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(Ohad*/flickr)Monday Morning Politics
Almost a week after the election sweep, the new Democratic majority in Congress and the newly isolated Bush administration are figuring out what they want. Also: the sculptor of the new memorial for the victims of the Flight 587 crash in Queens; a cultural history of Birth and the novelist and columnist Carl Hiaasen.
Monday Morning Politics: Democratic Edition
Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of The New Republic and author,
and
Atrios(A/K/A Duncan Black), writes the blog eschaton
- what next for the Democratic party after the electoral sweep
In Memoria
Freddy Rodriguez, Dominican sculptor who designed the Flight 587 memorial
- on the unveiling of the memorial to Flight 587 that he designed and the life and work of a Dominican artist in New York
Freddy Rodriguez is included in a group show of contemporary Dominican artists at the El Museo del Barrio
Labor History
Tina Cassidy, journalist and author,
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006)
- how her experience giving birth led her to write a cultural history of childbirth
State of the Sunshine State
Carl Hiaasen, Miami Herald columnist and author,
Nature Girl (Knopf, 2006)
- on Florida politics, tourism, real estate in his columns and his 11 novels
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