Writer Barbara Ehrenreich has long focused on the lives of workers in seasonal and part-time jobs. Now she’s taken one herself—as a temporary op-ed writer for the New York Times, where she’s used her bully pulpit to criticize Bill Cosby and to liken President George W. Bush to King George III of England. Also, New Jersey’s new scandals, an online exhibit of old campaign ads, your thoughts on fudging your taxes, and: has the economy hit a speed bump?
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Mike Kelly Columnist at The Record of Bergen County, NJ discusses the sex scandal involving one of McGreevey’s campaign contributors
Living on the Hedge
Stephen Schurr US Capital Markets editor for the Financial Times on the SEC's bid to regulate Hedge Funds and signs of a downturn in the economy
Living Room Politics
David Schwartz Chief Curator of film at the American Museum of the Moving Image discusses "The Living Room Candidate," an online exhibition of TV campaign ads throughout the century
Nickel and Time-sed
Barbara Ehrenreich guest op-ed columnist at The New York Times and author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Metropolitan Books, 2001) on her recent columns
Open Phones
callers discuss taxes, politics, loop holes and ethics
The Lament of Dr. Huxtable
Bill Cosby's May 17th comments taking black youth to task provoked a storm of controversy--not to mention a blistering riposte from New York Times guest columnist, author Barbara Ehrenreich, who said on today's show that "if (Cosby) wants to do something to increase positive attitudes toward education ...
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