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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, March 13, 2006
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    Inch by Inch

    A union manufacturing job used to guarantee entry to the middle class. Now as Caterpillar and other profitable companies pay new employees less than the current ones for the same work that piece of the social contract is being rewritten. Also, Garry Wills on his new book What Jesus Meant and why religion and politics don’t mix. Plus: "Monday Morning Politics."

Straight Into the Hormuz Nest?

Romesh Ratnesar, world editor for Time
and
Chris Dickey, Paris bureau chief and middle east regional editor at Newsweek - on Iran, Iraq, Dubai, and domestic politics

» Romesh Ratnesar (Time)
» Chris Dickey's website

That Class-y Blue Collar

Louis Uchitelle, economic columnist for the New York Times and author, The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences (forthcoming from Knopf)
- says the line is blurring between middle and working class

» The Disposable American (Knopf)

Jesus Speaks

Garry Wills, historian, scholar and author, What Jesus Meant (Viking, 2006)
- says neither left nor right can lay claim to doing as Jesus would do

» What Jesus Meant (Viking)
» Garry Will's articles in The New York Review of Books

Norton Utilities

Brad Knickerbocker, staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor,
-on Gale Norton's departure from the Department of the Interior

» "Why Interior is such a difficult agency to lead" by Brad Knickerbocker in the CS Monitor 3/13/06

Your Fab Cab

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Who is in your fantasy Obama cabinet? Pick anyone!

Word from Abroad

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John Burns, London bureau chief for the New York Times, reflects on his work in China, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Iraq.

Chief of Technology

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Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, talks about the potential presidential cabinet position of Chief Technology Officer. Who's in your fantasy cabinet? Visit our Fab Cab page and let us know.

Digesting Politics

A weekly podcast with Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein

New Episode Posted November 13
Eavesdrop on Andrea Bernstein and Brian Lehrer, two of the most political savvy minds around, as they eat lunch and break down the week’s political activities.

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