Immigration in America, 1988: Living in the Shadows By January 1988, the American immigration debate had entered a new and uncertain phase. For decades, undocumented workers had been part of the American labor force, often occupying jobs that were difficult, poorly paid, or unwanted by many American workers. But the
The Office of Price Administration: Holding the Line on the Home Front By December 1944, the Office of Price Administration had become one of the most visible—and controversial—agencies of the American home front. In a talk delivered on December 18, 1944, OPA Administrator Chester Bowles defended an agency whose mission
If the first two installments of the CBC Radio series It’s a Nice Place to Visit But I Wouldn’t Want to Live There examined the problems of the modern city, Parts 3 and 4 begin to look for an answer somewhere else. The answer was suburbia. By the late 1960s
It’s A Nice Place To Visit, But I Wouldn’t Want To Live There -Episode 1 and 2 – CBC Radio International – circa 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection It’s a Nice Place to Visit: The Urban Landscape, Then and NowThere is something almost timeless about the title of the
In May 1955, Dwight D. Eisenhower was approaching the midpoint of his first term in the White House, and the question confronting the country was no longer whether the former Supreme Allied Commander could win an election. He had already done that—twice, overwhelmingly. The more complicated question was what kind
Is there such a thing as a spirit world? And if there is, can the living actually communicate with the dead? Those questions have occupied human beings for centuries, but by the early 1970s they had acquired an interesting new dimension. Radio and television had made the intimate workings of
When the BBC World Service broadcast Children of the Revolution in two parts on April 7, 2010, it offered a remarkable portrait of a generation that had grown up knowing no other Iran than the Islamic Republic. The young people interviewed for the documentary were not participants in the 1979
Here’s something I’ll bet you never thought much about. But thanks to BBC 1Extra and a broadcast from August 23, 2005, you can hear all about it. Language is supposed to be something we all share. But listen closely and it becomes clear that language is also one of the
In February 1950, the question of whether the federal government should have the power to prevent discrimination in employment was still far from settled. On the American Forum of the Air, moderated by Theodore Granik, Senators Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Spessard L. Holland of Florida confronted the issue directly:
A lot of things make us unhappy, including the things we thought would make us happy. What does it mean to be happy? And, perhaps more importantly, who gets to decide what happiness should look like? Those questions were at the heart of an unusual debate between economist Lord Richard
