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Qatar — that little country in the Persian Gulf — is a power player with a lot of money and ambition on the world stage.
Here comes the big travel season. We look at how global tourism is changing the world.
Bees disappearing. Cicadas coming out. A new generation of scientists coming up. We'll talk with super-biologist E.O. Wilson about our future and nature.
"The Great Gatsby" is back. On the big screen. We'll revisit the tale, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Leonardo DiCaprio.
A new book says rationing--of food, energy and more--is in our future. We hear the case, and the pushback.
The mother of all diversity: nature. Her most fantastic creatures and how they're faring now.
The wizard of pop. From "Raindrops" to "Walk On By." Burt Bacharach joins us with his new memoir of a life in music.
The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.
New Yorker writer George Packer's inside history of the great unwinding of America's 20th century way of life and where we stand now.
The definitive history of heavy metal and what it's always been about.
Conflict and co-dependence between the U.S. and China.
Snob zones. How two-tiered America is playing out in real estate and zoning.
Superstar food thinker Mark Bittman on "vegan till 6" and our food culture now. On Point Live!
The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik joins us on the seedy, wacky face of Sunshine State crime fiction.
Kevin Kwan's new novel out of Singapore sends up a new world of wealth exploding in the East.
