Show archive for August, 2009

California Prison Release, Modern-day Slavery, Lockerbie, Pentagon Cancels Reporter Review Program

Robin shares some thoughts about the cacophony over health care this summer.

Who are the Groups For & Against Health Care Reform?, Two Perspectives on Protests, Missing Girl Found after 18 Years, The Endangered Bluefin Tuna, Honored at Arlington

Senator Kennedy and the Catholic Church, Sen. Kennedy’s Faith & Politics, Constituent Services, Swine Flu and College Campuses, Time to Get a New Card?, Clipped Viewing

Ted Kennedy’s Death, Kennedy’s Legislative Legacy, Kennedy’s Political Legacy, Chappaquiddick and Beyond, Kennedy’s Personal Touch

Paul Krugman, Controversy Continues Over Lockerbie Release, Adult Autism

A new sustainable farming project is luring dozens of urban immigrants into growing organic crops for the market and for their own tables.

CIA Interrogations, How the Mighty Fall, Cash For Clunkers, Pumpkin Greens Grow in Massachusetts, Understanding the Wicked Witch and Cowardly Lion

President Obama Losing Support, Long Term Care, Violence in Iraq, A Doctor in the House, The Heartless Bastards

Lockerbie Convict Released, Healthcare Reform Opponents, The Uninsured Congressman, New Credit Card Regulations, Seeding Clouds to Make Rain, Should ‘Beanballs’ be Banned?, Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Hunts Down Oddities

Afghanistan Elections, Do Doctors Make Good Authors?, Choosing Silence, Seniors and Health Care Reform, From Mao to the Met

Swine Flu: What to Expect, Homeless Heroin Addicts, Rain Disaster in Sri Lanka, Backward Planets Discovered, The Best Year in Filmmaking: 1939 or 1999?

What is the difference between universal health care and a single-payer system? Will Medicare Advantage see changes under a new health care plan? Robin Young and Los Angeles Times reporter Noam Levey answer your most common questions.

Democratic Divide on Health Care, Allegations of Murder Against Blackwater’s Erik Prince, Afghan Sushi, Presidents and Health Care, Writer Nick Burd

Fact v. Fiction in Healthcare, Part 2, Tomato Blight, Letters, The Basij Militia in Iran, And Now This Commercial Interruption, Remembering A Rock Radio Legend

Health Care Reform and Nazi Symbolism?, Is Asia Rising?, Obamarita Anyone?, Business in Iraq, A Musical ‘Stew’

A group based in Tennessee is holding a massive health clinic in California this week. From dental care to eye tests, people are lining up for help.

Free Medical Care, Pythons in Florida, How is the Millennial Generation Changing the Workplace?, Why We Fight in Afghanistan, Awakening Alzheimer’s

Protestors & Supporters Converge at Obama Town Hall, California Slashes Funding for Domestic Violence Programs, Yoga Warriors

A Scottish childcare specialist is teaching babies how to use sign language to communicate H1N1 swine flu symptoms.

Healthcare Debate and Euthanasia, Piracy in the Gulf of Aden, A Museum Dedicated to Math?, Clock Begins Ticking for Merce Cunningham Dance Company, ‘Commencement’

Congress Goes on summer break, African American media, Hillary Clinton in Africa, Listener letters, the film “Julie & Julia”

Robin Young has some thoughts after seeing rock legend Paul McCartney perform at Fenway Park in Boston.

A Young Marine, Visit to Afghanistan, Distracted Drivers, Beauty and Evolution, The Leaf, Krazy Love

After his fourth trip to Afghanistan, writer and former Assistant Defense Secretary Bing West shares his thoughts on U.S. strategy there.

Home from North Korea, Bullying, John Quincy Adams on Twitter, A Mayor’s Point of View, Behind the Gates of a Retirement Community

Surprise Mission to North Korea, Flipper’s Trainer, Now Dolphin Activist, Physician Liability and Prescription Drugs

We speak with Boston jazz fixture Charlie Kohlhase, who has a new album with his septet, Charlie Kohlhase’s Explorer’s Club.

A look at the aftermath of a fatal, anti-Christian rampage in the Pakistani town of Gojra this weekend.

The Heat is On–In the White House, Planning the Withdrawal from Iraq, German World War II Resistance