Romney’s Religion Could Play Role In Primaries, Poll Finds

A new poll that gauges Americans’ views of the Mormon faith served up difficult news for the nation’s highest profile member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that 24 percent of people it surveyed expressed a negative view [...]

‘House Of Pleasures’: A Lush Portrait Of A Bordello

Despite its title, Bertrand Bonello’s House of Pleasures is anything but a come-hither film. Unfolding almost entirely within the perfumed, pillowy cocoon of a Paris brothel at the turn of the 20th century, the film flits from the innocent to the jaded — and from attraction to revulsion — with an ease that has nothing [...]

Bailey White’s Thanksgiving Story: ‘Call It Even’

It’s been an All Things Considered Thanksgiving tradition since 1991— a Bailey White original short story. Over the years, White’s stories have included tales about a rose queen, a telephone man, an ostrich farmer and a wife exacting revenge. This year, White presents “Call It Even.” It’s about a shy painter who moves from Florida [...]

National Day Of Listening: Thank Your Teacher

In 2008, the oral history project StoryCorps started the National Day of Listening, a day when Americans are encouraged to record an interview with a loved one on the day after Thanksgiving. This year, StoryCorps is asking people to take a few minutes to thank a favorite teacher — with a tweet, a Facebook post, [...]

Thanksgiving Abroad: How You Feast When Far From Home

I’ve only been abroad for one American holiday: In the summer of 2007, I was in Yanai, Japan, living with a host family. I distinctly remember bounding down the stairs and announcing to my hosts, “It’s the Fourth of July!” But that’s all I did to observe the Fourth — no parades, no barbecue, no [...]

TSA Nears A Goal: Letting You Keep Your Shoes On

Nearly 3.5 million holiday travelers are expected to board planes this Thanksgiving weekend. Many dread the long lines and invasive procedures of security checkpoints. The Transportation Security Administration hopes to improve their experience — it’s considering devices that would let passengers keep their shoes on through security checks. Air travelers have only recently mastered the [...]

U.S. Easing Out Of Nation-Building Business

Nation-building has gone out of style. The U.S. effort in Afghanistan has lasted a decade, and it’s been nearly as long in Iraq. Now, there’s little appetite in American political circles for large-scale attempts to build up the economies or political institutions of other countries. Most U.S. troops will be pulled out of Iraq by [...]

New ‘Risk’ Game Remembers Where You Left Off

This Thanksgiving week, many families will spend time together playing a board game or two. It’s one of the oldest forms of entertainment, but there’s still room for innovation — and a new board game in stores this season is shaking things up. Whether you’re playing Scrabble, Monopoly or Cranium, these games all have something [...]

Emily Dickinson Takes Over Tucson

Emily Dickinson is all over Tucson, Ariz. Reading, lectures, classroom lessons — it’s all part of the Big Read Project, a National Endowment for the Arts project devoted to “inspiring people across the country to pick up a good book.” In Tucson, people aren’t just picking up Dickinson’s poetry books — they’re celebrating her in [...]

Historic GM Plant Finds New Life As A Pharmacy

The former Fisher Body 1 plant in Flint, Mich., produced a lot of cars, thousands of jobs and lots of history — it was one of the places where sit-down strikes led to recognition of the United Auto Workers in 1937. But General Motors abandoned what remained of the site after its bankruptcy, and the [...]