Baltimore's economic woes discovered to be linked in part to the Libor scandal, could have implications for other cities | Will London be the Dream Team's last appearance? | Amnesty International's Donatella Rovera reports on her time inside Syria | Diverse neighborhood, uniform friends: Tanner Colby on why we're still so segregated | Why Americans are unfazed by corporate corruption | Romney attempts to woo NAACP at their annual conference | Swing States 2012: Anna Sale reports on hispanic and suburban voters in Colorado | Michael Semple on his interview with a senior Taliban commander.
The Libor manipulation scandal has dominated the news with stories of a culture of corporate greed and bankers who don't know right from wrong. But why should we care about a few London traders who fudged the numbers?
NBA Commissioner David Stern has been hinting that this 20th year of Dream Teams may be the last. Rumor has it the future Olympic teams will have a 23-year-old age limit and mostly be unknowns or college players.
The uprising in Syria continues on as International governments and organizations try to battle the chaos brewing. Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International's senior crisis response advisor, recently visited Syrian villages to hear the civilians' greatest fears.
Tanner Colby is what you might call a typical, liberal, city-dwelling, 30-something white guy. But one day he looked around and realized something: Despite living in Brooklyn, one of the most diverse cities in the world, he had no black friends.
There was once a time when the bank was a respected institution. But in 2007, only two in five Americans trusted in banks. Now, just five years later, the number has dipped even lower.
Mitt Romney spoke to the NAACP at their national meeting in Houston, Texas, yesterday, and received mixed reviews. Could this be one of the worst moments on the Romney campaign trail? Or one of the best?
As the Obama and Romney campaigns set their sights on swing states, Anna Sale, reporter for our co-producer WNYC’s It's a Free Country, follows along.
In a rare exchange, former diplomat Michael Semple interviewed a veteran leader of the Afghan Taliban and learned about the organization's plans for the country after the United States withdraws from the country in 2014.
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