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500 Years of Servitude
Whether influenced by Karl Marx or Milton Friedman, Latin American economies have yet to achieve their potential and much of the population lives below the poverty line. Peruvian Alvaro Vargas Llosa offers his analysis and prescription for change for the region.
Nation-al News
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Editor of The Nation and co-editor with Robert Borosage, Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right (Nation Books, 2004),
discusses Monday morning politics and reaction to Paul Wolfowitz' nomination to head the World Bank
» The Nation Magazine
Islamic Mixer
Mona Eltahawy, Columnist for the pan-Arab daily newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat and board member, Progressive Muslim Union of North American, on Friday's mixed-gender Muslim prayer service in New York
» Mona Eltahawy website
Five Hundred Years of Servitude
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, journalist, columnist, Senior Fellow with the Center on Peace and Liberty at The Independent Institute and author, Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Fiver Hudnred Years of State Oppression-discusses the source of oppression in Latin American and how it can be removed
» More on Llosa at the Independent Institute
NY 51: East Side Manhattan
Eva Moskowitz, Councilwoman (D-4th District-Upper East Side),
-on life and politics in her district
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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 [41]
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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