Archives: Episodes
New York Times columnist Gail Collins on the contemporary women’s movement
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Air Date: October 26, 2009
ListenWhat the balloon boy hoax says about television, the media and us
What the “balloon boy” hoax says about reality television, the media and us. Our guests are ROBERT THOMPSON, Syracuse Univers ...
Air Date: October 21, 2009
The real and growing problem of human organ trafficking
Last week, the United Nations and the Council of Europe released a report calling for improved monitoring of human organ trafficking by n ...
Air Date: October 21, 2009
Iranian American scholar HALEH ESFANDIARI
In 2007, while visiting her mother in Iran, HALEH ESFANDIARI was detained and later charged with plotting revolution. Esfandiari is direc ...
Air Date: October 20, 2009
Comcast is in negotiations to buy NBC Universal, in the Philadelphia-based cable giant’s latest bid to acquire content to fill up t ...
Air Date: October 20, 2009
Enormous new ring discovered around Saturn
An enormous ring has been discovered around Saturn by the Spitzer space telescope. The discovery helped solve a long standing mystery abo ...
Air Date: October 19, 2009
The first daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama, are wearing their hair ‘natural;’ radio host Don Imus’ popularity hasn̵ ...
Air Date: October 19, 2009
Free speech, animal cruelty and the Constitution
In its first week of its new term, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a landmark free-speech case, the United States v. Stevens. I ...
Air Date: October 19, 2009
The movie version of “Where the Wild Things Are” opens this weekend. We’ll talk about Maurice Sendak’s Caldicott ...
Air Date: October 16, 2009
Earlier this week the Senate Finance Committee passed its version of health care legislation; we’ll talk about the significance of ...
Air Date: October 16, 2009
Would you pay a tax on soda to finance health care?
As legislators on Capitol Hill grapple with ways to pay for comprehensive health care legislation, one idea that has been floated is a ta ...
Air Date: October 15, 2009