For Your Ears Only - July 13th, 2014

Podcast: 

fyeo_140713_complete.mp3

I. BILLBOARD

II. BORDER BATTLE, AMERICAN-STYLE

Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Op-Ed columnist

III. BORDER-BATTLE, MIDEAST-STYLE

MJ Rosenberg, former Congressional and USAID staffer and ex-editor of the AIPAC weekly Near East Report

IV. THE COURT: CONTRACEPTION, CONSCIENCE AND BEYOND

David J. Garrow, Paris-based research professor, University of Pittsburgh Law School, author of "Bearing the Cross," Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., and "Liberty and Sexuality," on the legal struggles over reproductive rights in the U.S. prior to Roe v. Wade

V. WEB THREATS 2025

Lee Ranie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project

VI. A FAUX ROMANCE: FRED & GINGER

Steve Ross and Karen Oberlin, cabaret artists celebrating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, "Cheek to Cheek," 7/17, 7pm at 54 Below, 254 W. 54th ST., NYC, WWW.54BELOW.COM

VII. CREDITS/CLOSE

VIII. ARCHIVE: EGYPT -- COUP AND CONSEQUENCES - 7/14/13

Thanassis Cambanis, Beirut-based Mideast expert for the Century Foundation, columnist for The Boston Globe and thanassiscambanis.com - author of "A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel"