Accessibility links

Blog Of The Nation Blog of the Nation

Blog Of The Nation

Thursday March 29, 2007

Blog Of The Nation

A Tinge of Purge?

by Barrie Hardymon

March 29, 2007 • More firing fallout today: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, explained at a Senate hearing the contradictions in e-mails he wrote about the eight U.S. prosecutors

Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9209715/126958316" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Blog Of The Nation

Talk Radio, Meta Style

by Barrie Hardymon

March 29, 2007 • Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales. We can't stop talking about him here in Washington, D.C. But the story

Blog Of The Nation

Getting A Bad Rap: MC Rove

by Scott Cameron

March 29, 2007 • It's a rite of spring in Washington, DC, for the President to get up in front of the annual Radio and TV Correspondent's Dinner

Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9210646/126958333" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Blog Of The Nation

A Ghetto Nation

by Barrie Hardymon

March 29, 2007 • In her new book, "GhettoNation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless," Cora Daniels asks, "When was the last time you used, heard, thought, snickered, whispered (under your breath), shou

Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9209191/126958343" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Blog Of The Nation

Fear of Flying: or How To Choose Appropriate Airplane Reading

by Barrie Hardymon

March 29, 2007 • I'm not going to pretend that I buy actual books in the airport bookstore anymore; I'm generally so behind in my reading that I like to cart around several pounds of the guiltily unread. In fact, I still overspend at the newsstand on trashy

Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9210240/126958353" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Blog Of The Nation

Two's a Crowd in a Bed

by Scott Cameron

March 29, 2007 • Tell me there's not a show in here somewhere ... turns out, couples aren't sleeping

Wednesday March 28, 2007

Blog Of The Nation

Political Junkie: A Senate Surprise

by Scott Cameron

March 28, 2007 • Democrats in the Senate surprised even themselves yesterday when they got just enough

Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9180353/126958372" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Blog Of The Nation

My Heart Hurts: Medicate or Operate?

by Sarah Handel

March 28, 2007 • A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests angioplasty may not be superior to medication in

Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9179274/126958382" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Blog Of The Nation

Four Score and Seven Hours ago...

by Barrie Hardymon

March 28, 2007 • ...we asked you for your favorite quotes on memorials and monuments. Today, we'll talk to Ryan Coonerty about his book "Etched in Stone: Enduring Words from Our Nation's Monuments

Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9186325/126958392" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Blog Of The Nation

You Mean I Have To Read The Notes, Too?

by Barrie Hardymon

March 28, 2007 • There's a whole slew of annotated editions of classic books hitting bookstores, which have enabled the adoring fans of everyone from Sherlock Holmes to

Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9182077/126958402" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Blog Of The Nation

It Is a Fact Universally Acknowledged...Janeites Are Intense

by Barrie Hardymon

March 28, 2007 • The BBC production of Pride and Prejudice was almost a religious event in my life (thank you, A&E!). The combination of Jane Austen and

Tuesday March 27, 2007

Blog Of The Nation

Kids and Concussions: Not Just A Bump on the Head

by Sarah Handel

March 27, 2007 • When NPR's Sports Correspondent Tom Goldman's story on kids and concussions aired on Morning Edition

Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9155872/126958422" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Blog Of The Nation

Brits Detained by Iran: What's It Like?

by Scott Cameron

March 27, 2007 • As Tony Blair hints at drawing a tougher line over Iran's detention of 15 British troops, it occurs to us ... this has happened

Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9159164/126958437" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Blog Of The Nation

It's Really Not a Secret

by Barrie Hardymon

March 27, 2007 • A new self-help craze has everybody wishing their hardest, and it's not a "Secret" any longer. But even before

Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9148288/126958447" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Blog Of The Nation

Langewiesche: Worth Trying To Spell

by Barrie Hardymon

March 27, 2007 • There are a few mega-star investigative reporters out there, and we're lucky enough to speak to a few of them from time to time (Sy Hersh,

Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/9147491/126958457" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

More from Blog Of The Nation