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Weekend America on News & Politics
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Good News, Bad News, No News
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. This week we have chef Anthony Bourdain, whose show "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, airs on the Travel Channel; also, writer David Rakoff; and Yale literature professor Amy Hungerford.
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Good News, Bad News, No News
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. This week we have Hollywood writer Dana Gould; John Ridley, the author of "The American Way;" and Stacey Grenrock Woods, the author of "I California."
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Good News, Bad News, No News
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. This week we have Hollywood writer Dana Gould; Gustavo Arellano, the author of the "Ask a Mexican" column in the OC Weekly; and Yale literature professor Amy Hungerford.
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How to Make People Like You
A truism of American politics might read: It's better to be liked than... well, than pretty much anything else. So while people in polls say they'd vote for Hillary Clinton, fewer say they'd have her over to dinner. Pundits will tell you, whether the politician is smart, funny or agrees with a voter 100 percent, nothing is more important than whether that voter might invite that politician to hang out, say, over a couple of brewskis. Weekend America's John Moe asked Tim Sanders, the author of "The Likeability Factor," to give Clinton some tips. And while he was at it, John got a few for himself.
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Good News, Bad News, No News
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. This week we have David Rakoff, actor and author of "Don't Get Too Comfortable," and John Warner, editor of McSweeneys.net
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Good News, Bad News, No News
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. This week we have John Ridley, the author of "The American Way," Nancy French, the author of "A Red State of Mind," and Gustavo Arellano, who writes the nationally syndicated "Ask a Mexican" newspaper column.
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Good News, Bad News, No News
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. This week we have Yale literature professor Amy Hungerford; essayist, journalist and actor David Rakoff; and New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan, author of "Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell: A Tale Of Our Times With (Hopefully) Some Hope For Us All."
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Going from Iraq to Michigan
Two thousand Iraqi immigrants will be moving to Michigan soon, and no doubt, it will be a big change. Weekend America talks Belmin Pinjic, the director of refugee services for the Lutheran Social Services of Michigan, an organization that helps refugees settle into their new home. We'll also talk with Rafat Ita, an Iraqi that resettled in the United States in 1994 after the Persian Gulf War.
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Reflections on a Violent Art Project
Chicago Artist Wafaa Bilal spent 31 days last month locked in a room being shot at by strangers. The strangers were virtual, operating a paintball gun, and Bilal had no idea who they were or why they were shooting. He called his exhibit "Domestic Tension." Bilal is an Iraqi who fled Saddam's regime in 1991. His father and younger brother were killed in the current Iraq war. We talked to him during his stay in the exhibit, and we catch up with him now that he's free. We ask Bilal what he's learned since being a marked target, and what life is like now.
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The Rock Video
The video is called "Mike Gravel Rock". It isn't running on TV, but it's all over the internet. It's about three minutes long. We see presidential candidate Mike Gravel in a park by a lake. He stares at the camera for a minute and eleven seconds in an extreme close-up, then turns, picks up a rock, throws it in the lake, and walks away. That's it. But what does it mean when a guy just stares at you then throws a rock in a lake and walks away? Weekend America's John Moe asks Gravel to explain. He also asks a film critic, a band and baby what they see in the clip.
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Good News, Bad News, No News
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. This week we have Ana Marie Cox from Time magazine and formerly of Wonkette; Sherman Alexie, the author of "Flight"; and columnist Dan Savage.
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Good News, Bad News, No News
Our panel of non-experts review the week's events in a parlor game to gauge what kind of week America had. Weighing in this week is comedy writer Dana Gould, essayist and actor David Rakoff, and Yale Literature Professor Amy Hungerford.
