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Benign Intervention
Foreign policy wonks Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell, and Robert Kagan, author of Of Paradise and Power, both favor the US taking an active role in foreign affairs, but disagree on nearly everything else. Power advocates for "enlightened self-interest" and consistent support for human rights. Kagan supports the establishment of an international order favorable to the US. Also on the show: On The Media's Arun Rath reviews political theater in Calcutta.
Pay More, Weigh Less?
Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D-51st District-Gowanus, Red Hook, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn) wants to tax junk food
Filibusted
Robert Bennett, professor of constitutional law at Northwestern University and author of Talking it Through: Puzzles of American Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2002), explains the filibuster
The Tapes of Rath
Arun Rath, senior producer for On The Media, reported on an opera about Osama Bin Laden for PBS' Frontline (airs this Thursday)
Benign Intervention
Robert Kagan, head of the US Leadership program and senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, project director at the Project for a New American Century and author of Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (Knopf, 2003) and Samantha Power, lecturer in public policy and founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and author of Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Harper Collins, 2003), on the future of American foreign policy and intervention
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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