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Holiday Hangover
If you're using your credit card to buy Christmas presents, get ready for a holiday hangover. We look into how credit card companies may be exploiting the holidays to turn a higher profit. Plus, some music from the McGarrigles, and then 80 years' worth of New Yorker mgazines. Also: the role of liberalism in post-9/11 America.
It's Always Christmas for the Credit Card Companies
Consumers have few protections when it comes to credit cards. Many of us pull out the plastic a lot during the holidays. Leonard talks to Gail Hillebrand, a lawyer for the Consumers Union.
» www.CreditCardReform.org
McGarrigle Hour
Canadian natives Kate and Anna McGarrigle have been performing their style folk, French Canadian ballads, waltzes, and ragtime music for over three decades. Their new album is The McGarrigle Christmas Hour, and they'll be performing at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 21. More info about that performance here.
»McGarrigle's website
80 Years, 4,109 Issues
Editor David Remnick shares The Complete New Yorker. It's a volume of 80 years' worth of issues of that magazine - every article, every cartoon, every illustration, every advertisement, exactly as it appeared on the printed page, in full color.
» Book information on newyorker.com
The Left Learns
Todd Gitlin's new book is The Intellectuals and the Flag. He writes that "the tragedy of the left is that, having achieved an unprecedented victory in helping stop an appalling war, it then proceeded to commit suicide."
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FDA to Regulate Tobacco?
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May 14, 2009
Congress is getting ready to a vote on whether to make tobacco subject to FDA regulation. You can listen to a segment we did in May about the bill and what it would mean for the cigarette companies.
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Video Pick: Elizabeth Edwards
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Elizabeth Edwards discusses how to best cope with lifes difficulties in her book Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities.
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On May 3, the Lopate Show won its third James Beard Award for our 3-ingredient challenge. In August, we asked our listeners to call in and name 3 ingredients and then challenged New York chef and 3-ingredient expert Rozanne Gold to whip up a recipe! You can listen to the 3-ingredient challenge and get some inspiration for simple, delicious, and unexpected dishes.
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Barack Obama, Circa 2004
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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.
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Find out surprising facts about some recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. Check out our Guest Picks section! Did you know that football star Herschel Walker loves Judge Judy, Laurie Anderson is a big fan of agility training for dogs, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likes Johnny Depp?
