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a world that just might work
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Terrence McNally’s podcast features conversations with people who offer pieces of the puzzle of “a world that just might work” -- provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics, media and culture. Guests have included Ken Burns, Deborah Tannen, Andrew Weil, Jeremy Rifkin, Arianna Huffington, Roger Ebert, Bill Joy, Alvin Toffler, Paul Krugman, Bill Maher, and Norman Lear.
SPECIAL EDITION: THE IOWA CAUCUS - 2008 1/4/08
Terrence McNally takes calls and sums up the Iowa caucus - 2008.
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INTERVIEW: WALTER ISAACSON, AUTHOR 9/21/07
Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of TIME. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and of Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and is the co-author, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). His biography of Albert Einstein, Einstein: His Life and Universe, was published by Simon & Schuster in April 2007. In 2007, he became a columnist for TIME on international affairs.
INTERVIEW: SUSAN JACOBY, AUTHOR 6/30/08
SUSAN JACOBY – "THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON"
American 15-year-olds rank 24th out of 29 countries in mathematical literacy.
Americans are as likely to believe in flying saucers as in evolution. Depending on how the questions are asked, roughly 30-40 % of Americans believe in each.
A 34-nation study found Americans less likely to believe in evolution than citizens of any of the countries polled except ...
INTERVIEW: DAHR JAMAIL, INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR 3/26/08
DAHR JAMAIL: Book BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE:
DISPATCHES FROM AN UNEMBEDDED JOURNALIST IN OCCUPIED IRAQ
In late 2003, Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, DAHR JAMAIL an independent journalist from Anchorage, Alaska went to Iraq to report on the war himself.
His dispatches were quickly recognized as an important media resource. He is now writing for the Inter Press Service ...
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INTERVIEW: VAN JONES, AUTHOR 10/31/08
The economy is in crisis. Unemployment is rising. Families are hurting. Despite recent drops in oil prices, the days of cheap gas and oil are gone forever. Climate change calls for massive changes in the way we supply and use energy. Today’s guest sees that these crises are connected and believes that together they present an enormous opportunity.
VAN JONES, a young, dynamic, charismatic, optimistic, solutions-oriented African American with an Ivy League law degree – boy that sounds familiar -- is the founder and president of GREEN FOR ALL and author ...
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INTERVIEW: TOM HAYDEN; BARBARA BECNEL 11/15/07
Over 25,000 young people have died in America's gang wars since 1980 - a bit less than half the number of soldiers who lost their lives in Vietnam. In cities across America current and former gang-members are like traumatized war veterans with no way home. Tom Hayden's book STREET WARS indicts the domestic law and order politics that dominate current policy and suffocate inner city youth.
It has been almost two years since Stanley Tookie Williams was executed after being denied clemency by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
TOM HAYDEN, AUTHOR, ACTIVIST AND POLITICIAN 2/5/08
Thomas Hayden is an American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s.
Hayden serves as a member of the advisory board for the Progressive Democrats of America, an influential "grass roots" organization created to expand “progressive” political cooperation within the Democratic Party.
Enjoy the conversation as Terrence and Tom talk about the 2008 election, Barack Obama and Super Tuesday!
INTERVIEW: RICHARD HEINBERG, AUTHOR 9/26/07
"The Party's Over," Richard Heinberg places this momentous transition in historical context, showing how industrialism arose from the harnessing of fossil fuels, how competition to control access to oil shaped the geopolitics of the 20th century, and how contention for dwindling energy resources in the 21st century will lead to resource wars in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South America.
He describes the likely impacts of oil depletion, and all of the energy alternatives. Predicting chaos unless the U.S ...
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INTERVIEW: ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, AUTHOR AND SYNDICATED COLUMNIST 9/20/07
She's moved from Greece to America, from the east coast to the west coast, from the political right to the independent left. Arianna Huffington writes about how to move on in her new book: On Becoming Fearless.
Huffington describes herself as a "former right-winger who has evolved into a compassionate and progressive populist". She is the founder of The Huffington Post . www.huffingtonpost.com
Huffington is co-host of the nationally syndicated public radio program Left, Right & Center. She was originally introduced by the moderator as occupying the chair "from the right," but is now described as "coming from the fourth ...
