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Today is the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. We ask what that means to a younger generation of African-Americans who grew up with that day as history and not memory. Also, mortgage rates have been falling for a few years now—- why are they on the rise?
Race Against Time
Damon Hewitt, Assistant Counsel and Skadden Fellow, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Jonathan Capehart, Deputy editorial page editor for the Daily News, and Malcolm Venable, Freelance journalist and author: If Six was Nine (forthcoming), on the significance of the Martin Luther King speech for ...
Mortgage Market Seesaw
Gretchen Morgenson, Financial Columnist for the New York Times and winner of a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Wall Street coverage, on the huge mortgage-backed securities market could push interest rates out of sight
Iraq—the new Afghanistan?
Fawaz Gerges, holds the Christian Johnson Chair in Middle East Studies at Sarah Lawrence College, and author: The Islamists and the West (soon to be published by Cambridge University Press), on the intensification of the armed resistance in Iraq
Open Phones
Healthy eating