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June 25, 2007 · NPR Senior News Anlayst Daniel Schorr examines the role secrecy has played in the tenure of Vice President Dick Cheney and how it compares with other administrations – Nixon's, for example.
It's time for some who aren't running to make their intentions clear, a la William Tecumseh Sherman.
Humor write Joe Queenan talks about what it's like to be a fan for the team of 10,000 losses.
June 22, 2007 · To take all U.S. forces and their equipment out of Iraq would take 10 to 14 months because of the packing and cleaning that has to be done to vehicles and other equipment let alone an orderly movement of 160,000 troops. Troops and their equipment will have to move constantly over dangerous roads to Kuwait.
June 21, 2007 · Satirists Bruce Kluger and David Slavin take aim at slugger Barry Bonds. They illustrate a scenario in which Bonds breaks Hank Aaron's home-run record, but the crowd doesn't care.
June 20, 2007 · NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr shares his take on the American position regarding Israel and the Palestinians.
June 20, 2007 · There's plenty of hand-wringing over our celebrity-obsessed culture. But what about all the time and attention paid to sports? Commentator Frank Deford says it's far better to escape to the sports pages than the gossip magazines.
June 19, 2007 · The culinary landscape in Commentator Daniel Pinkwater's Hudson Valley town has suddenly been transformed, and he says it's almost impossible to believe. The stretch of hillbilly highway is all of a sudden turning into slob gourmet row.
June 17, 2007 · You can tell a lot about a father by how he handles a crisis situation. Commentator Nanci Olesen remembers crashing the family station wagon into the garage — and her dad's reaction unexpected reaction.
June 17, 2007 · Host Liane Hansen speaks with Jacqueline Bhabha about the term of the word "amnesty". The word's connotation is at the heart of controversy over a U.S. immigration bill.
June 17, 2007 · Liane Hansen talks with Noah Feldman, a New York University law professor, about the prospects for success now that the U.S. military has announced completion of the troop surge in Iraq.
June 16, 2007 · The future for Palestinians and the region is uncertain amid factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah. Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of Arab Studies in the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, offers his insights.
June 12, 2007 · The Palestinian Authority is under intense pressure, as a unity government formed by the warring Hamas and Fatah factions is in danger of collapsing. If the central Palestinian government attempts to split into two states, says Middle East expert Ghaith Omari, it could force Egypt to go into Gaza and Jordan to go into the West Bank.
June 20, 2007 · The city of Lafayette, La., is growing quickly, and it risks losing its Cajun culture. The area needs a great writer to keep check on the dissolution of the Acadiana way.
June 15, 2007 · In the 1950s, Jim McFarland's grandmother took him on a train trip from New York to see relatives in the South. It was a summer ritual. As soon as the train hit Washington, McFarland knew he was far from New York.
Listener e-mails include a correction to an interview with U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR).
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