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To the Best of Our Knowledge is inquisitive and intelligent radio. Peabody Award-winning host Anne Strainchamps and her crew of seasoned interviewers stand ready each week to create brilliant conversations on topics from food trends to cow-tipping. Produced by Wisconsin Public Radio. 

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Remembering Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai in her words
Trump
Conflict
Even Trump’s most loyal fans say he can be abrasive and rude. Is it part of his success?
Jeanne Safer and Richard Brookhiser are happily married despite decades of political difference.
Global Politics
How a couple political opposites have made their relationship endure
A supporter of Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump
Global Politics
Furious political rhetoric is as American as Thomas Jefferson
Environment
Information overload existed for millennia says historian
Hillary Clinton at graduation
Election 2016
Clinton’s first speech: In just-released 1969 audio, she reveals ‘blueprint for her future’
Man kneels in front of make-shift memorial with head in hands
Culture
For ‘lone wolf’ terrorists, the motivation for violence isn’t always hate
group of protesters, with signs "Jesus doesn't build walls" and "Faith over fear"
Global Politics
Trump chooses Pence, but should Evangelical Christians choose Trump?
Saah Exco was found alone on a beach in Monrovia, Liberia, naked and abandoned.
Media
Is the risk of photojournalism worth it?
The Aesthetic Beauty of War Photography
James Nachtwey on Covering Conflicts on the Ground
Capturing Manufactured Landscapes
Photography Beyond Tragedy
Is the Risk of Photojournalism Worth It?
Revisiting Susan Sontag On the Pain of Others
Existentialism is Still Relevant Today
The Natural Beauty of the Wisconsin Idea
How Racism Undermines the Wisconsin Idea
A State of Resentment
Tord Gustavsen’s Sacred Music
The Science of Remembering
Meg Leta Jones on the Right to be Forgotten
Simon Critchley on Memory Palaces
War, Peace and Historical Memory
Whit Stillman on Jane Austen
The Woman Who Never Forgets
How Embarrassing!
The Gun Myth
LIberals! Go Out and Buy a Gun!
The Cody Firearms Museum
Negroes and the Gun
the Legend of Sarah Winchester
Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives
The Case for a Universal Basic Income
How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Dangerous Idea: Universal Basic Income
Starting Over at a Start-Up
A Hotel Built on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
The Six-Hour Workday
BookMark: Sarah Bakewell Recommends “The Pillow Book”
Mixing India and America
The Case For Open Borders
Life As An Undocumented Immigrant
Artist Molly Crabapple On Why Borders Are Unnecessary
Rethinking The History Of Mass Migration In America
Why Borders Are Becoming Irrelevant
The Hidden Life of An Economic Migrant
The Biology of Political Bias
How to Depolarize American Politics
Bookmark: Jonathan Chait recommends “What Hath God Wrought” by Daniel Walker Howe
Elif Shafak on the Pain of Living in a Polarized Culture
The Future of Left and Right
Make It Strange
A Thousand Times No
BookMark: Bill T. Jones on “Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees”
The Radical Artist
Art as Therapy
Frank Stella, Printmaker
Life With Hunter S. Thompson
Building a Mosque In America