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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Monday, September 24, 2012

Akhil Reed Amar: "America's Unwritten Constitution"

Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-09-13/akhil-reed-amar-americas-unwritten-constitution

Yale Law School Professor Akhil Reed Amar argues the U.S. Constitution is just a sketch of basic rules for governing America. Join us to discuss the vast trove of values, precedents and practices outside the document that he argues complement and complete its terse text.

Foreign Policy And The Muslim World

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/09/17/muslim-world

American foreign policy has lived largely on the outskirts of the 2012 presidential campaign. Yes, the Obama camp has spoken early and often of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Yes, Mitt Romney has taken his shots at Russia and China.

But the world has been largely off stage – until last week, when suddenly American embassies in the Arab world were burning.

A US ambassador was dead. Mitt Romney attacked while the crisis still raged. President Obama had a difficult panorama of outrage to explain.

This hour, On Point: Obama, Romney, and the fight over US foreign policy in the Arab world.

The Poorest Children In America

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/09/17/poorest-children

Writer and teacher Jonathan Kozol has spent most of a lifetime following America’s poorest children. Not in statistics or test scores, but in person. In their schools and neighborhoods, homes and homeless shelters.

In book after celebrated book, he has brought their lives home to a nation quite willing to look the other way. Now, as Chicago teachers strike and the country thinks again about what it really takes to build a ladder up, Kozol is reporting in again. On who made it and who didn’t.

This hour, On Point: Jonathan Kozol on twenty-five years among America’s poorest kids.

Week In The News: 47 Percent, Chicago Strike, Fast And Furious

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/09/21/week-in-the-news-214

Restart week for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. But not in a direction, it turned out, he might have hoped. A bootleg tape of Romney seeming to call half of America freeloaders was a rough way to start.

Some uncomfortable days for President Obama, too. Soft economic numbers. A turnabout on whether the Libya/Benghazi attack was terrorism.

High-profile grillings for Obama and Romney by top Latino journalists. Strike’s over in Chicago. China’s yelling at Japan. Mrs. Jesus gets a moment.

This hour, On Point: our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Friday News Roundup - Domestic -- Diane Rehm Show

Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-09-21/friday-news-roundup-domestic

New polls showed President Barack Obama opening up a lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who tried to reshape his message following a damaging videotape from a fundraiser. The Justice Department found that federal agents and prosecutors ignored risks to the public from its "Fast and Furious" operation. And Chicago's first teachers' strike in 25 years ended. David Corn of Mother Jones magazine, Jeanne Cummings of Bloomberg News and Matthew Continetti of The Washington Freebeacon join guest host Susan Page for analysis of the week's top national news stories.

Friday News Roundup - International -- Diane Rehm Show

Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-09-21/friday-news-roundup-international

Four U.S. soldiers were killed by Afghan police, the third such "inside" attack in as many days. A French newspaper printed several caricatures of the Prophet Mohamed. And Russia demanded that the U.S. halt the work of pro-democracy groups. Abderrahim Foukara of Al Jazeera, Indira Lakshmanan of Bloomberg News and Yochi Dreazen of National Journal join guest host Susan Page for analysis of the week's top international news stories.