How many Chinese leaders can you name? Today's Backstory looks at who really is running the world’s most populous country. Then, how biotechnology may actually slow down or even reverse the aging process. Plus, a look into the fierce academic climate at Stuyvesant High. But first, we’ll examine how 57 million Americans are living just above the poverty line.
The Missing Class
57 million people in the United States live just above the poverty line. Sociologist Kathleen Newman argues that the recent rollback of New Deal-style government aid has threatened the middle-class gains of the 1990s. The Missing Class looks at this largely overlooked group of people who are just out of ...
Ending Aging
Will people in the future suffer mid-life crises at the age of 100? Many biologists believe that someday we will be able to substantially slow down the aging process, but Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers. Dr. de Grey believes that the biomedical ...
Inside One of America’s Best High Schools
Stuyvesant High School is a New York City public high school that admits only 3 percent of its applicants – which makes it tougher to get into than Harvard. Academic competition is so intense that students say they can have only two of the three following things: good grades, a ...
Backstory: China’s Political Leaders
Who are China’s political leaders and why are their names virtually unknown? This is the focus of this month’s Backstory. Susan L. Shirk, the Director of the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, joins Leonard to discuss the relative strength ...
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