Dr. Ruiz Goes To Washington

00:00:00

/

00:00:00

Press Play to start audio

January 28, 2013

Dr. Ruiz Goes To Washington

Play

We meet a first-term Congressmen who has come to politics from another profession. Dr. Raul Ruiz is an ER physician who grew up in a migrant community in California's Coachella Valley. He's eager to join the Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Tagged with:

Politics

You might also like…

Take A Left At The Kremlin

The adventure of a 19-year-old in a single engine plane from Germany to Russia, and the pleasure of returning to a favourite book.

Listen

Navigating New Freedoms In Burma (Myanmar)

Burmese activist Nay Phone Latt tells Dick about the four years he spent in prison and the new country he found when he got out.

Listen

Good Girls Revolt

Dick speaks with Newsweek magazine’s first female senior editor about the year she and 45 other staffers sued the magazine for gender discrimination.

Listen

A Modest Proposal: Recruit The Hackers

Guest host Sean Cole talks to military defense specialist John Arquilla, who says the U.S. government should hire hackers - instead of prosecuting them.

Listen

Facebook: No Delete

An Austrian student who challenged Facebook over user privacy.

Listen

The Language Of Violence

Writer Andrew Lam speaks about the possible link between immigrant frustrations and violence.

Listen

Florida Robosigners

Two government lawyers, June Clarkson and Theresa Edwards, smelled something fishy in a series of mortgage foreclosure papers, and set out to get to the bottom of it. What they got was fired.

Listen

Occupying Wth Grandma

Youth Radio writer Jelani Gibson took a bus from Pontiac, Michigan to spend a week in Zucotti Park with his grandmother and recorded an audio diary.

Listen

Saying No To Defendants: A Public Defender’s Catch 22

Dick speaks with the chief public defender in Luzerne Country, Pa., who started declining new cases for his office because he feels his staff of lawyers might have to take shortcuts.