2009 July | Here & Now

Cash for Clunkers, Afghan Star TV show, Curbing CEO Pay, Bike Polo, Steroid Scandal Snares Ortiz & Ramirez, “Escape from Bellevue” memoir

Beer Summit, The Pecora Hearings, Young Gitmo Detainee in Court, A New University Goes Online, “13 Reasons Why” novel about teen suicide

Photographs by the late Brad Washburn, a mountain climber, surveyor, and mountain photographer

Terrorist Conspiracy in North Carolina, The ‘Great Recession’ is Over, Swimsuit Beats Phelps, Tweet This!, Julia Child Revisited

Mortgage Modifications, Chinese Immigrants in the U.S., Tagging Trash, Gates in Iraq, Brad Washburn

Health Care, Dead Soldier Return to U.K., Lahore Responds to Taliban.

Taken by the Taliban, Pot Tax Hike, A Policeman’s View of Professor Gates’ Arrest, Steely Dan

The Cleveland Clinic and Healthcare Reform, Higher Ed. as the Petrified Forest?, Radio Science Orchestra, What Matters Most in Healthcare?, Healthy Food Music For Kids

The Health Insurance Industry and Reform, Surgical Errors at Philadelphia’s Veterans Hospital, Remembering Spc. James Wertish, Aung San Suu Kyi, Author Kate Walbert

Harvard Professor Racially Profiled?, Reporter’s Notebook: Cairo, Russian Cosmonaut Looks Back on Space Race, Is Massachusetts A Model for Healthcare Reform?, Rocker Ian Hunter

Captured Soldier, Mars: The Next Frontier?, Tour de France Update, More Lobbying than Ever on Healthcare, Music to die for?

“Global Payments” Budget Health Care, The Quiet American, Wheat Field in London, Should You Be Able to See Your Doctor’s Notes Online?, Red Planet on the Silver Screen

Pensacola Murders, Lightning Strikes Again, Iraqis To Sue the UK, Kidnapping and Foreclosure Crises Collide in Phoenix “Drop Houses,” Listener Letters, What’s with the Wolf T-Shirt?

Goldman Sachs the “Bubble Machine,” How’s the Bank Bailout Working & What Kind of Help Do Consumers Need?, Entrepreneur Explores Space, Return to the Moon, The “Harry Potter” Franchise

Day Two of Sotomayor hearings, Business Guru’s Prescription for Healthcare, Facebook vs. Google, Charles Taylor war crimes trial, and jazz saxophonist Grace Kelly

CIA’s Secret Al Qaeda Plan, Sotomayor Hearings, Sherpa for Supreme Court Nominees, Turned onto Tap Water, Author Danzy Senna

President Obama Goes to Africa, Beowulf on the Beach, Letters, Cyber Attack, Is President Obama Morphing into President Bush?, Satchel Paige

Stimulus, What Stimulus?, Big Pill Bill Not Easy to Swallow, Black Box Hopes Fade, Fighting D.O.M.A., The Hurt Locker

Help for Troubled Homeowners, Buying Health Insurance, Tiny House, What next in Iran?, The Conscience of Nhem En

A graduate student at Yale describes why she chose to live in a 144 square foot home.