The popular MSNBC host talks about her start in broadcasting, her life and her new book Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, in which she argues that America’s national defense has become disconnected from public oversight.
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/27/148611615/rachel-maddow-the-fresh-air-interview?ft=1&f=1020
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Mike Daisey was a self-described "worshipper in the cult of Mac." Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/mr-daisey-and-the-apple-factory
In 1953, A.P. Tureaud Jr. enrolled as a freshman at Louisiana State University, becoming the school’s first and only black undergraduate that year. Tureaud’s family had filed a lawsuit on his behalf. And as he recalls it, life on campus was anything but easy.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/21/141549627/life-as-a-symbol-of-integration-in-college?ft=1
Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Martha Woodall details her ongoing investigation into Philadelphia’s charter school system, where 19 of the 74 charter schools operating in the city are under investigation for fraud, financial mismanagement and conflicts of interest.
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/27/137444337/what-happens-when-charter-schools-fail
http://www.soundopinions.org/shownotes/2010/092410/shownotes.html
1 Jim and Greg have talked on the show before about France’s “3 Strikes” downloading law before on the show, and they’ve been wondering when they US will present its own anti-piracy initiative. Well, the Senate just did. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont introduced the “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act”, a bipartisan bill that would allow the D.O.J. to shut down websites with pirated content. Record labels and Hollywood studios have been waiting for this for some time. Jim points out that a similar bill was introduced during the Bush administration, but, perhaps rightly so, some lawmakers didn’t feel the government should be footing the bill for these legal actions. With President Obama’s appointment of an Intellectual Property Czar, Greg sees a trend toward supporting corporate copyright holders in this administration.