Big banks, small banks, a tax cut for Citigroup and more with Binyamin Applebaum of the Washington Post joins us.

There are over 20 million Muslims in China, in every province of the country, and they have been there for over a thousand years. Our guest, Jackie Armijo, has been following what she says is a revival in Islamic schools in China, many of them founded by young women in the country's poorest regions. Armijo is associate professor of humanities and social sciences at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, where she studies Islam in Asia.

What’s the secret to living longer? Is it exercise, a healthy diet, or just good genes? We revisit a conversation with Dr. Thomas Perls, director of the New England Centenarian Study. He studied 1,500 centenarians and shares what he learned from them.

For months now amateur singing groups have been practicing their selections of holiday music to perform in their communities. Here & Now’s George Hicks followed one such group - the Madrigal singers from Belmont High School in Belmont, Massachusetts, during their busiest week of the year.