Bugging Out

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
New York’s City Council is convening a task force on the burgeoning bedbug problem. The New York Times’ Jennifer 8 Lee looks at how cities like Toronto and Cincinnati have acted more quickly to stamp out the problem. Also, New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie; Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes; and Columbia professor Mahmood Mamdani on the roots of the Darfur crisis in colonialism.

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