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The Brian Lehrer Show

Friday, July 18, 2003
  • Go With the 'Fro

    Afros are often associated with the black power movement of the 1970s. When Atlanta-based reporter Charlotte Moore decided to stop styling her hair and just let it grow into an afro, she found that many people started making assumptions about her political views.

Intelligence Quota Test

Columnist Joe Conason of New York Observer and Salon.com and author of Big Lies: The Right Wing Propaganda Machine and How it Distorts the Truth (St. Martin's Press, forthcoming) and Laurie Mylroie, adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of Bush v. The Beltway: How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the War on Terror (Harper Collins, forthcoming), on the integrity of intelligence on Iraq's nuclear threat

Open Phones

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Class Work

Stanley Aronowitz, professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of How Class Works: Power and Social Movement (Yale University Press, 2003), on why class isn't just about income

Go With The 'Fro

Charlotte Moore, lifestyles reporter with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on reactions to her new hairstyle

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

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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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