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The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, February 16, 2006
  • Walter Mosley
    Walter Mosley (Anthony Barboza)

    Time to Divorce the Democrats?

    Bill Clinton once called Walter Mosley, the author of dozens of mysteries, science fiction, and young adult novels, one of his favorite writers. Now Mosley has written a polemic arguing that black Americans should abandon the Democrats and form their own political party.

Cheney Reaction

Tom DeFrank,Daily News Washington Bureau Chief
- on the fallout from the VPs hunting accident
and
Sid Evans, editor in chief, Field & Stream Magazine
- on bird hunting

» NY Daily News
» Field & Stream

New Man at the Fed

Mike Mandel, chief economist at BusinessWeek
- on the new Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

Walter in the House

Walter Mosley, author of two series of mysteries, literary fiction, science fiction and political philosophy, including Life Out of Context: Which Includes a Proposal for the Non-violent Takeover of the House of Representatives (Nation Books, 2006)
- on his call for African Americans to leave the Democratic Party and form their own Black Party
» Nation Books

Mexico en Nueva York

Robert Smith, associate professor of Sociology , Immigration Studies and Public Affairs at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and the Graduate Center (CUNY) and author, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (University of California Press 2005)
- on the transnational lives of Mexican immigrants here in New York

Prescription: Read The Fine Print

Joe Baker, chief of the Attorney General's Health Care bureau
- explains your rights when it comes to hospital billing

» Attorney General's Health Care bureau

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Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), on their recent decision to offer more top-level domain names.

Mixed Up

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We discuss the implications of our mixed-race future and how Barack Obama's candidacy has changed the discussion about mixed-race identity.