Infotainment

Gerrymandering

Monday, April 26, 2010

Politicians on either side of the aisle are gearing up for the once-a-decade battle over redistricting. Director Jeff Reichert talks about his new film Gerrymandering, which explores the politics of electoral boundaries.  NYS Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries (D-57), who is interviewed as part of the film, joins the discussion to describe how redistricting plays out in New York.

Breaking Obama

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Ishmael Reed, author of the new book Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers, explores how people are assailing President Obama and how the media is involved.

Lucy

Friday, April 09, 2010

Our hour begins with a tale from Dr. Barbara Smuts. She recounts a classic bully story, but with a twist: her bully was a chimp.

Next up: the haunting epic of Lucy the chimpanzee. When Lucy was only two days old, she was adopted by psychologist Dr. Maurice K. Temerlin and his wife Jane. The Temerlins wondered, if given the right environment, how human could Lucy become? We hear from Lucy's language tutor, Dr. Roger Fouts, Lucy's caretaker and eventual friend, Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, and Mr. Temerlin himself... or his words anyway, read by radio host David Garland. And writer Charles Siebert helps us to make sense of Lucy's story. Janis Carter tells us firsthand how it ended.

The Trial

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer discusses Attorney General Eric Holder and the battle over the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Her article "The Trial" appeared in the February 15 & 22 issue of The New Yorker.

JM: “The sentences that have been achieved by our justice dept in taking on terrorists…the track record...it’s much more impressive…then the track record in the military commissions which I think is the opposite of what people think.”

 LL: “So then why are so many people calling for more military tribunals if… the civilian courts have really delivered what these people want?”

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