Podcasts by Free Forum with Terrence McNally

Episode 515: WINNER-TAKE-ALL POLITICS-JACOB HACKER&PAUL PIERSON (2011) Best book on How DC Turned Its Back on the Middle Class from 2021-07-03T03:38:18

As Congress struggles to accomplish anything beyond pandemic rescue packages, aware that the only chance the Dems have of retaining power in the ’22 midterms is to actually give the American peo...

Episode 514: ALEC MacGILLIS - How is Amazon changing us? FULFILLMENT: Winning and Losing in One-Click America from 2021-06-23T18:20:55

During the pandemic, Amazon added 425K workers and 50% more warehouse space, the stock price rose 80%, and the personal fortune of Jeff Bezos increased by $58B. In this country, 100M subscribe to ...

Episode 513: DANIEL ELLSBERG (2009) - Pentagon Papers published 50 years ago this month from 2021-06-19T00:00:25

Fifty years ago this month, publication of the Pentagon Papers led to one of the proudest moments for the Supreme Court when they upheld the right of the press to publish and the right of the publi...

Episode 512: ANDREW BACEVICH-AFTER THE APOCALYPSE - How can“national security”deal with climate change, pandemics, racism, democracy? from 2021-06-07T04:02:28

When was the last time the US won a war or solved a big problem? ANDREW BACEVICH served in the U.S. Army for 23 years, graduated from both West Point and Princeton, and writes for both The Nation a...

Episode 511: Neuroscientist ANTONIO DAMASIO - SELF COMES TO MIND - Why did the mind evolve? How did the self emerge? from 2021-06-05T02:49:15

ANTONIO DAMASIO has spent the past 30 years -- with his wife Hanna -- studying how the brain operates and written about it in award-winning and best-selling books that readers understand. In Descar...

Episode 510: CHUCK COLLINS, co-editor, Inequality.org, THE WEALTH HOARDERS: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions from 2021-05-27T20:09:49

A couple of weeks ago Americans filed their income taxes. Well, some of them did anyway. In the last decade, the United States has become the premiere global destination for hidden wealth. It is no...

Episode 509: EMAD BURNAT (Palestinian)&GUY DAVIDI (Israeli) co-directors, Oscar-nominated doc, 5 BROKEN CAMERAS (2013) from 2021-05-20T05:51:22

This week, as blood is shed yet again between Israel and Hamas, and both sides are willing to kill civilians in pursuit of their domestic political agendas, listen to my conversation with Palestini...

Episode 508: NATHAN BOMEY - stories of BRIDGE BUILDERS - bringing people together in our polarized age from 2021-05-13T04:32:27

I believe human beings want more than anything to feel seen and heard. From clergy fighting racism in Charlottesville to a former GOP congressman engaging conservatives on climate change and Appala...

Episode 507: AFGHANISTAN (2009) 1) MATHEW HOH, resigned Foreign Service, 2) MALALAI JOYA, expelled from Parliament from 2021-05-08T00:58:13

President Biden will remove all troops from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years, the longest war in our nation’s history. Here are two interviews from 2009: First, MATHEW HOH, a former Marine who res...

Episode 506: MARK BITTMAN-Animal, Vegetable, Junk-A history of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal from 2021-04-30T22:24:02

When a guy who’s written 30,000 recipes, 30 books, and spent decades with the New York Times writes a book with the title – ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, JUNK: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal -...

Episode 505: LUIS RODRIGUEZ-Native roots, Latinx experience, and a sage call for reconnection from 2021-04-16T01:59:46

I sought out LUIS RODRIGUEZ, writer in many genres, activist, and the former poet laureate of Los Angeles, for his sage take on the city, the state, the nation, and the experience of Latinx people ...

Episode 504: AMY BACH (2009) Why Justice Loses on a Daily Basis in America’s Courts from 2021-04-09T06:59:37

Attorney AMY BACH spent eight years investigating the chronic lapses in courts across America. Lawyers sleep through trials. False confessions and mistaken eye-witnesses convict the innocent. The r...

Episode 503: DAVID DALEY-Fighting minority rule-RATF**KED: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count; UNRIGGED: Americans Battling Back from 2021-04-01T22:25:24

The US holds one national popular vote and Republicans have only won that vote once since 1988. Yet they have held the presidency nearly 12 of those years, and as a result, they dominate the Suprem...

Episode 502: FOR SAMA (2019) Oscar-nominated documentary shot during the siege of Aleppo, Syria from 2021-03-27T01:27:19

10 years ago last week pro-democracy protests began in Syria as the latest front in the - at the time still hopeful - Arab Spring. Here’s my 2019 conversation with directors Waad al-Kateab and Edwa...

Episode 501: NOREENA HERTZ-THE LONELY CENTURY - How do we restore human connection? from 2021-03-19T04:17:03

I believe human beings want more than anything to feel seen and heard. That’s why I wanted to talk again with NOREENA HERTZ economist, journalist, and author most recently of THE LONELY CENTURY: Ho...

Episode 500: DAVID KIRP (2011), KIDS FIRST: Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future from 2021-03-11T04:56:47

Increased tax credits contained in the $1.9 trillion Covid relief package signed this week could lower child poverty more In 2021 than any other year In U.S. history. That is a really big deal. It ...

Episode 499: SHERRY TURKLE turns the conversation on herself-THE EMPATHY DIARIES: A Memoir from 2021-03-05T06:28:57

SHERRY TURKLE mourned the loss of conversation in ALONE TOGETHER: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other and called for its restoration in RECLAIMING CONVERSATION: The Power of...

Episode 498: STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Can Unions Make a Comeback? - Beaten Down Worked Up: The Past Present and Future of American Labor from 2021-02-23T04:55:14

STEVEN GREENHOUSE covered labor for the New ¥ork Times for 19 years. Unions played a key role when the American economy created the greatest middle class the world had ever seen. Given how clearly ...

Episode 497: WADE DAVIS (2002), NatGeo Explorer-in-Residence-Let’s take a break from the news-The Light at the Edge of the World from 2021-02-20T01:59:28

Impeachment #2 is over, Trump is still off Twitter, vaccines are on the rise, and Biden is committed to relief for American families. Let’s take a breath - and listen to my remarkable 2002 conversa...

Episode 496: MICHAEL MANN, THE NEW CLIMATE WAR-Climate scientist was attacked for“hockey stick”graph from 2021-02-10T03:42:29

In 1999, MICHAEL MANN co-authored a scientific paper that included a graph that tracked temperatures over the last 1000 years. Known as “the hockey stick,” it showed that climate change was real. H...

Episode 495: DANIEL GOLEMAN, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence - The critical skill of attention from 2021-02-06T03:33:32

Biden’s pitching unity, but he seems determined to go big and the Dems sound serious about accountability. Pandemic numbers are easing and vaccines increasing, but we fear the unknown of virus vari...

Episode 494: At 28, CHLOE MAXMIN defeated the minority leader of Maine's State Senate. Her secret? She listens. from 2021-01-29T03:44:08

In college, CHLOE MAXMIN co-founded the Divest Harvard campaign calling on the university to divest from fossil fuels. After graduating in 2015, she returned home to rural Maine, and In 2018 was el...

Episode 493: My 2018 conversation w/ARLIE HOCHSCHILD (Strangers in Their Own Land) - listening to our alienated fellow Americans from 2021-01-21T04:23:43

Last week I spoke with ARLIE HOCHSCHILD, author of STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND: Anger & Mourning on the American Right, about the Trump years, the insrrection, and the future. Given the inaugur...

Episode 492: ARLIE HOCHSCHILD-Strangers in Their Own Land-She’s been talking with“Trumpers”since 2011 - and since election day from 2021-01-14T07:43:53

I last spoke with Berkeley sociologist ARLIE HOCHSCHILD in 2018 about her book, STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND: Anger & Mourning on the American Right, in which she shares what she learned in five...

Episode 491: HEDRICK SMITH-WHO STOLE THE AMERICAN DREAM? (2012) We need more than Obama 2.0 in 2021. from 2021-01-09T01:37:47

It is a significant achievement and an enormous relief that the White House and both Houses of Congress are out of the hands of the anti-social and anti-democratic Republicans. To remind us, howeve...

Episode 490: THOMAS HOMER-DIXON - for the new year - COMMANDING HOPE: The Power to Renew a World in Peril from 2021-01-01T01:26:46

THOMAS HOMER-DIXON correctly predicted a lot of the crises we face. But, as we leave 2020 behind and give birth to 2021, i talk with him about his new book, COMMANDING HOPE: The Power We Have to R...

Episode 489: NEW-Sisters Constance Touey&Jeannette Lucey - DO IT BETTER: How the Kids of St. Francis de Sales Exceeded Everyone’s Expectations from 2020-12-26T01:10:23

Too often when we read about immigrant children, they are being torn from their parents’ arms or blamed for lawlessness. Sisters Constance Touey and Jeannette Lucey met in 1984 when they were both ...

Episode 488: SAM MYERS, PLANETARY HEALTH: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves - Exhibit A: the pandemic from 2020-12-17T04:47:02

Planetary health is by definition big picture, but it’s made immediate by the pandemic. I see our environmental goals as an effective reckoning with climate change and a healthy relationship with t...

Episode 487: REBECCA HENDERSON, REIMAGINING CAPITALISM In a World on Fire from 2020-12-03T02:48:39

Today we face several crises that have either grown out of the distortion of our economy and our politics or are unsolvable because of them – including inequality, climate change, social division, ...

ELIE MYSTAL of The Nation on Trump’s legal options, How Biden reverses Trump’s orders, and the Supreme Court from 2020-11-18T07:16:51

I talk with ELIE MYSTAL, Justice Correspondent at The Nation magazine. We look through a legal lens at Trump’s fraud claims and his obstruction of an effective transition, at the question of what i...

MILTON BENNETT-The Cult of Trump -72M Americans voted for four more years from 2020-11-13T02:31:36

More than 72 million Americans voted for Donald Trump. 72 million voted for his incompetence, racism, ignorance, cruelty, criminality, and for his disastrous handling of the pandemic. Here’s my 201...

ROB JOHNSON-Relief - but no congratulations. Dems must be bolder. from 2020-11-06T04:03:08

It lookls as if Joe Biden will win a very tight electoral college victory against arguably the worst president in history in the midst of a deadly pandemic and crippled economy the incumbent has bu...

CHICAGO CONSPIRACY TRIAL - JON WIENER -What does it have to tell us? from 2020-10-23T03:08:34

JON WIENER'S 2006 book, Conspiracy in the Streets: the Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight has been re-released to sync with release of the film, The Trial of the Chicago Seven. Written and di...

BILLY WIMSATT, Movement Voter Project (2018) - Invest in the grassroots to win elections and make change. from 2020-10-17T02:48:37

It’s a little over 3 weeks till the final day to turn in your ballot. Here’s my 2018 conversation with BILLY WIMSATT, founder and executive director of Movement Voter Project, one of the most effec...

ALEX KEYSSAR-Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? from 2020-10-08T00:54:05

The US hold only one national popular vote – for President and Vice President – and The Republican party has won that national vote only once since 1988, that’s 32 years. Yet they've held the presi...

JON WIENER, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties from 2020-09-24T05:34:48

Even folks who live here, as I have since 1975, may have little idea of the central role Los Angeles played in the culture and politics of the 1960s. Too often LA is portrayed as surfing, Hollywood...

Rec. JAN 28, 2017-MARK HERTSGAARD, RICHARD ESKOW, DREW DELLINGER-the Week Trump Took Office from 2020-09-17T05:12:55

It’s now less than 50 days from what we usually call election day. This year we call it the day the polls close. On January 28th 2017 the week Trump took officee I recorded this conversation with M...

ROBERT FRANK, best-selling economist - UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Putting Peer Pressure to Work from 2020-09-11T01:57:17

We often think social contagion yields negative consequences - teens smoke because other teens smoke, for example. However, in his latest book, UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Putting Peer Pressure to Work, R...

DAVID KIRP, author, KIDS FIRST - We know innovative programs that work - whether kids are in school or not from 2020-09-03T04:41:58

In a normal year, children would to be starting back to school. This year, some will, some won’t, and parents, teachers, and school systems all face tough choices. What do know about what works to ...

ELIE MYSTAL of The Nation on Racial Justice and the Trump-Barr Assault on Rule of Law from 2020-08-27T05:52:11

The Trump-Barr Justice Department is actively working for the President and his election campaign. The militarization of local police over the past decade mixed with a population that owns a lot of...

PAUL HOWARD, director, INFINITE POTENTIAL: Life&Ideas of DAVID BOHM from 2020-08-21T07:40:26

Who is DAVID BOHM? A physicist who reconciled Einstein’s theory of general relativity and Neils Bohr’s quantum theory. A seeker whose scientific insight of implicate order and cosmic wholeness echo...

JEAN GUERRERO, author, HATEMONGER: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda from 2020-08-15T02:40:13

Who is Stephen Miller? Though officially chief speechwriter, he's also the architect of the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies - travel bans, family separations, refugees in cages durin...

CHUCK COLLINS-Inequality is only getting worse during pandemic from 2020-07-31T22:53:31

Inequality is getting worse. Most of us know that the Covid-19 pandemic has devastated the US economy. Between March 18 and June 25, over 46 million people filed for unemployment. In that same peri...

JODIE EVANS (2017) co-founder CodePink, where activism never stops from 2020-07-25T05:22:11

At a moment when Black Lives Matter protests - the largest, most sustained mass demonstrations in US history - are still taking place and Donald Trump is sending federal secret police to incite dis...

GREG PALAST-You’ve been warned-HOW TRUMP STOLE 2020 ELECTION from 2020-07-16T07:39:53

Election Day is less than four months away. Between closing poll sites, purging voter rolls, manipulating voting machines, and putting obstacles in the way of voting by mail, the Trump administatio...

MARCIA COYLE on THE ROBERTS COURT (2013) - What shoiuld we expect with Roberts the new swing vote? from 2020-07-09T05:42:20

The Supreme Court is in the news – issuing surprising rulings on the Dreamers and abortion access in Louisiana, but predictable ones limiting absentee voting in Texas and okaying the denial of cont...

ROBERT JAY LIFTON-LOSING REALITY-Trump, Fox,&Online BS v Pandemic&George Floyd’s death from 2020-07-02T03:10:21

Psychiatrist and author ROBERT JAY LIFTON has spent a lifetime not turning away from our dark side: writing about Hiroshima survivors, Nazi doctors, and the Japanese cult that released sari...

CONNIE RICE-Decades fighting to change the LAPD-POWER CONCEDES NOTHING from 2020-06-26T16:25:54

“We're still fighting the last battles of the Civil War," according to attorney CONNIE RICE in a recent interview. Rice has for decades been doing the hard work of police reform. She believes, “The...

MOVEMENT VOTER PROJECT-Funding the grassroots wins elections + makes change-ELIZABETH FERNANDEZ from 2020-06-18T02:14:17

ELIZABETH FERNANDEZ has worked on voter education and GOTV campaigns, helping to register thousands of new voters. She’s now Communications Director of MOVEMENT VOTER PROJECT, which offers a clear ...

ERICA CHENOWETH-Protest - What Really Works Best - Violence or Non-Violence? from 2020-06-13T02:24:44

2019 was marked by mass demonstrations around the globe. That ended with the pandemic. until millions witnessed George Floyd’s death. For more than two weeks crowds have risked their health to pro...

GEORGE PACKER, We Are Living in a Failed State from 2020-06-03T07:16:45

GEORGE PACKER’s recent essay in the Atlantic, We Are Living in a Failed State, was being quoted a lot - before George Floyd’s death and the ensuing days of rage. Packer is the author of 2013’s THE ...

ASTRA TAYLOR, What is Democracy? Is it alive and well? from 2020-05-20T05:10

ASTRA TAYLOR takes democracy seriously. In her documentary WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? and the companion book, Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, she explores its early roots as well...

Inspiring ideas for troubling times-1) Fritjof Capra on Systems Thinking, 2) Stuart Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred from 2020-05-16T21:03:40

In these unsettling times, I turned to the archives for inspiring ideas about the meaning of life. First, my 2009 conversation with physicist FRITJOF CAPRA about one of my favorite books, The Turni...

CHARLOTTE ALTER - THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR - Millennials in office. Will a new generation change America? from 2020-05-05T00:03:55

Millennials have already revolutionized technology, commerce and media. They’re responsible for our major social movements. And there are now 26 Millennials in Congress - five times as many as befo...

What stories got us here? Conversation w/ JEREMY LENT, THE PATTERNING INSTINCT (2018) from 2020-05-02T18:41:11

In The Patterning Instinct, JEREMY LENT brings together cultural history and neuroscience - a new discipline he calls cognitive history. Lent reminds us we see the world through stories. The right ...

ROBERT WRIGHT-Why are Americans divided as they confront a pandemic? from 2020-04-22T03:49:15

The American people usually come together when confronting huge challenges – think of WWII and the attacks of 9/11. But today, facing the global pandemic, we are divided – on nearly every aspect of...

ROBERT WRIGHT-Evolution of God-How God’s personality changed with ancient politics from 2020-04-18T05:42:16

ROBERT WRIGHT takes on big questions, and in 2009’s THE EVOLUTION OF GOD, he shows how the concept of God in Judaism, Christianity and Islam has varied over time depending on the politics at play w...

MARY O’HARA-The Shame Game-The narrative that tells people poverty is their own fault from 2020-04-07T05:48:48

MARY O’HARA grew up in deep poverty in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the Troubles. In THE SHAME GAME, she fights to break the power of the narrative that excuses the cruel and unjust treatment o...

ROBERT REICH-Once the pandemic is over and Trump is defeated, the system will still be broken.Who rigged it and how do we fix it? from 2020-03-26T05:03:51

Before the pandemic, before Trump, millions of Americans had already lost confidence in our political and economic system. Stagnant wages, volatile job markets, an unwillingness to deal with threat...

BRANKO MILANOVIC-Capitalism Rules the World-How do we shrink inequality? from 2020-03-21T04:22:19

In Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World, BRANKO MILANOVIC says we’re all capitalists now. Liberal capitalism delivers rampant inequality and capitalist excess as it figh...

Podcast - DON INGBER-Learning from Nature ->Biotech Breakthroughs at Harvard’s Wyss Institute from 2020-03-13T04:37:19

Our bodies — and all living systems — accomplish tasks far more sophisticated and dynamic than any entity yet designed by humans. By emulating nature's principles, researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Ins...

Robert Greenwald - SUPPRESSED: The Fight to Vote - new documentary from 2020-03-07T03:43:05

How far would you travel to vote if your polling place closed? How much time would you spend before giving up? I talk with ROBERT GREENWALD of Brave New Films about his latest documentary SUPPRESSE...

DAVID FARIS High Time for the Dems to Fight Dirty (2018) from 2020-03-02T18:10:58

On a national level and in many states, when politics and elections are played fair and square, Republicans lose. So they turn to gerrymandering, voter suppression, the refusal to act on Obama’s no...

Nick Kristof&Sheryl WuDunn-TIGHTROPE-Americans in Despair Reaching for Hope from 2020-02-22T07:59:51

In TIGHTROPE, the Pulitzer Prize winning husband-wife team of Nick Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn tell the story of how the town in which Nick grew up was devastated by the loss of well-paying jobs, h...

STEPHAN SCHWARTZ-8 LAWS OF CHANGE: How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation from 2020-02-15T01:02:09

Since 1991 STEPHAN SCHWARTZ has been following trends shaping the future, and has tracked the rise of fascist and identitarian politics and the Theocratic Right. His new book 8 LAWS OF CHANGE: How ...

AARON GLANTZ- HOMEWRECKERS: How Wall Street Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Put the American Dream Out of Reach from 2020-02-07T06:37:57

In Homewreckers, AARON GLANTZ tells how a group of Wall Street bankers and private equity — including Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, as well as Trump confidant...

Take a break-1) Roco Belic, Happy doc 2) Rafe Esquith, 5th Grade Shakespearians from 2020-02-01T04:37:25

The virus is spreading, Brexit looms, democracy in America is being abused. Let’s take a break this week. First, here’s my 2012 conversation with film director Roco Belic about his documentary, HAP...

ANDREW BACEVICH-How US Squandered Its Cold War Victory - Paving the Way for Trump from 2020-01-23T04:42:59

In his newest book, The Age of Illusions, ANDREW BACEVICH takes us from 1989’s seemingly ultimate victory in the Cold War to the current troubling and chaotic moment. He attempts to explain how we ...

HEDRICK SMITH’s PBS doc THE DEMOCRACY REBELLION celebrates grassroots reform victories from 2020-01-09T06:45

I talk with HEDRICK SMITH, Pulitzer-winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy-winning producer/correspondent, about THE DEMOCRACY REBELLION, his PBS documentary on grassroots movements who ar...

PAULA DANIELS-Transforming the American Food System One School District at a Time from 2019-12-28T04:03:55

I talk with PAULA DANIELS, Co-Founder, Chief of What’s Next, and Chair of the Board of the Center for Good Food Purchasing, about what it takes to pull together elements of politics, government, b...

Who was Jesus? REZA ASLAN, Zealot: The Life&Times of Jesus of Nazareth from 2019-12-21T01:44:25

I wish you and your loved ones a deeply renewing holiday season. This week, you’ll hear my 2014 conversation with Reza Aslan about his best-selling book, ZEALOT: The Life and Times of Jesus of Naza...

MICHAEL APTED, 63 UP - the unique documentary series 56 years in the making from 2019-12-12T04:56:50

In 1964, the original 7 UP - in which children talked about their hopes and dreams - was broadcast as a one-off special in the UK. Michael Apted (Coal Miner’s Daughter; Gorillas in the Mist), took ...

How did we get here? HENRY LOUIS GATES, America Behind the Color Line (2004) from 2019-12-09T03:44:26

Here's my conversation with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates on his 2004 television project America Behind the Color Line. Since the late 60's, two distinct classes emerged within Black America:...

How did we get here? PAUL KRUGMAN, The Great Unraveling (2003) from 2019-12-09T03:42:13

Here's my 2003 conversation with Nobel-prize winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on his book The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century. He was one of few in th...

60s.2.0 Meets OK Boomer - Necessary Allies from 2019-12-05T04:33:39

My 20-minute commentary calls for Millennials and Boomers with shared values to forge a movement large enough, creative enough, diverse enough, and powerful enough to successfully confront the crit...

LAWRENCE LESSIG-They’re Not Representing Us-and what we need to do about it from 2019-11-21T03:29:03

In his latest book, THEY DON’T REPRESENT US: Reclaiming Our Democracy, Harvard Law School professor LAWRENCE LESSIG points out big problems the U.S. is NOT solving, and adds, “The crisis in America...

JOHN NICHOLS - Getting Impeachment Right&Winning the Rust Belt in 2020 from 2019-11-16T02:02:38

The impeachment hearings have started and we're a year away from the 2020 election. Who better to talk to about how to get impeachment right and how to beat Trump in the Rust Belt states next year ...

FOR SAMA- Best doc at Cannes&SXSW - inside the siege of Aleppo, Syria from 2019-11-12T15:44:23

The documentary FOR SAMA - airing on PBS Tuesday 11/19 - takes us inside Aleppo during the brutal siege by al Assad and the Russians. Waad al-Kateab began shooting graffiti on university walls and ...

The Book Behind the Wealth Tax - EMMANUEL SAEZ, Triumph of Injustice from 2019-10-31T15:02:16

I talk with EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC Berkeley economist, about his newest book, THE TRIUMPH OF INJUSTICE: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay - co-authored with Gabriel Zucman. The pair grab...

NEW: JEREMY RIFKIN - The Green New Deal from 2019-10-17T03:39:42

I talk with JEREMY RIFKIN, advisor to China and the European Union, and author of 20 books about the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, society, and the environment. In ...

WAR ON WHISTLEBLOWERS (2013 documentary) THOMAS TAMM&FRANZ GAYL, punished under Bush and Obama from 2019-10-12T22:16:22

Whistleblowers are in the news. And Trump’s not the first to attack them. Here’s my 2013 show on the documentary, WAR ON WHISTLEBLOWERS: Free Press and the National Security State. I speak with pro...

NEW: JONATHAN BLANK, Sex, Drugs&Bicycles - How does Holland do it? from 2019-10-04T16:32:06

In his documentary SEX, DRUGS & BICYCLES, high-tech entrepreneur JONATHAN BLANK asks, “How scary is life in a social democracy?” Beyond windmills, cannabis “coffeeshops”, and the red light dist...

American Heroes-GEORGE McGOVERN&HOWARD ZINN from 2019-09-28T04:51:21

With impeachment hearings starting, let’s listen to a couple of past heroes, men of principle, including one whose electoral opponent resigned rather than face his own impeachment. In the first hal...

NEW: TIFFANY SHLAIN - 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week from 2019-09-19T20:36:59

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NEW-ADAM HOCHSCHILD-Lessons from a Dark Time - for our own dark times from 2019-09-18T04:30:06

As soon as I picked up and started reading LESSONS FROM A DARK TIME, I wanted to have this conversation with ADAM HOCHSCHILD. As a writer, he doesn’t waste your time. He brings an artist’s touch an...

TERRENCE McNALLY - 60s2.0 (15 min) Generations w Shared Values vs Global Crises from 2019-09-04T02:48:48

I offer a commentary on what I call 60s2.0 - generations with shared values coming together to create the sort of fundamental change we need in order to improve the daily lives of millions and to s...

NEW: CHIP CONLEY, WISDOM @ WORK: The Making of a Modern Elder from 2019-08-22T06:59:43

Life expectancy has grown 30 years in the U.S. since 1900—from 47 to 77. Meanwhile the rapid pace of new technology is changing the nature of work, so that you may struggle to keep up. 40% now have...

NEW: ERICA CHENOWETH-Non-Violent Protests On the March - Why They Work from 2019-08-10T01:20:10

June 25th NYTimes headline: “2019 might be the year of the protest” - mass demonstrations in Prague, Hong Kong, Russia, Kazakhstan, and the UK. The President of Algeria, the President of Sudan, and...

RALPH NADER - Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for America’s Future (2012) from 2019-08-03T06:57:23

CNN did their best to turn presidential debates into Wrestlemania, pitting moderates against progressives, pushing the story that their policies are too bold and will elect Trump. Tuesday night Ber...

NEW-FOR SAMA-Don’t miss this award-winning doc on the siege of Aleppo, Syria from 2019-07-26T07:27

The documentary FOR SAMA takes us inside the heartbreaking suffering of the people of Aleppo during the long and brutal siege by al Assad and the Russians. Waad al-Kateab began shooting students sp...

NEW: BARBARA FINAMORE - Will China Save the Planet? from 2019-07-18T05:32:11

In the US today, we see how even one person willing to oppose the popular consensus can dictate our nation’s response to climate change. Meanwhile China has leapt into the vacuum created by our ret...

THOMAS HOMER DIXON-The Ingenuity Gap-Are we able to solve the problems we create? from 2019-07-14T04:18:56

We go deep into the archives to bring you my 2002 conversation with THOMAS HOMER DIXON on his insightful and provocative book THE INGENUITY GAP, in which he asks whether we’re going to be able to g...

NEW: NATHAN SCHNEIDER - How much of a difference can co-ops make? from 2019-07-06T00:56:23

When the three richest Americans have more wealth than the lowest 50%, shareholder capitalism is not working. In EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE: The Radical Tradition that is Shaping the Next Economy, NAT...

ARLIE HOCHSCHILD STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND: Anger and Mourning on the Right from 2019-06-29T19:51:19

As the Democratic candidate debates begin, here's my March 2018 conversation with ARLIE HOCHSCHILD. In her book, STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND, based on five years research in Southern Louisiana, she...

NEW: JOSHUA GOLDSTEIN-How did France&Sweden successfully solve climate change? from 2019-06-14T04:33:15

I’m always interested in what the US can learn from other countries. So I was immediately attracted to JOSHUA GOLDSTEIN’s new book A BRIGHT FUTURE: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and...

DR. ANDREW WEIL-2003 Conversation w America’s Favorite Doctor of Integrative Medicine from 2019-06-14T03:04:21

This 2003 interview traces the evolution of Dr. Weil’s work and thinking from his earliest understandings of health and healing to his ongoing commitment to train a new generation of physicians. W...

NEW podcast: GREG GRANDIN, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall from 2019-05-31T17:00:51

The idea of the frontier has been central to American identity. Its image of endless promise fostered our belief in the US as exceptional. Today America has a new symbol: the border wall. As GREG G...

What’s Trump hiding? 2017 interview w DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, The Making of Donald Trump from 2019-05-24T21:44:21

As the confrontation between House investigators and Donald Trump drags on, as he ignores subpoenas of his financial and tax records, what is he hiding? Here’s my June 2017 conversation with Pulitz...

NEW podcast: JOSHUA DOUGLAS - How to Take Back Our Elections from 2019-05-17T06:47:37

The Republican party games the political system with gerrymandering, voter suppression, and election manipulation. In VOTE FOR US, JOSHUA DOUGLAS writes about the many positive initiatives through ...

Daniel Ellsberg - When the Supreme Court upheld free speech rights of the press (2009 interview) from 2019-05-11T04:36:35

As the Trump White House claims executive privilege gives them the right to hide the full Mueller report - let’s listen to my 2009 interview with Daniel Ellsberg, whose courageous civil disobedienc...

NEW - RICHARD WRANGHAM - The Goodness Paradox - Humans show extremes of violence and harmony. from 2019-05-04T01:55:44

How is that humans can be both the nicest and the nastiest of species? Biological anthropologist RICHARD WRANGHAM wrestles with that question in The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Betwe...

NEW - BILL McKIBBEN, founder 350.org, new book, FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? from 2019-04-17T08:13:15

Thirty years ago, BILL McKIBBEN’s THE END of NATURE was the first popular book about climate change. Since then the effects have exceeded our expectations, while our response has lagged what’s need...

1) TIM RYAN, running in 2020, A Mindful Nation 2) WINIFRED GALLAGHER, Attention, our most valuable resource from 2019-04-13T05:32:57

(1) Ohio Congressman TIM RYAN entered the race last week for the Dems’ 2020 nomination. Here’s our 2012 interview on his book, A MINDFUL NATION: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Imp...

NEW - Reflecting on big questions with essayist GEORGE SCIALABBA from 2019-04-04T06:51:32

I have complete freedom booking guests, driven by the pursuit of what I term “a world that just might work.” Still, I know that recognizable names mean more clicks, listens, downloads, and shares. ...

How inequality hurts everybody - Richard Wilkinson&Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level. from 2019-03-30T06:11:48

As the college admissions scandal emphasizes once again the gulf between the wealthy and the rest of us, and the deficit skyrockets due to Trump’s GOP tax cuts for the rich and corporations, here’s...

NEW podcast: CHARLES EISENSTEIN, Climate - A New Deeper, Fuller Story from 2019-03-22T07:19:09

Here’s a radical idea: Have we become too focused on climate change? In CLIMATE - A New Story, CHARLES EISENSTEIN calls for a reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ to reverse cl...

JONAH SACHS-Winning the Story Wars (2012)-As timely as ever from 2019-03-15T07:53:29

Too often today facts and reality are less important than which narrative you embrace or which stories you believe. My December 2012 conversation with JONAH SACHS, Co-Founder of Free Range - the fo...

NEW-ELAINE PAGELS-Why Religion: A Personal Story from 2019-03-07T00:02:50

In WHY RELIGION? A Personal Story, ELAINE PAGELS weaves what she's learned about religion with her own experience responding to dual tragedies that took place 25 years ago – the death of her young ...

NEW Sister Jeannette Lucey&Sister Constance Touey DO IT BETTER: How the Kids of St. Francis deSales Exceeded Everyone's Expectations from 2019-02-23T03:15:47

Too often when we read about immigrant children, they are being torn from their parents' arms or blamed for lawlessness. Sisters Constance Touey & Jeannette Lucey met in 1984 when they were bot...

NEW - DAVID KIRP, Does the US love its children? from 2019-02-08T07:32:57

How are we doing by our kids? School and college budgets shrink. Teacher strikes are on the rise. College debt is crippling. Children are separated from their parents. I check in with DAVID KIRP, P...

NEW - CORY DOCTOROW - Copyright, Freedom, Empathy, and Walkaways from 2019-01-25T08:09:21

CORY DOCTOROW, has a lot to say about human nature, society, and technology. He writes speculative fiction - YA best-seller LITTLE BROTHER, and most recently the novel, WALKAWAY and graphic novel I...

ALI NOORANI-As Trump Throws Tantrums, Red States Meet the Immigration Challenge from 2019-01-12T05:15:31

As the government shutdown continues and 800,000 federal workers suffer along with asylum seekers caught by the President’s anti-immigrant actions, listen to my interview from last February with AL...

NEW - BILLY WIMSATT - Money in the grassroots wins elections and makes change - Movement Voter Project from 2018-12-28T03:56:27

BILLY WIMSATT, is the founder and executive director of Movement Voter Project, which offers a clear break from the tired and true strategy of electoral politics - big donors, big consultants, and ...

NEW - ERWIN CHEMERINSKY offers a progressive vision of the Supreme Court from 2018-12-15T00:17:53

In his newest book, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the 21st Century, ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, Dean of Berkeley Law, makes the case that the right has since the 1970s develo...

NEW - GREG PALAST on dirty tricks and voter suppression in the midterms from 2018-12-14T23:44:45

Investigative reporter GREG PALAST (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) has been exposing GOP dirty tricks and voter suppression since 2000. Listen for the latest in the mid-terms in Georgia, Florida, an...

AFTER INNOCENCE-2006 doc w stories of prisoners exonerated by Innocence Project from 2018-12-08T04:34:42

As Trump cronies are caught up in Mueller’s dragnet, let’s look at how justice works for regular folks. 2006 documentary AFTER INNOCENCE tells the stories of wrongly convicted prisoners exonerated ...

New-LESLIE CRUTCHFIELD-How Change Happens: Why Social Movements Succeed from 2018-11-30T07:03:15

While elections matter, a vital society demands much more. In How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don't, LESLIE CRUTCHFIELD examines some movements that have succeede...

American hero, Gregory Boyle, Homeboy Industries, breaking through gang tribalism. from 2018-11-10T03:22:27

Midterms are over, Sessions has been fired, Trump has two months till the new House arrives. I’m on vacation and can’t respond to any of that. This week you’ll hear my April 2010 conversation with ...

NEW - DAVID CORN, Mother Jones The Most Important Election of Our Lives The Most Important Scandal in Our History from 2018-10-27T02:42:49

DAVID CORN wrote the Mother Jones cover story - The Most Important Election of Our Lives, declared that "The Russia scandal is the most important scandal in the history of the United States", and c...

JOHN NICHOLS Beto O’Rourke&What It’s Going Take to Turn Things Around from 2018-10-13T01:39:26

JOHN NICHOLS, Nation magazine’s national affairs correspondent, reports from Texas on Beto O’Rourke’s insurgent campaign against Senator Ted Cruz. We place today’s political and societal crises in ...

MARSHALL GANZ (UFW, Obama’08) - Public Narrative - Key to successful organizing from 2018-10-06T02:25:44

MARSHALL GANZ dropped out of Harvard in ’64 to work on Freedom Summer, was a lead organizer for years with United Farm Workers, and led the grass-roots storytelling model for Obama ’08. He’s a lect...

NEW - JOAN WILLIAMS - White Working Class - Overcoming Class Cluelessness from 2018-09-28T20:48:57

A friend emailed me JOAN WILLIAMS’ Harvard Business Review article, What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class. Read over 3.7 million times, it’s the most read article in HBR’s 90-...

MICHAEL LEWIS - 2010 Q&A re THE BIG SHORT - !0 years after the crash from 2018-09-21T06:10:34

It’s 10 years since the financial crash, and books, articles and commentators are looking back. So let’s listen to my 2010 conversation with Michael Lewis, We talk about his #1 best-seller THE BIG ...

NEW - MILTON BENNETT - The Cult of Trump? from 2018-09-14T06:55:45

I read an interview by Dahr Jamail with today’s guest, cultural communication expert Milton Bennett, at Truthout.org. Titled Is There a Cult of Trump? It spells out the methods utilized – consciou...

PAUL HAWKEN, DRAWDOWN: The Most Comprehensive Plan to Reverse Global Warming Rise for Climate Global Day of Action Sat Sept 8 from 2018-09-08T02:56:16

This weekend when folks in communities around the world take part in a Global Day of Climate Action, you'll hear my October 2017 conversation with PAUL HAWKEN (The Ecology of Commerce; Natural Capi...

NEW-MICHAEL BRUNE-Sierra Club ED, Good news, Bad news, Get Involved from 2018-08-30T20:22:14

California Natural Resources Agency predicts severe heat waves, wildfires, ocean rise will cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars. Trump administration decimates Obama emissions rules for ...

JARED DIAMOND 2005 Interview COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SUCCEED from 2018-08-25T16:54:21

In light of the Cohen and Manafort verdicts and the overturning of Obama Clean Air policy of regulating power plant emissions, let’s listen to my 2005 conversation with JARED DIAMOND regarding ...

JONATHAN SMUCKER-Grassroots activism in the Trump era (recorded March 2017) from 2018-08-24T16:44:27

This week we replay an interview recorded March 25 2017 in the early days of Trump with JONATHAN SMUCKER. Currently a grassroots organizer in his hometown of Lancaster PA, Jonathan was involved wi...

NEW: MDMA/Ecstasy Therapy for PTSD Cole Marta MD, LA's FDA-sanctioned clinical trials Seven McDonald, journalist from 2018-08-11T06:27:32

Michael Pollan's How To Change Your Mind, once as high as #4 on the NYTimes best-seller list, currently #4 in LA, tells the story of the scientific research as well as his personal experience of gu...

(1) THOMAS FRANK What's the Matter with Kansas? (2) GEORGE LAKOFF Don't Think of an Elephant - both recorded in 2004 from 2018-08-08T00:56:36

Late summer 2004, I recorded conversations with Thomas Frank on What's the Matter With Kansas? and with George Lakoff on Don't Think of an Elephant. We were deep in two wars and three months from t...

CHARLES DUHIGG-How do you make - or break - a habit? from 2018-07-21T00:00:10

Want to spend less time online and more time in the real world? Brain science has learned a lot about habits. That has given corporations new power with which to manipulate us, but it also gives us...

NEW-ADAM WINKLER-Supreme Court-Why do corporations have civil rights? from 2018-07-20T06:10:55

Under John Roberts, Supreme Court decisions are consistently pro-business, recently based on corporate rights of free speech and freedom of religion. How did we get here? Will it only get worse wit...

MARCIA COYLE - The Roberts Court (2013) - GOP’s justices favor corporations over people from 2018-07-09T20:29:52

With the retirement of Justice Kennedy and the looming fight to hold back the confirmation of a replacement until after the mid-terms - which would increase voter turnout on both sides - let’s list...

NEW - GAR ALPEROVITZ - What will replace corporate capitalism in the US? from 2018-07-06T02:48:33

As alarming as the news may be, we must not only oppose and alter the bad news, but we must also envision a possible future for the US that people deserve - as well as a path to get there. That is ...

NEW-BRAD FRIEDMAN-How secure are our votes in November's midterm elections? from 2018-06-29T01:23:28

Midterm elections take place November 7th – less than 20 weeks from the day we record this interview. Our democracy is under threat and the validity, accuracy, and reliability of our voting and vot...

NEW-David Faris- Time for the Dems to Fight Dirty from 2018-06-14T15:45:24

On a national level and in many states, the GOP know that if politics and elections are played fair and square, they lose. So they turn to gerrymandering, voter suppression, the refusal to act on O...

JACOB HACKER&PAUL PIERSON-Who Loses in Winner-Take-All Politics? You do. from 2018-05-28T17:52:19

Consider this a two-part episode. This week, my 2011 conversation with JACOB HACKER & PAUL PIERSON, authors of WINNER-TAKE-ALL POLITICS: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned Its Bac...

NEW-Nancy MacLean-Democracy In Chains-The Right’s Plan to Weaken the Voice of the People from 2018-05-19T01:03:11

Before the Powell Memo, before the Kochs. In DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, NANCY MacLEAN tells the story of a Nobel prize-winning economist ...

NEW: Jonathan Taplin, Move Fast&Break Things. If service is free, you’re the product. from 2018-05-12T02:15:54

If the service is free, you’re the product. How Facebook, Google and the rest use our data against us. My May 2nd 2018 conversation with JONATHAN TAPLIN, Director Emeritus of the USC Annenberg Inno...

HAZEL HENDERSON (2013) - Journey from upset mom to global economist from 2018-05-11T23:46:40

This weekend as we celebrate Mothers Day, you’ll hear my 2013 conversation with HAZEL HENDERSON – who in the 70’s, as a mom who’d never been to college, got upset about pollution threatening her y...

NEW-Mark Hertsgaard-How Big Wireless Made Us Think Cell Phones Are Safe from 2018-04-26T06:26:30

Mark Hertsgaard and Mark Dowie wrote a cover story at the Nation magazine: How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe. This is a big deal. 95 out of 100 American adults owns a cellpho...

NEW - JEREMY LENT, THE PATTERNING INSTINCT-What stories have we been telling ourselves? from 2018-04-20T00:13:40

In The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, JEREMY LENT writes, “The right wing has not won on the issues, but by telling a grand story of America - a story tha...

NEW Free Forum - Trump proudly admits lying-Q&A w Charles Lewis, former 60 Minutes producer&author, 935 Lies from 2018-03-22T07:49:21

Donald Trump proudly admitted at a rally that he had made stuff up in his meeting with Canadian PM Trudeau. CHARLES LEWIS titled his 2014 book 935 Lies because that was the number of untruths the B...

Free Forum NEW-What’s their story? ARLIE HOCHSCHILD-Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger&Mourning on the American Right from 2018-03-17T03:58:02

ARLIE HOCHSCHILD asks why residents of the nation's second poorest state vote for candidates who resist federal help? Why, when corporations devastate their lives and their land, do they most hate ...

NEW Free Forum ALI NOORANI - How Red State Hearts&Minds Meet the Challenge of Immigration from 2018-03-09T03:38:41

“We did not understand the country’s identity crisis…Consequently, we left in the hands of the opposition the hearts and minds of those we could have persuaded to support reform…Looking for an answ...

NEW Free Forum - PETER SCHRAG California Fights Back:The Golden State in the Age of Trump from 2018-02-23T03:50:14

PETER SCHRAG, longtime editor of The Sacramento Bee, makes the case that “no party, no lobby, no organization has been as formidable an adversary to the Washington of Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, and M...

Free Forum NEW David Cay Johnston-The Trump Administration Is Even Worse Than You Think from 2018-02-03T03:20:38

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and author of THE MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP, has been covering Trump since the late ‘80s. While most of the media focuses on tweets and White House ...

Free Forum - NEW - RAJ PATEL A History of the World in 7 Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future from 2018-01-19T06:54:01

RAJ PATEL has a written a new book (with Jason Moore): A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. "Cheap" is the opposite of a bargai...

NEW Free Forum - Frances Moore Lappe&Adam Eichen - Daring Democracy Is Already Happening from 2017-12-15T07:55:21

FRANCES MOORE LAPPE, (Diet For A Small Planet; Eco-Mind) whose work for decades has consistently updated the best the 60’s had to offer and ADAM EICHEN, who graduated from college in 2015, met on a...

NEW - FREE FORUM - CHUCK COLLINS Challenges 1% to Come Home - Born on Third Base from 2017-12-01T06:21:49

CHUCK COLLINS is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and author most recently of Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, ...

NEW Free Forum - Jodie Evans, co-founder Code Pink which is now turning 15 from 2017-11-03T22:58:43

I’ve known JODIE EVANS for over 20 years. And throughout that time, she’s been a tireless activist, advocate, and communicator for peace, justice and the planet. When I noticed that Code Pink, whic...

NEW Free Forum - DANIEL GOLEMAN - What Science Says About Mindfulness&Meditation from 2017-10-26T01:26:08

Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body. With the enormous growth in awareness and practice of mindfulness and meditation have come widespread claims of be...

Free Forum NEW Paul Hawken - Drawdown: A Comprehensive Plan to Reverse Global Warming from 2017-10-05T20:01:37

PAUL HAWKEN (The Ecology of Commerce; Natural Capitalism; Blessed Unrest) has a new research project and a new best-selling book - DRAWDOWN. Based on rigorous scientific and economic analysis and r...

Free Forum NEW - RANDY OLSON - Use Narrative to Connect&Move People - ExhibitA: Trump from 2017-09-21T18:07:29

RANDY OLSON, marine biologist turned filmmaker, author of DON’T BE SUCH A SCIENTIST and HOUSTON, WE HAVE A NARRATIVE says we’re all receiving a firehose of information and can no longer deal with a...

Free Forum - NEW - John Nichols - How Do We Win Back the Rust Belt in 2018&2020? from 2017-09-08T23:21:57

JOHN NICHOLS, is National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation and Associate Editor of The Capital Times in Madison, so his beat includes the nation’s capital as well Wisconsin’s. His latest book, ...

Free Forum - (1) NEW-ERWIN CHEMERINSKY Roberts-Gorsuch Supeme Court; Trump&the Law (2) MATTHEW HOH, former Marine captain who quit Foreign Service over unwinnable Afghan War (recorded November 2009) from 2017-09-02T18:22:23

(1) ERWIN CHEMERINSKY and I talk about legal issues raised by Trump administration. How far is this Supreme Court going to go in weakening separation between church and state? Is Trump violating th...

NEW Free Forum ROBERT WRIGHT - How can mindfulness help us deal with Trump’s tribal BS? from 2017-08-22T08:57:12

With his latest book, WHY BUDDHISM IS TRUE (#4 NYT Best-seller), ROBERT WRIGHT, who’s been asking big questions for at least three decades, asks another: What can mindfulness offer people trying to...

NEW Free Forum ARI BERMAN - The Fraud of Voter Fraud and the Threat of Voter Suppression from 2017-08-10T05:37:02

The Republican party's beliefs and policies – while passionately hailed by millions - are no longer those of the majority of Americans, and so the only way they can dominate government as they do -...

Free Forum - NEW - Naomi Klein: No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need from 2017-08-03T05:04:02

Naomi Klein (No Logo; Shock Doctrine; This Changes Everything) makes it very clear that even successful resistance is not enough. We must seize this moment to pursue nothing less than the world we ...

Free Forum - NEW - ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, Dean of Berkeley Law - the law and Donald Trump from 2017-07-30T05:17:35

I turn to constitutional scholar ERWIN CHEMERINSKY to talk about legal issues raised by the Trump administration. How far is this Supreme Court going to go in weakening the separation between chur...

Free Forum - DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: THE MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP from 2017-06-23T00:10:48

Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist and author David Cay Johnston has covered Donald Trump off and on for 27 years. In THE MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP, he profiles the many ways Trump has gotten wealthy b...

Free Forum - DANNY GOLDBERG In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea from 2017-06-02T18:53:45

Ever since he dropped out of college to sample the Summer of Love, DANNY GOLDBERG has been an active participant in culture, counterculture, and politics. In addition to his career in the music bus...

Free Forum - JOE CIRINCIONE, President, Ploughshares Fund NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES: Securing the World Before It's Too Late from 2017-05-03T06:12:50

New Episode!
Nukes - How do we deal with North Korea, Iran, Russia, and Trump?

Remember 2015 when the big nuclear weapons news was the deal negotiated by the Obama administration w...

Free Forum - NEW SHOW ROB JOHNSON, Director, INSTITUTE FOR NEW ECONOMIC THINKING from 2017-04-22T20:25:56

Prior to the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Rob Johnson served as Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee and a DIrector at Soros Fund Management. He also worked in the music and f...

Free Forum - CHIP BERLET, author, RIGHT-WING POPULISM IN AMERICA from 2017-04-09T23:24:01

NEW SHOW!
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, "The number of hate groups in the United States rose for a second year in a row in 2016 as the radical right was energized by the candidac...

Free Forum - New Interview JONATHAN SMUCKER, ROADMAP FOR RADICALS including hard won lessons of Occupy from 2017-03-25T00:14:44

Currently organizing where he grew up in Lancaster PA (as a Menonite), he was involved with Occupy Wall Street and has a lot to say about what worked and what we can learn from what didn't. Example...

Free Forum - Two classic political interviews from 2004 THOMAS FRANK, WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America GEORGE LAKOFF, DON'T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate from 2017-03-04T05:38:44

Originally Aired in 2004
They noticed trends, asked questions, offered warnings and gave advice.
"Why does the pro-life factory worker who listens to Rush Limbaugh repeatedly vote for the pa...

Free Forum - What are you willing to sacrifice? TIM DeCHRISTOPHER Civil disobedience (bidding) at public lands auction landed him 21 months in prison. from 2017-02-19T07:18:51

Originally aired June 2013

In 2008 TIM DeCHRISTOPHER disrupted a highly disputed BLM auction, effectively safeguarding thousands of acres of land. Tim outbid industry giants on land parcels ...

Free Forum - Trump Takes Office, Millions Hit Streets with Drew Dellinger, Richard Eskow&Mark Hertsgaard from 2017-01-25T05:24:29

I recently broke my two-year hiatus with a show of reflections on the election and the path forward. I couldn’t resist again this week, following the inauguration of Donald Trump and the millions a...

Free Forum - FIRST NEW SHOW SINCE 2014 RESPONDING TO TRUMP I open with a 10 minute commentary EDDIE KURTZ, Courage Campaign COLBY DEVITT, Divest from Standing Rock Pipeline from 2017-01-14T04:13:34

After hosting and producing this show for 17 years, I stepped away from recording new live interviews nearly two years ago, but I couldn't resist commenting about Trump's election and our path forw...

Free Forum - BILL McKIBBEN climate activist, founder 350.org author, The End of Nature; Deep Economy from 2016-09-25T04:17:59

Originally Aired August 2002
BILL McKIBBEN is a great writer - hundreds of New Yorker articles (1982-87), The End of Nature (1989), The Age of Missing Information (1992), Deep Economy,(2007) and...

Free Forum - ALVIN TOFFLER, author - with his wife, Heidi - of FUTURE SHOCK and THE THIRD WAVE about REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH: How It Will Be Created&How It Will Change Our Lives from 2016-06-09T22:20

(originally aired July 2006)

In their earlier POWERSHIFT, the Tofflers coined the word "prosumer" for people who consume what they themselves produce. Think of all the tasks - from ATM depo...

Free Forum: MICHAEL LEWIS, BOOMERANG: Travels in the New Third World from 2016-05-13T22:43:25

Free Forum: JOSEPH STIGLITZ Nobel-prize winning economist on FREEFALL: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy from 2016-05-13T22:01:09

Tap the Unique Power of Story and Narrative from 2016-02-23T05:51:13

In this podcast, I go solo. Rather than interviewing others, I share with you the best of the work I do to help organizations develop more engaging narratives and tell better stories. Learn why nar...

Free Forum Q&A - ED HUMES, author, FORCE OF NATURE: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution from 2016-01-17T06:02:42

Originally aired: June 2011

Pulitzer-prize winning author Ed Humes starts with skepticism, asks tough questions, and ends up delivering good news. Wal-Mart embraced an unprecedented green ma...

Free Forum Q&A- JAY HARMAN, THE SHARK'S PAINTBRUSH: How Nature is Inspiring Innovation from 2016-01-17T05:56:56

Originally Aired: November 2013

After 3.8 billion years of R&D on this planet, failures are fossils. What surrounds us in the natural world has succeeded and survived. So why not learn a...

Disruptive: Cancer Vaccine&Hydrogel Drug Delivery from 2015-12-05T03:23:55

Welcome to DISRUPTIVE the podcast from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
In this episode of DISRUPTIVE, we will focus on a cancer vaccine and hydrogel drug depots ...

Free Forum Q&A - JACK KORNFIELD&TRUDY GOODMAN A CELEBRATION of MINDFULNESS from 2015-10-31T03:08:16

On November 15, InsightLA, the leading Los Angeles-based Mindfulness Meditation organization, will host LIVING WITH A JOYFUL SPIRIT AND A WISE HEART, a day of deep teachings and timeless wisdom tha...

DISRUPTIVE DISRUPTIVE: CONFRONTING SEPSIS - Don Ingber and Mike Super from 2015-10-14T03:44:50

Hello, I’m Terrence McNally and you’re listening to DISRUPTIVE the podcast from Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

The mission of the Wyss is to: Transform heal...

Free Forum Q&A - VAN JONES Author, THE GREEN COLLAR ECONOMY and REBUILD THE DREAM from 2015-09-29T04:22:19

Originally Aired September 2011

"It is the American Dream that the GOP's...

Free Forum Q&A - After buying Times Mirror, The Tribune Company sent JAMES O'SHEA to LA to run the Times. Sam Zell then bought the Tribune Company and soon it was in bankruptcy. O'Shea was let go when he refused to do his bosses' bidding in terms of cutba from 2015-09-09T06:52:49

Originally Aierd May 2010



We hear a lot about Europe's troubles ...

Free Forum Q&A - JEREMY RIFKIN THE EMPATHIC CIVILIZATION: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis from 2015-09-09T06:47:27

Originally November 2010

1. The world's people have never have been so c...

Free Forum Q&A - JARON LANIER WHO OWNS THE FUTURE? from 2015-09-09T06:36:53

Originally aired: November 2013
JARON LANIER writes: "At the height of its p...

DISRUPTIVE: BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS (1) RADHIKA NAGPAL, (2) ROBERT WOOD, AND (3) CONOR WALSH from 2015-07-31T05:01:42

Welcome to the second episode of my new monthly podcast series produced with Harvard’s ...

DISRUPTIVE: BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS (1) RADHIKA NAGPAL, (2) ROBERT WOOD, TICS (1) and (3) CONOR WALSH from 2015-07-31T04:32:52

Welcome to the second episode of my new monthly podcast series produced with Harvard’s ...

Free Forum Q&A - MICHAEL LEWIS MONEYBALL; THE BIG SHORT; THE BLIND SIDE BOOMERANG: Travels in the New Third World includes a profile of Greece post-global crash from 2015-07-11T04:33:45

Originally aired October 2011


As the two countries play a high stake...

Free Forum Q&A - (1) ROKO BELIC director, HAPPY documentary (2) RAFE ESQUITH American Teacher of the Year 30+ years, 5th grade, Hobart Elementary, LA author, TEACH LIKE YOUR HAIR'S ON FIRE from 2015-05-29T03:23:32

Roko Belic (Originally aired January 2012)
Rafe Esquith (Originally aired Septembe...

Free Forum Q&A: MINDFULNESS JON KABAT-ZINN WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE; COMING TO OUR SENSES: HEALING OURSELVES AND THE WORLD THROUGH MINDFULNESS TRUDY GOODMAN founder, InsightLA in Santa Monica from 2015-05-22T05:59:58

Originally aired September 2010

You startle awake to a rude alarm clock....

DISRUPTIVE: SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY Pamela Silver&George Church from 2015-05-18T05:15:38

I’m excited to offer the first episode of DISRUPTIVE, my new monthly podcast series pro...

Free Forum Q&A - SYSTEMS THINKING (1) FRITJOF CAPRA, author of several books including The Tao of Physics; The Turning Point&(2) NORA BATESON, director AN ECOLOGY OF MIND doc re her late father, Gregory Bateson from 2015-05-07T08:12:42

(1) FRITJOF CAPRA - Originally aired April 2009
(2) NORA BATESON - Originally aire...

Free Forum Q&A - JOHN WARNER One of the founders of Green Chemistry Can we have progress without pollution? from 2015-04-30T05:59:57

(Originally aired November 2010)

According to Scientific American, "Exp...

Free Forum Q7A - (1) BEN SKINNER, A CRIME SO MONSTROUS: Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery&(2) GABOR MATE M.D. IN THE REALM OF HUNGRY GHOSTS: Close Encounters With Addiction from 2015-04-23T23:41:29

Ben Skinner(Originally aired April 2009)
Gabor Mate (Originally aired May 2011)
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Free Forum Q&A - DAVE ZIRIN the Nation Magazine's first sports editor GAME OVER: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down from 2015-04-17T19:41:08

When you pick up a newspaper, do you reach first for the sports section? When y...

Free Forum Q&A - (1) TEMPLE GRANDIN, one of the most accomplished adults with autism, designer of livestock handling facilities, author, ANIMALS MAKE US HUMAN (2) WALTER ISAACSON, head of the Aspen Institute, author, EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE AND UNIV from 2015-04-09T03:55:31

TEMPLE GRANDIN - Originally aired January 2010
WALTER ISAACSON - Originally aired Ma...

Free Forum Q&A - TIM RYAN Congressman, author, A MINDFUL NATION: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, Recapture American Spirit&WINIFRED GALLAGHER RAPT: Attention and the Focused Life from 2015-04-02T06:08:11

TIM RYAN - Originally aired August 2012
WINIFRED GALLAGHER - Originally aired May 20...

Free Forum Q&A - (1) GEORGE McGOVERN: A Politician of Principle Senator, 1972 Democratic Presidential Candidate (2) ANDREW BACEVICH, THE LIMITS OF POWER: The End of American Exceptionalism from 2015-03-27T04:34:05

(1) GEORGE McGOVERN
A Politician of Principle
(Originally aired November 2005) ...

ROBERT COLES Harvard professor, author of over 60 books winner, Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom from 2015-03-13T06:27:04

Originally aired 11-25-2008

"Who and what is ROBERT COLES? Social scien...

Free Forum Q&A - DANIEL ELLSBERG, Author The Most Dangerous Man in America from 2015-03-13T06:23:06

Aired 09/08/09

Daniel Ellsberg is an American hero. September 23rd is the 40th a...

Free Forum Q&A: DON BARLETT&JIM STEELE–The BETRAYAL of the AMERICAN DREAM from 2015-02-27T09:32:55

Originally Aired 09/09/12

Let’s suppose, for a moment, there was a count...

Q&A: BRUCE LIPTON, Ph.D., and STEVE BHAERMAN (comic), Co Author - SPONTANEOUS EVOLUTION from 2015-02-17T21:18:24

Aired 01/17/10

BRUCE LIPTON, Ph.D., a leading voice in new biol...

Q&A: AMY BACH, Author–ORDINARY INJUSTICE from 2015-02-17T21:11:13

Aired 12/12/09 Attorney AMY BACH spent eight years investigating the chronic l...

Q&A w/ Author, GEORGE PACKER–THE UNWINDING: Inner History of New America from 2015-02-17T21:09:09

NYTimes review: “This book hums – with sorrow, outrage and compassion.”- #8 Bes...

Free Forum Q&A - THOMAS GEOGHEGAN WERE YOU BORN ON THE WRONG CONTINENT? How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life from 2015-01-29T07:21:41

(Originally aired 10-03-2010)
We hear about the trouble Europe is in. The debt cris...

Free Forum Q&A: RALPH NADER THE SEVENTEEN SOLUTIONS Bold Ideas for Our American Future from 2015-01-23T06:04:47

(Originally aired 11-25-2012)
To rescue our country from corruption, compla...

Free Forum Q&A: ATUL GAWANDE–Surgeon / Teacher / Author–The Checklist Manifesto from 2015-01-23T05:43:21

Aired 03/14/10 Though Atul Gawande is a best-selling author, a Harvard profess...

Free Forum Q&A - ROBERT WRIGHT, author, THE MORAL ANIMAL and NON-ZERO We talk about THE EVOLUTION OF GOD. from 2014-12-31T01:32:57

Originally aired 08-04-2009
As we celebrate the holidays - religious, cultur...

Free Forum: MICHAEL LEWIS MONEYBALL; THE BLIND SIDE; THE BIG SHORT Defines financial terms that led to the Crash from 2014-12-20T01:08:51

Originally aired 4-4-2010
After a fight within the Democratic party, the Hou...

Free Forum Q&A - DAVID KIRP, author, KIDS FIRST: Five Big Ideas For Transforming Children's Lives And America's Future from 2014-10-09T05:39:06

originally aired 7-24-2011


What's good enough for a child you love? What's go...

Free Forum Q&A - FRANCES MOORE LAPPE ECO-MIND: Changing The Way We Think To Create The World We Want from 2014-10-03T05:57:07

Originally aired 12-30-2012

Where do you think the most important changes need to...

Free Forum Q&A- SHERRY TURKLE director, MIT Initiative on Technology&the Self author, ALONE TOGETHER: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other from 2014-08-12T06:09:25

originally aired 02-13-2011

How much technology do you use? Email, texting, faceb...

Free Forum Q&A: JEREMY SCAHILL DIRTY WARS The World is a Battlefield Best-selling book, Oscar-nominated film Founding Editor, THE INTERCEPT with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras from 2014-08-12T05:51:59

originally aired 05-05-2013

You're busy trying to make ends meet. The news is fil...

Free Forum Q&A: MARSHALL GANZ Organized with United Farmworkers for 16 years Led Obama grassroots in 2008 campaign, Teaches Public Narrative at Harvard on the Unique Power of Story and Narrative from 2014-07-23T16:27:19

originally aired 03-03-2012

In the early 1960s, MARSHALL GANZ dropped out of Harv...

Free Forum Q&A with TOM SHADYAC Director of ACE VENTURA, NUTTY PROFESSOR Author of LIFE'S OPERATING MANUAL from 2014-07-04T22:08:08

Originally aired 07-28-2013


I say that in a past life I worked in the enterta...

Free Forum Q&A: ELAINE PAGELS MacArthur and National Book Award winner REVELATIONS: Visions, Prophesy, and Politics in the Book of Revelations from 2014-06-25T22:39:11

Free Forum Q&A: Don Ingber - Innovation Inspired by Nature from 2014-06-16T02:24:10

Originally Aired 5/6/12

After 3.8 billion years of R&D on this planet, failur...

Free Forum Q&A: Terrence McNally and Free Forum listeners from 2014-03-25T05:45:46

Aired: 3/24/14

I'll share with you my views on a number of issues, large and smal...

Free Forum Q&A: SARA DAVIDSON, author of THE DECEMBER PROJECT: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Take Aim at Our Greatest Mystery from 2014-03-18T06:04:01

Aired: 03/16/14

We all deal day to day with a lot of questions and a lot of fears...

Free Forum Q&A: REZA ASLAN ZEALOT - Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth from 2014-03-11T05:51:11

Aired: 03/09/14

Last summer author and scholar of religions REZA ASLAN came out w...

Free Forum Q&A: TERRENCE McNALLY Turning the tables, my turn to answer Qs interviewed by Sara Davidson from 2014-02-04T05:18:41

Aired: 2/2/14

I am going to take a hiatus from this show in a few weeks, for the ...

Free Forum Q&A: HAZEL HENDERSON, Ethical Markets Can We Still Solve Big Problems? PART 2 from 2014-01-29T06:15:31

Aired: 1/26/14
As we begin a new year, let's look at where we are in the big picture....

Free Forum Q&A- DANIEL GOLEMAN FOCUS: Hidden Driver of Excellence from 2014-01-21T07:51:50

Aired: 01/19/14

I don't have to tell you how many messages, interruptions and dis...

Free Forum Q&A- NOREENA HERTZ, Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World from 2014-01-14T08:04:49

Aired: 1/13/14
According to NOREENA HERTZ, we to make up to 10,000 trivial decisions...

Free Forum Q&A: RICK HANSON, author of Hardwiring Happiness from 2013-12-31T00:08:06

Aired: 12/29/13

My guest this week is RICK HANSON, neuropsychologist, and author ...

Free Forum Q&A: HAZEL HENDERSON, Ethical Markets Can We Still Solve Big Problems? from 2013-12-24T20:31:44

Aired: 12/22/13

As we approach the end of another year, let's step back and look ...

Free Forum Q&A: ALAN WEISMAN, Author of COUNTDOWN Slowing Population Growth Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth from 2013-12-10T05:20:11

Aired: 12/8/13

What do you think are the biggest solvable problems facing humanit...

Free Forum Q&A - RICHARD HEINBERG, Author of SNAKE OIL: Fracking's Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future from 2013-12-03T07:45:27

Aired: 12/1/13

What do you know about hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" of natur...

Free Forum Q&A: JARON LANIER, Author of WHO OWNS THE FUTURE? from 2013-11-26T07:18:16

Aired: 11/24/13

After its recent IPO, Twitter is valued at nearly $25Billion. Now...

Free Forum Q&A: DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, Author of The Bully Pulpit Roosevelt vs Robber Barons from 2013-11-19T09:01:48

Aired: 11/17/13

The gap between rich and poor is huge and growing...legislative s...

Free Forum Q&A: THE SQUARE Sundance Audience Award Winning Documentary re Egypt’s revolution(s) JEHANE NOUJAIM, Director KARIM AMER, Producer KHALID ABDALLA, Participant from 2013-11-13T07:32:13

Aired: 11/10/13

THE SQUARE
Sundance Audience Award Winning
Documentary re E...

Free Forum Q&A - JAY HARMON, Author of THE SHARK'S PAINTBRUSH: How Nature is Inspiring Innovation from 2013-11-05T06:31:54

Aired: 11/4/13


Nature, imaginative by necessity, has already solved many of t...

Free Forum Q&A- ANDREW BACEVICH, author of BREACH OF TRUST: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country from 2013-10-07T22:17:41

Aired: 10/06/13

What do you feel when at sporting events or other public gatherin...

Free Forum Q&A - JACOB KORNBLUTH: director of INEQUALITY FOR ALL w/ Robert Reich&HARVEY WASSERMAN: Update on Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant from 2013-10-01T00:34:13

Aired 092913

A new documentary film opened Friday 9/27 in 23 cities, including Lo...

Free Forum Q&A- Philip Caputo, Author of The Longest Road: Overland from Key West to the Arctic Ocean in Search of What Holds America Together from 2013-09-24T04:35:30

Aired: 09/22/13

Standing on an island off the Alaskan coast, PHILIP CAPUTO marvel...

Free Forum Q&A - APRIL RINNE Chief Strategy Officer, Collaborative Lab on the Sharing Economy from 2013-09-17T05:26:20

Are you doing more sharing these days? In a virtual sense, most of us would probably ans...

Free Forum Q&A - SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn't, What Shouldn't Make You Happy, but Does from 2013-08-13T07:08:08

Aired: 8/12/13

This week we’re going to talk about happiness. So let’s start with...

Free Forum Q&A - ORVILLE SCHELL and JOHN DELURY, Authors of WEALTH AND POWER: China's Long March to the 21st Century from 2013-08-06T06:01

Some estimate China will surpass the US to become the leading economic superpower by 201...

Free Forum Q&A - TOM SHADYAC, director of documentary: I AM ; author of LIFE'S OPERATING MANUAL from 2013-07-30T03:55:21

Aired: 07/28/13

I sometimes say that in a past life I worked in the entertainment...

Free Forum Q&A - RAFE ESQUITH Multi-award winning 29-year LA 5th grade teacher REAL TALK FOR REAL TEACHERS Advice for Teachers, From Rookies to Veterans:"No Retreat, No Surrender!" from 2013-07-23T07:50:55

Aired: 7/21/13

This week we'll spend the hour with RAFE ESQUITH, who's been teach...

Free Forum Q&A - MARCIA COYLE, Author of THE ROBERTS COURT: Struggle for the Constitution from 2013-07-09T04:46:41

A friend tells the story of striking up a conversation with a hip looking man in his lat...

Free Forum Q&A - TIM DECHRISTOPHER: Activist, Civil disobedience (bidding) at public lands auction landed him 21 months in prison from 2013-07-02T06:08:05

What would you do? BLM is holding a oil and gas lease auction where pristine Utah land i...

Free Forum Q&A - DOUG FINE, Author of TOO HIGH TO FAIL: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution from 2013-06-25T03:30:06

This week, in the second of a two-part series (Part One with
CARL HART author of HIG...

Free Forum Q&A - CARL HART, Author of HIGH PRICE: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery that Challenges Everything You Know about Drugs and Society from 2013-06-18T08:19

Aired: 06/16/13

How many of you agree that the War on Drugs is one of the most ir...

Free Forum Q&A - GEORGE PACKER, Author of The Unwinding: Inner History of New America, #8 Best-seller from 2013-06-11T06:04:06

Aired 06/10/13

GEORGE PACKER has written a remarkable book, THE UNWINDING: An Inn...

Free Forum Q&A w/ Director, Robert Greenwald and Two Whistleblowers from 2013-05-28T03:22:08

Aired: 5/26/13
How difficult is it to be a government whistleblower these days? A doz...

Free Forum Q&A - DANNY KENNEDY, ROOFTOP REVOLUTION: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and the Planet from Dirty Energy from 2013-05-13T23:41:39

Aired: 5/12/13

Is there a revolution coming to your rooftop? While opponents clai...

Free Forum Q&A w/ JEREMY SCAHILL (#5 NYTimes Best-seller) DIRTY WARS: The World is a Battlefield from 2013-05-07T05:05:42

Aired: 05/05/13

In JEREMY SCAHILL'S new best-seller, DIRTY WARS, what begins as a...

Free Forum Q&A w/ CHRISTOPHER RYAN - SEX AT DAWN: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships (co-author, Cacilda Jethá) from 2013-04-29T19:09:31

Aired: 04/28/13

Are human beings monogamous by nature? While granting our tendenc...

Free Forum Q&A: HENRY JENKINS SPREADABLE MEDIA - Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture from 2013-04-24T00:44:22

Aired: 04/21/13


"If it doesn't spread, it's dead," is the simple consistent m...

Free Forum Q&A: DAN PALLOTTA, CHARITY CASE: How the Non-Profit Community Can Stand Up for Itself and Really Change the World from 2013-04-15T23:36:14

When someone approaches you to donate to a non-profit, how many of you want to know how ...

Free Forum Q&A: Mark Mykleby, Natl Security=Sustainability from 2013-04-08T20:20:06

In the preface to an article entitled A National Strategic Narrative, Anne-Marie Slaught...

Free Forum Q&A: Rebirth of US Manufacturing - James Fallows, Charles Fishman from 2013-03-31T20:34:24

Aired: 03/31/13

I do my best to question conventional wisdom, but I had heard and...

Q&A: Social Entrepreneurs-Creating Good Work from 2013-03-24T23:09:14

Aired: 03/24/13

This week I'm joined by RON SCHULTZ, editor of a new book, CREATI...

Q&A: Michael Lind, Co-Founder of New America Foundation from 2013-03-17T20:29:14

Original Airdate:

This week's guest, MICHAEL LIND, has written an economic histor...

Q&A: Dave Zirin, Sports Editor for the Nation and Author of GAME OVER from 2013-02-19T03:44:19

This week's guest is DAVE ZIRIN. Dave is the first sports editor for The Nation magazine...

Q&A: EMAD BURNAT and GUY DAVIDI, Co-Directors - 5 BROKEN CAMERAS from 2013-02-11T22:16:19

The Academy Awards will be given out in two weeks and we are lucky to have the co-direct...

Q&A: David Goldhill, Author - CATASTROPHIC CARE: How American Health Care Killed My Father And How We Can Fix It from 2013-02-04T03:39:07

Aired: 02/03/13

This week, my guest is DAVID GOLDHILL. After the death of his fat...

Q&A: ELAINE PAGELS, Author&Scholar - Revelations from 2013-01-27T23:30:55

We hear a lot these days about Armageddon, the Apocalypse, the Rapture, End Times. More ...

Q&A: Howard Bloom, Author - THE GOD PROBLEM: How a Godless Cosmos Creates from 2013-01-21T23:11:22

Aired: 1/20/13


HOWARD BLOOM has been called “next in a lineage of seminal thi...

Q&A: Frances Moore Lappé, Author - ECOMIND: CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK, TO CREATE THE WORLD WE WANT from 2013-01-20T20:21:29

In her 18th book, ECOMIND: CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK, TO CREATE THE WORLD WE WANT, Franc...

Q&A: JONAH SACH, author - WINNING THE STORY WARS: Why Those Who Tell and Live the Best Stories Will Rule the Future from 2013-01-14T16:19:42

Aired: 1/13/13

My guest this week is JONAH SACHS, author of WINNING THE STORY WAR...

Q&A: LESTER BROWN, Author - FULL PLANET, EMPTY PLATES from 2013-01-13T04:49:41

Aired: 12/23/12
Recorded: 10/17/12

When gas prices were at or near record high...

Q&A: OSHA GRAY DAVIDSON, Author - CLEAN BREAK from 2013-01-11T08:19:36

Aired 1/6/13

In the year 2000, Germany got 6% of its energy from renewables. That...

Q&A: HARVEY WASSERMAN, Longtime Anti-Nuke Activist, Teacher, Author from 2013-01-11T05:53:39

Aired 01/06/13 - I'll be talking with longtime anti-nuke activist Harvey Wasserman. I'll...

Q&A: Marianne Williamson.-Author from 2012-12-20T03:15:48

Aired 12/16/12

We'll talk about her newest book, THE LAW OF DIVINE COMPENSATION: ...

Q&A: JONATHAN GOTTSCHALL, Author -THE STORYTELLING ANIMAL from 2012-12-02T15:45:53

Aired 12/02/12

Last July in an interview with Charlie Rose, President Obama said ...

Q&A: RANDY HAYES, ED of Foundation Earth former head of Rainforest Action Network, working to"ecologize"the economy from 2012-11-20T23:47:39

Aired 11/18/12

I'll be talking with RANDY HAYES, former head of Rainforest Action...

Q&A: Election Reflections with Rob Johnson and Sherle Schwenninger from 2012-11-13T21:24:51

Aired 11/11/12


I will reflect on Tuesday's election with ROB JOHNSON of the I...

Q&A: TOM HAYDEN - THE LONG SIXTIES from 2012-10-31T13:30:45

Aired 10/28/12

I haven't done a lot about the election on this show. I've been ta...

Special Replay - GEORGE McGOVERN from 2012-10-21T16:18:33

At 24, I worked for George McGovern’s 1972 Presidential effort, managing the campaign in...

Q&A: RALPH NADER THE 17 SOLUTIONS: Bold Ideas for Our American Future from 2012-10-16T15:55:12

Aired 10/14/12


I'll be talking with NADER about the critical ideas in his won...

Q&A: Naomi Wolf-Vagina: New Biography from 2012-10-02T19:45:27

Aired 9/30/12

When Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth was published in 1991, Gloria Ste...

Q&A: Bioneers - Ken Ausubel / Ellen Brown from 2012-09-26T15:33:47

Aired 09/23/12

This radio show aims to offer "pieces of the puzzle of a world tha...

Q&A: Hedrick Smith - Who Stole the American Dream from 2012-09-17T23:37:29

Aired 09/16/12

Last week I interviewed longtime reporters Don Barlett and James S...

Q&A: Barlett&Steele-Betrayal of American Dream from 2012-09-11T18:01:10

Aired 09/09/12

Let's suppose, for a moment, there was a country where the people ...

Q&A: Terry Tamminen-Cracking the Carbon Code from 2012-09-03T07:46:46

Aired 09/02/12

When I first met TERRY TAMMINEN, he was living on a houseboat in t...

Q&A: CHARLES DUHIGG - THE POWER OF HABIT from 2012-08-31T00:59:17

Aired 08/26/12


Humans are not alone in being creatures of habit, but can we d...

Q&A: ROB MANNING Chief Engineer, Mars Science Laboratory from 2012-08-07T23:55:12

Aired 08/05/12

ROB MANNING is the Chief Engineer for the Mars Science Laboratory ...

Q&A: TIM RYAN Congressman - Author, A MINDFUL NATION from 2012-08-07T23:17:31

Aired 08/05/12

I am joined by Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, who offers a radical sol...

Q&A: DOUG FINE - Author, TOO HIGH TO FAIL from 2012-07-31T18:08:40

Aired 07/29/12

I'll be joined by DOUG FINE to talk about his new book,TOO HIGH TO...

Q&A: Psychedelics in 2012-Charles Grob MD, James Fadiman - Author from 2012-07-24T19:32:35

Aired 07/22/12

Did you know that LSD is being tested as a treatment for alcoholis...

Q&A: NORA BATESON - Director, AN ECOLOGY OF MIND: A Daughter's Portrait of Gregory Bateson from 2012-07-11T01:11:51

Aired 07/08/12

My guest will be NORA BATESON, and we'll talk about AN ECOLOGY OF ...

Q&A: KAREN THOMPSON WALKER - Author, THE AGE OF MIRACLES from 2012-07-10T15:38:35

Aired 07/08/12

I seldom interview writers of fiction, but the debut novel THE AGE...

Q&A: JOHN FULLERTON - Former Managing Director at JPMorgan&Founding Director, THE CAPITAL INSTITUTE from 2012-06-26T07:47:20

Aired 06/24/12

JOHN FULLERTON has spent a career at the highest reaches of the fi...

Q&A: David DeGraw - Occupy/99% from 2012-06-19T17:49:12

Aired 06/17/12

DAVID DeGRAW, who a year ago was among a handful who called for th...

Q&A: NOAM CHOMSKY, scholar, activist, author, OCCUPY from 2012-06-19T02:29:56

Aired 06/17/12

This week's show will deal with the Occupy/99% movement from two d...

Q&A: PAUL GILDING, author, THE GREAT DISRUPTION from 2012-06-13T20:17:15

Aired 06/10/12

PAUL GILDING says it's time to stop worrying about climate change....

Q&A: Chris Mooney - The Republican Brain from 2012-05-13T19:05:29

Aired 05/16/12

Crazy though it may be, I assume many have accepted the fact that ...

Q&A: Don Ingber-Innovation Inspired by Nature from 2012-05-10T04:44:34

Aired 05/06/12

After 3.8 billion years of R&D on this planet, failures are fo...

Q&A: Michael Sandel - Moral Limits of Markets from 2012-05-02T15:32:43

Aired 04/29/12

Should we pay children to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay pe...

Q&A: CHUCK COLLINS - Author,"99 to 1" from 2012-04-17T15:45:09

Aired 04/15/12

For over thirty years, you and I have lived through a radical redi...

Q&A: JONAH LEHRER, Author, NYT #1 Best-Seller - IMAGINE: How Creativity Works from 2012-04-10T16:31:24

Aired 04/08/12

Do you consider yourself to be creative? Do you think of creativit...

Q&A: Connie Rice - author, Power Concedes Nothing from 2012-04-03T16:15:17

Aired 04/01/12

Too often problems are not solved, solutions are not found or impl...

Q&A: Peter Diamandis-Abundance Ahead from 2012-03-28T14:31:23

Aired 03/25/12

Recently the annual TED conference took place in Long Beach Califo...

Q&A: Steven Hill-10 Steps to Repair US Democracy from 2012-03-20T17:37:47

Aired 03/18/12

Among the things that most people agree are in big trouble these d...

Q&A: RICHARD DAVIDSON, DAVID EAGLEMAN, and PETER BAUMANN from 2012-03-14T23:09:53

Aired 03/11/12

RICHARD DAVIDSON, author,
The Emotional Life of Your Brain
<...

Special: Terrence guest host"To The Point"on KCRW from 2012-03-10T18:52:30

Aired 03/02/12

Iranians went to the polls in parliamentary elections today. With ...

Q&A: Marshall Ganz-Power of Story in Social Movements from 2012-03-06T20:32:08

Aired 03/04/12

In the early 1960s, MARSHALL GANZ dropped out of Harvard to join t...

Q&A: Wael Ghonim - Facebook leader of Egypt's Revolution from 2012-02-09T01:06:19

Aired 02/05/12

How did the Egyptian people overthrow longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak...

Q&A: ROKO BELIC'S, documentary - HAPPY from 2012-02-02T05:02:56

Aired 01/29/12

HAPPY. Are you happy? What makes you happy? Does money make you ha...

Q&A: WINIFRED GALLAGHER, Author - Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change from 2012-01-31T22:18:49

Aired 01/29/12

Though change has never been as rapid as it is today, adapting to ...

Q&A: JANE McGONIGAL, REALITY IS BROKEN - How Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World from 2012-01-24T08:07:26

Aired 01/20/12

There are 183 million active video gamers in the US, and the avera...

Q&A: Occupy the Dream: Benjamin Chavis&David De Graw from 2012-01-20T21:09:44

Aired 01/15/12

Guests: David De Graw, one of the central figures in the leaderles...

Q&A: STEPHEN GREENBLATT, National Book Award Winner, THE SWERVE: How the World Became Modern from 2012-01-20T20:32:12

Aired 01/15/12

In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his l...

Q&A: TOM FRANK-What's the Matter with Kansas?-EDGAR CAHN-founder of Legal Services&Time Dollars from 2012-01-10T07:30:43

Aired 01/08/12

This will be a conversation about the state of things as we embark...

Q&A: Steve Stockman, writer/director, author, HOW TO SHOOT VIDEO THAT DOESN'T SUCK from 2012-01-04T19:59:35

Aired 01/01/12

I'll be joined by writer-director STEVE STOCKMAN whose new book HO...

Q&A: JOHN PRENDERGAST - co-founder of the Enough Project from 2011-12-31T20:24:03

Aired 12/25/11

As an activist, presidential advisor, cofounder of the Enough Proj...

Q&A: Heather Courtney - Director/Producer, WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM from 2011-12-20T16:36:39

Aired 11/07/11

From a small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghani...

Q&A: RICHARD HEINBERG, author, THE END OF GROWTH: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality from 2011-12-13T17:31:48

Aired 12/11/11

Economists, politicians, and pundits insist recovery is at hand, y...

OCCUPY/99% MOVEMENT CONVERSATION from 2011-12-07T20:27:32

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ELISE WHITAKER, Action Committee, OccupyLA
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Aired 11/27/11

At a time when social media is being utilized to coordinate protes...

Q&A: JAMES O'SHEA, former editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times, author - THE DEAL FROM HELL from 2011-11-23T01:54:39

11/20/11

This week's show is about a Los Angeles institution and source of local ...

Q&A: Oran Hesterman/Fair Food; Leila Conners/Urban Roots from 2011-11-16T21:18:11

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Some bad news:

In 2008 more than 50% of all US harvested cr...

Q&A: MICHAEL LEWIS, MONEYBALL from 2011-10-19T16:01:09

Aired 10/16/11

Both Ira Glass and Malcolm Gladwell say today's guest is their fav...

Q&A: Occupy Wall Street/Occupy LA from 2011-10-13T13:48:30

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Q&A: Bioneers-Ken Ausubel, David Orr from 2011-10-05T16:52:21

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Q&A: TIFFANY SHLAIN-director, CONNECTED: A DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE from 2011-09-27T15:48:39

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In CONNECTED, as her father battles brain cancer and she confronts...

Q&A: Robin Wright-Rock the Casbah-Arab Awakening from 2011-09-22T03:58:08

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Q&A: ROBERT JOHNSON, (INET) from 2011-08-30T17:26:01

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Q&A: MARIA ARMOUDIAN, Journalist/Radio Host from 2011-08-12T05:21:45

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KILL THE MESSENGER emerged from MARIA ARMOUDIAN's studies into the...

Q&A: Paula Caplan, Author/Psychologist/Playwright from 2011-08-04T05:04:28

Aired 07/31/11

PAULA CAPLAN, a clinical and research psychologist, is currently A...

Q&A: DAVID KIRP, Author - Kids First from 2011-07-28T21:44:02

Aired 07/24/11

DAVID KIRP is a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy a...

SPECIAL: Terrence fill in hosts on KCRW from 2011-07-24T23:26:48

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Q&A: TINA ROSENBERG, Author - JOIN THE CLUB from 2011-07-20T17:39:57

Aired 07/17/11

TINA ROSENBERG, the winner of a MacArthur grant, is a contributing...

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Q&A: CHRIS MOONEY, Author - The Republican War on Science from 2011-06-24T05:19:18

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Q&A: JANINE BENYUS, Natural Sciences Writer - Biomimicry from 2011-06-17T05:07:18

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Q&A: ED HUMES, Pulitzer-prize winning author from 2011-06-09T16:46

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Q&A: ESTHER DUFLO, Professor of Economics at MIT from 2011-04-28T17:12:36

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Q&A: ROBERT THURMAN, Author from 2011-04-28T00:42:28

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Q&A: JACOB HACKER&PAUL PIERSON–WINNER-TAKE-ALL POLITICS from 2011-04-21T05:58:08

Aired 04/17/11

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Q&A: DAVID CAY JOHNSTON Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Author from 2011-04-05T17:55:56

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Q&A: ROBIN WRIGHT, Author - DREAMS AND SHADOWS from 2011-03-29T16:06:11

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Q&A: JONATHAN SCHELL, Author from 2011-03-23T21:00

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Q&A: JOHN NICHOLS, Author from 2011-03-22T14:53:29

Aired 03/20/11

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Q&A: TOM SHADYAC, Director from 2011-03-16T19:03:46

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Q&A: Mark Hertsgaard, Author from 2011-01-24T21:51:54

Aired 01/23/11

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Q&A: ANTONIO DAMASIO, M.D. Ph.D @ USC - Brain and Creativity Institute from 2011-01-11T20:28:31

Aired 01/09/11

ANTONIO DAMASIO, M.D. Ph.D is the David Dornsife Professor of Neur...

Q&A: VANDANA SHIVA, Physicist, Ecologist, Activist, Editor, and Author from 2010-12-27T23:56:10

Aired 12/26/10

Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, and...

Q&A: ROBERT SCHEER, Editor-in-Chief of Truthdig, Author from 2010-12-07T05:39:52

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Q&A: JEREMY RIFKIN, President of the Foundation on Economic Trends - Author from 2010-11-30T00:10:53

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JEREMY RIFKIN is the bestselling author of The End of Work, The Bi...

Q&A: John Warner/Paul Anastas - founders Green Chemistry and co-authors of Green Chemistry from 2010-11-23T15:54:10

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Aired 09/26/10

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Aired 09/12/10

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Aired 08/22/10 (Part 2 of 2) EVOLUTIONARY LEADERS CALL TO ACTION

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Q&A: GRANT DAVIS-DENNY, Attorney from 2010-05-18T17:42:06

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O&A: LIVE @ UCLA part 2 from 2010-04-27T16:05:04

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Aired 04/18/10

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Aired 04/04/10

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Aired 03/28/10

JOHN WEST has been the managing partner and owner of two law firms...

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Q&A: ATUL GAWANDE - Surgeon/Teacher/Author from 2010-03-16T19:00:02

Aired 03/14/10


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Q&A: STIGLITZ, JOSEPH - Nobel Prize (Economics)&Author from 2010-03-11T04:16:17

Aired 03/07/10

JOSEPH STIGLITZ became a full professor at Yale in 1970 at the age...

Q&A: RICHARD WILKINSON&KATE PICKETT, Authors from 2010-02-05T16:28:39

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Q&A: BOB EDGAR,Pres./CEO of Common Cause - SCOTT NELSON, Attorney from 2010-01-29T15:38:05

Aired 01/24/10

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Q&A: BRUCE LIPTON, Ph.D., and STEVE BHAERMAN, Author / Humorist from 2010-01-20T19:50:17

Aired 01/17/10

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Aired 01/10/10

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Interview: MARION BLANK, PhD and Author from 2010-01-13T23:53:39

Aired 01/03/09

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Q&A: TEMPLE GRANDIN, Professor and Author from 2010-01-13T20:51:01

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Aired 12/13/09

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Q&A: KEVIN DANAHER, organizer and NORM STAMPER, author from 2009-12-20T20:44:24

Aired 12/06/09

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Q&A: AMY BACH, Author from 2009-12-12T15:42:14

Aired 12/12/09

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Q&A: NICHOLAS KRISTOF, Columnist and Author from 2009-12-01T18:18:37

Aired 11/22/09

NICHOLAS KRISTOF, oped columnist at the New York Times, and author...

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Malalai Joya is an Afghan politician who has been called "the brav...

Q&A: Matthew HOH, former Marine Captain from 2009-11-23T04:31:25

Aired 11/15/09
A former Marine captain with combat experience in Iraq, Matthew Hoh, a...

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Aired 11/08/09

STEWART BRAND's Whole Earth Catalog introduced millions to new way...

Q&A: ZACHARY KARABELL Author, from 2009-11-09T17:28:33

Aired 11/01/09

ZACHARY KARABELL argues that the economies of China and the US hav...

Q&A: LESTER BROWN, Founder of Worldwatch and Earth Policy Institute from 2009-10-25T23:42:21

Aired 10/20/09

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Q&A: JODIE EVANS, co-founder of CODE PINK from 2009-10-19T16:43:38

Aired 10/13/09

JODIE EVANS is the co-founder the International Occupation Watch C...

Q&A: CORNEL WEST, Author, Educator and Philosopher from 2009-10-15T17:37:11

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Q&A: Bruce H. Lipton, PhD and Steve Bhaerman from 2009-10-01T07:09:02

ìSpontaneous Evolution introduces the notion that a miraculous healing awaits this plane...

Q&A: DANIEL ELLSBERG, Author from 2009-09-11T09:58:12

Aired 09/08/09

Daniel Ellsberg is an American hero. September 23rd is the 40th an...

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Aired 08/01/09

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Q&A: MICHAEL LIND, Policy Director, New America's Economic Growth Program; Author from 2009-08-28T23:45:23

Aired 08/25/09

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Q&A: Eduardo Galeano, Author from 2009-08-17T14:45:12

Aired 08/11/09

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Q&A: Rick Steves, Travel Author from 2009-08-13T18:12:39

Aired 08/11/09

I like it when someone does something better than they have to, or...

Q&A: HENRY JENKINS, Author, CONVERGENCE CULTURE: Where Old and New Media Collide from 2009-07-21T22:03:43

Aired 07/21/09

HENRY JENKINS is the Provost's Professor of Communications, Journa...

Q&A: ROBERT WRIGHT, Author and Blogger from 2009-07-18T05:52:46

Recorded 06/05/09

Christianity, Judaism and Islam are both peaceful and violent. ...

Q&A: JANE MAYER, New Yorker Correspondent and Author from 2009-07-01T16:22:40

Aired 06/30/09

JANE MAYER, one of our nation's foremost investigative journalists...

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Aired 06/23/09

LYME DISEASE and the documentary, UNDER OUR SKIN
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Q&A: REZA ASLAN, Author from 2009-05-30T21:04:04

Aired 05/19/09

REZA ASLAN is the author of "NO GOD BUT GOD" and his new book, "HO...

Q&A: DAVID KORTEN author then RANDY HAYES founder of Rainforest Action Network from 2009-05-19T01:49:31

Aired 05/12/09

DAVID KORTEN author, AGENDA FOR A NEW ECONOMY:
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Q&A: MATT TAIBBI - Columnist, Reporter, and Blogger from 2009-05-12T03:37:45

Aired 05/05/09

MATT TAIBBI is a fire-breathing, shoot-from-the-hip reporter, colu...

Q&A: MIKE LUX, Author from 2009-05-07T17:43:29

Aired 05/05/09

One of Ronald Reagan's most famous and successful quotes is from h...

Q&A: BEN SKINNER, Author:"A CRIME SO MONSTROUS" from 2009-04-26T21:23:55

Aired 04/21/09

Currently a fellow at the Carr Center for Human rights Policy at H...

Special: KGNU - Panel - Story vs. Substance from 2009-04-21T16:58:45

Aired 04/10/09

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Q&A: JOSEPH CIRINCIONE, President of PLOUGHSHARES FUND and Author from 2009-04-16T17:50:25

Aired 04/14/09

Joseph Cirincione joined Ploughshares Fund as president in March 2...

Q&A: FRITJOF CAPRA, Author and Physicist from 2009-04-09T21:35:15

Aired 04/07/09

FRITJOF CAPRA is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy...

Q&A: THOMAS HOMER DIXON, Author from 2009-03-26T19:24:45

Aired 03/24/09

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Q&A: DAVID BOLLIER, Author from 2009-03-19T19:07:41

Aired 03/17/09

"A world organized around centralized control, strict intellectual...

Q&A: JOSH TICKELL, Author and Film Director from 2009-03-12T17:52:22

Aired 03/10/09

Growing up amongst the oil refineries in Louisiana, JOSH TICKELL e...

Q&A: AZADEH MOAVENI, Author from 2009-03-05T21:31:16

Aired 03/03/09

AZADEH MOAVENI is a contributing writer on Iran and the Middle Eas...

Q&A: VICKI ROBIN, Author from 2009-02-13T20:51:44

Aired 02/10/09

I bought this book when it originally came out in 1992. Much of it...

Q&A: WILLIAM GREIDER, Correspondent&Author (Part 2 of 2) from 2009-02-06T23:09:18

Aired 02/05/09 Part 2 of 2

Now National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation, WI...

Q&A: WILLIAM GREIDER, Correspondent&Author (Part 1 of 2) from 2009-02-06T01:40:30

Aired 02/03/09 Part 1 of 2

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Q&A: NIALL FERGUSON, Columnist and Author from 2009-01-29T18:17:53

Aired 01/27/09

NIALL FERGUSON is Lawrence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvar...

Q&A: DAVID CAY JOHNSTON - Pulitzer Prize Journalist / Author from 2009-01-22T23:30:57

Aired 01/20/09

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his innovative co...

Q&A: CHRISTOPHER FLAVIN President, WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE from 2009-01-16T00:35:03

Aired 01/13/09

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Q&A: BILL DRAYTON, founder/CEO, ASHOKA - INNOVATORS FOR THE PUBLIC from 2008-12-31T16:44:25

Aired 12/24/08

TERRY McNALLY on AIR AMERICA RADIO sitting in for RACHEL MADDOW an...

Q&A: DAN PALLOTTA, founder, Pallotta TeamWorks, (AIDS Rides, breast cancer walks) and Author from 2008-12-29T18:51:40

Aired 12/23/08


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Q&A: ETHAN NADELMANN, founder and executive director, DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE from 2008-12-28T05:27:55

Aired 12/23/08

Prohibition has failed -- again. Instead of treating the demand fo...

Q&A: JANINE BENYUS, Writer, Innovation Consultant,&Author from 2008-12-18T19:24:43

Aired 12/16/08

After 3.8 billion years of R&D, failures are fossils. The cons...

Q&A: PARAG KHANNA, Author from 2008-12-12T23:05:57

Aired 12/09/08

Parag Khanna specialized in scenario and risk planning at the Worl...

Q&A: Marc Darrow, M.D., J.D. from 2008-12-09T20:07:50

Aired 12/02/08

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Q&A: JODIE EVANS, co-founder CODE PINK from 2008-12-09T17:59:59

Aired 12/02/08

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Q&A: DAVID BOLLIER, Author, Jounalist and Consultant from 2008-12-08T20:58:21

AIRED 12/01/08

DAVID BOLLIER is a independent policy strategist, journalist, acti...

Q&A: Morley Winograd and Michael Hais, Authors from 2008-12-05T20:22:48

Aired 12/01/08

Morley Winograd and Michael Hais, Authors of Best-Seller Millennia...

Q&A: ROBERT COLES, Professor and Author from 2008-11-29T22:21:38

Aired 11/25/08

Who and what is Robert Coles? Social scientitst, humanist, politic...

SPECIAL: Your Calls - POST-ELECTION from 2008-11-12T19:54:15

Aired 11/11/08

Last week during my two hour election day special, I said the foll...

Q&A: VAN JONES, Author from 2008-11-01T06:37:25

Aired 10/28/08

The economy is in crisis. Unemployment is rising. Families are hur...

Q&A: HARVEY WASSERMAN, Author from 2008-10-10T22:52:06

Aired 10/07/08

HARVEY WASSERMAN is one of the nation's experts on the GOP's effor...

Q&A: DEAN BAKER, Author from 2008-10-09T19:09:34

Aired 10/07/08

DEAN BAKER is one of the smartest progressive economics thinkers a...

Q&A: ROGER WEISBERG, Director/Producer&PATRICK DOWLING, MD, Chair of Family Medicine, UCLA from 2008-10-02T19:15:40

Aired 09/30/08

The US spends over $2 trillion a year — over $6K per person — on h...

Q&A: THOMAS FRANK, Author from 2008-09-23T21:36:44

Aired 09/23/09

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Q&A: Neal Barnard, M.D, Author from 2008-09-12T19:29:41

Aired 09/09/08

Clinical researcher and author Neal Barnard, M.D., is one of Ameri...

Q&A: THOMAS BARNETT, Author from 2008-09-03T16:10:23

Aired 09/03/09

Today I look at security strategy and planning with Thomas Barnett...

Q&A: CRAIG VENTER, Author and Scientist from 2008-08-28T18:27:35

Aired 08/26/08

CRAIG VENTER is a remarkable and entrepreneurial scientist. As suc...

Q&A: HUNTER LOVINS, Co-author, from 2008-08-13T23:11:55

Aired 08/12/08

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Q&A: JOHN POMFRET, Author from 2008-08-06T16:06:14

Aired 08/05/08

Currently editor of The Washington Post's Outlook section and form...

Q&A: RIKI OTT, Author and Marine Biologist from 2008-07-21T17:30:58

Aired 07/15/08

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Q&A: Robert Scheer, Author, Columnist and Editor from 2008-07-17T16:38:52

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Q&A: Lawrence Lessig, Professor and Author from 2008-07-14T22:04:59

Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law School, is a leading thinker on technology ...

Q&A: STUART KAUFFMAN, Author from 2008-07-03T18:53:25

Aired 07/01/08

Stuart Kauffman is the Director of the Institute for Biocomplexity...

Q&A: SUSAN JACOBY, Author from 2008-06-30T19:53:55

SUSAN JACOBY – "THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON"

American 15-year-olds rank 24th out...

Q&A: AHMED RASHID, Author and Journalist from 2008-06-27T19:03:46

AHMED RASHID – DESCENT INTO CHAOS

In his new book, DESCENT INTO CHAOS, AHMED RASH...

Q&A: Julie Lacouture, Deputy Director of Donors Choose from 2008-06-06T18:55:53

Aired 05/27/08

What if there were a simple way to provide students with the books...

Q&A: Glenn Greenwald, Blogger&Author from 2008-06-04T20:49:56

Aired 05/28/08

Glenn Greenwald was previously a constitutional law and civil righ...

Q&A: Josh Silver, Free Press from 2008-06-03T17:43:53

Aired 05/28/08

Executive Director Josh Silver co-founded Free Press with Robert W...

Q&A: Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute from 2008-05-22T15:14:53

Aired 05/20/08
Anuradha Mittal (Oakland Institute) http://www.oaklandinstitute.org on...

Q&A: Robert Bryce, Journalist&Author from 2008-05-07T22:17:48

Robert Bryce is a journalist in Austin, Texas and the author of Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, ...

Q&A: KEVIN PHILLIPS, Author from 2008-04-30T21:56:57

Aired 04/29/08 KEVIN PHILLIPS, Author," THE POLITICS OF RICH & POOR; AMERICAN THEOCR...

Special: Terry hosts The Rachel Maddow Show from 2008-04-19T22:27:36

Guns Over Butter - Terry hosts "The Rachel Maddow Show"
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Q&A: JOSEPH STIGLITZ, Nobel Prize Winning Economist and Author from 2008-04-04T05:31:44

JOSEPH STIGLITZ is University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Chair of C...

Q&A: DAHR JAMAIL, Journalist and Author from 2008-03-26T19:52:59

DAHR JAMAIL: Book BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE:
DISPATCHES FROM AN UNEMBEDDED JOURNALIST IN ...

Q&A: Robin Wright, Journalist and Author (Part 2 of 2) from 2008-03-21T06:27:17

Robin Wright is an American journalist currently covering U.S. foreign policy for The Was...

Q&A:: Robin Wright, Journalist and Author (Part 1 of 2) from 2008-03-16T06:52:54

Robin Wright is an American journalist currently covering U.S. foreign policy for The Was...

Q&A: Nina Hachigian, Author: THE NEXT AMERICAN CENTURY from 2008-03-12T19:50:28

Author NINA HACHIGIAN, former Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Policy at RAND, and...

Q&A: SAMANTHA POWER. Pulitzer Prize, Foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama from 2008-03-05T02:52:03

SAMANTHA POWER: Won Pulitzer Prize for A PROBLEM FROM HELL: AMERICA AND THE AGE OF GENOCI...

Q&A: Lester Brown (part 2), Author from 2008-02-18T20:38:39

Lester Brown (part 2 of interview) has been described by the Washington Post as "one of t...

Q&A:: Michael Pollan, Professor and Author from 2008-02-12T22:04:19

Michael Pollan is a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, wh...

Q&A:: Lester Brown, Author from 2008-02-08T20:55:51

LESTER BROWN has been described by the Washington Post as "one of the world's most influe...

Q&A: Steven Clemons, Blogger from 2008-02-06T03:21:50

Steven Clemons is is the publisher of the popular political blog; www.thewashingtonnote....

Q&A: Thomas Hayden, Author, Activist and Politician from 2008-02-06T01:52:14

Thomas Hayden is an American social and political activist and politician, most famous fo...

Q&A: MUHAMMAD YUNUS, Author from 2008-01-18T17:27:09

MUHAMMAD YUNUS,
Nobel Peace Prizewinner, pioneer of micro-credit
author, BANKER TO ...

Q&A: LYNNE McTAGGART, Journalist and author from 2008-01-01T21:52:21

Journalist and author LYNNE McTAGGART's research on THE FIELD included meetings with top ...

JODIE EVANS Co-founder, CODE PINK&ANNIE LEONARD creator of a powerful online video, THE STORY OF STUFF from 2007-12-19T22:59:21

JODIE EVANS, Co-founder, CODE PINK: Women for Peace
They're launching www.dontbuybushs...

JOSEPH CIRINCIONE: VP for National Security, Center for American Progress& CHEF ANN COOPER: Director of Nutrition Svs, Berkeley CA Unified School District from 2007-12-11T22:12:58

When no WMD could be been found in Iraq, several members of the Bush administration justi...

ADRIAN LEVY and CATHERINE SCOTT-CLARK from 2007-11-26T19:14:51

ADRIAN LEVY and CATHERINE SCOTT-CLARK are award-winning investigative journalists who wor...

Q&A: TOM HAYDEN&BARBARA BECNEL from 2007-11-15T20:30:50

Over 25,000 young people have died in America's gang wars since 1980 - a bit less than ha...

Q&A: Phil Donahue from 2007-11-06T23:19:44

PHIL DONAHUE pioneered the modern television talk show. DONAHUE ran for 29 years and used...

MILENA KANEVA Producer/Director, TOTAL DENIAL& KATIE REDFORD, Director, EarthRights International from 2007-11-02T17:17:49

TOTAL DENIAL documents abuses of Burmese villagers caused by the Yadana pipeline. Mil...

Q&A: Robert Bernard Reich from 2007-10-18T18:51:46

Robert Reich was secretary of labor in the Clinton administration and now teaches public ...

Q&A: Bjørn Lomborg, Author from 2007-10-18T18:30:05

Aired 12/26/10

Bjørn Lomborg: Author - The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It<...

Q&A: Charles Ferguson, Filmmaker from 2007-09-29T20:36:08

In 1996, Charles Ferguson sold the startup company he founded to Microsoft for $133 milli...

Q&A: Kenny Ausube, Entrepreneur, Author, Journalist and Filmmaker from 2007-09-29T07:28:02

Kenny Ausubel is an award-winning social entrepreneur, author, journalist and filmmaker. ...

Q&A: Rafe Esquith, Award Winning Teacher and Author from 2007-09-29T05:50

Rafe Esquith is an American teacher at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School, the second-lar...

Q&A: Drew Westen, Professor and Author from 2007-09-29T05:37:16

Drew Westen is Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Emory Univers...

Q&A: Robert H. Frank, Professor, Columnist, and Author from 2007-09-29T05:19:56

Professor Robert H. Frank is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management Professo...

Q&A: Stephen Duncombe, Author, Activist and Professor from 2007-09-29T05:05:54

Stephen Duncombe is a long-time activist and a professor of at the Gallatin School at New...

Q&A: Deborah Tannen, Author and Professor of Linguistics from 2007-09-27T21:37:59

Deborah Frances Tannen is an American professor of linguistics at Georgetown University.<...

Q&A: Helen Caldicott, Physician and Anti-Nuclear Advocate from 2007-09-27T19:57:59

Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded seve...

Q&A: George Monbiot, Journalist and Author from 2007-09-27T19:01:10

George Monbiot is a journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist...

Q&A: Niall Ferguson, Author from 2007-09-27T17:51:54

This interview was recorded on Ferguson's recent trip to Los Angeles - before the electio...

Q&A: Richard Heinberg, Author from 2007-09-26T20:13:57

"The Party's Over," Richard Heinberg places this momentous transition in historical conte...

Q&A: Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America from 2007-09-24T19:31:01

Paul Rieckhoff founded and is Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of Amer...

Q&A: IRAQ VETS from 2007-09-23T18:49:03

IRAQ VETS SPEAK OUT 11:22:05

Q&A: Bill McKibben, Author from 2007-09-23T05:42:02