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What Have We Learned: Muslims in America
American Muslims have experienced both assimilation and alienation since 9/11. Journalist Geneive Abdo compares Islam in Iran, Europe, and the United States, and says that while homegrown terrorism is less likely here than in Europe, there are forces in American society that push Muslims to retreat to their mosques. Also: a call-in for Muslim listeners.
Tuesday Morning Politics
Jessica Yellin
- ABC News White House Correspondent
and
John Dickerson, Slate.com's Chief Political correspondent and author, On Her Trail : My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star (Simon & Schuster, October
- discuss the midterm elections and Congressman Christopher Shays' policy change over America's involvement in Iraq.
» John Dickerson
Primary Run
Tom Suozzi
Nassau County Executive (D) and running for the Democratic primary for Governor
-on his gubernatorial run against Eliot Spitzer.
» More on Tom Suozzi
What Have We Learned: Muslims in America
Geneive Abdo, liaison for the Alliance of Civilizations at the U.N. and author,
Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America after 9/11 (Oxford University Press, 2006)
-talks about life for American Muslims in the post 9/11 world.
» Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America after 9/11 (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Art All Around
Sarina Finkelstein, photographer of the Street Art cover story in Time Out New York
and
Lady Pink, pioneering graffiti artist
and
Hope169, street artist
- talk about street art and graffiti in New York: its history, legality, and where to find it
» The Street Art slide show in Time Out New York
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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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