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Guest host: Susan Page
For health reasons Cuba's president Fidel Castro has temporarily transferred presidential powers to his brother, Raul. We'll talk about some of the political and economic implications of Cuba's first power shift in 47 years.
Tom Gjelten, correspondent, NPR
Ian Katz, reporter, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Francisco De Armas, international representative, Christian Liberation Movement
Andro Nodarse-Leon, Cuban American National Foundation
Guest host: Susan Page
A constitutional historian discusses the Founding Fathers' original intent for the Second Amendment, and talks about why neither side of the contemporary gun control debate seems to understand what the amendment is all about.
Saul Cornell, Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University, Director of the Second Amendment Research Center at the John Glenn Institute, author of "The Other Founders," and editor of "Whose Right to Bear Arms Did the Second Amendment Protect?"
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