Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Debate Over Bush-Era Security Programs

10 a.m. (ET)

New disclosures prompt calls for an inquiry of the Bush Administration's national security programs. A look at political risks the Obama administration might face by opening an investigation into previous anti-terrorism policies.

Fred Kaplan: "1959: The Year Everything Changed" (Wiley)

11 a.m. (ET)

In nineteen-fifty-nine, America suffered its first casualties in the Vietnam War, the microchip was invented, and Motown was about to change American music. How the events of that year laid the foundation for free-love, political...

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