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Would U.S. Need To Read Bin Laden His Miranda Rights?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - By Frank James - Nov. 18 (News Report) - Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to give a federal court trial instead of a military commission hearing to five Guantanamo detainees the government has linked to the 9/11 attacks has led to criticism that the Obama Administration is transforming the war on terror from a military to law-enforcement affair. This has led some critics to wonder if captured terrorist suspects would have to be read their Miranda rights on being captured by U.S. military or law enforcement representatives.

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Karzai's Challenger Drops Out Of Afghan Runoff

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Jacki Lyden, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson - Nov. 01 (News) - The challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the upcoming runoff in Afghanistan has announced he will not take part in the race. That leaves next Saturday's election in jeopardy, as well as a vacuum in Afghan leadership that President Obama can ill afford as he decides whether to send more troops to the war-torn country. Guest host Jacki Lyden speaks with NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson about Dr. Abdullah Abdullah's withdrawal.

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On The Hunt For Roadside Bombs In Afghanistan

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Tom Bowman - Oct. 28 (News Report) - The Marines of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment — known as "America's Battalion" — have been fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province since July. They have set up numerous outposts along the dusty roads and cornfields. And now they are moving farther south, looking to extend their area of operation and avoid the deadliest of threats just outside the wire: roadside bombs.

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With Spotlight On Afghanistan, Where's Holbrooke?

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Michele Kelemen - Oct. 24 (News Analysis) - Sen. John Kerry took the foreign policy spotlight this past week, jetting off to Afghanistan where he persuaded President Hamid Karzai to agree to a runoff vote, and meeting with officials in Pakistan. It raised the question: Where's Richard Holbrooke, Obama's designated point man on Afghanistan and Pakistan?

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Top Official: 'The EPA Is Back On The Job'

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - Oct. 18 (News Report) - Lisa Jackson says the Environmental Protection Agency under President Bush concluded greenhouse gases were dangerous, but the White House refused to regulate them. Now that President Obama is in office, she says, the agency is going to take action.

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Health Care Bill Gets Support From GOP Off The Hill

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Andrea Seabrook - Oct. 11 (News) - As various health care bills wind their way toward the House and Senate floors, the White House is soliciting support from some unlikely allies: Republicans. Recently such high-profile Republicans as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tommy Thompson, health and human services secretary in the Bush administration, have come out in support of an overhaul. The administration hopes this will help win over moderates in Congress. The former majority leader of the Senate, Republican Bill Frist, said last week that if he were in Congress, he'd take the heat and vote for an overhaul. "I'm coming out very strongly in support of what's going on in the Senate Finance Committee," he said on CNN. "It's bipartisan; I hope that it ends up being bipartisan. If not, I think it's going to be a destructive bill. But it's bipartisan, people working together, so we're on the way there." Then there's Mark McClellan, who ran Medicare under President George W. Bush. "Congress needs to act. The health care issues facing this country are both major and urgent," he said. "We have a real opportunity now to make some progress — not just on improving coverage, but also on improving health care. My hope is that we'll take advantage of those opportunities."

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For One Senior, Medicaid Provides Model Care

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Jeff Brady - Oct. 06 (Special Report) - When Gracie Scarrow, 94, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure she didn't have the money to pay for the care she needed. She turned to Medicaid ? which covers the long-term care in a nursing home ? and she couldn't be happier.

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Prayer Effort Seeks 'Right Thinking' From Liberals

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Barbara Bradley Hagerty - Oct. 04 (Special Report) - A Christian conservative group, fearing a liberal drift in the country's leadership, has put 11 prominent politicians and activists on an "Adopt a Liberal" roster. They're asking God to help their targets change their stances on a variety of social issues.

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EPA Moves To Regulate Smokestack Greenhouse Gases

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Morning Edition - By Elizabeth Shogren - Oct. 01 (News Report) - The Obama administration recently proposed new rules for cutting greenhouse gas emissions from cars. Now it's proposing to reduce heat-trapping pollution from power plants and other large facilities.

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The Lehman Legacy: One Year Later

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Gretchen Morgenson, Terry Gross - Sep. 15 (Comment) - One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, New York Times financial columnist Gretchen Morgenson reflects on what has — and has not — changed about the financial industry.

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Are Post-Sept. 11 Airport Screens Just 'Security Theater’?

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Brian Naylor - Sep. 11 (Special Report) - While the technology to screen passengers has become more advanced and the check-in lines a little shorter, the question of whether flying is terrorism-proof remains. The Transportation Security Administration touts its latest machinery, but critics call the screening process "security theater."

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Marines Find Afghan Mission Is A Matter Of Trust

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - Aug. 25 (News Report) - In Afghanistan's Helmand province, the backbone of the Taliban insurgency, U.S. Marines are finding that simply being stronger than the militants isn't enough to dislodge them. In addition to fighting battles in towns like Dahaneh, the troops are befriending the locals there in an effort to build trust.

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Afghanistan Chooses Its Next Leader: A Primer

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Corey Flintoff, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson - Aug. 19 (Special Report) - Bombs rocked Kabul on the eve of Afghanistan's presidential election as millions of voters prepare to cast ballots on the future of their troubled country — a choice between incumbent Hamid Karzai or one of 36 other candidates. The vote takes place amid war, allegations of election fraud and insurgent threats to intimidate voters — by cutting off any fingers stained with indelible ink from polling places.

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NPR Poll Results

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - Jul. 28 (Research) - Generally speaking, do you think that things in this country are going in the right direction, or do you feel things have gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track?

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Chris Hedges Targets Pop Culture's 'Empire Of Illusion'

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Chris Hedges - Jul. 21 (Interview) - Chris Hedges describes the polarities of the two societies he says we are now living in: One side is based in reality and able to separate illusion from truth; the other side is rooted in fantasy. The latter, Hedges says, is the growing majority. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist talks about Empire of Illusion and what he views as the erosion of American culture.

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Lobbyists Jockey For Position In Health Care Debate

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Peter Overby, Andrea Seabrook - Jul. 08 (Special Report) - The fact that these lobbyists came to the committee meeting makes perfect sense. Every citizen has a constitutional right to petition the government. And Congress is attempting to overhaul an industry that affects literally everyone. But add all lobbyists together, and throw in the campaign money that comes along with lobbying, and the problem becomes evident: It's gridlock.

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Co-Op Option Offers Compromise In Health Debate

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Joanne Silberner - Jul. 01 (Special Report) - A new health insurance idea is circulating through the Senate Finance Committee and may appear in its final plan for revamping the nation's health care system. The idea is to stimulate the creation of co-ops where people could go to buy low-cost, high-quality health insurance. Health co-ops are not a new idea. Two large ones, Group Health in Seattle and HealthPartners in Minneapolis, are more than 50 years old. But the thought that co-ops could win enough support to keep health overhaul plans rolling along has only just come up.

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Insurers Revoke Policies To Avoid Paying High Costs

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Joanne Silberner - Jun. 22 (Investigative Report) - According to a new report by congressional investigators, an insurance company practice of retroactively canceling health insurance is fairly common, and it saves insurers a lot of money.

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Senate Apologizes For Slavery

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - Jun. 19 (News Report) - The U.S. Senate apologized Thursday for slavery and for the segregationist Jim Crow laws, 144 years after the Civil War and 45 years after passing the Civil Rights Act.

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India's Traditions Hold On With The Chapati Man : NPR

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Daniel Zwerdling - Jun. 14 (News Report) - India is changing so fast that traditional culture seems to be disappearing in the time it takes to hit "delete." Farm families travel on bullock carts while chatting on cell phones. Sikhs attend weddings in traditional turbans and saris — then dance after the ceremony to pounding techno beats. More and more Indians are swapping traditional tea time for drinks at a chain of cafes modeled on Starbucks. But on most evenings, a scene from the old days remains on a busy street corner in Punjab's capital city, Chandigarh. Underneath the din of passing motorbikes and trucks, a rhythmic, gentle "slapslapslapslapslap" carries on a tradition. It's the neighborhood chapati man.

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Predictions Vary For Economic Bounceback

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Yuki Noguchi - Jun. 06 (News Report) - Sometimes when it comes to economic numbers, optimism takes strange forms. The Labor Department said employers cut 345,000 jobs in May, which is only half the average monthly cuts over the past six months.

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Gay Activists, Black Ministers Seek Common Ground

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Liz Halloran - May. 31 (News Report) - When the District of Columbia city council voted 12-1 recently to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, a raucous protest led by African-American ministers erupted in the hallway outside council chambers....Watching the commotion was the Rev. Robert Hardies, who happened to be in City Hall on another matter when the ministers stormed the corridor. "I was heartbroken," says Hardies, a gay man who is senior minister at the city's historic All Souls Church, Unitarian. "I had vowed to myself that after what happened in California, when the gay marriage issue came to Washington, D.C., we would do it differently and prevent the racial divide," he said.

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Obama Revives Guantanamo Tribunals

Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Public Radio - By Jackie Northam - May. 16 (News Report) - The White House announced Friday that it is reviving Bush-era military tribunals to prosecute about 13 of the roughly 240 detainees remaining at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Obama Seeks To Block Release Of Abuse Photos

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Mara Liasson - May. 14 (News Report) - President Obama declared Wednesday he would try to block the court-ordered release of photos showing U.S. troops abusing prisoners, abruptly reversing his position out of concern the pictures would "further inflame anti-American opinion" and endanger U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Obama's Long Education To-Do List Awaits Action

Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Claudio Sanchez - May. 03 (News Report) - In his first 100 days as president, Barack Obama has proposed a more expansive federal role in education from cradle to college. A short list of his numerous education proposals includes: uniform standards for preschool programs; rigorous tests and academic standards for public schools; merit pay for classroom teachers; a longer school day and school year; and a national strategy to address the high school dropout crisis.

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