Episodes
Tuesday Jan 31, 2012
Why can't choice be a settled issue?
Tuesday Jan 31, 2012
Tuesday Jan 31, 2012
The debate over artion rights has consumed our politics for decades. It seems that each time the freedom to choose seems like a settled issue, the nation becomes more divided. Why has this issues had such resiliency, why can’t the values of due process and privacy prevail, and why is this still even an issue of debate among young woman? This story is all the more powerful through the lens of a woman who has been at the forefront of the movement. Her tireless efforts have put herself in danger, while fighting so hard for the rights of other woman. Merle Hoffman shares her story in her new memoir Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room. My conversation with Merle Hoffman
Friday Jan 27, 2012
Go there!!
Friday Jan 27, 2012
Friday Jan 27, 2012
Thursday Jan 26, 2012
HOW
Thursday Jan 26, 2012
Thursday Jan 26, 2012
Wednesday Jan 25, 2012
San Francisco Bay
Wednesday Jan 25, 2012
Wednesday Jan 25, 2012
San Francisco Bay is a remarkably resilient body of water. In spite of the urbanization and cosmopolitan life of the 46 cities that surround it, the ethos of the Bay Area continues to make sure that the environmental restoration is ongoing. Ariel Rubissow Okamoto's book Natural History of San Francisco Bay takes us on a tour of this remarkable body of water.
Monday Jan 23, 2012
Up is down, down is up...
Monday Jan 23, 2012
Monday Jan 23, 2012
Just as we often use living viruses to cure disease, so the Right argues that the cure for financial crises, environmental degradation, minimal national investment and no energy policy is less of all of them. The idea, which the country bought into in 2010, is that only by less regulation, more crony capitalism and more rewards for the economies winner, can we solve the problems of the average American. Sounds like Alice in Wonderland, but it's the basis of the platform of this years Republican candidates. Thomas Frank, bestselling author of "What's the Matter with Kansas," explains what's going on in his new book Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right. My conversation with Thomas Frank:
Thursday Jan 19, 2012
The conscience of Los Angeles
Thursday Jan 19, 2012
Thursday Jan 19, 2012
Wednesday Jan 18, 2012
Nuremberg, 9/11 and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Wednesday Jan 18, 2012
Wednesday Jan 18, 2012
Monday Jan 16, 2012
How mad are they?
Monday Jan 16, 2012
Monday Jan 16, 2012
Thursday Jan 12, 2012
Beyond Capitalism
Thursday Jan 12, 2012
Thursday Jan 12, 2012
If nothing else is clear about this years Presidential election, it’s certain that not only our economy, but our current forms of capitalism are going to be on trial. From the early rhetoric of the campaign, to the Occupy and Tea Party movements; the success of Ron Paul, even a recent piece by Lawrence Summers in the Financial Times assessing that state of capitalism, prove that our current systems and institutions are seeing pressure as never before. But how will all of this play out? Will we be asking the right questions and will the politics keep up with the reality of technology and our changing and interconnected world? These are just some of the questions as by University of Maryland Professor Gar Alperovitz in his new book America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy. My conversation with Gar Alperovitz
Tuesday Jan 10, 2012
The Plots Against the Presidents
Tuesday Jan 10, 2012
Tuesday Jan 10, 2012
The shocks of the current economic crises have confused the country. Historically like all such confusion, it can give rise to fear and allow demagogues of both the left and the right to exploit those fears. Back in 1932 we were in a similar situation. At the depths of the Great Depression, FDR came to office with a basket full of ideas to try and solve the nation’s problems. Not unlike today, many of those ideas infuriated both the left and the right. Today, Wall Street bankers have become public enemy number one, while gun ownership is at an all time high. In the 1930s, the results of a similar crises resulted in similar dangers. Historian and journalist Sally Denton looks back at a time that all to closely parallels our current situation. My conversation with Sally about her new work The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right.
Monday Jan 09, 2012
Spy vs. Chip
Monday Jan 09, 2012
Monday Jan 09, 2012
Monday Jan 02, 2012
Why is New York City so safe?
Monday Jan 02, 2012
Monday Jan 02, 2012
It estimated that in the next decade as much as seventy percent of the world's population will be living in cities. How we make those cities safe, may very well determine the quality of life for future generations. There is no better example of keeping crime down than what happened in New York where, over nineteen years, the crime rate dropped 80 percent! Criminologists and urban planners have been at a loss to explain the dramatic drop in crime, but in his book The City that Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control, U.C. Berkeley's Franklin Zimring explains the tactics and techniques that have challenged long-held notions about law enforcement. My conversation with Franklin Zimring: