The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday Morning Politics

The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday Morning Politics

Monday, June 05, 2006

As Democrats try to settle on a unified agenda in the wake of low Republican poll numbers, there’s still dispute over the how they should handle foreign policy. In a new book, former editor of The New Republic, Peter Beinart, says liberals should rally around a call to battle Islamic totalitarianism. He’ll explain why as he talks Monday Morning Politics. Plus: why there’s an outbreak of twins in New York and what next for Afghanistan?

Monday Morning Politics

Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of The New Republic and author, The Good Fight: Why Liberals -- and Only Liberals -- Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again (Harper Collins, 2006)
- talks Monday Morning Politics and why liberals should rally around the battle against Islamic totalitarianism ...

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Twin's Peak

Hugo Lindgren, editorial Director of New York Magazine
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Sara Bernard, writer for New York Magazine
- why there's a breakout of twins in New York. Is it peaking?

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Kabul'ed Together

Barnett Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University and author, Afghanistan's Uncertain Transition from Turmoil to Normalcy
- previews the first-ever presidential elections in Afghanistan

» Barnett Rubin’s bio

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AIDS at 25

Dr. Barry Zingman, Medical Director of the AIDS Center at Montefiore Medical Center
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Michael Roberson, Director of Services at People of Color in Crisis
- take listener calls and discuss AIDS being officially recognized 25 years ago today

» People of Color ...

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