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Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
Charles Schumer is leading the charge among Democrats for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign over the US attorney scandal. Hear the senior senator from New York make his case. Plus: the pros and cons of marrying someone with similar status to you in the workplace and why trouble with sub-prime mortgages is dangerous for the housing market.
Schumer's Subpoenas
Chuck Schumer, Senator (D-NY) and author, Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family At a Time (Rodale 2007), talks about the effects of the troop surge, why he thinks Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should resign--and who can expect to receive a subpoena to testify in ...
The Week That Was
Jen Chung, editor of Gothamist, and Clyde Haberman, metro columnist for the New York Times, talk about New York news of the week--a last-minute witness appearing before the Sean Bell grand jury, the shooting at a Greenwich Village pizzeria, and hundreds exposed to tuberculosis at a ...
Subprime Subpar
Ruth Simon, senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal, and Tony Crescenzi, chief bond market strategist at Miller Tabak & Co., an institutional trading firm, discuss how problems in the subprime mortgage industry caused the stock market to plummet this week--and may yet have further ...
Marriage of Equals
Barbara Risman, professor and head of the sociology department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, executive officer of the Council on Contemporary Families, and author of Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition (Yale University Press, 1999), on the pros and cons of marrying someone who ...
Getting Her Irish Up
Christine Quinn, City Council speaker, on why she's going to Ireland and boycotting the St. Patrick's Day parade. Then we go to Montserrat to look at why the country is the only one outside of Ireland to make St. Patrick's Day a public holiday, with Ernestine Cassell, director of ...
Required Reading: March 16, 2007
China Approves Property Law, Strengthening Its Middle Class (NY Times)
Rove Is Linked to Early Query Over Dismissals (NY Times)
With Earlier Primary, Calif. Reshapes Race (Washington Post)
Mystery Bell Witness A Dud (NY Daily News)
Cuomo Eyes Big 'Scam' On Campus (NY Post)
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