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What Do We Call This Decade? [5min]

We had the '70s, the '80s, the '90s. But as we approach the halfway point of this decade, we still have no name for it. What do we call this decade? Guest: Timothy Noah writes the"Chatterbox" column for Slate magazine and edited Marjorie Williams's posthumous collection of essays, The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate.
Read entire article at NPR "Talk of the Nation"