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Go Ask Alice
Guest host Alice Rhee talks to writer Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, among other books. Best known as a novelist, Walker also writes non-fiction. She talks about her latest book of writings on politics and spirituality called We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For. Also, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik on raising a family in New York, and Arab-American comedian Dean Obeidallah, and how the new leaders in Congress will deal with ethics.
House in Order
Gail Chaddock, staff writer and congressional correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor
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Melanie Sloane, executive director, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
- the new leaders in the 110th Congress and what they plan for ethics reform.
Hevesi: What Next?
Bob Hardt, Executive Producer and Political Director of New York 1
- discusses Spitzer's plans regarding Alan Hevesi
Political and Personal Passages
Alice Walker, author,
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness (New Press, 2006)
- on her life, her writing and her work to achieve peace and justice
Urban Playground
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker writer and author,
Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York (Knopf, 2006)
- on family life in New York City
Through the Children's Gate is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Laughter Is the Best Medicine- What's Funny About Being Arab-American
Dean Obeidallah, comedian
- talks about his post 9/11 identity
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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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