2008 September | Here & Now
The Bailout; Economy Watch; Focus; Hand Drawn Maps; “Flash of Genius”
more »House Votes on $700 Billion Bailout; Help for Homeowners; Bin Laden Audio Tapes; Leatherback Turtles; Science as Story
more »Crisis in Credit Market; Ol’ Miss Awaits Debate; Credit Crunch Hits American Businesses; “Dexter”; “Syncopation”
more »Bailout Update; Julian Zelizer; Disabled and Iraq; “Including Samuel”; Anna Deavere Smith
more »Financial Fraud; Race and the Presidential Campaign; Alternative Solutions for Wall Street; Sounds Like Silence; Dennis Lehane
more »Financial Bailout, The Pushback; Sebastian Junger; Financial Bailout, The Safeguard; Help for Homeowners; Glenn Gould
more »Financial Meltdown; Deja Vu; Marion Nestle on Food Saftey; Handel for Headbangers
more »Wall Street Rescue; “Have You Seen Andy?”; “Bailout Nation”; Money Market Funds; Women Pirates
more »Candidates Economic Plan; Early Voting; Early Voting at Ball State University; James Isaacs on Federico Fellini
more »Bailouts and Government Regulation; The Story of Sgt. Juan Jimenez; This Fall’s TV Season
more »David Carr; Wall Street Dominoes: Is Insurance Giant, AIG Next?; Consumer Impact; A New “Aneid”
more »Wall Street; School Budget Troubles; Economic Analysis; Ike’s Aftermath; Chinese Opera Singer
more »Some recent books that we’ve featured on the show and thought you’d enjoy.
more »Hurricane Ike; Joe Nocera; Worst Policy Ideas; Week in Sports; Why Do Whales Sing?
more »Lipstick and Presidential Politics; The Way We’ll Be; Haiti; Hurricanes; Minnesota Arts
more »America at War; Energy; Improv Everywhere; Rogues Tooth Fairies and other Absurdities
more »Mortgage Giants; Culture Wars; Building A Better Battery; Girls’ Mountain Biking; Blind Boone
more »Sprint to the White House; Convention Rhetoric; Off the Couch; Sports with Bill Littlefield; Convention Tunes
more »Convention Roundtable; The Sherrif; Detroit Mayor to Resign; Minnesota State Fair
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Here & Now’s Alex Ashlock recently sat down with Alberto Salazar, one of the top distance runners in American sports history.
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“People think of Dickens as that old guy with the beard that’s not relevant. And he is relevant! In fact, I think of him as sort of like Jon Stewart, he uses wit,” said Diana Archibald, a Dickens scholar. Dickens was born 200 years ago, we look back on his trip to the famous mills of Lowell, Massachusetts in 1842.
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