Hand Over Fist

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 14, 2011

The death of Osama bin Laden may change how the Obama Administration will handle the war in Afghanistan. Fred Kaplan of Slate talks about the war in a post-bin Laden world. Plus: Angela Davis on the “prison-industrial complex” and the anniversary of the Attica prison riots; the science of what irritates us; and novelist Bharati Mukherjee on her new book, Miss New India. 

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