Stories by Terrence McNally
Interviewer Terrence McNally hosts Free Forum on KPFK 90.7FM, Los Angeles (streaming at kpfk.org). Visit terrencemcnally.net for podcasts of all interviews and more.
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
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
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, 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
Much of what lines supermarket aisles is not food. It's merely foodlike, and it's making us sick.
Posted on Apr 3, 2008
Our excessive consumption is trashing more than just the planet.
Posted on Jan 10, 2008
Marketers are targeting kids at disturbingly young ages, compromising the nation's health, creativity and democracy.
Posted on Dec 13, 2007
Americans are split between wanting low prices and opposing the corporate behaviors that make them possible.
Posted on Nov 28, 2007
All logic points to Republican losses in 2008. But logic doesn't vote -- and logic doesn't win elections.
Posted on Oct 24, 2007
An interview with writer/filmmaker Kenny Ausubel about taking back the planet.
Posted on Oct 19, 2007
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.
Posted on Sep 4, 2007
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.
Posted on Jun 27, 2007
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.
Posted on Jun 26, 2007
Lisa Margonelli traveled thousands of miles from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away to try and understand how Americans can buy 10,000 gallons a second without giving it much thought.
Posted on May 12, 2007
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.
Posted on Mar 14, 2007
Terry McAuliffe, former head of the Democratic National Committee and chair of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, on the Democratic vision of America and why we have yet to achieve it.
Posted on Feb 27, 2007
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.
Posted on Feb 13, 2007
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.
Posted on Jan 18, 2007
Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about what's gone wrong with globalization.
Posted on Jan 15, 2007
Kenny Ausubel, the revolutionary founder of this weekend's 17th annual Bioneers conference speaks up about nature, science, and green-ing the future.
Posted on Oct 21, 2006
The
New York Times op-ed writer explains how the White House propaganda machine replaced reality with "truthiness" to lead us into Iraq.
Posted on Oct 4, 2006
Language guru Deborah Tannen explores the turbulent terrain of the mother-daughter relationship.
Posted on Jun 29, 2006
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.
Posted on Jun 12, 2006
Hallucinogen researcher Charles Grob says psychedelic drugs have the potential to alter modern medicine.
Posted on May 24, 2006
Harper's editor Lewis Lapham explains why he wrote his provocative essay arguing for the impeachment of George W. Bush.
Posted on Mar 21, 2006
Reza Aslan discusses modern Islam and says the victory of Hamas proves that politics in the Arab world is starting to matter.
Posted on Feb 10, 2006
Eradicate poverty, reforest the earth, restore fisheries, eliminate overgrazing, protect biological diversity, stabilize climate -- Lester Brown says it's all possible.
Posted on Feb 2, 2006
Mark Crispin Miller talks about how the right stole the 2004 presidential election -- and how they'll do it again unless we stop them.
Posted on Jan 27, 2006
Combat veterans Sean Huze, Paul Rieckhoff and Jimmy Massey discuss the truth -- and the lies -- about the war in Iraq.
Posted on Jan 20, 2006
In her new book about Abraham Lincoln, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin reveals the quality that makes a president great -- his capacity for empathy.
Posted on Dec 8, 2005
George McGovern, subject of a new documentary, discusses the bright and shining moments of his 1972 presidential campaign and how it changed politics forever.
Posted on Nov 21, 2005
The author of 'A People's History of the United States' talks about falling into academia, his new book and the people making tomorrow's history today.
Posted on Oct 21, 2005
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.
Posted on Oct 13, 2005
In his irreverent new book, journalist John Dicker reveals the super-high social costs of Wal-Mart's super-low prices.
Posted on Sep 20, 2005
In a stunning new documentary, a fifth-grade teacher at one of the nation's largest inner-city schools inspires his students to lead extraordinary lives, despite language barriers and poverty.
Posted on Sep 6, 2005
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.
Posted on Jul 11, 2005
An excerpt from the
Start Making Sense section Understanding the Election.
Posted on Apr 20, 2005
Irshad Manji, author of 'The Trouble with Islam Today,' discusses the closemindedness and literalism of present-day Islam and her path to free thinking.
Posted on Apr 8, 2005
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.
Posted on Feb 11, 2005
Cornel West discusses what it is we need to confront in order to realize democracy, as well as our need for 'justice, justice, justice.'
Posted on Sep 29, 2004
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