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By Jeff Schechtman

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 Mar 17, 2023

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Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, newsmakers and opinion shapers, and sheds light on the issues of the day, from local stories to national and international headlines and ideas.

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Episode Date
The Wine Industry In Crisis
Jan 21, 2026
From Ocean to Bloodstream: The Truth About Plastic
Jan 17, 2026
Tom Freston reflects on how MTV changed our music, our culture, and even California
Jan 14, 2026
The Technophobia Trap: How America Lost Its Nerve in the Age of AI
Jan 10, 2026
Fired by Email: What It Felt Like To Be Targeted by DOGE’s Federal Purge
Jan 04, 2026
What If the America We Think We Live in Never Existed?
Dec 18, 2025
Who’s Really Building Our Tech Future?
Dec 13, 2025
Democracy's Punishment Problem
Dec 06, 2025
A Queer Rock Pioneer Remembers San Francisco’s Lost Era
Dec 03, 2025
Who Gets to Be Indian?
Nov 29, 2025
What’s Really Happening in Latino Communities
Nov 26, 2025
The Radicalization of Silicon Valley: Democracy Is Optional`
Nov 22, 2025
The Anti-Billionaire: How Patagonia's Founder Yvonne Chouinard Gave It All Away
Nov 19, 2025
The Assassin Next Door: Luigi Mangione and America’s Angry Young Men
Nov 15, 2025
Robot Gladiators and the Future of AI Combat
Nov 12, 2025
How Desi Arnaz Invented Modern Television and Lost Himself
Nov 08, 2025
Is Political Violence Built Into America’s DNA?
Nov 05, 2025
Where is the Literary Center of America?
Nov 01, 2025
Globalization and Its Discontents: How the World’s Greatest Bet Went Wrong
Oct 29, 2025
Education Reimagined: Building the world’s most innovative university
Oct 22, 2025
The Economy May Be Our Last Guardrail
Oct 18, 2025
Echoes of Japanese Incarceration: It Can Happen Here
Oct 15, 2025
How America Really Lost Control of Its Own Future
Oct 11, 2025
My 1998 Conversation with Jane Goodall
Oct 04, 2025
California's Crown Jewel Has a Dark Secret: The Battle to Break Apple's Monopoly
Sep 30, 2025
Propaganda 2025: Lies, All The Way Down
Sep 27, 2025
Bruce Lee and the emergence of Asian American pride
Sep 24, 2025
Empire of Secrets: Robert Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine’s Dark Legacy
Sep 20, 2025
An Autopsy of the Left
Sep 17, 2025
America’s Most Expensive Lie: Why Tariffs Are Killing What They Claim to Save
Sep 13, 2025
Privilege and Vulnerability for the Sons of the Elite
Sep 10, 2025
How One San Francisco Murder Exposed Silicon Valley's Road to MAGA
Sep 06, 2025
China's Moment: How History and Family Shapes Today's Superpower
Sep 04, 2025
Trump, Putin, Epstein: It’s Not a Hoax
Aug 30, 2025
Teaching Democracy in the Age of Data
Aug 28, 2025
When Thinking Stops, Evil Spreads: The Danger in Our Everyday Compliance (Rerun)
Aug 23, 2025
Freedom, Community, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead
Aug 16, 2025
Still in the Fight: Veteran Journalists on the Perils of Reporting the World
Aug 13, 2025
How Zoning Controls Everything
Aug 09, 2025
From Puberty to Politics: How Judy Blume Inspired a Progressive Generation
Aug 06, 2025
How Trade is Impacting America’s busiest port
Aug 02, 2025
The Ghost in the Machine: How William F. Buckley Birthed Today’s Extreme Right
Jul 30, 2025
Has NPR Passed Its Sell-By Date?
Jul 26, 2025
Debate Doesn’t Matter
Jul 24, 2025
How AI Safety Birthed a Killing Spree
Jul 19, 2025
Apple and China: The Hidden Story Behind Every iPhone in Your Pocket
Jul 16, 2025
Rethinking Gun Violence: Beyond Politics to Human Behavior
Jul 12, 2025
Culture Eats Policy: The Hidden Architecture of Government Failure
Jul 09, 2025
Israel’s ‘Dirty Harry Moment’
Jul 03, 2025
Tehrangeles: A Diaspora, A Mayor, A Homeland Reimagined
Jun 28, 2025
Small Drones, Big Consequences: The Future of Asymmetric Warfare
Jun 25, 2025
How Black Capitalists Are Rewriting the Rules of Wealth Creation
Jun 21, 2025
The American Economy: Coasting on Fumes but Built to Last: A conversation with Noah Smith
Jun 20, 2025
Demonstrations, Deportations, and Downtown LA"
Jun 18, 2025
Zero Sum: How Putin Turned Capitalism into Russian Roulette
Jun 14, 2025
The China Paradox That Will Define the 21st Century
Jun 11, 2025
Hollywood: when art, commerce, and family once danced together
Jun 07, 2025
The Human Cost of Migration
Jun 04, 2025
When Thinking Stops, Evil Spreads: The Danger in Our Everyday Compliance
May 31, 2025
Dismantling the Global Order That America Created
May 30, 2025
Is the California Dream Over?
May 28, 2025
The Coalition Behind Democracy’s Decline
May 24, 2025
The "Golden Dome" Will Never Happen
May 21, 2025
Joan Didion’s early warning about America’s entertainment politics
May 17, 2025
Fake Alzheimer's Research
May 14, 2025
Execution Denied
May 10, 2025
Why America Can’t Do Big Things
May 07, 2025
Does Hollywood Have A Next Act?
May 03, 2025
Humor as our Democratic Lifeline
Apr 30, 2025
Is China On Borrowed Time?
Apr 26, 2025
Eminent Jews
Apr 23, 2025
California's high-stakes dance amid trade and tech turmoil
Apr 17, 2025
Could Trump Buy His Own Private Army?
Apr 12, 2025
O Canada, Our Home Is Under Threat…
Apr 09, 2025
Joan Didion’s cool detachment and Eve Babitz’s raw sensuality
Apr 05, 2025
Democracy vs. Constitution
Apr 02, 2025
Coastal Access
Mar 29, 2025
Moving Nowhere Fast: How Housing Froze the American Dream
Mar 28, 2025
Robber Barons 2.0: Trump, Musk, and America’s New Gilded Age
Mar 26, 2025
All Bets Are On
Mar 22, 2025
Warring Factions In The Democratic Party: The Political Strategists Who Set the Stage
Mar 15, 2025
America’s Cultural Revolution From Self-Awareness to Self-Righteousness
Mar 12, 2025
Beyond Pawns and Kings: A Map of the Global Chessboard
Mar 08, 2025
Taking Psychiatry to the Streets
Mar 05, 2025
Inside The Echo Machine with David Pakman
Mar 01, 2025
The Missile Defense Mirage
Feb 26, 2025
Neil Shubin On the Value of Earth's Frozen Edges
Feb 19, 2025
Paper Tiger, Hidden Fragility: The Truth Behind China’s Rise
Feb 15, 2025
A Weather Event With Fire Embedded
Feb 12, 2025
What Brand Cult Are You a Member Of?
Feb 08, 2025
More Partisan Politics, Please
Feb 05, 2025
In a World of Chaos, Design Matters Even More
Feb 01, 2025
Can Algorithms and Empathy Coexist?
Jan 29, 2025
David Ulin finds hope in a burning city
Jan 25, 2025
When the Hydrants Ran Dry in Los Angeles
Jan 22, 2025
The Internet’s Librarian
Jan 18, 2025
Mike Davis Saw It All Coming
Jan 15, 2025
Paws for Thought: A Rescue Revolution
Dec 18, 2024
Red vs. Blue America: Federalism in the Fight Against Autocracy
Dec 14, 2024
Don't Build, Rebuild
Dec 11, 2024
Reagan: His Life and Legend' - How Far Today's GOP Has Strayed from the Gipper
Dec 07, 2024
The Comfort of Our False Beliefs: Why We Crave Misinformation
Dec 04, 2024
The End of Weird: Austin's Makeover
Nov 27, 2024
Wall Street's Glass Ceiling Cracked, Long Before Washington's: Paulina Bren Explains
Nov 23, 2024
Dismantling Democracy Is the Point
Nov 20, 2024
Women Voters and the Firewall That Wasn’t
Nov 16, 2024
An American Reckoning - Jonathan Alter confronts Trump and Democracy
Nov 13, 2024
Can America Survive Its Own Constitution? The Tyranny of the Minority
Nov 07, 2024
Vigilante Nation: The New Face of American Power
Nov 02, 2024
The myth of the "Latino vote"
Oct 30, 2024
Our Deep Polarization Has Now Taken Over Our Most Local Politics
Oct 26, 2024
January 6 As You’ve Never Seen It Before: The ‘Fight Like Hell’ Documentary
Oct 23, 2024
The Existential Threat of ‘Ungoverning’
Oct 19, 2024
Turning the Page: Steve Wasserman's Life in American Letters
Oct 16, 2024
Why the Nuts and Bolts of Political Organizing Still Matter
Oct 12, 2024
Alexander Payne on the 20th Anniversary of His Film SIDEWAYS
Oct 11, 2024
Mobile Voting Is Coming
Oct 09, 2024
Pride and Shame: Arlie Hochschild's Cultural Bilingualism Decodes Rural America
Oct 05, 2024
AI’s Dirty Secret: Sweatshops, Carbon, and the Race to the Bottom
Oct 02, 2024
The Transformative Art of Listening: A conversation with Elizabeth Rosner
Sep 28, 2024
Red Counties, White Sheriffs: How They Are Reshaping the US Political Landscape
Sep 25, 2024
Carving Up America: The Meatpacking Industry's Political Divide
Sep 21, 2024
The Days After November 5th Could be More Consequential Than The Entire Campaign
Sep 18, 2024
The 9/11 Generation: How Past Trauma Shapes Today’s Young Voters
Sep 11, 2024
Judge David Tatel Redefines Judicial Vision
Sep 07, 2024
Supreme Court’s Immunity Gift to Trump: The Ghosts of Nixon, Bork, and Scalia
Sep 04, 2024
Can Pickleball Change our Prisons?
Aug 31, 2024
The Financial World’s Untamed Beast
Aug 28, 2024
Bill Gates Is Patient Zero for Billionaires
Aug 24, 2024
The Federalism and Originalism Fallacy: Rediscovering America's True Constitutional Heritage
Aug 17, 2024
Tech goes to war
Aug 14, 2024
Why Democracy Might Be Its Own Worst Enemy: The Fatal Flaw in Our System
Aug 10, 2024
On the Front Lines of the Homelessness Crisis
Aug 06, 2024
From Puberty to Politics: How Judy Blume Inspired a Progressive Generation
Jul 30, 2024
Beyond GDP: Redefining Economic Success by Measuring What Really Matters
Jul 27, 2024
The Couch vs. The Ballot Box: The Struggle for Civic Participation
Jul 23, 2024
How the Art World Deals With Protests and Politics
Jul 20, 2024
Does California Need More Power and Influence?
Jul 16, 2024
They Are Coming for Our Schools
Jul 13, 2024
Weathering the Storm: A TV Meteorologist’s Fight for Facts in a Post-Truth Era
Jul 09, 2024
Bankruptcy laws are a mess
Jun 29, 2024
One Week in 1999 that Set Up Today's Politics
Jun 25, 2024
The Supreme Court Continues to Be the Leading Obstacle to the Right to Vote
Jun 22, 2024
Nicholas Kristof and Chasing Hope
Jun 18, 2024
The French Connection: The Far Right’s Rise and Its Global Implications
Jun 17, 2024
The changing social and political contours of divorce
Jun 11, 2024
What were you doing when you were 22?
Jun 03, 2024
The Little Newsroom That Could: A Conversation With Ken Doctor
May 28, 2024
The Conservative Futurist: A Conversation with James Pethokoukis
May 23, 2024
"The Guarantee": Natalie Foster's Vision for Reimagining the Social Contract and Building an Inclusive Economy
May 20, 2024
An Election Prophecy: How 13 Keys Unlock Presidential Election Outcomes: A Conversation With Allan Lichtman
May 17, 2024
Would We Be Better Off With a Whole New System of Governance: American Democracy Reimagined
May 13, 2024
The Looming Threats to the 2024 Election: Anatomy of an Election Meltdown
May 10, 2024
Rewiring Our Brains: The Alarming Neurological Consequences of Climate Change
May 07, 2024
The Solution to Our Housing Problems May be Right Next Door: My conversation with Max Podemski
May 01, 2024
A Journey into the "Filterworld" That Directs Us
Apr 25, 2024
White Rural Rage Is Not Going Away
Apr 22, 2024
America's Climate Warzones: Stories from the Frontlines
Apr 16, 2024
The Waltham Murders, the Boston Marathon Bombing, and the Search for Truth, 11 Years Later.
Apr 15, 2024
What if Pete Rose gambled today?
Apr 11, 2024
Silicon Soldiers: The Military-Technology Complex
Apr 08, 2024
The Freaks Came Out to Write
Apr 03, 2024
Gangs, Governance, and Grief: Haiti’s Harrowing Reality
Mar 25, 2024
America Last: The Right's Enduring Romance With Dictators
Mar 17, 2024
Unmasking the Disinformation Playbook with Barbara McQuade
Mar 14, 2024
Marriage is Now a Luxury Good
Mar 12, 2024
Matthias Gafni gives voice to the lost souls of San Francisco
Mar 07, 2024
Navigating Chaos: Insights on a World at War
Mar 04, 2024
Sarah Swanbeck and Erin Heys decode millennials and Gen Z
Feb 28, 2024
Reclaiming Populism: It’s Not What We Think It Is
Feb 21, 2024
The Distant Revolution: Russia’s Growing Exiles Challenge Putin’s Rule
Feb 16, 2024
Laura Pappano: The Political Battles inside America's Public Schools
Feb 12, 2024
Roger Rapoport is still searching for Patty Hearst —50 years later
Feb 05, 2024
Is the Abortion Battle the New Foundation for Modern Political Activism?
Jan 29, 2024
Media Crack-up 2024: A Conversation with Project Censored's Mickey Huff
Jan 25, 2024
From Anxiety to Action: Young Floridians Transforming Politics
Jan 22, 2024
Digital Titans and the Echoes of the Gilded Age
Jan 17, 2024
MAGA Unraveled: An Insider’s Perspective on Right-Wing America
Jan 15, 2024
The Last Candidate of the GOP
Jan 10, 2024
‘Fox News’ Is Not News
Jan 06, 2024
Daniel Sokatch: A Pivotal Figure in Modern Jewish Dialogue and Israeli Affair is Redefining Jewish Advocacy
Dec 27, 2023
Conor Friedersdorf: D.E.I. vs. free speech at California colleges
Dec 18, 2023
‘Vibes vs. Data’: Unpacking the US Economy
Dec 15, 2023
John King's portal to San Francisco and urban design
Dec 14, 2023
Unmasking the Elephant
Dec 11, 2023
Jonathan Taplin vs. the tech billionaires
Dec 04, 2023
From Poverty to Empowerment: The Rise of the Global Middle Class
Nov 28, 2023
​​Robert Sapolsky and our Illusion of free will
Nov 27, 2023
Don’t Shoot the Messenger: The Methods and Power of Pollsters
Nov 21, 2023
A Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson
Nov 15, 2023
From Buy to Cell: The Journey of SBF
Nov 06, 2023
The Shifting Sands of the Middle East: What’s Next for Israel, Hamas, and Iran?
Oct 30, 2023
Navigating the New Geopolitics: A Conversation with Sam Ramani
Oct 23, 2023
Carl Safina on Nature, Philosophy, and Unexpected Teachers
Oct 17, 2023
Can America Survive Its Own Constitution? The Tyranny of the Minority
Oct 16, 2023
The Invisible Frontlines: Israel’s Secret War Against a Nuclear Iran
Oct 09, 2023
The Wisdom of Survivors: Overcoming Global Trauma
Oct 02, 2023
When the Game Was War: The 1987-88 NBA Season: My Conversation with Rich Cohn
Sep 19, 2023
Power Play: How Just 12 People Control America’s Economic Destiny: A conversation with John Coates
Sep 07, 2023
Living History: A Conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust on the Pivotal Moments That Shaped Her and All of Us
Aug 28, 2023
Can Boomers Ever Age Out Gracefully? A Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Leipzig
Aug 15, 2023
What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life: A Conversation with Sally Jenkins
Aug 07, 2023
What We Imagine "Out There" Reflects How We See Each Other
Jul 27, 2023
Why the Fentanyl Crisis Calls for a New War On Drugs
Jul 26, 2023
Oppenheimer is Not The First Movie About the Deveopment of the Atom Bomb...The First One Was a Bomb
Jul 18, 2023
How Women Changed Journalism: A conversation with Brooke Kroeger
Jul 12, 2023
AI May Tell Us More About the Cosmos Than Telescopes: A Conversation with Andrew Pontzen
Jun 29, 2023
How the Memory of the ’60s Civil Rights Era Is Being Co-Opted
Jun 20, 2023
Space: It’s Not Just for Governments Anymore: A conversation with Ashley Vance
Jun 14, 2023
Living and Dying by the Myth of Rugged Individualism: A Conversation with Alissa Quart
Jun 05, 2023
Kevin Kelly on Old Wisdom and New Progress
Jun 01, 2023
Are We Creating the Species That Will Replace Us?
May 30, 2023
Flying Green, Climate Justice, and Higher Prices
May 18, 2023
The Era of Social Media Journalism Is Over: A Conversation with Ben Smith
May 12, 2023
A Conversation with Hernan Diaz about his Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel "Trust"
May 12, 2023
The Value of Killing Time: A Conversation with Sheila Liming
Apr 27, 2023
Myth, Religion, Fascism… The Recipe for Right-Wing Politics
Apr 19, 2023
Cyber Weapons and a New Arms Race… Without Firing a Shot
Apr 18, 2023
Science Is Simply Curiosity Writ Large: A conversation with Dr. Suzy Sheehy
Apr 13, 2023
Spies in Hollywood: A conversation with Jonathan Gill
Apr 12, 2023
How the Police Became Untouchable: A conversation with Joanna Schwartz
Apr 12, 2023
A Real Life "Succession" Drama: The Story of Sumner and Shari Redstone
Feb 24, 2023
Why Doesn’t Our Technology Live Up to Our Science Fiction?
Feb 21, 2023
We Have No Democracy Without Good Citizens: My conversation with Richard Haass
Feb 09, 2023
We Each Have the Personal Answer to Our Larger Divisions: A Conversation with Pico Iyer
Jan 31, 2023
Citizenship Is Just A Commodity: A Conversation with Atossa Abrahamian
Jan 26, 2023
In Spite of Many Problem, Flying is Safer Than Ever...Why?: A conversation with John Nance
Jan 14, 2023
Another New Year, and More Promises to Sweat: A conversation with Bill Hayes
Jan 04, 2023
Art vs. Cable News: My Conversation with Amy Herman
Dec 30, 2022
How Much HBO Did You Watch This Holiday Break? A conversation with Felix Gillette
Dec 28, 2022
How Governance Was Saved During the Trump Years: A Conversation with David Rothkopf
Dec 22, 2022
The New Age of DNA Investigation: A Conversation with Edward Humes
Dec 19, 2022
Presidential Words Matter: My Conversation with Cody Keenan
Dec 08, 2022
The Life and Death of Anthony Bourdain: A Conversation with Charles Leerhsen
Nov 30, 2022
When Legendary CEOs Can't Find a Successor: A Conversation with William Cohan
Nov 25, 2022
War As A Nonviolent Struggle: A conversation with Thomas Ricks
Nov 18, 2022
Democracy Will Likely Be Voted Out on Tuesday: A Conversation With Robert Draper
Nov 07, 2022
Of Boys and Men: A Conversation with Richard V. Reeves
Oct 31, 2022
Where Immigration and Education Come Together: A Conversation with Jessica Lander
Oct 25, 2022
How The Universe Works and Why It Matters: A Conversation with Sean Carroll
Oct 04, 2022
We Live in a Golden Age of Ignorance: A conversation with Andy Borowitz
Sep 28, 2022
Harvard Is Once Again The Center of Psychedelics: A Conversation with Patrick Schmidt
Sep 15, 2022
How Did The Pandemic Change Us? A Conversation with Katie Hafner
Aug 24, 2022
Why Harvey Weinstein Should Matter: A Conversation with Ken Auletta
Aug 10, 2022
The Trump Roster of Toadies: A conversation with Mark Leibovich
Jul 27, 2022
Negotiation for Fun and Profit: A Conversation with Rich Cohen
Jul 18, 2022
Your Dreams Are Not What You Think
Jun 29, 2022
David Gergen on How Great Leaders are Made
Jun 22, 2022
Why Anxiety is Good for You!
Jun 07, 2022
A Whistleblower Stands Up To China: A Conversation with Ashley Yablon
May 02, 2022
A Nostalgia For the Journalism of Old: A Conversation with Brian Karem
Mar 23, 2022
Tell Me A Story: A Conversation with Frank Rose
Feb 23, 2022
How Global Migration is Actually Moving the World Forward: My conversation with Parag Kahanna
Feb 14, 2022
How Chinese Language is the Core of its Culture: A Conversation with Jing Tsu
Feb 04, 2022
A Love Letter to Spy-craft: A Conversation With Retired CIA Officer Douglas London
Jan 25, 2022
Politics Without Celebrity - Kati Marton’s The Chancellor
Jan 14, 2022
January 6th Was a Rallying Point For White Hot Hate
Jan 04, 2022
How Fame, Fortune and Education Ended Objective Journalism: A conversation with Batya Ungar-Sargon
Dec 27, 2021
The Modern Era of Television Begins with HBO: A Conversation with James Andrew Miller
Dec 15, 2021
The Shattering: America in the 1960‘s: A Conversation with Kevin Boyle
Dec 07, 2021
Has the Death of Faith Made Us More Tribal?
Nov 30, 2021
The Rise and Fall of the NRA and What it‘s Cost Us: A Conversation with Tim Mak
Nov 19, 2021
A Story of What Went Right in the Battle Agaisnt COVID - Gregory Zuckerman tells the story of how we got the shot that saved the world
Nov 09, 2021
How the Index Fund Changed Finance and Why It‘s Still So Powerful Today
Nov 02, 2021
Dirty, but Essential Work: A Conversation with Eyal Press
Oct 28, 2021
Looking for America: My Conversation with Evan Osnos
Oct 18, 2021
What Is The Future of Transportation? Hint...It‘s Not A Better Car
Oct 08, 2021
No Cell Service, No Technology and Electrosensitives Everywhere: Stephen Kurczy Talks about ”The Quiet Zone”
Sep 30, 2021
As You Look At The Emmys, Remember That It Is Only Streaming and Entertainment That is Bringing the World Together
Sep 18, 2021
The Myth of ”Nobody Saw it Coming”
Sep 04, 2021
Democracy Dies In The Chaos of Competing Truths: A Conversation with Robert M. Smith
Aug 31, 2021
America Is No Longer A Serious Nation: My conversation with Tom Nichols:
Aug 24, 2021
Roger Bennett Teaches Us About Soccer AND About America
Aug 20, 2021
The Ultimate Corporate Delusion: The Story of WeWork
Aug 05, 2021
Trump's Final Days: My conversation with Carol Leonnig
Aug 02, 2021
A Car for the Ages: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings - A conversation with Earl Swift
Jul 29, 2021
What AI Really Is, Whose Making It Happen and What It Means For The Future: My conversation with Cade Metz
Jul 18, 2021
How We Got To Globalization Today: A Conversation with Jeffrey Garten
Jul 12, 2021
A Constitution of Knowledge: A Conversation with Jonathan Rauch
Jul 09, 2021
We Are Our Information: A conversation with Caleb Scharf
Jul 06, 2021
Amazon, Bezos and a Global Empire
Jun 30, 2021
Our New Addiction to Outrage: The American Psychosis
Jun 28, 2021
Reasons for Hope in Rural America: A Conversation with Gigi Georges
Jun 22, 2021
A Conversation with Chris Matthews:
Jun 18, 2021
The Secret Service and its Time of Reckoning: A conversation with Carol Leonnig
Jun 08, 2021
What Happened In Wuhan? Why the Lab Leak Theory Has Gained Traction
Jun 07, 2021
Campaigns Matter: A conversation with Edward-Isaac Dovere
Jun 04, 2021
With The American Experiment on the Precipice, It's Good To Know Our Shared Origin Story: A Conversation with Historian Patrick O'Donnell
May 29, 2021
Why New York is New York
May 24, 2021
The Notorious Maxwells
May 16, 2021
We Need Uniters, Not Dividers: A Conversation with Tim Shriver
May 07, 2021
How the Rich Really Live and Why We All Should Care
Apr 30, 2021
A Time When Oscar Winning Movies Really Mattered: The Making of Midnight Cowboy
Apr 25, 2021
The Founding Mothers of NPR
Apr 21, 2021
Toxic Masculinity In An Oil Boomtown
Apr 19, 2021
Elon Musk IS Leading Us Into The Future
Apr 07, 2021
Imagining the Next World War : 2034
Apr 02, 2021
Come Fly With Me: The World of The Pan Am Stewardess Before "Me Too"
Mar 29, 2021
The Royals Have Outlived Their Value: Gilded Lives at the Expense of the British People
Mar 22, 2021
Frida Kahlo and the Timelessness of Her Work and Her Ideas
Mar 18, 2021
Coffee, Globalization and and Why We Care About A Hill of Beans
Mar 11, 2021
Rethink Everything You Know About Policing
Mar 01, 2021
Where Is The Information We Have Lost In Data
Feb 19, 2021
Mike Nichols: A Life
Feb 16, 2021
Why The Exploration Of Space Should Still Matter
Feb 08, 2021
Are You A Broker, Expansionist or Convener? It Will Tell How the Pandemic Impacted You
Feb 02, 2021
Armed Members of Congress. Bloodshed in the Capitol. Talk of Secession. We've Seen It Before
Jan 25, 2021
The Hispanic Republican Vote
Jan 19, 2021
It's Time For America to Create a New Origin Story
Jan 08, 2021
Understanding Goodfellas and the Trump Henchman
Dec 30, 2020
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Dec 26, 2020
Broke is the definition of every aspect of American medicine today
Dec 16, 2020
The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
Dec 08, 2020
The Saudi Enigma - How Will Biden Deal With It?
Dec 01, 2020
Does America Need to Find Its First Principles? A conversation with Tom Ricks
Nov 23, 2020
A Dolly Parton Moment
Nov 16, 2020
The Collapse of America's Founding Mythology
Nov 09, 2020
Biden..We Hardly Knew Ye
Nov 02, 2020
Up Close and Personal with Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown
Oct 29, 2020
Is Socialism Coming To America?
Oct 27, 2020
Are We So Divided that Secession Is The Only Answer?
Oct 23, 2020
Jimmy Carter: A Good and Decent Presidency
Oct 14, 2020
Is White Collar Corruption the New Normal?
Oct 12, 2020
The Reverend Michael B. Curry: Advice for Times Like This Week/Month/Year
Oct 06, 2020
Should Donald Trump Make Us Rethink the Reagan Legacy For the Worse?
Sep 29, 2020
Science and Politics are Now Linked
Sep 23, 2020
The Curse of the US/Britain Special Relationship
Sep 15, 2020
A Conversation with Brian Stelter
Sep 14, 2020
A Spouse Also Runs: A Conversation with Chasten Buttigieg
Sep 08, 2020
Remember When Diplomacy and the Arts Once Mattered?
Sep 02, 2020
McCarthy to Cohn to Trump: A conversation with Larry Tye
Aug 27, 2020
Gail Sheehy: In Memoriam
Aug 25, 2020
Only The Best People: Why The Best and The Brightest Sometimes Aren't
Aug 24, 2020
Why Are Millennials Feeling Left Behind?
Aug 17, 2020
Nixon and The Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
Aug 13, 2020
Pete Hamill in His Own Words...and Voice
Aug 08, 2020
Marilyn
Aug 05, 2020
Why Are White Evangelicals Primed For Trump’s Fear-Mongering?
Aug 05, 2020
Can Local Journalism Rewire Democracy?
Jul 31, 2020
Do We Have The Strength and Wisdom to BEGIN AGAIN?
Jul 26, 2020
The High Cost of Free Speech
Jul 24, 2020
Christopher Dickey: A Remembrance
Jul 20, 2020
The Unexpected Role of Feminism in Mass Incarceration
Jul 16, 2020
Without Newt there is no Trump: How we Got Here.
Jul 12, 2020
Is It 1968 All Over Again?
Jul 10, 2020
The Microbiome is Revolutionizing Medicine and Yes, Probiotics Matter
Jun 30, 2020
The Genetic Superiority of Women
Jun 29, 2020
Lincoln Almost Never Made It To The White House
Jun 25, 2020
Maybe There Were Some Smart People in Oklahoma
Jun 21, 2020
Accepting Science is Actually a Test of Character
Jun 15, 2020
It's Economic Dignity, Stupid
Jun 09, 2020
Not Your Father's CIA
Jun 04, 2020
It Is A Small World After All
May 27, 2020
A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
May 24, 2020
Where Did 24/7 News Come From?
May 20, 2020
The Truth About America's "Deep State"
May 12, 2020
Religious Nationalism and the Reopening of America
May 08, 2020
China and Its Ongoing Industrial Espionage
May 06, 2020
"When Someone Tells You Who They Are, Believe Them"
Apr 28, 2020
Our Evolution Is A Graveyard of Ancient Viruses.
Apr 16, 2020
When We Come Back, Every Business Could Be A Startup: Here Are Some Rules
Apr 07, 2020
A Look At What Real Leadership Skills Might Look Like
Mar 27, 2020
Can Journalism Be Saved: A Conversation with Nicholas Lemann
Mar 21, 2020
David Plouffe on Beating Donald Trump
Mar 19, 2020
A Bank Behind Every Crime: Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
Mar 09, 2020
When Will The Boomers Leave the Stage?
Mar 03, 2020
Hong Kong on the Brink
Feb 26, 2020
You Say You Want A Revolution
Feb 25, 2020
Nicholas Kristoff & Sheryl WuDunn: Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Feb 13, 2020
Can We Distance Ourselves From the Sins of Our Parents? A Conversation with the Daughter of George Wallace
Feb 11, 2020
If You Spend Hours Watching Cable News, You Are Just A Political Hobbyist
Feb 06, 2020
How Can We Avoid A New Generation of Brett Kavanaughs and Harvey Weinsteins
Jan 31, 2020
Australia's Climate Apocalypse: Up Close and Personal
Jan 29, 2020
Silicon Valley and the Quest for Immortality
Jan 28, 2020
Saving America From Trump, and Democrats From Themselves
Jan 22, 2020
It's Ok To Compromise and Maybe Even to Sellout Sometimes
Jan 20, 2020
Human Nature Always Finds A Way
Jan 14, 2020
Can the Generational Divide Lead Us Out Of Division?
Jan 08, 2020
Do You Need Further Reminders that This Is Not Your Father's Workplace
Jan 06, 2020
Why Most Health Care is Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Dec 30, 2019
William Greider R.I.P.
Dec 27, 2019
Something to Think About As You Eat that Holiday Steak........
Dec 24, 2019
Can America's Military Ever Recover?
Dec 19, 2019
From Useful Idiot to Working Asset
Dec 18, 2019
The Model For Taking It To The Streets
Dec 17, 2019
Why Quantum Mechanics Matter and Why You Should Care: A Conversation with Sean Carroll
Dec 13, 2019
What Happens to Ancestry Testing DNA?
Dec 09, 2019
The Best and the Brightest of America's Diplomats
Dec 02, 2019
Kickstarting a Better World
Nov 26, 2019
Fake is Sometimes Real
Nov 18, 2019
Only Whistleblowers Can Save Democracy
Nov 12, 2019
Why is Science Under Assault?
Nov 12, 2019
The Battle of Mosul - The Last Great Battle Against Isis
Nov 05, 2019
He is a Being Made of Television
Oct 29, 2019
The Science of Kindness Is Real
Oct 27, 2019
Why Health Care Is Broken, and How to Fix It...Hint..Medicare for All is Not the Answer
Oct 24, 2019
Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law: A conversation with James B. Stewart
Oct 22, 2019
Harold Bloom 1930 - 2019
Oct 17, 2019
A Conversation with the Recipients of This Years Nobel Prize in economics: Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
Oct 15, 2019
The End of America's Cultural Hegemony
Oct 14, 2019
The Tyranny of Virtue: Political Correctness Run Amuck on Our Campuses
Oct 13, 2019
Just Who is Brett Kavanaugh?
Oct 09, 2019
Why Understanding Silicon Valley History is Necessary To Deal With Today's Tech Issues
Oct 02, 2019
Trump's War on the FBI
Sep 30, 2019
We are All Cult Members Now!
Sep 26, 2019
Is Clothing the New Plastic?
Sep 25, 2019
The CIA in the Post 9/11 World
Sep 22, 2019
A 1998 conversation with Cokie Roberts
Sep 17, 2019
She Said
Sep 17, 2019
Charles and David Koch Are Not Who You Think They Are!
Sep 16, 2019
The Other Scandal: The College Dropout Scandal
Sep 09, 2019
How Women are Changing American Politics
Sep 04, 2019
Trump Even Screws Up Conspiracy Theories
Aug 23, 2019
To Live and Work In Hollywood
Aug 14, 2019
The GOP's Strategy To Embrace Racism
Aug 07, 2019
The Most Heinous Serial Killer You've Never Heard Of
Jul 30, 2019
A 2019 Way To Look At and Talk To Kids About Race
Jul 24, 2019
20 Years Ago Today, the Death of JFK, Jr., Extinguished the Last Flames of Camelot
Jul 17, 2019
The Welfare Queen and Political Mythology
Jul 10, 2019
The False Mythology of Roger Ailes
Jul 02, 2019
The Loudest Voice in the Room
Jun 29, 2019
War Today: We Pay and They Serve
Jun 21, 2019
Cities Represent the Ultimate Achievement of Mankind
Jun 17, 2019
Professor Ed Hess talks about Saving Capitalism
Jun 05, 2019
Imagine If We All Could Have Esther Wojcicki As A Parent
May 28, 2019
We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men: David Maraniss and "A Good American Family"
May 23, 2019
A Multi-Cultural Society, An Elite Senate, Good and Bad Leaders: How It All Went So Wrong
May 21, 2019
Fear, Loathing and Immigration: The Battle Was Once Much Worse
May 17, 2019
Democracies Are Not Forever...Is The US Headed Down The Same Path As Rome?
May 09, 2019
Outright Lies Are Posing As Today's Conspiracy Theories
May 07, 2019
The Klan and White Supremacy...Then and Now
May 02, 2019
We'll Be OK If We Can Make It to 2040
May 02, 2019
If Democracy Requires Critical Thinking, Are We Doomed?
Apr 29, 2019
According to the World Health Organization, Superbugs are a Greater Health Threat Than Climate Change
Apr 22, 2019
The Remembered Past vs. The Real Past
Apr 17, 2019
Why Coders Matter and Why They Control Our Future
Apr 10, 2019
Who We Connect With Impacts Who We Become, and Who We Become Impacts Who We Connect With
Mar 31, 2019
The Brave New World of Immunotherapy
Mar 31, 2019
Should We Negotiate With Hostage Takers?
Mar 28, 2019
Brave, Not Perfect
Mar 25, 2019
How Our Lives Are Being Run By Algorithms: From the 737 to Our Daily Commute
Mar 21, 2019
Facebook and Zuckerberg Not Only Screwed Up Reality..They Even Screwed Up Virtual Reality: The Story of Palmer Luckey and Oculus
Mar 12, 2019
How Our Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved
Mar 04, 2019
A Look at Everything that Ivanka Trump Will Never Understand About Working People in America
Mar 01, 2019
The History of our Future: A Conversation with Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler
Feb 25, 2019
The Future is Asian
Feb 22, 2019
Patriarchy in the Me Too Era: A conversation with Carol Gilligan
Feb 20, 2019
When Did We Start This "Division Thing?"
Feb 19, 2019
What If The Solution to Fix Democracy is Actually Less Democracy
Feb 15, 2019
Why We Need Special Prosecutors....It's Not For Harassment
Feb 07, 2019
Philip Johnson and the Politics of Architecture, the Architecture of Politics
Feb 04, 2019
Is This The End of Shopping?
Jan 31, 2019
Black Feminist Politics
Jan 29, 2019
The Wives of the Vietnam Era: What We Learned and What's Different Today
Jan 22, 2019
Housing, Housing, Housing
Jan 17, 2019
Disruption, Terrorism, Climate Change...Just Some of the Risk Today's Corporations Face
Jan 16, 2019
The Pentagon's $21 Trillion Con Game
Jan 10, 2019
San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the Future of Cities
Jan 06, 2019
We All Have A Role To Play In the Biggest Story of 2019
Jan 01, 2019
With Each New Year, Do We Loose A Little of What Makes Us Human?
Dec 26, 2018
The Business of Punishment
Dec 20, 2018
Is it Possible to Believe in Nationalism and Think Globally at the Same Time?
Dec 13, 2018
What Might Gonzo Journalism Look Like Today? A Look At Hunter S. Thompson vs. Nixon
Dec 12, 2018
Bribery, Kickbacks and Corruption: Why It Matters
Dec 05, 2018
Democracies Are Not Forever...Are We Headed Down the Same Path As Rome?
Dec 03, 2018
The Week Politics Went Tabloid: A Conversation with Matt Bai about Gary Hart and THE FRONT RUNNER
Nov 24, 2018
California is Burning - Here's Why
Nov 20, 2018
Jamal Khashoggi's Secret Interview
Nov 20, 2018
Why Capitalism Matters and Why We Need to Protect It
Nov 15, 2018
History in Plain Sight: WWI and the Unknown Soldiers
Nov 12, 2018
Notes On Hope from Anne Lamott
Nov 07, 2018
Greg Sargent looks at Thunderdome Politics in the Age of Trump
Nov 06, 2018
The Forgotten and The Angry: A Search for the Trump Voter
Nov 04, 2018
Reagan Would Be Such An Improvement Today
Nov 02, 2018
Democracy, Rebellion and Revolution: Pick Two
Nov 02, 2018
Men on the Sidelines of American Life
Oct 29, 2018
When They Take Away Your Vote, Who Ya Gonna Call?
Oct 29, 2018
The Last Time "Nationalism" Was Embraced...Hitler and his American Friends
Oct 23, 2018
Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy
Oct 20, 2018
Is America Now A Fascist Country?
Oct 18, 2018
Marvin Kalb on The New McCarthyism and the Threat to Democracy
Oct 10, 2018
The Geopolitical Downsides of Fracking Are Downright Scary
Oct 08, 2018
Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth.
Oct 03, 2018
Why Adam Smith Still Matters, And What We Have Not Understood
Oct 02, 2018
Tight and Loose Explains the World
Sep 20, 2018
The Myth We Still Tell About the Fall of Lehman Bros.
Sep 19, 2018
The Global Elite's Effort to Change the World
Sep 18, 2018
The Browns of California
Sep 15, 2018
Voter Suppression 101
Sep 11, 2018
17 Years in Afghanistan....What Have We Accomplished?
Sep 11, 2018
Make A Decision!
Sep 06, 2018
Why DNA Kits May Not Really Tell Us Who We Are
Sep 02, 2018
Parenthood in an Age of Fear
Aug 28, 2018
A Conversation with John McCain
Aug 27, 2018
Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
Aug 25, 2018
Are Americans Afraid of Optimism?
Aug 24, 2018
The Kids Are All Right
Aug 17, 2018
The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump
Aug 16, 2018
Even Power Has Been Subject to Change. Here's How
Aug 15, 2018
When Does No Drama Make For A Better Show and a Better Government?
Aug 14, 2018
The Iran Nuclear Deal and The View from Tehran
Aug 13, 2018
The Mouth That Roared - How Rush Limbaugh Changed America
Aug 07, 2018
Our Crises of Connection - Why We Need to Gather Now, More Than Even
Aug 06, 2018
Is Hope or Change Ever Possible After Trump?
Aug 03, 2018
GDP = GREATLY DECEPTIVE PROSPERITY
Aug 02, 2018
Why Teams Are The New Normal
Aug 02, 2018
PUTIN’S INDECENT PROPOSAL
Aug 01, 2018
Lazy Thinking, Intellectual Cowardice and Safe Spaces On Today's College Campus
Jul 31, 2018
Men Behaving, Or How To Prevent More Trump Supporters In The Future
Jul 23, 2018
Today's Struggle With Russia Is More Than Cold War 2.0
Jul 21, 2018
What's the Matter With America?
Jul 19, 2018
Silicon Valley: The Origin Story...Live As It Happened
Jul 12, 2018
Driven to Succeed...A Conversation with Dr. Ned Hallowell
Jul 09, 2018
Nationalism and Culture Need Not be A Zero Sum Game
Jul 08, 2018
THE AGE OF POLITICAL PERSUASION IS OVER To Attract the Next Generation, Politics Must Be About Advocacy, Organization, and Winning
Jul 06, 2018
Groucho Was Right!
Jul 05, 2018
Freedom of the Press and Freedom From Fake News
Jun 27, 2018
Can Something That's Popular, Still Be Creative and Good?
Jun 27, 2018
A Dinner in Camelot: How Far We Have Fallen
Jun 22, 2018
The Ultimate Silicon Valley Scam
Jun 19, 2018
Things Can Always Get Worse in America...And They Often Have
Jun 13, 2018
The Country's Collapsing...and the Ratings are Great
Jun 12, 2018
Conversations with Anthony Bourdain
Jun 12, 2018
Suicide Among The Best And The Brightest: Portraits of Resilience
Jun 07, 2018
Bobby Kennedy May Have Been The Last Genuine Progressive
Jun 05, 2018
The American Tailspin: Can We Ever Pull Up?
Jun 02, 2018
Humans at Our Best and Worst
May 29, 2018
Railroads and Highways and Ports, Oh My
May 23, 2018
Robin
May 23, 2018
We Think It's Stormy Now.....1968 Was Far Worse....And We Survived
May 17, 2018
If Gina Haspel is confirmed, will CIA torture begin anew?
May 16, 2018
The Moral Horror of Our Times
May 16, 2018
Moore's Law Does Not Apply To Relationships
May 15, 2018
Globalization and its Discontents
May 12, 2018
Freedom, Liberty & America...A Look Back
May 08, 2018
Dear Madam President
May 04, 2018
The Fragility of Hope
May 04, 2018
Why We Have More Time to Have No Time
May 03, 2018
Immigration and the False Lure of the American Dream
Apr 30, 2018
An Important Day In The Life of Robert F. Kennedy
Apr 28, 2018
The 75-Year-Old Book That Drives Our Politics Today
Apr 25, 2018
The Internet Is Killing Democracy Facebook Is the Shiny Object, but the Danger Is Much Larger
Apr 25, 2018
Neuroscience is The New Moneyball
Apr 20, 2018
Why Tech May Usher in The Universal Basic Income, and Why It's Really Pro Business
Apr 18, 2018
From The Crusades To The Holocaust: Why History and Love Stories Matter
Apr 12, 2018
Tribes May Be Killing Our Politics, But They May Be The Cure for Depression
Apr 06, 2018
What Maxed Out Political Corruption Looks Like
Apr 05, 2018
Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It...Or Why Is Everything So Damn Complex?
Mar 30, 2018
The Israel of 1948 is Over: A conversation with Avraham Burg
Mar 27, 2018
The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
Mar 26, 2018
Why Economic Inequality Can Take Down Our Republic
Mar 22, 2018
Growing Up Muslim: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys.
Mar 21, 2018
Can The Behavior of School Shooters Be Profiled and Shootings Averted?
Mar 20, 2018
Timothy Leary and Richard Nixon, Together Again
Mar 16, 2018
They Once Made America Great...But What Did Factories Really Represent? : A conversation with Joshua Freeman
Mar 14, 2018
#MeToo in China
Mar 06, 2018
Maybe You Are Doing Everything Wrong At Work
Feb 28, 2018
Political Tribes: A Conversation with Amy Chua
Feb 27, 2018
Who Was Edward Lansdale, and Why It Matters: A Conversation with Max Boot
Feb 23, 2018
Who Owns Your Thoughts?
Feb 21, 2018
TRUTH DECAY: The Diminishing Role of Facts in Public Life
Feb 21, 2018
Because Capitalism Works: A Conversation with William Rempel
Feb 14, 2018
The Internet Needs To Grow Up: A Conversation with Andrew Keen
Feb 09, 2018
Deutsche Bank: Where The Dots Of Russiagate Connect
Feb 08, 2018
A Model For The Power of Local Agriculture
Feb 05, 2018
A President Who Really Got Things Done: A conversation with Joshua Zeitz
Feb 01, 2018
Why Art and Artists Matter...Now More Than Ever: A Conversation with Jonathan Santlofer
Jan 25, 2018
The Network vs. The Despot: A Conversation with Niall Ferguson
Jan 24, 2018
Timing is Everything! A conversation with Daniel Pink
Jan 19, 2018
Does Political Organizing Still Matter? A talk with Gordon Whitman
Jan 18, 2018
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Understanding the Panama Papers
Jan 17, 2018
Not Your Father's Non-Profit: A conversation with Kathleen Kelly Janus
Jan 16, 2018
"Things Won't Work Out By Themselves" A Conversation with Richard Haass
Jan 16, 2018
The Daniel Ellsberg Story You Won't See In THE POST
Jan 15, 2018
Trump/Russia from 30,000 Feet
Jan 09, 2018
This Man Could Have Prevented 9/11
Jan 08, 2018
Espionage 101: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities
Jan 08, 2018
Where Is Your Money Sleeping?
Jan 08, 2018
A Look At What A Real President Was Like
Jan 08, 2018
Our Collective Search for Meaning And What Happens If We Can't Find It
Dec 27, 2017
Is the Keyboard The New F15?
Dec 27, 2017
Sleep...It's Not Just For Wimps Anymore
Dec 19, 2017
The World Will Never Be The Same After AI
Dec 15, 2017
The Joys of Refugees
Dec 12, 2017
Joan Didion: The Center Cannot Hold
Nov 27, 2017
Chris Matthews on Bobby Kennedy
Nov 13, 2017
The Refugee Crisis and the Failure of Humanity
Feb 20, 2017
Is Music Just an Escape or an Inescapable Part of Life?
Feb 15, 2017
"Stoking the Star Maker Machinery"
Feb 13, 2017
The New Power of Women at Work
Feb 11, 2017
These are the Guy Who Are Changing the World
Feb 07, 2017
The Humanity That's Missing From Our Health Care Debate
Feb 06, 2017
How Real Is The Prospect of This Being the Asian Century?
Feb 03, 2017
It Is Happening Here
Feb 01, 2017
Microdosing...Maybe the Answer to the Next Four Years....It Was the Answer for Ayelet Waldman
Jan 26, 2017
Not Carnage, but Hope and Hard Work
Jan 23, 2017
Scenes From a Marriage
Jan 18, 2017
It Did Happen Here
Jan 12, 2017
Jane Jacobs Understood that Cities Have Always Reflected The Best of Us
Jan 09, 2017
Why Cities Matter...Today More Than Ever
Jan 04, 2017
We could use her comedy perspective today!
Jan 02, 2017
Why So Many Homeless Families in America?
Dec 30, 2016
Without The Rocket Girls, There Would Be No Hidden Figures
Dec 29, 2016
How Parents Must Raise A Generation That Will Save Us
Dec 28, 2016
Spy vs. Spy...Then and Now
Dec 19, 2016
What We Can Learn from War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
Dec 19, 2016
Understanding The Forces That Are Shaping the World
Dec 12, 2016
The Nordic Model and Why It Works
Dec 09, 2016
We'll always have sex?
Dec 02, 2016
Imagine If Wonder Could Replace Fear
Dec 01, 2016
In The Cloud, No One Can Hear You Think
Nov 29, 2016
Can Entrepreneurship Save the World?
Nov 28, 2016
Some of Us Want To Go To Canada...Elon Musk Wants To Go To Mars
Nov 28, 2016
Why Presidential Appointees Matter
Nov 26, 2016
Using Design Thinking for Life
Nov 22, 2016
Why the Growing Gap Between Business and the Public Hurts Both
Nov 17, 2016
Scenes from a McMarriage
Nov 16, 2016
What We Can Learn From Looking At Economic Interests That Crossed the Battle Lines During the Last Civil War
Nov 15, 2016
Why the Isis rhetoric to restore the Caliphate is exactly like Trump wanting to Make America Great Again.
Nov 07, 2016
Every Single Aspect of Today's Immigration Debate, We've Heard Before
Nov 02, 2016
Why aren't we having this conversation about Medicare and Healthcare?
Oct 31, 2016
What Can History Teach Us About Our Current Political Climate
Oct 28, 2016
The Desert and the Cities Sing
Oct 28, 2016
Inequality....the great American Divide
Oct 25, 2016
A Contrarian View of Inequality
Oct 24, 2016
Are the Mexican Drug Wars a Kind of Disneyland for Teenage Boys?
Oct 18, 2016
Greil Marcus explains Bob Dylan
Oct 14, 2016
How Nice This Would Be Today!
Oct 13, 2016
Why Presidential Staff Matter
Oct 12, 2016
When Good People Get Caught Up in Racial Cleansing
Oct 04, 2016
Why Acceleration Equals Anger
Oct 03, 2016
I Wonder Who's Kissinger Now?
Sep 30, 2016
How Well Do We Really Know Our Parents?
Sep 27, 2016
Where Is The Truth We Have Lost In Information?
Sep 23, 2016
Religion, Politics and Culture...Oh My
Sep 20, 2016
Race and Medicine
Sep 19, 2016
If You Want To Understand America, Look At Its Food
Sep 16, 2016
Strangers in Their Own Land
Sep 14, 2016
A Stranger in a Strange Land
Sep 12, 2016
Rock's Darkest Day
Sep 08, 2016
"What Does Home Mean To You?"
Aug 31, 2016
Hillbilly Elegy
Aug 29, 2016
Parents should be Gardeners and not Carpenters
Aug 26, 2016
"Stoking the Star-Maker Machinery"
Aug 18, 2016
An American Heiress in a Time Far More Violent Than Our Own
Aug 10, 2016
Back to School
Aug 07, 2016
Why Streisand Still Matters
Aug 06, 2016
How the World is Getting Faster, Faster
Aug 04, 2016
Why the nuclear codes still really matter
Aug 02, 2016
From Kabul to the Oval Office
Jul 27, 2016
Can We Really See Russia From Any Window?
Jul 27, 2016
Could Star Wars Help Us Solve The World's Problems?
Jul 25, 2016
The War at Home
Jul 20, 2016
Success and Luck
Jul 15, 2016
Bobby Kennedy
Jul 14, 2016
How Digital Memory May Change What Makes Us Human
Jul 08, 2016
Campaign 1776 - The War That We Almost Lost
Jul 03, 2016
Love Wins
Jun 27, 2016
Who Started the War On Government?
Jun 23, 2016
The Future is Inevitable
Jun 17, 2016
Before the Play, There Was the Book
Jun 15, 2016
The Power of Grit
Jun 13, 2016
What Really Helps Children Succeed?
Jun 11, 2016
The Tribal Bonds of Soldiers
Jun 08, 2016
The end of humans
Jun 06, 2016
How to deal with conflict all around us
Jun 02, 2016
Finance vs. American Business
May 29, 2016
Power...it’s not what it used to be.
May 26, 2016
The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
May 25, 2016
Susan Cain and The Secret Strengths of Introverts
May 23, 2016
A Surfing Life as Art
May 19, 2016
Are Riots and Insurrection on the Horizon?
May 16, 2016
Why Physics Matters! - Part II
May 13, 2016
Why Physics Matters!
May 12, 2016
Even Burglar's Prefer the City
May 10, 2016
The Silicon Valley Business Model, Circa 1920
May 09, 2016
Can You Remember When Bipartisan Public Policy Once Mattered?
May 05, 2016
How Family Trauma is Carried in Our Genes
May 04, 2016
Patient Zero and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine
May 02, 2016
One Upon A Time, Clean Air and Clean Water Were A Bipartisan Desire
Apr 29, 2016
Is American Unity Still Possible?
Apr 26, 2016
Girls & Sex
Apr 22, 2016
The House That Jack Buiit
Apr 19, 2016
When Revolutionary Violence Was Commonplace
Apr 18, 2016
Liberty vs. The Common Good
Apr 13, 2016
How enlightenment remakes us
Apr 09, 2016
We know more and understand less than every before
Apr 05, 2016
What's The Matter With Democrats?
Apr 03, 2016
Anne Garrels' reports from Putin Country
Mar 29, 2016
The Industries of the Future
Mar 25, 2016
Can We Thrive At Midlife?
Mar 23, 2016
Andy Grove R.I.P. - Our conversation from 1996
Mar 22, 2016
The Math Myth
Mar 21, 2016
Not Even Strip Clubs Are Not Safe From Corporate Homogenization
Mar 16, 2016
Making Sense of the Meaning of Life
Mar 15, 2016
Obama and the Black Community
Mar 14, 2016
The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
Mar 11, 2016
Nation on the Take
Mar 09, 2016
Immigration Creates Heros
Mar 08, 2016
Why the Contextual aspect of Health Care can Save Lives and Money
Mar 05, 2016
Imagine if Bernie Sanders became a right wing intellectual? Stranger things have happened.
Mar 02, 2016
He Used Journalism as a Way to Understand the World
Feb 29, 2016
A Rare Look at America at its Best
Feb 26, 2016
Teens that Read....Imagine
Feb 24, 2016
Artist, Critic, Beauty and Truth
Feb 23, 2016
With every song in our pocket, why do we listen to the same stuff over and over and over again?
Feb 19, 2016
The New World of Medical Tourism
Feb 18, 2016
The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Feb 17, 2016
We had all been warned!
Feb 15, 2016
Why we always fall for the con
Feb 11, 2016
The Future We Want
Feb 09, 2016
The GOP end game
Feb 02, 2016
Why Congress needs creative destruction
Feb 01, 2016
Why the GOP is only a local party now!
Feb 01, 2016
Caught Between Two Worlds
Jan 26, 2016
The Woman Who Are Transforming the Arab World
Jan 25, 2016
What does the GOP do now?
Jan 21, 2016
Why Political Marriages Matter
Jan 18, 2016
With Each Fill-Up we Support Repression, Tyrants, War and Terrorism -- The Link Between Natural Resources and Violence
Jan 18, 2016
Why Place Matters
Jan 14, 2016
The Brave New World of Health - It's not your father's healthcare
Jan 13, 2016
The Art of Memoir
Jan 05, 2016
A spotlight on child abuse at the Horace Mann School
Dec 26, 2015
Have we Mainstreamed Islamaphobia?
Dec 21, 2015
Imagine a non religious world? Imagine Peace
Dec 21, 2015
Why is the technology to simplify our lives, so complicated?
Dec 14, 2015
A great many children left behind
Dec 11, 2015
What did he know that his sons did not?
Dec 08, 2015
Sinatra at 100
Dec 05, 2015
How's Your Faith?
Dec 02, 2015
Out of Africa
Dec 01, 2015
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice
Nov 30, 2015
China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Wines
Nov 27, 2015
Why Lincoln would be appalled by today's income inequality
Nov 20, 2015
How Art Shapes our Nature
Nov 18, 2015
Witchy Woman - Salem 1682
Nov 13, 2015
The Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
Nov 06, 2015
The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Nov 05, 2015
Eric Bogosian tells of the plot that avenged the Armenian Genocide
Oct 29, 2015
Can the under two hour marathon be accomplished?
Oct 28, 2015
Is Robin Cook afraid to go to the Hospital?
Oct 23, 2015
How Frederick Forsyth's real life exceeded his expectations
Oct 22, 2015
Sanitized Death from Above
Oct 15, 2015
Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
Oct 12, 2015
Syria Burning
Oct 12, 2015
Is the country even worse off than it seems?
Oct 12, 2015
Detroit once symbolized America
Oct 07, 2015
A Not So Random Walk Through L.A.
Oct 06, 2015
War of the Whales: An environmental adventure story
Oct 02, 2015
This woman changed and defined Hollywood in the 70's
Sep 24, 2015
War Correspondent to the World's Women
Sep 21, 2015
The Moral Panic of the 1980's
Sep 16, 2015
The Making of Asian America
Sep 14, 2015
Labor Day for Domestic Workers
Sep 08, 2015
Is College Football worth the cost?
Sep 02, 2015
The Gift of Failure
Sep 01, 2015
Wes Craven - The Joy of Being Scared
Aug 31, 2015
Oliver Sacks R.I.P
Aug 31, 2015
The not so perfect storm
Aug 27, 2015
The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
Aug 25, 2015
Plenty Ladylike
Aug 25, 2015
Beat L.A.
Aug 18, 2015
Why Addiction is Not a Disease - Recovering from Recovery
Aug 18, 2015
Life after Nuclear War
Aug 07, 2015
From a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Aug 04, 2015
Eighty Years Ago, Paperback Books Were Considered "Creative Destruction"
Jul 31, 2015
Is Water the Sine Qua Non of "red" and "blue" America?
Jul 30, 2015
The New Science of Criminal Injustice
Jul 29, 2015
Are you ever surprised that you are being lied to?
Jul 21, 2015
Big Science and The Launch of the Military Industrial Complex
Jul 16, 2015
Baseball's Endless Season - Is it too long?
Jul 14, 2015
Primates of Park Avenue
Jul 10, 2015
How to Keep Listening When the World Wants a Fight
Jul 06, 2015
Being Nixon: A Man Divided
Jun 27, 2015
Nixon's the One
Jun 27, 2015
Charles and Ray Eames and the technology of timelessness
Jun 23, 2015
Before Jobs, Musk, Hewlett & Packard, or Ford...there were The Wright Brothers
Jun 19, 2015
A Russian Spy, A Double Agent, The FBI and Hooters Parking Lot
Jun 17, 2015
Never bet against Elon Musk's vision of the futrue
Jun 16, 2015
Would the real Alex Vause please stand up
Jun 12, 2015
How the law is shaping families and how new kinds of families are shaping the law
Jun 11, 2015
Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship
Jun 05, 2015
Who cares what Jefferson would do?
Jun 04, 2015
The fall of CrackBerry
Jun 02, 2015
One Nation Under God...and Corporation
May 26, 2015
The Brain and the Gut...together again
May 25, 2015
Can a Well-Tuned Brain keep up with the modern world?
May 21, 2015
There once was a time in Washington when negotiation and compromise were not dirty words
May 17, 2015
Project Based Learning for the Military and Business
May 15, 2015
Why Peter Pan is the model of our Infantile Age
May 14, 2015
Every generation has its own disease that moves from doomed to hopeful
May 11, 2015
A Philosophy of Happiness
May 07, 2015
Why we are all stronger in broken places
May 05, 2015
Ken Robinson on Creative Schools
Apr 28, 2015
How simplicity can thrive in a complex world
Apr 28, 2015
Our Kids
Apr 27, 2015
The new white, middle class, suburban heroin addict
Apr 24, 2015
Why men fight and why we love to watch
Apr 23, 2015
Water in all the wrong places
Apr 20, 2015
Barney Frank
Apr 17, 2015
The capital of 20th century urbanism
Apr 15, 2015
We are in the Golden Age of Public Shaming
Apr 14, 2015
In Defense of Liberal Education
Apr 07, 2015
RoadTrip Nation's ROADMAP
Apr 07, 2015
The real evolution of Steve Jobs
Apr 03, 2015
Creative Destruction comes to Warfare
Apr 02, 2015
Editing life code
Mar 31, 2015
The Myth of America as a "Christian Nation"
Mar 30, 2015
Boston's other unsolved crime
Mar 23, 2015
Eating Viet Nam
Mar 20, 2015
Space is a family business
Mar 18, 2015
Gary Wills on The Future of the Catholic Church
Mar 16, 2015
The End of College
Mar 12, 2015
Suicide is not Painless
Mar 10, 2015
How the Constitution Invented Hollywood and Silicon Valley
Mar 09, 2015
LBJ, Selma and the Great Society
Mar 07, 2015
Lies, Damned Lies and Love
Mar 05, 2015
The Federalist Society and the conservative Revolution
Mar 04, 2015
This is your Brain on Food
Mar 03, 2015
What we don't see about the Middle East
Mar 02, 2015
Lemony Snicket vs. The Pirates
Mar 02, 2015
Chuck Todd captures the Catch 22 of the Obama Presidency
Feb 27, 2015
Can Boomers afford to age with dignity?
Feb 26, 2015
Filmmaking that truly stands the test of time
Feb 25, 2015
Tales from Both Sides of the Brain
Feb 23, 2015
The Man Who Couldn't Stop......The Man Who Couldn't Stop......
Feb 20, 2015
The Science behind Touch, Pleasure and Pain
Feb 19, 2015
Lynsey Addario: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Feb 18, 2015
Has Italy always been falling apart?
Feb 17, 2015
Miranda July
Feb 17, 2015
Just how dangerous is Vladimir Putin? Ask Bill Browder!
Feb 16, 2015
Marriage today is not your parents marriage...but it just might be your grandparents
Feb 16, 2015
Is the perfect Battery the holy grail of the electronic age?
Feb 13, 2015
Fear, Hope and Dread
Feb 12, 2015
Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
Feb 07, 2015
Vidal
Feb 06, 2015
The paid dogs of war
Feb 04, 2015
Alexandra Fuller
Feb 03, 2015
The Brain's Way
Feb 02, 2015
A Biography of PTSD
Jan 30, 2015
The last time the music business died
Jan 28, 2015
The Legacy of Tahrir Square...Four years later
Jan 27, 2015
Personality and temperament determine everything!
Jan 23, 2015
Congress then and now....Lyndon Johnson and the Battle for the Great Socieity
Jan 20, 2015
The media history that must be the context for the Net Neutrality debate
Jan 16, 2015
The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
Jan 15, 2015
Can anybody save Yahoo?
Jan 13, 2015
The Political Classroom or can we ever teach citizenship again?
Jan 13, 2015
The Internet is Not the Answer
Jan 10, 2015
The Killing of the Creative Class
Jan 09, 2015
Close Encounters of the mystical kind
Jan 05, 2015
The Medicalization of Ordinary Life
Dec 31, 2014
Sit right down and write myself a letter
Dec 27, 2014
The Sounds of Silence...Deaf Culture and what it means to hear
Dec 26, 2014
What caring and service really means
Dec 24, 2014
Language is Culture, Culture is Language
Dec 23, 2014
Why Learning Beats Knowing
Dec 23, 2014
A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World
Dec 22, 2014
The quest driven life
Dec 19, 2014
We may be an insignificant and fleeting moment in time...and we know it
Dec 18, 2014
Gus Speth explains why the Environmental Movement still matters
Dec 17, 2014
Why Dreamers matter!
Dec 16, 2014
The best places to work
Dec 12, 2014
The healing power of our pets
Dec 07, 2014
Cheryl Strayed's WILD
Dec 05, 2014
If you're afraid of Genetically Modified Food, you'll really be afraid of Genetically Modified Humans
Dec 04, 2014
Only satire can save us now
Dec 03, 2014
Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production
Dec 02, 2014
Is Word of Mouth advertising driving Black Friday this year?
Nov 28, 2014
The Marshmallow Test
Nov 26, 2014
Valerie Plame's BURNED
Nov 26, 2014
The Business Moments You Can't Ignore
Nov 26, 2014
Mark Leibovich's portraits of Citizens of the Green Room
Nov 24, 2014
National Book Award Winner, Jacqueline Woodson
Nov 20, 2014
Language and Cultural Evolution
Nov 18, 2014
Technology will keep us together
Nov 17, 2014
Leading with Intention
Nov 17, 2014
The Uncensored History of the Food Network
Nov 14, 2014
Rules for Assassins
Nov 12, 2014
Ratchets, Hatchets & Pivots
Nov 11, 2014
Why Motivating People Does not work
Nov 10, 2014
Love, Sex and Popular Culture in 21st Century America
Nov 07, 2014
The making of Super Althletes
Nov 04, 2014
Just how absurd is life on the West Bank?
Nov 04, 2014
By the Book
Nov 03, 2014
The Lessons of 1970's S. Africa
Nov 03, 2014
Literature vs. The Future
Oct 31, 2014
Superstorm Sandy +2 years - What have we learned?
Oct 30, 2014
The Birth of the Pill
Oct 28, 2014
Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Oct 26, 2014
How the World Works
Oct 24, 2014
The Robots are coming
Oct 23, 2014
Understanding the Internet of Things
Oct 23, 2014
The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Oct 20, 2014
Capitalism vs. The Climate
Oct 20, 2014
How the Obesity Crisis Is Complicating America's Love Life
Oct 20, 2014
Terrorism and the Search for Justice
Oct 17, 2014
Superintelligence
Oct 16, 2014
The no problem, problem
Oct 15, 2014
I'm not the boss of me
Oct 14, 2014
Daring: My Passages
Oct 13, 2014
How Change Happens
Oct 11, 2014
A new perspective on the Middle East
Oct 10, 2014
Cosby
Oct 08, 2014
How many scandals can we understand at once?
Oct 07, 2014
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles Blow
Oct 06, 2014
Writing in the 21st Century
Oct 03, 2014
Gratitude & Trust
Oct 02, 2014
The world's first tech start-up
Sep 30, 2014
How technology is reshaping philosophy
Sep 27, 2014
Foreign Correspondent
Sep 26, 2014
Words to eat by
Sep 25, 2014
This is your brain on narcissism.
Sep 24, 2014
Instant Gratification and the Decline of Institutions
Sep 23, 2014
Technology, IS making us smarter!
Sep 22, 2014
Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence
Sep 17, 2014
Why do we celebrate diversity, and then try and co-opt it?
Sep 17, 2014
The New Capital of Big Data
Sep 16, 2014
The Boys In The Boat
Sep 12, 2014
The 9/11 generation
Sep 10, 2014
The Gold Rush...then and now
Sep 09, 2014
Do we need a constitutional amendment to take money out of politics?
Sep 08, 2014
Don't watch another Football game, until you listen to this!
Sep 06, 2014
The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Sep 04, 2014
What deeper learning is all about
Sep 03, 2014
Change or perish in education...How to build a better teacher
Aug 29, 2014
Information....adapt or perish
Aug 25, 2014
The Power of Creative Pairs - The Powers of Two
Aug 24, 2014
The Real Cost of Fracking
Aug 24, 2014
The fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan
Aug 21, 2014
Have we reached the end of American community?
Aug 18, 2014
Have we reached The End of Absence?
Aug 18, 2014
Three Women at Home and at War
Aug 14, 2014
Looking at Feguson through the eyes of the South in 1964
Aug 13, 2014
Do you believe in magic?
Aug 12, 2014
Can we ever achieve a shared truth about the legacy of slavery?
Aug 11, 2014
What did he know and when did he know it....is a Nixon defense even possible?
Aug 08, 2014
What did he know and when did he know it....is a Nixon defense even possible?
Aug 08, 2014
Is our long national nightmare over yet?
Aug 07, 2014
The deep trouble of exploration
Aug 06, 2014
The ecological history of greater New York
Aug 05, 2014
Why Vietnam still matters
Aug 03, 2014
Parenting 101 - Lead with Acceptance
Aug 01, 2014
How good intentions created the student loan crisis
Jul 31, 2014
Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century
Jul 29, 2014
Good...Evil...Indifferent
Jul 28, 2014
Do Fathers Matter?
Jul 24, 2014
Does the US have more A*holes today?
Jul 23, 2014
How Immigration became illegal
Jul 23, 2014
The Vacationers
Jul 22, 2014
What happened to good seafood at a good price?
Jul 21, 2014
How Millennials are changing the Middle East
Jul 18, 2014
The Lives and Faces of the World's Poor
Jul 17, 2014
Is there any hope for the US / Iranian relationship?
Jul 16, 2014
The real Chinese American experience
Jul 14, 2014
The beginning of an era and the end of innocence
Jul 14, 2014
Where's the beef?
Jul 12, 2014
How the immigrant feels
Jul 11, 2014
A Spymaster's Story
Jul 10, 2014
A Spymaster's Story
Jul 10, 2014
Dead laws and broken government
Jul 09, 2014
Why John Wayne still matters
Jul 08, 2014
The Bronx is calling
Jul 07, 2014
The tangled roots of American independence
Jul 04, 2014
Why we love our Vodka
Jul 03, 2014
The information age, long before the internet
Jul 01, 2014
David Boies & Ted Olson and The Legal Case for Marriage Equality
Jun 30, 2014
Laurence Tribe on The Roberts Court and the Constitution
Jun 28, 2014
The shame of juvenile prison in America
Jun 27, 2014
Why how we approach cancer treatment matters.
Jun 26, 2014
Why is anyone listening to Antonin Scalia?
Jun 25, 2014
What if you discovered your father was a notorious serial killer?
Jun 24, 2014
Ceasar Chavez and the nobility of poverty
Jun 18, 2014
Why is Green Building Exploding?
Jun 17, 2014
THE American Spirit
Jun 16, 2014
Is Hemp the coming disruptive Agricultural Revolution?
Jun 16, 2014
Junipero Serra's mission and the Founding of California
Jun 15, 2014
Films Not to be MIssed
Jun 15, 2014
Are the Koch Brothers really as bad as they seem?
Jun 10, 2014
Console Wars
Jun 10, 2014
D Day and The Mantle of Command
Jun 06, 2014
The ongoing Dance of Anger
Jun 06, 2014
Tinker, Tailor, Hacker, Spy
Jun 04, 2014
The Hoops Whisperer: Inside the Heads of Basketball's Best Players
Jun 03, 2014
How only science and kindness help people with addiction
May 27, 2014
The Sabotaging of the American Dream
May 27, 2014
How innovation keeps proving the catastrophists wrong!
May 26, 2014
The War Through Afghan Eyes
May 26, 2014
Once upon a time, protest really did make a difference
May 26, 2014
The Tolerance Trap
May 24, 2014
Gender Intelligence in the workplace
May 23, 2014
How the Russian Revolution is still impacting all of us today!
May 22, 2014
Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction
May 21, 2014
The Chinese vs. The American Dream
May 20, 2014
Creativity: The Perfect Crime
May 19, 2014
Ralph Nader's Emerging Left-Right Alliance
May 17, 2014
The Purpose Economy
May 14, 2014
If you thought the current VA scandal was bad...listen to this!
May 14, 2014
Where could this car take you?
May 13, 2014
A Handbook for Preppers.....Knowledge for the rest of us
May 12, 2014