How one sentence -- just 60 words written in the hours after the September 11 attacks -- became the legal foundation for the "war on terror."

An exploration into our very beginnings, of the first strides we took to become us. 

In 1822 a stork that got speared like a kabob helped baffled scientists answer a thousand-year-old question. Of course that lead to another question, then another, then another ...

This hour we investigate the objects around us, their power to move us, and whether it's better to look back or move on, hold on tight or just let go.

A letter to our listeners from Robert Krulwich

What happens when a ragtag bunch of freedom fighters troll their despotic dictator from afar? 

Today, two new technological tricks that together could invade our past selves and rewrite the rules of credibility. Also, we release something terrible into the world.

On the mountaintop, we go back in time, and across the world - to discover the unlikely connection between Dolly's home and Jad's father Naji.

We explore songs with the power to transcend language and the triumphant return of the Elvis of Afghanistan.