The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday Morning Politics

Monday, June 05, 2006

As Democrats try to settle on a unified agenda in the wake of low Republican poll numbers, there’s still dispute over the how they should handle foreign policy. In a new book, former editor of The New Republic, Peter Beinart, says liberals should rally around a call to battle Islamic totalitarianism. He’ll explain why as he talks Monday Morning Politics. Plus: why there’s an outbreak of twins in New York and what next for Afghanistan?

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Monday Morning Politics

Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of The New Republic and author, The Good Fight: Why Liberals -- and Only Liberals -- Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again (Harper Collins, 2006)
- talks Monday Morning Politics and why liberals should rally around the battle against Islamic totalitarianism

» Peter Beinart's Bio

Twin's Peak

Hugo Lindgren, editorial Director of New York Magazine
and
Sara Bernard, writer for New York Magazine
- why there's a breakout of twins in New York. Is it peaking?

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Kabul'ed Together

Barnett Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University and author, Afghanistan's Uncertain Transition from Turmoil to Normalcy
- previews the first-ever presidential elections in Afghanistan

» Barnett Rubin’s bio

» his CFR report on Afghanistan

AIDS at 25

Dr. Barry Zingman, Medical Director of the AIDS Center at Montefiore Medical Center
and
Michael Roberson, Director of Services at People of Color in Crisis
- take listener calls and discuss AIDS being officially recognized 25 years ago today

» People of Color in Crisis website