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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, May 01, 2006
  • K Street
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    Not OK on K Street?

    Republicans took control of the House by vowing to clean up corruption in Washington. But Weekly Standard writer Mathew Continetti says the party has succumbed to the same problems in his new book The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine. Find out why in Monday Morning Politics. Plus: a lobbyist and Democratic activist on Living Large in politics and the impact of immigrants’ day long boycott.

Monday Morning Politics

Matthew Continetti, staff writer at The Weekly Standard and author, The K Street Gang : The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine (Doubleday, 2006)
- where Republicans went wrong on lobbying

» The K Street Gang

Big Ideas

Michael Berman, former staffer for Vice President Mondale, lobbyist with The Duberstein Group in Washingon, DC and author, Living Large: A Big Man's Ideas on Weight, Success, and Acceptance (Rodale Books, 2006)
- sees his weight problem as a disease

» "Mike Living Large" website

A Day Without Immigrants

Rich Cunningham, executive director, New Labor
and
Chung-Wha Hong, executive director for the New York Immigration Coalition
and
Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute
and
Dusanka Komnenic, Asylum NYC winner, from Serbia and Montenegro, teaching in Milwaukee, WI
and
Arun Venugopal and
Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC Reporters
- on the immigration protests going on around the city and the country

» New Labor

» New York Immigration Coalition

» Quinnipiac University Polling Institute

» Asylum NYC

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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.

Slideluck Potshow

The Brian Lehrer Show

Check out our contribution to the recent Slideluck Potshow, an event where folks share their love of food and photos!

ICANN, You Can…

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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.