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Eric Athas is a Digital News Specialist at NPR Digital Services where he assists in the development of NPR's member station training and product initiatives, with a focus on social media.

As a kid in Tucson in the 1950s, anthropologist and poet Renato Rosaldo ran with a crew called the Chasers. 50 years later, he interviewed them at a reunion and created prose poems in their voices.

In the face of tough immigration attitudes and laws, a group of activists in SoCal use a traditional birthday celebration to raise awareness.

A mass shooting hit the town of Winnetka, Ill., 34 years ago. Phil Andrew survived that shooting, and that experience shaped his path as a special agent for the FBI and lifelong gun control advocate.

Scott Simon speaks to Justin Roberts, who makes music for kids and their grown-ups, about his new album "Space Cadet."

Shoppers are far more interested in hybrids than all-electric vehicles, but environmentalists believe cars like the Prius are an unnecessary detour on the path to electrification.

A new book by local author Brent Martin weaves together photography and other primary documentation about George Masa, a Japanese immigrant who moved to Western North Carolina and became one of the pivotal figures in establishing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. However, for most of the 20th century, his contributions fell into obscurity.

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age is about how tech is helping and exploiting us. Vauhini Vara analyzed the feedback AI gave her to explore the abilities, shortcomings and biases of the chatbot.

What is the debt ceiling? What could happen if it's not raised? Here are answers to questions you may be asking about the debt limit and the fight over it.

The House can't do legislative business until it elects a new speaker. Their growing to-do list includes keeping the government open, as well as policy issues like Ukraine aid and defense spending.

Before joining the UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture, Meg Freeman Whalen served as the Director of Public Relations and Community Engagement for the Charlotte Symphony. Prior to joining the Symphony, Meg was a freelance music and dance writer for the Charlotte Observer and the arts editor for Charlotte magazine. She also taught in the music department at Queens University of Charlotte from 1994 to 2013.

Graham Smith is a producer, reporter and photographer whose curiosity has taken listeners around the U.S. and into conflict zones from the Mid-East to Asia and Africa.

Camille Phillips covers education for Texas Public Radio.

Nina has been reporting for VPR since 1996, primarily focusing on the Rutland area. An experienced journalist, Nina covered international and national...

Participate in the important questions of our time. The Forum is a conversation and speaker series that brings people together to explore challenges and opportunities that affect human flourishing through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.

You’re invited to the November 18, 2025 gathering of The Forum featuring Heather Berlin.


Heather Berlin unlocks the secrets of attention, perception, and human wellbeing, and shows how these human traits are key to the future digital economy. Her fascinating talk explores the brain basis of consciousness, dynamic unconscious processes, and creativity - and how we can make better decisions and get the most out of our brains.

Berlin is a neuroscientist, clinical psychologist, and associate clinical professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She explores the neural basis of impulsive and compulsive psychiatric and neurological conditions with the goal of developing novel treatments. Berlin hosts the new Nova series “Your Brain.” She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford, and Master of Public
Health from Harvard University, and trained in clinical neuropsychology at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Neurological Surgery.

Connect. Consider. Ignite. Doors open at 6:00 to mix and mingle. The program runs from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM including time for conversation, connections, and Q&A.

The Forum has a three-part structure:

• First third: Participants connect in small break-out groups prompted by a question;

• Middle third: Participants consider a presentation by a guest speaker that ends with a question posed to the audience;

• Final third: Participants discuss the question, igniting new ideas and possibilities.

THE HUMANITIES | Languages | Literature | History | Philosophy | Religion | And More

Event ticket is $40. This is an in-person event with limited seating.

Location: Mint Museum Uptown

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The Charlotte Center is a community forum and civic action catalyst that invites curious people into meaningful connection and problem-solving informed by deep consideration of the human experience. Our mission is to help people and communities flourish. 

The Charlotte Center is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. We are supported by individual donors, grants, sponsorships, and revenue from our programs. We invite you to join us.

Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi is a host and reporter for Planet Money, telling stories that creatively explore and explain the workings of the global economy. He's a sucker for a good supply chain mystery — from toilet paper to foster puppies to specialty pastas. He's drawn to tales of unintended consequences, like the time a well-intentioned chemistry professor unwittingly helped unleash a global market for synthetic drugs, or what happened when the U.S. Patent Office started granting patents on human genes. And he's always on the lookout for economic principles at work in unexpected places, like the tactics comedians use to protect their intellectual property (a.k.a. jokes).

The celebrated jazz singer performs a selection of popular early jazz standards at the GB Juke Joint Studio.

Brian Stokes Mitchell's not-so-impossible dream was a Broadway revival of Man of La Mancha. NPR's Jacki Lyden reports that Mitchell's run as Don Quixote has won new fans for a timeless character and the show's approachable star.

Also: New sounds heard in ocean search for missing jet; child killed when car crashes into Florida daycare; and the last Corvette is pulled from a sinkhole in the Corvette Museum in Kentucky.

Schools across the U.S. are preparing for students' return by looking for ways to supplement budgets. One Nevada school district is turning to unlikely sources of funding: liquor and prostitution.