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Elizabeth Edwards (Getty Images)The Cost of Motherhood
We speak to Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of presidential hopeful, John Edwards. We’ll look at the issues facing America and the state of the campaign. Also: Leslie Bennetts, author of the Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?. She argues that more stay-at-home moms should get to work. Plus: should religious groups provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants? Fair Trade coffee, and Jack Hitt on the faces of Hillary Clinton.
On the Road with Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards, co-founder of the Wade Edwards Foundation, former bankruptcy lawyer and wife of John Edwards, discusses his run for the presidency.
Save Haven for Immigrants
Rabbi Michael Feinberg, member of the planning team of the New Sanctuary Movement and director of the Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition, on why he believes that religious groups should be providing sanctuary to soon-to-be-deported illegal immigrants.
Fair Trade Comes to New York
Darlene Scherer, co-owner of Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn, talks about Fair Trade coffee and why it has taken so long to come to New York.
New York Times article: Certifying Coffee Aids Farmers and Forests in Chiapas (registration required)
The High Cost of Full-Time Motherhood
Leslie Bennetts, author of The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? (Voice, 2007), explains her argument that women who choose not to work in order to raise children are giving up much more than a paycheck.
The Feminine Mistake is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Hillary: Our Senator, Ourselves
Writer Jack Hitt, author of the article Harpy, Hero, Heretic: Hillary in Mother Jones Magazine (Jan./Feb. 2007), on what drives the nation's obsession with Hillary Clinton.
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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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