Kristen Meinzer

Kristen Meinzer appears in the following:

Taylor Swift on Role Models, Advice

Friday, November 06, 2009

Taylor Swift was the top-selling recording artist of 2008. According to Forbes, she’s the 69th most powerful celebrity in America. She was recently nominated for more American Music A...

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Author John Irving on Fear and Happiness

Thursday, November 05, 2009

John Irving, the writer famous for such well-loved and critically acclaimed books as "The World According to Garp" and "The Cider House Rules," has just released a new novel: "Last Ni...

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Obama Meets With Native Americans

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Today, President Obama follows up on a campaign promise: He is sitting down with 564 Native American and Alaskan Native leaders as part of the White House Tribal Nations Conference. I...

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Held Captive in Iran: A Hostage Remembers

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Thirty years ago today, Iranian students seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Fifty-two hostages were held for 444 days. Barry Rosen was a State Department press attaché in Tehran in 19...

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Growing Up With Gay Parents

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Voters in Maine voted yesterday to revoke gay marriage in the state. Opponents of gay marriage frequently bring up the hypothetical effects of gay parenting on kids as a reason to den...

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Timothy Egan and 'The Big Burn'

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

If you go to any national park or protected wilderness in the U.S. today, you will find the friendly, heroic figure of the forest ranger: a uniformed caretaker of natural splendor, an...

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To Revoke or Not? Maine Voters to Decide Gay Marriage Law

Monday, November 02, 2009

"Question 1" on Tuesday's ballots in Maine, much like last year's "Proposition 8" in California, would explicitly revoke recently granted marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples i...

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Margaret Atwood and 'The Year of the Flood'

Friday, October 30, 2009

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian writer famous for her inventive and dark novels — including "Oryx and Crake," "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Blind Assassin" — talks with us about scienc...

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The Life and Times of Rep. Barney Frank

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) may be best known as the first openly gay member of Congress. But he has been representing Massachusetts's Fourth Congressional District since 1981 and has...

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Foreign Companies Manufacturing in America

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

It might seem that globalization is a continuing and ominous threat to America's workforce. New York Times business correspondent Micheline Maynard, however, says foreign companies ca...

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Is the Bad Economy Increasing Child Abuse?

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

According to a recent study, child abuse cases went up 35 percent nationally between 2001 and 2007. In one hospital in Phoenix, child abuse cases are up 40 precent over last year alon...

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Put Down the Plastic: Life Without Credit Cards

Monday, October 26, 2009

Last week, we looked at how some banks were canceling consumer credit cards without warning and how consumers could avoid it by using their cards more. That discussion sparked a debat...

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UN Inspectors Visit Iran Nuke Facility

Monday, October 26, 2009

United Nations inspectors arrived in Iran yesterday for a three-day visit of its recently-disclosed uranium enrichment facility. The visit comes after Iran said Friday that it needs m...

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Bankruptcies Rise as Medical Debt Mounts

Friday, October 23, 2009

In this weak economy, more and more Americans are filing for bankruptcy. Contrary to what you might expect, the biggest reason people are doing so isn’t excessive spending or job ...

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What's on the Agenda for America's Black Mayors?

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The 35th Annual National Conference of Black Mayors convenes today in Las Vegas. In honor of the conference, we put together our own roundtable of black mayors to talk about issues th...

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Keeping In-Depth Journalism Alive in the Digital Age

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

As more and more of us choose to go online for our news, the question persists: Are news outlets — whether digital, broadcast, or paper-and-ink — financially sustainable in the long-t...

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Congressional Efforts to Mitigate Foreclosures

Monday, October 19, 2009

This month, the U.S. Congressional Oversight Panel released a new report that looks at how effective goverment efforts have been at stemming the tide of foreclosures. It questions whe...

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Reality TV and the Balloon Family

Monday, October 19, 2009

Everyone’s talking about the "Balloon Boy": not just about the hoax, but about the Heene family in particular and reality TV families in general. What does Falcon Heene's story tell u...

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The Value: Anna Deavere Smith

Friday, October 16, 2009

The Takeaway's Farai Chideya speaks to Anna Deavere Smith about "The Value." Today we present the first installment in a new multimedia series called “The Value,” hos...

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Barbara Ehrenreich on the Dark Side of Positivity

Thursday, October 15, 2009

For decades, motivational speakers like Tony Robbins have told us that positive thinking can vastly improve our lives. But Barbara Ehrenreich, the writer famous for the 2001 bestselle...

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