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Host Jessica Harris speaks with Kevin Ryan, founder of Alley Corporation, a network of internet companies including Gilt Groupe, 10gen, and the Business Insider. Harris also speaks with Fred Swaniker, co-founder of the African Leadership Academy.

Paul Maassen and Dr. Ed Chervenak, Director of the UNO Survey Research Center, discuss the state of our vital civic institutions in the years since…

The Pentagon repudiated the smear campaign saying they are "intolerable."

Charges could be filed in the case of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared from his New York neighborhood in 1979. Pedro Hernandez, who was a bodega clerk when Patz disappeared, has been arrested. Audie Cornish talks to Bob Hennelly of member station WNYC.

Dozens of federal mine safety inspectors descended into 43 coal mines in three Appalachian states Wednesday. The mines are now owned by Alpha Natural Resources, which absorbed Massey Energy after a 2010 mine disaster in West Virginia.

Would you watch a feline dating flick that's "Pretty Woman" meets "Cat-Women of the Moon"? In this game, host Ophira Eisenberg puts contestants in an imaginary Hollywood pitch meeting, where they have to figure out the titles for hybrid movie plots.

Ever wonder how many countries' "flagpoles" you could fit into the Harvey Danger song "Flagpole Sitta"? Jonathan Coulton helps us count!

During World War II, Harrison Wright served with the Army in Europe. And as he recalls during a visit to StoryCorps with his grandson, he was sent on a very special assignment to mark the end of the war.

On May 27, 1937, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge opened, connecting bustling San Francisco to sleepy Marin County to the north. The Oakland-Bay Bridge had opened six months earlier — but the Golden Gate was an engineering triumph. And on its first day, thousands of people walked across it.

President Obama campaigned Thursday in Iowa, where he delivered his sharpest criticisms yet of Republican rival Mitt Romney. Iowa is one of several states likely to determine the outcome of the November presidential election.