Commentary

KUNC commentator Dr. Marc Ringel has been following the economics of the medical industry for the better part of 40 years. He’s seen the inconsistencies from the inside and now most recently the outside.

As the Occupy Wall Street movement head into the tenth week – KUNC commentator Pius Kamau finds parallels with much that has occurred in Africa over the last 60 years. He says the corporate greed that has impoverished Africans will likely play out in America too if nothing is done about it.

Tomato, (tə-me-to) or Tomato(tə-ma-to). People have been debating that for years – as well as the health benefits of the red vegetable. KUNC commentator Dr. Marc Ringel has more.

Some of you older listeners may remember the giant kerfuffle caused during the Reagan years when the Secretary of Agriculture suggested reclassifying catsup from condiment to vegetable.

William Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard. He also regularly appears on Fox News Sunday and on the Fox News Channel.

Laurel Dalrymple is a home page editor at NPR.org

Despite the Xbox 360s, lifelike squawking hamsters and remote-controlled flying fairies now on the market, my 8-year-old daughter asked for just one thing last Christmas: an ant farm.