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What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Government Report

It sounds ridiculous today. But not so long ago, the prospect of a debt-free U.S. was seen as a real possibility with the potential to upset the global financial system.

<p><strong>Finally, NPR For YOU!</strong> For all those youngsters in the back seat who are fed a steady diet of NPR news, here's a book club just for you! Read along with us and <a href="http://www.npr.org/contact/backseatbookclub.html">send us questions</a> you have for the authors.</p>

Read 'Graveyard' With NPR's Backseat Book Club

Introducing a new NPR book club ... for kids! Our first book will be The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Young readers are invited to read the book and share their thoughts and questions with us. Just before Halloween, Gaiman will be on the program to answer questions from young listeners.

<p>Amy Poehler, seen here with Aubrey Plaza as April Ludgate and Chris Pratt as Andy Dwyer, plays idealistic bureaucrat Leslie Knope on NBC's <em>Parks And Recreation</em>.</p>

Amy Poehler: Playing Politics, But Only On Television

Emmy-nominated actress Amy Poehler talks to Ari Shapiro about her role as an aspiring local politician on the NBC comedy Parks And Recreation.

Joseph Calleja: The Young Tenor With The Old-School Sound

Hear the gorgeous voice of a young opera singer with his ears tuned to the great tenors of the past.

<p><em></em>Shirley Mason was the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book <em>Sybil.</em> The book and subsequent film caused an enormous spike in reported cases of multiple personality disorder. Mason later admitted she had faked her multiple personalities.</p>

Real 'Sybil' Admits Multiple Personalities Were Fake

In Sybil Exposed, Debbie Nathan explores the life of Shirley Mason — the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book and 1976 TV movie. Mason later admitted to her psychiatrist that she'd made the whole thing up — but not before the story manufactured a psychiatric phenomenon.

<p>Sproul Plaza at the University of California, Berkeley. Tuition at U.C. Berkeley was about $700 a year in the 1970s. Today, families pay over $15,000 per year to attend. </p>

Why Is College So Expensive?

Occupy Wall Street protesters say the high cost of college is one of the barriers between them and a good life. College costs have skyrocketed, though maybe not as much as you might think.

Occupy Wall Street volunteers man a communication station in Zuccotti Park near Wall Street on Oct. 11. The media team monitors Twitter and Facebook and oversees the group's Livestream feed.

The Informal Media Team Behind Occupy Wall Street

Volunteers monitor social media and produce the group's Livestream to get news to their followers. Some say it makes them think about a career in journalism; others joined to get their message out. "Getting in front of the camera [and] trying to inspire people ... is just who I am," says one volunteer.

<p>Auguste Rodin's <em>The Thinker,</em> shown outside the Detroit Institute of Arts, depicts a man engaged in what Daniel Kahneman might describe as System 2 — or slow, deliberative — thinking.</p>

'Fast And Slow': Pondering The Speed Of Thought

Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize in 2002 for his work on the psychology of decision-making. Now, in Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman revisits and recasts his world-famous research on what he calls "the machinery of the mind."

President Ford nominated John Paul Stevens as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Stevens took his seat on Dec. 19, 1975.

Justice Stevens Reflects On The Court And Its Chiefs

After 35 years as a Supreme Court justice, John Paul Stevens retired last year. His newly released memoir is about his time on the bench and the five Supreme Court chief justices he personally knew. He details his views of those justices and how his viewpoints on various issues evolved over the years.

<p>Amoz Oz was born in Jerusalem in 1939. He is the author of <em>To Know a Woman, Don't Call It Night</em> and <a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138429610/a-tale-of-love-and-darkness">A Tale of Love and Darkness</a>.</p>

Israel's Oz On 'Village Life' And Unhappy Endings

Israeli writer Amos Oz rarely settles for a happy ending. His latest book, Scenes from Village Life, doesn't have one and, according to Oz, neither does the recent release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

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