2008 October | Here & Now
The Last Weekend; Voting; Switching Parties; Letters; A Little Light Night Music with James Isaacs
more »Incredible Shrinking Economy; Personal Foreclosure; Presidential Transitions; Can a Computer Game Predict the Election?; World Series Radio; “Octavian Nothing: Volume II”
more »Election; “The View” and the Election; Athlete Brain Injuries; JP Morgan; Balsphemy in Afghanistan; Russian Translators
more »Children and Guns; Short Selling Your Home; Ballot Questions; Moraine, Ohio, Faces GM Plant Closure; Movie: Ballast
more »The Presidential Race; John McCain: Mistakes of his Father; The Few, The Proud, The College Bound; Guantanamo Bay Trial; The Starbucks Economy; Salem Witch Judge
more »Stock Market; Keith Jarrett; Two Families Named McCain; Sports; Charlie Kaufman
more »Housing; Mixed Race; How Did John McCain Pick Sarah Palin; Googling Discoveries; Dollhouse Village Exhibit
more »Politics; Is it Socialism?; Tax Revolts; Massachusetts; Girl Talk
more »Florida Voting Early; History of Voting; Disabled Children and Politics; Election-Related Children’s Book
more »Politics; Energy and the Environment; Older Workers; Mental Health and Executive Job Loss; Texting
more »The Presidential Race in the Polls; Retirement; An Old Fashion Bank; Letters and Sports; Fifty Writers and Fifty States
more »Acorn; Why Are The Markets Still in a Free Fall?; Joe The Plumber; The View from Argentina; Dead Cat Bounce; The Gabe Dixon Band
more »Debate Preview; Small Businesses Caught in Credit Crisis; Shirt Stories; Words from a Bailout; Hell Drivers
more »U.S. and the Banking Business; Pakistan, India, and Kashmir; An Uncertain Charlotte; Tim and Tom
more »Politics; Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman; Uighurs; Mammouth Cave; National Anthem at Baseball Games; FDR Banking Chat
more »Where’s The Bottom?; Semantics Are Important … No, Really; From the Campaign Trail; Anti-Bailout Ad Man; Container House
more »Saving America’s Middle Class; Meltdown in Iceland; Mexico Under Seige; Should Salaries Be Made Public; Politics and Food
more »Housing; Executive Pay; The Trial of Saddam Hussein; Lucky Smoke; Senate Races Get Nasty
more »Lender of Last Resort; The Candidates’ Healthcare Plans; Round Two; Record Homeless in Massachusetts; Monsterology
more »Banks in Crisis; Lehman CEO in Hot Seat; Electoral College Doomsday; The Story Behind “Flash of Genius”; Ani DiFranco Red Letter Year
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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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