Bob CollinsMore people are saying religion is losing its influence on American life. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
There was a time in the broadcast news business when an editor could earn a lot of respect by preventing a wayward reporter from splitting an infinitive. Those days are gone, so maybe even people in newsrooms won’t know who Edwin Newman was.
Why do some medical students think doctors shouldn’t hold patients’ hands? Dancing his way back from the earthquake in Haiti, the faces of the homeless, inside the jets of the rich, how to photograph a nuclear bomb, and the Eden Prairie kid and the no-hands mouse.
Over the line in Utah
The healthiest states are also the most educated, the mole in the civil rights movement, a look at Fashion Week, dying green, and what bus companies have learned from the airlines.
You and the news
None of the candidates running for governor in Minnesota mentions their party affiliation in their latest TV ads
A week without social media, a retired U president draws a big salary, do you know the judge you’re voting for, would you travel to Duluth to see a manhole cover, and the men of mow night.