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The Brian Lehrer Show / July 01, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, July 01, 2004
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  • Class Act

    There are just two centers for the study of working-class life in America, and one of them is at SUNY-Stony Brook. At a recent conference there, academics and labor organizers exchanged ideas about who’s in the working class, and why the idea of class doesn’t resonate more strongly among Americans. But how to try Saddam Hussein, a documentary speaks with suicide bombers who lived, and your calls on mean bosses.

Trials and Tribulations

Gary Bass Professor of International Politics at Princeton, author Stay The Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Trials (Princeton University Press, 2002)on the charges against Saddam Hussein
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Richard Dicker Director of international Justice for Human Rights Watch
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David Rivkin Attorney at Baker & Hostetler in Washington, DC and former Reagan and Bush administration official

Open Phones

listeners call in to talk about bullying bosses and bad jobs

Class Act

Esther Cohen artistic director of Bread and Roses, the not-for-profit culturalarm of New York's Health and Human Service Union, 1199/SEIU on the bid to create and an academic field devoted to working class issues
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Dorian Warren graduate student about to begin a postdoctoral fellowship at Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago
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Ed Ott Director of Public Policy at the New York Central Labor
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Michael Zweig Professor in the Department of Economics and Director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at SUNY-Stony Brook and author, What's Class Got to Do with It? American Society in the Twenty-First Century (Cornell University Press,2004)

Death Wish

Tom Roberts Writer/Director of "Suicide Bombers," a PBS Wide Angle documentary on the minds of suicide bombers

US Seal

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.

wires web infrastructure

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.

WNYC's Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein talk politics at lunch time.

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.

Video Picks

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See video highlights from The Brian Lehrer Show plus Brian's weekly video picks.

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  4. The Brian Lehrer Show: Agriculture Warrior (11/17/2008)
  5. The Leonard Lopate Show: After Oil (11/13/2008)
  6. The Brian Lehrer Show: Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble (11/19/2008)
  7. The Brian Lehrer Show: Pay To Play Nice (11/14/2008)