The Brian Lehrer Show

How High Up?

Philippe Sands, international lawyer, professor of law at University College London and author of Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, discusses his Vanity Fair article on the Bush Administration and torture and whether any individuals might be in legal jeopardy.

Link to a 2003 memo from the Department of Justice saying torture of foreign nationals is lawful (pdf)

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Border Wars

WNYC reporter Bob Hennelly talks about New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine's opposition to congestion pricing.

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One in a Million

What's so wrong with fitting in? Science writer David Berreby, author of Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind, discusses our changing understanding of conformity.

Idea Lab: The Case for Fitting In
David Berreby's Blog

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Weighty Issues

Anna Kirkland, assistant professor of women's studies and political science at the University of Michigan and author of Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood, and blogger Lara Frater, author of Fat Chicks Rule!: How To Survive in a Thin-Centric World, look at the legal question of discrimination against the overweight.

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The Role of the GOP in Michigan and Florida

Wayne Barrett, senior editor at the Village Voice, tells us how he sees the GOP determining the fate of the delegates in Michigan and Florida at the Democratic National Convention.

Wayne Barrett: Could the Republicans Pick the Democratic Nominee? -- The Untold Story of How the GOP Rigged Florida and Michigan

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Revolution Number Nine

Lenore Skenazy, columnist for the New York Sun, talks about the reaction to her article Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone.

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