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Bill Clinton’s Deep Pockets
All the presidential candidates are using their spouses in their campaigns. But only one has an ex-president on hand. Help us find out the true financial impact of Bill Clinton on the Hillary Clinton campaign in our latest group journalism assignment. Also, the book version of the StoryCorps oral history project.
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Bill Clinton’s Deep Pockets
Help us find out the true financial impact of Bill Clinton on the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in our latest group journalism, or crowdsourcing, assignment. We're working with The Huffington Post's OffTheBus on this story. Find out how to take part.
OffTheBus editor Marc Cooper sets up the assignment, along with Ethan Hova, an OffTheBus contributor.
Dollar Blues
Adam Davidson, global economics correspondent for NPR, talks about the weak dollar and the effect on global markets.
Around the Corner is South Carolina
Leroy Chapman, government and politics editor at The State, the largest newspaper in South Carolina on the upcoming South Carolina Primary
The Company He Keeps
WNYC Political Director Andrea Bernstein looks at some of the people around Rudy Giuliani.
Immunity for Phone Companies?
Corey Boles, reporter for Down Jones Newswires and Emily Berman, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, talk about whether phone companies will receive immunity in wiretapping cases.
Hearing with the Heart
Since 2003, StoryCorps has recorded the life stories of ordinary Americans, some of which are collected for a new book and cd, Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project (Penguin, 2007). Dave Isay, public radio producer and the founder of StoryCorps and its parent company Sound Portraits, is joined by participants Mary Caplan and Ronald Ruiz to play excerpts from some of the stories and talk about the project.
Listening Is an Act of Love is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
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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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