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Campaigning in the Keystone State

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have turned their attentions to the upcoming (and some say do-or-die) Pennsylvania primary. WNYC's political director Andrea Bernstein and New York Times reporter Michael Powell traveled there earlier this week to check in with the campaigns.

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40 Years Later

Michael Eric Dyson, University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and the author of, most recently, April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America (Basic Civitas Books, 2008), looks at the long-term repercussions of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., which happened forty years ago today.

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Eyes Wide Open Travel

Fred Dust discusses the IDEO Eyes Open guide to New York City, which promotes "experiential" travel.

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Truth-Force

As the Metropolitan Opera revives the Philip Glass opera "Satyagraha." Helen Tworkov, founder of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, is coordinating The Satya Graha Forum, a series of events exploring the on-going influence of Gandhi’s concept of active non-violence to achieve social change. She is joined by participants Pavan Sukhdev, recently appointed "Study Leader" for the G8+5 Environmental Ministers global study on the Economics of Ecosystem Degradation and Biodiversity Loss, and Mark Kurlansky, author of Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Modern Library reprint, 2008).

More information about the Garrison Institute's Climate Change event

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Follow-Up Friday: Ronald Reagan, Fiscal Conservative?

Was he really? At least that's what one listener wanted to know earlier this week. We talk about Reagan's economic legacy with Lou Cannon, author of a number of books about the former president, including, most recently, Reagan's Disciple: George W. Bush's Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy.

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Follow up Friday: Is Bogotá safe?

In light of the recent turmoil in Colombia, Michael Kohn, author of Lonely Planet Colombia (Lonely Planet Publications, 2006), and Gabriela Febres-Cordero, founder of United for Colombia, talk about safety in Bogotá.

http://www.michaelkohn.us/
United for Colombia

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