Paul Elisha: The Still Missing Magic Ingredient
There’s no denying the heat of resentment that prodded America’s colonial rebellion to its ultimate break with British rule and the formation of a new system of governance, controlled and administered...
View Article"Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination" By...
Philip Shenon is an investigative reporter formally with the New York Times, and author of the best selling book on the 9/11 Commission. His new book is an exposé on the warren commission in the...
View Article"America's Fiscal Constitution: Its Triumph And Collapse" By Bill White
With insights gained from original scholarship and an unusual breadth of experience in finance and government, Bill White distils practical lessons from the nation's five previous spikes in debt....
View ArticleCIA Analyst Mathew Burrows And Megatrends That Will Undo the World
Twenty-five years ago when Mathew Burrows went to work for the CIA as an intelligence analyst, the world seemed frozen. Then came the fall of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the Soviet Union;...
View Article'Double Down: Game Change 2012' By John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
In their runaway bestseller Game Change, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann captured the drama of Barack Obama’s improbable victory over the Clintons, John McCain, and Sarah Palin.With the same...
View ArticleJesse Ventura - Off The Grid
Former politician, actor, author, naval veteran, and former professional wrestler who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003 - Jesse Ventura - joins us to talk about his new...
View Article'Lords Of Secrecy: The National Security Elite And America's Stealth Warfare'...
Forty years ago, a majority of Americans were highly engaged in issues of war and peace. Whether to go to war or keep out of conflicts was a vital question at the heart of the country’s vibrant, if...
View Article'Thieves Of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security' By Sarah Chayes
The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine; abducted schoolgirls in northern Nigeria. Is there some...
View Article'The Speechwriter: A Brief Education In Politics' By Barton Swaim
Barton Swaim, a native South Carolinian, attended the University of South Carolina and the University of Edinburgh. From 2007 to 2010 he worked for Mark Sanford, South Carolina’s governor, as a...
View ArticleCongressional Corner With Joe Courtney
Stop the presses: we’re approaching another funding standoff in Washington. In today’s Congressional Corner, Connecticut representative Joe Courtney tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that holding the...
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