IMMIGRANT SUPPORTERS PROTEST NEW LEGISLATION; POWER AND THE NEOCONSERVATIVE LEGACY; CONDOR
IMMIGRANT SUPPORTERS PROTEST NEW LEGISLATION
An estimated half-million demonstrators converged on downtown Los Angeles this weekend to protest pending legislation in the US Senate that would treat illegal immigrants as felons. Larry talks with professor Raphe Sonenshein and United Farm Workers union spokesman Mark Grossman about these surprisingly large protests over the proposed laws that will dramatically change the status of an estimated 12 million people living in the US without documentation.
POWER AND THE NEOCONSERVATIVE LEGACY
Larry Mantle talks with renowned scholar of political economy Francis Fukuyama about his new book America At the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy (Yale University Press) Fukuyama examines how, in its decision to invade Iraq, the Bush administration failed in its stewardship of American foreign policy. Fukuyama also explores the contention by the Bush administration’s critics that it had a neoconservative agenda that dictated its foreign policy during the president’s first term. Providing a fascinating history of the varied strands of neoconservative thought since the 1930s, Fukuyama argues that the movement’s legacy is a complex one that can be interpreted quite differently than it was after the end of the Cold War.
CONDOR
Award-winning NPR Environmental Correspondent John Nielsen traces the historic rise and fall of the California condor, which was saved from extinction, yet still faces an uncertain future.