The Connecticut legislature seems poised to pass a law allowing same-sex civil unions. The biggest political fight over the issue may be the one within the gay community -- whether to welcome the legal protection of civil unions or hold out for full marriage rights.
Holding Out for Marriage
Anne Stanback, President of Love Makes a Family (LMF), a coalition of organizations and individuals working for equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in Connecticut, on debate within the gay community over the prospect of civil unions legislation in Connecticut
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» Love Makes a Family
Birdsall View
Nancy Birdsall, President of the Center for Global Development, co-chair of a CGD working group preparing an agenda of the next World Bank President, on the nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank
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» more on Nancy Birdsall
Palliating Medicare
Bruce Jennings, senior research scholar at The Hastings Center, a private bio-ethics think tank in Garrison, NY; teaches at the Yale University School of Medicine, on the state of palliative care and how Medicare impacts its availability
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Joe Sacco, ...
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Joe Sacco, ...
Open Phones
Listeners call in from around the world to sound off on issues of importance to them
Shamrock the Boat
Mark Hennessy, Political Correspondent for the Irish Times
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Niall O'Dowd, Founding Publisher of the New York-based Irish Voice
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on the US visit of the McCartney sisters- whose brother was killed by an ...
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Niall O'Dowd, Founding Publisher of the New York-based Irish Voice
» Irish Voice website
on the US visit of the McCartney sisters- whose brother was killed by an ...
Empirical Evidence
Today's open phones featured a caller who suggested the US was not a true democracy on account of its imperialist tendencies. Her call caused a flood of emails. Here are some responses.
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