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What is ‘Islamo-leftism,’ France’s topic du jour?

Sacred Nation

Academic Pierre-André Taguieff coined the term in the early 2000s to describe what he saw as a growing link between left-leaning academics and France’s Muslim community. But over time, it came to mean something more pejorative.

The World

Why We Watch: Television Viewing Hits Record High

Business, Economics and Jobs
The World

The price of everything

Business, Economics and Jobs

The Secret Behind Finland’s Super Smart School Kids? Recess.

Lifestyle & Belief
The World

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‘Cash Mobs’ profit locally owned stores

Business, Economics and Jobs

A new phenomenon, called “Cash Mobs,” is spreading across the country, changing the way people view local businesses. Similar to flash mobs, Cash Mobs organize customers to spend money at struggling locally owned businesses to support their community.

PostSecret secrets published in book

Arts, Culture & Media

PostSecret, a project that collects anonymous secrets mailed on postcards from around the world, is now a book.

Measuring Wealth, One Big Mac at a Time

How do you compare the wealth of nations? An economics professor at Princeton University thinks such a big question has a bite-sized answer: buy a Big Mac. Orley Ashenfelter is the author of the Big Mac Index, which measures a country’s wealth based on a McDonalds worker’s average wage and the cost of a Big […]

Hulu Shakes Up TV Advertising

Every year cable channels and network broadcasters hold “upfronts,” where they pitch advertisers on their new shows. Hulu, the online service that streams network TV programming, is pitching its own original programming this year, competing with the very stations it relies on. Brian Stelter, media reporter for our partner The New York Times,  joins us to […]

Everyday Life, Politicized

Everyone acknowledges that our nation’s politics are as polarized as any time in recent memory. But some observers worry that polarization is carrying over into areas outside the public sphere. Many Americans get their news from sources they agree with ideologically. But now, they can use online services to meet singles with the same political […]