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New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (L) tours the General Motors engine plant in Tonawanda, N.Y., Friday, June 15, 2007. (Getty Images)New Deals
The Spitzer administration after six months and the FDR administration after 60 years: A Democrat and a Republican from the New York State legislature compare notes on how the “sheriff of Wall Street” is doing as the “steamroller of Albany” and a liberal and a conservative with books about FDR exchange views about the New Deal’s legacy today.
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Albany Wraps Up
New York State Senators Martin Golden, Republican from Brooklyn’s 22nd district, and Liz Krueger, Democrat from Manhattan’s 26th Senate district, discuss the end of Albany's legislative session.
Saddam's "Niece" Speaks Out
Zainab Salbi, president and CEO of Women for Women International and author of Between Two Worlds; Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam (Gotham, 2006), talks about her work as a global activist, and her escape from Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Between Two Worlds is available for purchase at Amazon.com
New Deal Anew
Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (HarperCollins, 2007), and Jonathan Alter, a senior editor and columnist for Newsweek magazine and the author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (Simon & Schuster, 2006), just out in paperback, debate the New Deal's legacy.
The Forgotten Man is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
The Defining Moment is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
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Open Phones: Rewarding Teachers and Students
Listeners weigh in on whether merit pay is a good idea for teachers…and students.
NYC study showing the impact of financial incentives on poverty (opens a PDF)
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