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Free Forum with Terrence McNally

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. Gu... Read more

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JOHN NICHOLS - Getting Impeachment Right & Winning the Rust Belt in 2020

JOHN NICHOLS - Getting Impeachment Right & Winning the Rust Belt in 2020

The impeachment hearings have started and we're a year away from the 2020 election. Who better to talk to about how to g... Read more

16 Nov 2019

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Q&A: Naomi Wolf-Vagina: New Biography

Q&A: Naomi Wolf-Vagina: New Biography

Aired 9/30/12When Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth was published in 1991, Gloria Steinem hailed it as "a smart, angry, insig... Read more

2 Oct 2012

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NEW - BILL McKIBBEN, founder 350.org, new book, FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

NEW - BILL McKIBBEN, founder 350.org, new book, FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Thirty years ago, BILL McKIBBEN’s THE END of NATURE was the first popular book about climate change. Since then the effe... Read more

17 Apr 2019

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Free Forum Q&A - RAFE ESQUITH Multi-award winning 29-year LA 5th grade teacher REAL TALK FOR REAL TEACHERS Advice for Teachers, From Rookies to Veterans: "No Retreat, No Surrender!"

Free Forum Q&A - RAFE ESQUITH Multi-award winning 29-year LA 5th grade teacher REAL TALK FOR REAL TEACHERS Advice for Teachers, From Rookies to Veterans: "No Retreat, No Surrender!"

Aired: 7/21/13This week we'll spend the hour with RAFE ESQUITH, who's been teaching fifth graders in LA's Hobart Element... Read more

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Free Forum - ALVIN TOFFLER, author - with his wife, Heidi - of FUTURE SHOCK and THE THIRD WAVE about REVOLUTIONARY WEALTH: How It Will Be Created & How It Will Change Our Lives

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(originally aired July 2006) In their earlier POWERSHIFT, the Tofflers coined the word "prosumer" for people who consume... Read more

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Free Forum Q&A - ROBERT WRIGHT, author, THE MORAL ANIMAL and NON-ZERO We talk about THE EVOLUTION OF GOD.

Free Forum Q&A - ROBERT WRIGHT, author, THE MORAL ANIMAL and NON-ZERO We talk about THE EVOLUTION OF GOD.

Originally aired 08-04-2009As we celebrate the holidays - religious, cultural, and annual - we're paying more attention ... Read more

31 Dec 2014

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MICHAEL LEWIS - 2010 Q&A re THE BIG SHORT - !0 years after the crash

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It’s 10 years since the financial crash, and books, articles and commentators are looking back. So let’s listen to my 20... Read more

21 Sep 2018

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Q&A: Psychedelics in 2012-Charles Grob MD, James Fadiman - Author

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Aired 07/22/12Did you know that LSD is being tested as a treatment for alcoholism? Or that psilocybin is being taken to ... Read more

24 Jul 2012

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American hero, Gregory Boyle, Homeboy Industries, breaking through gang tribalism.

American hero, Gregory Boyle, Homeboy Industries, breaking through gang tribalism.

Midterms are over, Sessions has been fired, Trump has two months till the new House arrives. I’m on vacation and can’t r... Read more

10 Nov 2018

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Free Forum: MICHAEL LEWIS, BOOMERANG: Travels in the New Third World

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NEW - CORY DOCTOROW - Copyright, Freedom, Empathy, and Walkaways

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CORY DOCTOROW, has a lot to say about human nature, society, and technology. He writes speculative fiction - YA best-sel... Read more

25 Jan 2019

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Free Forum Q&A - JACK KORNFIELD & TRUDY GOODMAN A CELEBRATION of MINDFULNESS

Free Forum Q&A - JACK KORNFIELD & TRUDY GOODMAN A CELEBRATION of MINDFULNESS

On November 15, InsightLA, the leading Los Angeles-based Mindfulness Meditation organization, will host LIVING WITH A JO... Read more

31 Oct 2015

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MARY O’HARA-The Shame Game-The narrative that tells people poverty is their own fault

MARY O’HARA-The Shame Game-The narrative that tells people poverty is their own fault

MARY O’HARA grew up in deep poverty in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the Troubles. In THE SHAME GAME, she fights to b... Read more

7 Apr 2020

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ARLIE HOCHSCHILD STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND: Anger and Mourning on the Right

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As the Democratic candidate debates begin, here's my March 2018 conversation with ARLIE HOCHSCHILD. In her book, STRANGE... Read more

29 Jun 2019

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NEW-ELAINE PAGELS-Why Religion: A Personal Story

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In WHY RELIGION? A Personal Story, ELAINE PAGELS weaves what she's learned about religion with her own experience respon... Read more

7 Mar 2019

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Q&A: NOAM CHOMSKY, scholar, activist, author, OCCUPY

Q&A: NOAM CHOMSKY, scholar, activist, author, OCCUPY

Aired 06/17/12This week's show will deal with the Occupy/99% movement from two different perspectives. For most of the h... Read more

19 Jun 2012

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DR. ANDREW WEIL-2003 Conversation w America’s Favorite Doctor of Integrative Medicine

DR. ANDREW WEIL-2003 Conversation w America’s Favorite Doctor of Integrative Medicine

This 2003 interview traces the evolution of Dr. Weil’s work and thinking from his earliest understandings of health and... Read more

14 Jun 2019

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Q&A: DOUG FINE - Author, TOO HIGH TO FAIL

Q&A: DOUG FINE - Author, TOO HIGH TO FAIL

Aired 07/29/12I'll be joined by DOUG FINE to talk about his new book,TOO HIGH TO FAIL: Cannabis and the New Green Econom... Read more

31 Jul 2012

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Free Forum Q&A - ED HUMES, author, FORCE OF NATURE: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution

Free Forum Q&A - ED HUMES, author, FORCE OF NATURE: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution

Originally aired: June 2011Pulitzer-prize winning author Ed Humes starts with skepticism, asks tough questions, and ends... Read more

17 Jan 2016

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Who was Jesus? REZA ASLAN, Zealot: The Life & Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Who was Jesus? REZA ASLAN, Zealot: The Life & Times of Jesus of Nazareth

I wish you and your loved ones a deeply renewing holiday season. This week, you’ll hear my 2014 conversation with Reza A... Read more

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