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PRI: Here & Now Podcast
Newest Episode: Mon February 08, 2010. 09:50 AM
Produced by WBUR Boston and PRI, Here & Now features fast breaking news, more leisurely analysis and human interest stories. We also cover the arts: film, theater, music and much more.
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Thu April 17, 2008. 09:53 AM
At least 50 are dead after a suicide bomber struck the funeral of two Sunni brothers who had joined the US backed Awakening Council movement to fight Al Qaeda. More than a hundred Iraqis have been killed in a series of bombings around the country this week, raising fears that insurgent groups are re-organizing in Iraq. With Ned Parker, Baghdad Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.

What's the fallout from last night's bruising Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia last night? We speak with Donald Kettl, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government, and Rob Christensen, longtime political reporter for the Raleigh News and Observer in North Carolina and author of new history of 20th century North Carolina politics, called "The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics."

As the Pope visits the United States, we speak with Boston College history professor, James O'Toole. His new book is "The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America." He says the churc
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Wed April 16, 2008. 10:33 AM
The Supreme Court clears the way for executions to resume across the country. The court today upheld the most common form of lethal injection, saying it does not violate the constitution. We speak with Lyle Deniston of soctusblog.com.

How many old computers are cluttering your basement or stacked up in your closet? A lot of people would like to get rid of their old electronic goods, but don't know how to. We look at what happens to a lot of e-waste from the US — it winds up in places like Ghana or China. We speak with reporter, Chris Carroll, who writes about the issue for the National Geographic. We also speak with Sheila Davis of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition about efforts to dispose of e-waste properly.

One year ago today, 23 year-old Cho Seung-Hui shot and killed 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech University, before taking his own life. Today the university is holding events to mark the anniversary as students struggle to move on while also remembering
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Tue April 15, 2008. 10:08 AM
Delta and Northwest Airlines have proposed a merger that would create the world's largest airline. Rising fuel prices and a sputtering economy are forcing the airlines to join forces. The new combined company would be called Delta, have a value of $17.7 billion and be based in Atlanta. To find out what the merger means for the industry and travellers, we speak to Micheline Maynard, business reporter for the New York Times.

Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Washington today. Jay Tolson, senior writer for US News and World Report, previews the visit.

Texas child protection officials have moved 416 children to new locations, separating some from their mothers, ahead of a court hearing to determine if the children taken from a polygamist sect ranch should remain in state custody. We speak with Houston Chronicle reporter Terri Langford and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley.

With an increasing number of girls playing sports, physicians are reporting a huge in
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Mon April 14, 2008. 10:55 AM
Senator Barack Obama is in hot water for
telling a crowd at a private fundraiser last week that voters in
small-town America have become bitter and "cling to guns or
religion to explain their frustrations." What did he mean, and
how will it affect the race for the WHite House? We speak
with Time magazine's Jay Newton-Small, and Bill Curry,
former White House advisor to Bill Clinton.

A new Associated Press Poll shows that
1 in 7 Americans say they're afraid they won't be able to
make their mortgage payment in time, and about one quarter
of homeowners are worried that the value of their house will
drop in the next two years. Congress is anxious to pass a bill
that will give relief to anxious homeowners. Gail Chaddock of
the Christian Science Monitor joins us to help us figure out
what lawmakers are proposing.

Of the more than four
thousandth U.S. casualties of the war in Iraq more than have
been caused by I-E-D's, improvised explosive devices also
known as roadside
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Fri April 11, 2008. 10:45 AM
The White House is staying mum on reports from A-B-C News that high level administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down helped choreograph harsh interrogation techniques on al Qaeda suspects, including waterboarding. ABC News Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg fills us in on the details.

Police in Buenos Aires, Argentina are bracing for protests today along the route of the Olympic torch relay. And, the International Olympic Committee met in Beijing to discuss the controversy that has followed the torch on its journey around the world. We speak with Wall Street Journal correspondent Mei Fong in Beijing, Olympic historian and author David Wallechinsky, and Chinese security expert Murray Scot Tanner.

A new documentary film tells the story of a young soldier who was paralyzed by a gunshot while serving in Iraq. The film's co-director is TV talk show legend Phil Donahue. The young soldier, Tomas Young, becomes an anti-war spokesman as he tries to adjust t
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Thu April 10, 2008. 10:20 AM
President Bush tells the nation that come August troops in Iraq will no longer have to serve 15 month deployments. The number will be redued to 12 months. We'll get a report on the hearings from Demetri Sevastopulo, Pentagon and Intelligence Correspondent for the Financial Times.

As protests continue surrounding the Olympic torch relay on its way to Beijing, Pico Iyer joins us for a conversation about the Tibetan spiritual and political leader. Iyer has known the Dalai Lama for decades and is the author of a new book about him, "The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. "

After two days of flight cancellations, the nation's largest carrier, American Airlines, announced it would ground 900 more flights today. Tens of thousands of passengers are stranded, and on their website American says it "sincerely regrets the inconvenience." New York Times reporter Micheline Maynard fills us in on the industry- wide implications.

Bill Littlefield joins us for our week
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Wed April 09, 2008. 10:55 AM
700 uniformed police officers are expected to protect the Olympic torch on its 6-mile journey through the streets of San Francisco this afternoon. Thousands of protestors are expected to voice their concerns about human rights in China ahead of the summer Olympic games. We speak with Stephanie Kang, who's covering the story for the Wall St. Journal.

Another consequence of the current economic downturn and the subprime mortgage crisis is the growth of the pay day lenders. These quickie loan shops offer short term loans with sky high interest rates. The average Annual Percentage Rate or APR is 400 percent. So a loan for about $300 ends up costing $800 over the course of a year. Our guests are Gail Meyers, who ended up paying about $2200 in fees for an initial loan of $300 and Uriah King, a policy associate for the Center for Responsible Lending.

As Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker continue their testimony in Washington today, there are also critics of the war appearing before C
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Tue April 08, 2008. 11:05 AM
General David Petraeus, commander of U-S forces in Iraq and the U-S Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, appear before two Senate committees in Washington today. We'll get a report on the hearings from Demetri Sevastopulo, Pentagon and Intelligence Correspondent for the Financial Times.

Anthony Cordesman, senior fellow and co-director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, retired Army General Barry McCaffrey and retired Marine Captain Bing West join us to talk about today's hearings.

We talk with Kimberly Stewart of U.S. News and World Report on the real life lessons the employees can learn from the fictional characters in the hit television show, "The Office." The magazine enlisted job consultants to evaluate the show's cast and compare them to real life workers.

Arizona is on track to become the first state in the nation to drop out of the no child left behind program. If that happens, the state would lose up to 600 million dollars in federal funding. The Ar
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Mon April 07, 2008. 11:26 PM
OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY: Protests continue along the route of the Olympic Torch relay. Today the scene was Paris, where the flame was extinguished at least twice and put on a bus to avoid the crowds protesting China's handling of Tibet and its human rights record. There were also protests in London Sunday and more are expected when the torch arrives in San Francisco Wednesday. Our guest is New York Times London Bureau Chief John Burns.

BIRACIAL AMERICA: Senator Barack Obama's recent speech on race relations opened up the dialogue on race in America, and how it's no longer just a black and white issue. Obama's description of himself as a multiracial American struck a chord with millions of Americans. There are now 7 million people, or about 3 percent of the US population, who identify themselves as being multiracial. As part of our occasional series on race relations, we speak to writer Francie Latour, who writes about raising mixed race children. We also talk to Matt Garcia, associate
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Fri April 04, 2008. 12:15 PM
ZIMBABWE: We have the latest from Zimbabwe with Neiman Fellow Andrew Meldrum.

GARBAGE: What does the stuff we throw out say about us? We speak with New York University anthropologist Robin Nagle, who has spent several years studying garbage in New York City. In fact, she is the New York City Sanitation Department's "Anthropologist in Residence."

BUSH-PUTIN MEETING: President Bush wraps up his trip to Europe with a weekend meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The U-S missile defense system planned for eastern Europe will likely be a source of tension between the two leaders. We'll preview the meeting with Marshall Goldman, senior scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies at Harvard University.

PEACE SYMBOL: The peace symbol turns 50 today. Not many people remember that it was created for anti-nuclear protests in post-World War II England. We speak with Ken Kolsbun, who's co-written the book "Peace: The Biography of a Symbol" for the National Geograp
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Thu April 03, 2008. 10:39 AM
AIRLINE SAFETY: Two federal aviation inspectors who blew the whistle on missed inspections at Southwest Airlines and allege a too-cozy relationship between the FAA and airlines will testify before Congress today. We speak with Alexandra Marks of The Christian Science Monitor.

THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE: The Pennsylvania primary is April 22. Host Robin Young found Republicans feeling left out of the whole political conversation and Democrats still undecided.

Also, in the popular vote so far, Hillary Clinton trails Barack Obama by some 700,000. So why does she stay in the race? The answer, according to journalist Andrew Gumbel, is that history shows it works, because the popular vote doesn't always decide the nomination. Gumbel is the Los Angeles correspondent for The Independent newspaper of London. He's also author of, "Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America."

GREEN JOBS: What is a green job and is an economy based on green jobs pie in the
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Wed April 02, 2008. 01:38 PM
ZIMBABWE UPDATE: The main opposition party in Zimbabwe is now claiming outright victory over longtime President Robert Mugabe in Saturday's election, even though full results have not officially come out. The government has previously warned that it would consider a premature announcement of victory to be a coup attempt. We speak with Scott Baldauf of The Christian Science Monitor.

MLK: Friday is the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. A new book says King's life has been distorted by his death. A provacative conversation with Michael Eric Dyson, author of, "April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Junior's Death and How It Changed America."

ENDURANCE ATHLETES IN CHINA: World-record holding marathoner, Haile Gabreselassie, has dropped out of the Olympics marathon because of air quality. We talk to US team trainer, Dr David Martin, and US bronze medalist and Olympic hopeful, Deena Kastor, about training for Beijing. How has their training changed?

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Tue April 01, 2008. 01:19 PM
Congress Back in Session
Members of Congress are back from a two-week break, but how much will or can they get done to fix the economy, or address the foreclosure crisis, or deal with Iraq? To find out, we speak with Gail Chaddock, congressional correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor.

Iraq
Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army are standing strong as the Iraqi government calls off its offensive in the key southern port town of Basra. What is next for Iraq and for U.S. strategy? Our guests are Vali Nasr, professor of International Affairs at Tufts University's Fletcher Schoo, and General Barry McCaffrey, adjunct professor of International Affairs at West Point.

Foreign Workers Stay at Home
The H-2B Visa Program allows a number of temporary, non-agricultural workers into the United States for seasonal work. Last year, Congress failed to pass an extension to the visas for returning workers, leaving restaurants, ski-resorts, landscaping companies and circuses scrambling
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Mon March 31, 2008. 06:15 PM
SUPER-FED: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson today proposes the most sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system since the Great Depression. The plan would change how the government regulates thousands of businesses from the nation's biggest banks and investment houses down to the local insurance agent and mortgage broker. The plan would also give the Federal Reserve a super-cop role, with the power to review the books of any financial institution, not just banks, that threatens the U.S. financial system. We speak to Wall Street Journal reporter Damian Paletta.

GREEN JOBS: What is a green job? And how much is the U.S. government willing to spend to create them? We speak with attorney and social activist Van Jones, who jump started a training program to teach inner-city youth in the San Francisco area how to install solar panels. Last year he persuaded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to sign onto a plan to authorize $125 million dollars to train up to 30,000 people for green jobs.
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Mon March 31, 2008. 10:15 AM
Today, Mayor Tom Menino will declare the completion of a pilot Wireless Internet network for the neighborhood that straddles Dorchester and Roxbury.
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Fri March 28, 2008. 06:59 PM
This week, Senators McCain, Obama and Clinton mapped out their plans to shore up the faltering economy -- what does each say about foreclosures and the Bear Stearns bailout? We speak with David Leonhardt of the New York Times.

We also speak with Nariman Behravesh, Chief Economist for Global Insight.

We preview tomorrow's presidential elections in Zimbabwe with Xan Smiley, Middle East and Africa Editor for The Economist Magazine.

The lights will be turned off tomorrow night between 8-9pm in more than 35 US cities including the flagship cities of Phoenix, Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco. It's all part of "Earth Hour," a campaign organized by the conservation group, The World Wildlife Fund.

Dramatic films about the war in Iraq have fared poorly at the box office. Is it that audiences don't want to see Iraq at at the movies, or is it the quality of the films themselves? We talk to Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr.
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Thu March 27, 2008. 06:10 PM
More than 10-thousand Shiites take to the streets in Basra to protest the government crackdown on militias. Shiites there, loyal to Muktada al-Sadr are calling for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down. The uprisings are a test for the Iraqi security forces, who are securing the area without international help. Tina Sussman of the Los Angeles Times joins us.

Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist whose story was made into the movie, "The Killing Fields," is deathly ill with cancer. We speak with Sydney Schanberg, formerly of the New York Times, about his friend and colleague.

How can you tell if recession has hit your town? Here and Now producer Barbara Howard visited one Massachusetts town where the number of foreclosures has tripled over the last year. Instead of finding a boarded-up downtown, she discovered that the signs of an economic downturn are not always that easy to see.

The host of NPR's Only a Game joins us to talk about March Madness, the start of the M
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Wed March 26, 2008. 06:53 PM
The spate of violence continues in Iraq, with more clashes between Iraqi security forces and Shiite militias. In one of many such raids this week, three Americans were seriously wounded by a rocket attack on the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. We speak with Washington Post reporter Sudarsan Raghavan in Baghdad.

How hard is it to secure a mortgage? As foreclosures continue and money becomes harder to find? We speak to Amy Tierce, a mortgage lender in Needham, Massachusetts, about some of the challenges consumers face. Credit scores are being closely scrutinized. Appraisals are, too.

Several months into the mortgage market crisis, we look at the new shape the industry is taking. Traditional banks and Credit Unions are once again taking the lead in mortgages, and they are returning to the lending practices of a generation ago. We speak with Vikas Bajaj, business reporter for The New York Times.

Canadian writer Sheila Heti recently started the website "I Dream of Hillary
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Tue March 25, 2008. 06:11 PM
Nine Americans who worked to repair a water injection plant in Iraq in 2003 are suing their employer, KBR, claiming the company knowingly exposed them to a deadly substance that greatly increases cancer risk. Boston Globe reporter Farah Stockman wrote the story and joins us to talk about it.

America may champion the free market, but the slippery emotion of repugnance helps determine what can be bought and sold in that market. For example, it's illegal for humans to eat horses in California, but perfectly legal to use horse meat in pet food. Until quite recently, charging interest was considered repugnant over much of Europe, as it still is in the Islamic world. Our guest is Harvard University economist and business professor, Alvin Roth.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy considers boycotting the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics this summer because of recent Tibet protests. We speak with University of Chicago anthropologist John MacAloon, who advised the Beijing Olympi
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Mon March 24, 2008. 07:06 PM
The number of Americans forces killed in Iraq reaches 4,000. President Bush is conferring with Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker today. Both are due to testify on Capitol Hill in early April. Demetri Sevastopulo of the Financial Times is our guest.

About a decade ago on the Australian island of Tasmania, scientists noticed that the population of the island's signature animal, the Tasmanian Devil, was dropping. They determined that the animals were dying of cancer...and that it was being spread through physical contact. We speak with noted science writer, David Quammen. Quammen's story on the Tasmanian Devil appears in Harper's.

The Wayne County prosecutor announces whether she will bring any charges against Detroit's mayor, concluding a two month investigation into a text messaging scandal involving the mayor and his then chief-of-staff. Our guests are Quinn Klinefelter, political reporter for Detroit Public Radio, WDET FM, and Nolan Finley, publisher and
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