Thursday, May 8, 2008

Iraqi soldiers are warning residents to leave the embattled Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, ahead of what might be a larger offensive by US and Iraqi forces against Shiite militiamen. We speak with Tina Susman, Baghdad bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times.

Slavery did not end with the end of the Civil War. In fact it went on in a different form until World War II. Free blacks were arrested on trumped up charges all across the south and were leased to landowners and industries. They were often forced to work in coal mines or lumber mills under horrific conditions. Douglas Blackmon uncovers this history in in his new book "Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II."

The farm bill, funding for the war in Iraq and more. We speak with Gail Chaddock, Capitol Hill correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.

Almost half of all women who leave the workforce to have children never return. But they would if they could f