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What’s the value of adventuring and extreme risk?

Hosted by Madeleine Brand Feb. 26, 2018

David Roberts on the then unclimbed South Ridge of the Angel, Revelation Mountains, Alaska, 1967. Photo credit: Matt Hale.

From this Episode:

Supreme Court keeps DACA alive -- at least a few more months

On Monday the Supreme Court decided to stay out of the dispute around DACA -- but just for now. That means the Trump administration may not be able to end the program on...

8 min, 2 sec

What’s behind Trump and ‘The Snake’ song?

President Trump recited the Oscar Brown, Jr.’s “The Snake” song at CPAC. He likes to use it as an allegory for immigration . You cuddle up to the snake and it bites you.

6 min, 36 sec

Supreme Court case could fatally undermine public sector unions

On Monday the Supreme Court heard another big case on labor unions . At issue is whether government employees have to pay collective bargaining fees, even if they’re not...

7 min, 51 sec

The rural and urban divide over guns

We’ve heard a lot about gun control as a solution to mass shootings. But in rural parts of the country, many don’t see gun control as a solution. We hear from Tulare County...

9 min, 39 sec

Facing cancer, climber David Roberts reexamines the value of adventuring and extreme risk

David Roberts has spent several decades mountain climbing. In 1965, at age 22, he and Matt Hale, Ed Bernd and Don Jensen climbed the west face of Mount Huntington in Alaska....

13 min, 38 sec

Credits

Host:
Madeleine Brand

Producers:
Gina Pollack, Sarah Sweeney, Michell Eloy, Amy Ta, Christian Bordal, Quinn O'Toole, Yael Even Or

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