Episodes
Tuesday Mar 30, 2010
Sunni Diaspora
Tuesday Mar 30, 2010
Tuesday Mar 30, 2010
War always has unintended consequences. Since the days of the American invasion of Iraq, millions of Iraqis have fled their country. Mostly Sunni and mostly from Iraq's educated middle class, this has had a profound impact on the country and the region. It has given rise to a Sunni/Iraq Diaspora with the ability to either help stabilize or profoundly destabilize the Middle East. This is the backdrop for NPR correspondent Deborah Amos' new book Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East. My conversation with Debora Amos:
Monday Mar 29, 2010
Why Doctors still matter
Monday Mar 29, 2010
Monday Mar 29, 2010
Wednesday Mar 24, 2010
The essential engineer
Wednesday Mar 24, 2010
Wednesday Mar 24, 2010
Tuesday Mar 23, 2010
Stupidity, corruption and lots of money
Tuesday Mar 23, 2010
Tuesday Mar 23, 2010
In addition to the fall of Lehman and AIG, last year's financial crisis also saw the economies of entire nations collapse. Iceland, Greece and most notably Ireland have been economically devastated. In Ireland, the Celtic Tiger, once the home of an economic miracle, now will take decades and billions to recover. How did this happen? What role did Wall Street play and what role did the Irish government play in propping up one of the worlds great real estate bubbles and how did it precipitated the crisis? Ireland's premiere financial journalist, Fintan O'Toole, in his book Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger explains how Ireland manged to achieve such a spectacular implosion. It's a cautionary tale of corruption, carelessness, and venality. My conversation with Fintan O'Toole:
Monday Mar 15, 2010
Rahm
Monday Mar 15, 2010
Monday Mar 15, 2010
He was the architect of Bill Clinton's efforts to make small issues add up to what some called the "incredible shrinking Presidency." He has been attacked by the left for being to pragmatic, by the right for being to partisan. He and the President have diverged on what should be the goals, aspirations and limits of the administration. Arguably, with so many enemies, on all sides, he must be doing something right? Rahm Emanuel is perhaps the most powerful chief of staff since Jim Baker served George H.W. Bush. Yet his future may rest completely on the results of health care legislation this week. N.Y. Times White House correspondent Peter Baker takes an inside look at "The Limits of RAHMISM" in his N.Y. Times Magazine cover story. My conversation with Peter Baker:
Friday Mar 12, 2010
Extremism in the defense of everything...
Friday Mar 12, 2010
Friday Mar 12, 2010
Monday Mar 08, 2010
Learning from Catastrophes
Monday Mar 08, 2010
Monday Mar 08, 2010
Friday Mar 05, 2010
Look Both Ways
Friday Mar 05, 2010
Friday Mar 05, 2010
Thursday Mar 04, 2010
The Death of American Virtue
Thursday Mar 04, 2010
Thursday Mar 04, 2010
Thirteen years ago the nation was transfixed by a political scandal that resulted in the impeachment of a President for only the second time in our history. What started as a small tawdry story about a failed savings and loan in Arkansas, would ultimately consume a President, a nation and a public, hungry for gossip in a new internet age. We became experts on a story with dozens of players who would become household names, yet would do little to advance the cause of either policy or democracy. Now, the full, untold story of the Bill Clinton vs. Ken Starr battle of titans, is told in Duquesne University law professor Ken Gormly's new book The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr. Written with access to virtually all of the "players" Gormley connects the dots to a story and a history we all lived but perhaps never fully understood. My conversation with Ken Gormley:
Monday Mar 01, 2010
Two Americas..Red v. Blue
Monday Mar 01, 2010
Monday Mar 01, 2010
Monday Mar 01, 2010
The human side of immigration
Monday Mar 01, 2010
Monday Mar 01, 2010
Monday Mar 01, 2010