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Rev. Rob Schenck leads a prayer with pro-life advocates in front of the Supreme Court April 18, 2007 (Getty Images)UpHill Battle
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will testify before the Senate today to answer questions about the firings of U.S. attorneys. Hear excerpts of his testimony and find out how it will affect the administration. Plus: what abortion providers will do now that specific procedures have been banned for the first time. Also, we examine gun laws, the Cho tapes, and genetic enhancement.
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UpHill Battle
Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate.com, discusses Alberto Gonzales' testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Slate's Gonzo Q&A
A Provider's Perspective
Dr. Steven Goldstein, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at NYU medical center, explains how the Supreme Court ruling upholding a ban on partial birth abortion will affect providers.
Too Good to be Good
Michael J. Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University and the author of The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (Harvard University Press, 2007), explores the ethical questions surrounding genetic enhancement.
The Case Against Perfection is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Guns and Steel
WNYC reporter, Bob Hennelly, and metro columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Monica Yant Kinney, discuss the gun laws in New Jersey, and also the investigation into Governor Corzine's car crash.
Gonzales Grilled
Slate's senior editor Emily Bazelon returns to talk about the interesting moments in Alberto Gonzales' testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
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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.
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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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