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JEREMY SCAHILL has been a critic of Blackwater Worldwide, a private security contractor that has participated in military operations in I ...
Air Date: July 1, 2008
What we know about the causes of cancer including how lifestyle factors such as a high-fat diet and lack of exercise play an important ro ...
Air Date: July 1, 2008
In her new book, professional organizer and time management expert JULIE MORGENSTERN moves beyond basic clutter to talk about how to orga ...
Air Date: June 30, 2008
The situation in Zimbabwe with writer Peter Godwin
We get an update on the situation in Zimbabwe from journalist PETER GODWIN who was born and raised in that country. His most recent book ...
Air Date: June 30, 2008
We talk with ELEANOR CLIFT a contributing editor to Newsweek about her new book Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death & Politics ...
Air Date: June 27, 2008
Listen 51:43This week novelist Salman Rushdie received knighthood from the Queen of England at Buckingham Palace. Rushdie talks with Marty about his ...
Air Date: June 27, 2008
In the 1860’s Richard Gatling invented the machine gun believing it would shorten the duration of war of even eliminate war because ...
Air Date: June 26, 2008
Robert Schlesinger on presidential speechwriters
According to journalist ROBERT SCHLESINGER, during his presidency, Herbert Hoover made an average of eight public appearances per month. ...
Air Date: June 26, 2008
Is it possible to have a good divorce? We discuss the adjustments and losses of divorce and how to make it better for the couple, their ...
Air Date: June 25, 2008
Last year, Barack Obama pledged to use public financing for his campaign to become President of the United States. Last week, Obama̵ ...
Air Date: June 25, 2008
Can’t sleep and mad as hell. We’ll talk with GAYLE GREENE author of Insomniac. A life long sufferer, Greene talks about what ...
Air Date: June 24, 2008
We look at race in the post-civil rights era and talk about the manifestations of racial distrust in American society today with JOHN L.J ...
Air Date: June 24, 2008
It’s June, the time for weddings and wedding anniversaries. We spend the hour discussing what makes a good marriage with RITA DeMAR ...
Air Date: June 23, 2008
Feminism and the Democratic Primary
The Democratic primary revealed interesting divisions between feminists of different generations. With that in mind, we take a look at t ...
Air Date: June 23, 2008
Gary Marcus on the evolution of the brain
Tune in for a rebroadcast of our conversation with GARY MARCUS, author of KLUGE: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind. He writes ...
Air Date: June 20, 2008