2009 November | Here & Now

David Leonhardt on What’s Missing in the Health Care Debate, Cyber Monday, Toy Makers, A Film Score without the Film

The Evolution of Cheap, Dubai World, Crashing Couple, Sports, Seeing Music

Peter Gomes and the Pilgrims, Stewed Pompion, Anyone?, Syria and Iraqi Relations, Turkey Day Classic, Robin’s Trip to Vermont

We join Robin and her now-late uncle, Lachlan Maclachlan Field, on their trip to see the migrating snow geese in Vermont.

Peter Gomes is a nationally-recognized Baptist preacher and a Harvard professor. He’s also an African-American who grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts. We speak with Professor Gomes about his connection to the Plymouth of the Pilgrims.

Helping Soldiers Get Home, ‘Up in the Air’, Prisoner Swap, Looking Back on the Mumbai Attacks, Octavian Nothing

Here and Now’s resident chef Kathy Gunst brings us some new takes on squash, potato, and green bean dishes for Thanksgiving.

War Surtax, What’s the Right To Do?, Biodiversity in the Deep Sea, The Card Game, Thanksgiving Sides

Mammogram Controversy, Regulating Wall Street, Khmer Rouge, Containers to Clinics, The Mormon as Vampire

Elizabeth Sheehan is trying to increase access to preventive care in the developing world, by converting shipping containers into health clinics. She says “shipping Containers litter the world. They’re often used once and they sit there.”

New Guidelines for Pap Smears, The Oxford Project, Why We Overeat on Thanksgiving, China – Bright spot for Auto Industry

Holy War with Health Care?, Teaching Hope, Texas Execution, Another Army Murder Spree, Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman

Hearings on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Trial, Climate Debt, Karzai’s Inauguration, Concerns about Reverse Mortgages, ‘The Lacuna’

Questions about Mammograms, Black TV Goes Online, Sarah Palin Back on Tour, Can Parents Become Toxic?, Remembering Johnny Mercer

Guantanamo Detainees to Illinois?, China in Afghanistan, ‘Twilight’ Mania, ‘Don’t Be Creepy,’ ‘Lark and Termite’

9/11 Mastermind to be Tried in New York, ‘Million-Dollar Throw’, Iranian Dissidents in Iraq, The Porous Border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Letters, Pirate Radio

13-year-old Nate Brodie gets the chance of a lifetime in best-selling author Mike Lupica’s new book for young readers. Nate, who idolizes Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, can win a million bucks if he can make a perfect throw.

Afghanistan Options, Elite Male Runner Discusses His Anorexia, Stomp The Stigma, The End of the World as We Know It

Conspiracy theorists are fixated on an apocalyptic date: December 21, 2012. That’s the day the Mayan calendar resets. We look at the roots of the theories with Colgate University professor, Anthony Aveni.

Major Hasan and the U.S. Army, 9/11 Memorial Controversy, The British Debate, Brian Turner, Veteran and Poet, From Swords to Ploughshares