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Little girl with a euro coin (© European Community, 2005)United States of Europe?
The Washington Post's T.R. Reid believes that the European Union is giving the United States a run for its money. While the Union only contains half the amount of states as the US, their population, wealth and the amount of trade place them in a position to rival the United States as the world’s next superpower.
Transatlantic Drift
TR Reid, on the Euro-US alliance and other weekend news from Washington
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Can't Trust that Day
Jared Sandberg,
Cubicle Culture columnist at the Wall Street Journal,
on coping with "Pre-Monday" blues
» Sunday Night Depression
Overload
Thomas de Zengotita, contributing editor to Harper’s Magazine, teaches Dalton School and at the Draper Graduate Program at New York University and author, Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live In It(Bloomsbury 2005)
on how the media shapes our world
» Mediated
» salon.com article
Jets Square Garden?
Anne Michaud,
Senior Reporter, Government and Politics, Crain's New York,
says the Jets' owner is considering a bid for Madison Square Garden
» Crain's New York
and
Joyce Purnick,
New York Times Metro Matters Columnist,
offers political context for the possible Jet's offer for the Garden
» New York Times
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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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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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
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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