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Sudanese vendors in southern Khartoum 29 December 2006. ((Getty Images))
While genocide is taking place in Darfur, should American pension funds and endowments stop investing in companies that do business in Sudan? A divestment movement is gaining steam, but some in the business lobby oppose it. Plus, Monday Morning Politics with the Washington Post’s Thomas Ricks and Eoin Callan from the Financial Times, and the crackdown on mixtapes.
Monday Morning Politics: The Homeland
Eoin Callan, Washington reporter with the Financial Times
Monday Morning Politics: The War
Thomas Ricks, Washington Post reporter and author, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Penguin Press HC, 2006)
- reviews the news and previews the State of the Union address
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Panel Discussion on the Merits of the War in Iraq
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- reviews the news and previews the State of the Union address
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Panel Discussion on the Merits of the War in Iraq
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Mixed Up Mixed Tapes
Kelefa Sanneh, pop critic for The New York Times and contributing editor at Transition
- discusses unlicensed compilations, or mixtapes, that are vital part of the hip-hop world, and the copyright laws that prohibit them
- discusses unlicensed compilations, or mixtapes, that are vital part of the hip-hop world, and the copyright laws that prohibit them
Divest from Darfur?
Eric Reeves, professor of English language and literature at Smith College
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William A. Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council
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Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, senior research associate at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at ...
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William A. Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council
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Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, senior research associate at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at ...
Open Phones
Listeners call in to talk about what it is like to be a woman in charge outside the home and what it will be like for Hillary Clinton running for president.
Eric Reeves
Professor of English language and literature at Smith College; has spent the past seven years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst.
Kelefa Sanneh
Kelefa Sanneh, pop critic for the New York Times and contributing editor at Transition, an international review of race and culture.
Required Reading: January 22, 2007
Bush: Iraq War Plan Will Prove Its Worth (USA Today)
Burdened U.S. Military Cuts Role In Drug War (LA Times)
Hawkish Gates Sees More Force as Leverage (NY Times)
Undermanned NATO Troops Face A Spring Challenge In Afghanistan (Boston Globe/Chi Tribune)