice in Connecticut.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks to Zach Condon, the leader of the indie-rock band Beirut.

A discussion on the unfolding events in Libya and revolutions across the Middle East.

High in the Bolivian Andes, twenty thousand farmers barely survive on land that, over a thousand years ago, supported a powerful empire with a quarter of a million people. An American anthropologist believes he’s uncovered the secrets to the ancient Indians’ success, and has begun to reintroduce the old farming method. Bruce Gellerman reports that […]

Dr. Ron Lobel is medical director of a hospital about 17 kilometers from the Gaza border. His hospital treated both Israelis and Palestinians alike until the borders closed. He tells the story of two embattled rivals and patients who can’t return home.