Something is in the air in New York City, graduate teaching assistants have gone on strike at Columbia University and adjunct professors at NYU have just narrowly avoided one. In recent years universities have extended the classroom time of teaching assistants, but some feel they have not been compensated for their efforts.
A Link in the Cheney
Dahlia Lithwick Senior editor for Slate.com, Supreme Court correspondent, and co-author, Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World (Workman,2003) explains the Supreme Court hearings of Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla and the Dick Cheney/Energy Task force case
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Sohail Mohammed Immigration Attorney in ...
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Sohail Mohammed Immigration Attorney in ...
Stand-Up Pundit
Mort Sahl stand-up comedian on his long history of political stand-up comedy
Note: We do not have permission to re-air Mort Sahl’s interview, which took place at 10:41:00-10:58:59
Note: We do not have permission to re-air Mort Sahl’s interview, which took place at 10:41:00-10:58:59
Nickel-and-Dimed in Academia
Shannan Clark 5th year History PhD candidate at Columbia University on the need for graduate students to organize and the current strike at Columbia
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Scott Smallwood Senior Reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education covering academic labor issues on academic laborers
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Scott Smallwood Senior Reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education covering academic labor issues on academic laborers
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Saudi Flights
Mark Hosenball Investigative correspondent for Newsweek explains the evacuation of the bin laden family on September 13, 2001
Saudi Flights Reading
Read an excerpt from the 9/11 commission Staff Statement regarding the evacuation of Saudi Flights in the days after the September 11 attacks.
Read Craig Unger's piece about the flights from Vanity Fair
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(This relates to Friday's interview with author Craig Unger and Thursday's interview with Newsweek's Mark Hosenball)