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Thomas Frank: A Wall Street Bailout Wouldn’t Help Anyone But Rich Investors
The free market didn't work. People bought when they should have sold, and they need to get spanked. Author Thomas Frank explains why. Posted on Sep 27, 2008
Susan Jacoby: How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America
Sad but true: Intelligence is a political liability in the US. Author of The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby explains why.
Posted on Aug 15, 2008
Nina Hachigian: Can the U.S. Thrive As Other Powers Rise?
Author Nina Hachigian shows that some of the biggest threats to our security don't come from rival nations. They come from us.
Posted on Jun 18, 2008
Lester Brown: How Many Earth Days Do We Have Left?
Lester Brown, author of Plan B 3.0, shows us how we can change in enough time to save life on earth, as we know it.
Posted on Apr 22, 2008
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Reza Aslan, 2/10/06: He Who Cleans the Streets, Gets The Vote
Reza Aslan discusses modern Islam and says the victory of Hamas proves that politics in the Arab world is starting to matter.
Kenny Ausubel, 10/19/07: Bioneers: Groundbreaking Ways to Repair the Earth
An interview with writer/filmmaker Kenny Ausubel about taking back the planet.
Kenny Ausubel, 10/21/06: Bioneers 2006: The Future Is Green
Kenny Ausubel, the revolutionary founder of this weekend's 17th annual Bioneers conference speaks up about nature, science, and green-ing the future.
Kenny Ausubel, 10/13/05: The Evolution of Environmental Activism
On the eve of the 16th annual Bioneers conference, co-founders Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simon discuss the changing nature of living and acting green.
Dr. Neal Barnard, 3/14/07: How To Solve The Diabetes Epidemic
The government and the food industry know that Type 2 diabetes is linked to lifestyle and diet; yet profit continues to determine food policy, and nutrition remains a scant part of medial education. Dr. Neal Barnard offers a solution to the crisis.
Greg Behrman, 8/16/04: Voices of the Invisible People
The author of a courageous new book asks why the richest and most powerful country in the world has responded so feebly to the AIDS pandemic, which has already killed 25 million people across the globe.
Joan Blades, 7/25/04: MoveOn As An Instrument of the People
MoveOn's Joan Blades talks about mobilizing the masses, community organizing, and moving nimbly in the Internet world.
Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, 6/12/06: The Mommy Wage Gap
Mothers are half as likely to be offered jobs as non-mothers -- and they get paid less for doing the same work. Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner are out to change that.
Lester Brown, 2/2/06: What Is Plan B?
Eradicate poverty, reforest the earth, restore fisheries, eliminate overgrazing, protect biological diversity, stabilize climate -- Lester Brown says it's all possible.
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Jonathan Cohn, 9/4/07: How Do We Cure A Sick Healthcare System?
Johnathan Cohn, author of SICK, discusses why the U.S. is the only developed country that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship.
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Richard Dawkins, 1/18/07: Atheist Richard Dawkins on ‘The God Delusion’
In the last few years, Americans have seen the harm that results when political decisions are made in the name of religion. Now, the non-believers are fighting back.
Jared Diamond, 7/11/05: Easter Island, C’est Moi
What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Jared Diamond explains how we can avert catastrophe.
John Dicker, 9/20/05: One Nation Under Wal-Mart
In his irreverent new book, journalist John Dicker reveals the super-high social costs of Wal-Mart's super-low prices.
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Riane Eisler, 6/27/07: Why Do We Pay Our Plumbers More Than Our Caregivers?
Surely leaky pipes aren't more important than our children. Yet, in America, most plumbers make five times what caregivers do. Author Riane Eisler shows how our economic system, rooted in gender inequality, is failing us. An excerpt from her latest book follows.
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Thomas Frank, 8/20/04: Back To Kansas
Thomas Frank talks about returning to his home state, Republicans as underdogs, and why Democrats are chasing down right-leaning policies.
Al Franken, 2/11/05: Al Franken’s Nutritional Candy
Al Franken has aimed his rapier wit and truth-telling compulsion at a growing Air America audience, coating the bitter pill of the issues of the day with a candy shell.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin, 12/8/05: Real Leaders Have Heart
In her new book about Abraham Lincoln, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin reveals the quality that makes a president great -- his capacity for empathy.
William Grieder, 9/17/02: Democracy in Deep Decay
William Greider talks about how big money has broken the American political machine and how lawyers and lobbyists undermine the process of lawmaking.
Charles Grob, 5/24/06: The Electric Kool-Aid Medicine Test
Hallucinogen researcher Charles Grob says psychedelic drugs have the potential to alter modern medicine.
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Paul Hawken, 6/26/07: How To Stop Our Political and Economic Systems From Stealing Our Future
Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest, discusses what he sees as the largest social movement in human history, and why that movement is so invisible to the media -- and itself.
Mark Hertsgaard, 11/19/02: America According To Hertsgaard
Mark Hertsgaard talks about the distinction between America and Americans, what retired terrorists do, and why Tony Blair is Bush's poodle and Ronald Reagan is still President.
Thomas Homer-Dixon, 2/13/07: Is The Deadly Crash of Our Civilization Inevitable?
An interview with author Thomas Homer-Dixon about the social, political, economic and technological crises we face and how long we can sustain the lifestyle that brought them about.
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Sean Huze and Paul Reickhoff, 1/20/06: Battlefield Iraq
Combat veterans Sean Huze, Paul Rieckhoff and Jimmy Massey discuss the truth -- and the lies -- about the war in Iraq.
Van Jones, 4/20/05: Excerpt: Interview with Van Jones
An excerpt from the Start Making Sense section Understanding the Election.
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