Things Are Not What They Seem

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Harper's magazine Senior Editor Luke Mitchell looks at last night's passage of the health care bill. Then, Tim O'Brien talks about the 20th anniversary of his classic The Things They Carried. And Michael Countryman and David Furr discuss their roles in Bill Cain's new play "Equivocation." Plus, we'll look at the role cotton played in the lives of African Americans before and after the Civil War.

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