Obama in Cairo; Multiracial Americans; Refusing Medical Treatment for Children; An Edible History of Humanity
President Obama in Cairo
President Barack Obama has given several previews of his planned speech in Cairo later this week. His speech is said to emphasize a fresh start between the United States and Muslim countries. The visit and speech comes as another step in the President's efforts to repair relations with Muslims abroad. Obama will head to the Mideast tonight and deliver the speech in Cairo on Thursday. Guest host Madeleine Brand talks to guests and listeners about Obama's controversial methods in trying to repairs relations in the Middle East.
Steven A. Cook, PhD, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Former Advisor to six Secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli Negotiations
Danielle Pletka, Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington
Multiracial Americans: The fastest growing demographic
Multiracial Americans are now the fastest-growing demographic group, making up 5 percent of the population. In 2000, Americans were first given the option to check more than one box for race on census surveys. The trend also complicates current notions of race regarding socioeconomic status and minority rights. Guest host Madeleine Brand talks with guests and listeners about the ways society is changing with more multiracial Americans.
Susan Graham, founder and executive director of the California-based Project Race
Carolyn Liebler, PhD, sociology professor at the University of Minnesota who specializes in family, race and ethnicity
Refusing medical treament for children
When should children and their parents be allowed to refuse medical treatment, and when are the courts justified to intervene? A 13-year-old with Hodgkin's lymphoma and his mother fled Minnesota for a week after a judge ordered that he receive chemotherapy treatment. The child and his family objected to the procedure on religious grounds, but have since returned to the state and have agreed to undergo chemotherapy. In a separate case, a Wisconsin mother was charged with second-degree reckless homicide for letting her 11-year-old daughter's diabetes go untreated. Madeleine Brand takes on the issue of children and patient's rights.
Dr. Stewart Siegel, Chief of the Department of Hematology and Oncology at Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles. Dr Siegel is also a Professor and vice Chair of Pediatrics at the Teck School of Medicine at University of Southern California
Arthur Caplan, PhD, Chairman of the Department of Medical Ethics and a Professor of bioethics at University of Pennsylvania
An edible history of humanity
A crunchy, juicy bite of a golden ear of corn on a cool, spring day. That seemingly simple bite is actually the byproduct of thousands of deliberate human decisions, from hunting and gathering to farming to the Aztecs and Mayas who made it nutritionally complete. We're hungry, we go to the market, and that might be the extent of our thoughts on food. But there's so much more to food than meets the eye. In An Edible History of Humanity, author and editor Tom Standage tells readers that food is at the core of political, social and economic forces from the beginning of time. He attacks the "profoundly unnatural" activity of farming that ended the "fun" of hunting and gathering. Madeleine Brand talks with Standage about his new book.
Tom Standage, author of An Edible History of Humanity, is the business editor at the Economist and the author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses and The Victorian Internet. He has written for Wired and the New York Times