Political Perspectives

Dr. Ruth Rosen, Professor of History and author of many books, including The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America, talks about women's participation in the Tea Party movement and the complex motives behind it. Ruth Rosen is a pioneering histori... Read more

Host Kathleen Stephenson interviews Eliza Griswold about her new book The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam Eliza Griswold has spent much of the past seven years traveling in Africa and Asia between the equator and the line of lat... Read more

Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with journalist Russ Baker, author of "Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces that Put it in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America." With the recent publication of his memoir, former President George W. ... Read more

Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with journalist Russ Baker, author of "Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces that Put it in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America." With the recent publication of his memoir, former President George W. ... Read more

Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with journalist and political blogger Rose Aguilar about the media's failure to cover women's issues as they've deemed 2010 the "Year of the GOP Woman." She recently wrote an article on this topic on truthout.org. http://www.truth-out.org/gop-... Read more

Host Marianne Barisonek speaks with journalist and political blogger Rose Aguilar about the media's failure to cover women's issues as they've deemed 2010 the "Year of the GOP Woman." She recently wrote an article on this topic on truthout.org. http://www.truth-out.org/gop-... Read more

Host Lisa Loving speaks with Bill Fletcher Jr., editorial board member of The Black Commentator and co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. He recently wrote the piece "Enthusiasm?: I Am Not Interested in Things Getting Worse!" http://pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/20... Read more

A talk by David Suzuki, geneticist, author of 40 books and host of the CBC show "The Nature of Things" for 50 years. Suzuki discusses life and legacy and asks, "Are we lords of nature, or part of it?" Credits: Recorded in Vancouver, Canada Sept 17, 2010 by Alex Smith. Fro... Read more

Host Jacob Rosenblum interviews Israeli columnist and commentator Bradley Burston. Bradley Burston is a columnist for Israel's Haaretz Newspaper, and Senior Editor of Haaretz.com. During the first Palestinian uprising, he served as Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post,... Read more

Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher interviews Jefferson Cowie, author of "Stayin' Alive: The 1970'2 and the Last Days of the Working Class." Prize-winning historian Cowie writes about what happened to working people in the last great recession. He sees the 1970's as a crucial... Read more