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(MATEUS_27:24&25/flickr)Fault Lines
If you are unhappy with the state of American democracy, you may have no one to blame but yourself. Historian Andrew Bacevich argues that our own “empire of consumption” contains the seeds of its own destruction. Plus, on the brink of the Democratic National Convention, an update on the buzz around Barack Obama’s Vice Presidential choice.
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Text and Power
WNYC Political Director Andrea Bernstein discusses the buzz surrounding Obama's VP choice and if Hillary Clinton is still a realistic choice.
Foreign Policy
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell who negotiated the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland,talks about diplomatic implications of the Georgian conflict and Musharref's resignation in Pakistan.
The Windy City
James Gallagher, senior vice president of Energy and Telecommunications with the New York City Economic Development Corporation, and Jeff Ball, environmental news editor for the Wall Street Journal, discuss Mayor Bloomberg's plan to bring windmill power to New York City.
All Together Now
In his new book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (Metropolitan Books, 2008), Andrew Bacevich, professor of international relations and history at Boston University, West Point graduate, and Vietnam veteran, critiques U.S. foreign policy and unilateral action but also points the finger at the U.S. citizenry.
Albany Update
Fred Dicker, State Editor for the New York Post, gives us the latest on the budget negotiations in Albany.
Drinking Age Debate
You can vote, gamble, drive, go off to war at age 18, but you can't legally have a drink in the U.S. 114 college presidents are trying to reopen the debate about the drinking age, and to explain both sides are Laura Dean-Mooney, President of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and John McCardell, founder of Choose Responsibility and former president of Middlebury College in Vermont.
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [41]
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.
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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