Interviews for the Well-Informed

Here are some recent programs I found interesting.  The links below take you to the programs' Web sites, where you can look for and click the link to listen to the episode.  Most of these can also be found as free podcasts on the site or in the iTunes Store.

Added 2012-05-17

• Hydraulic Fracturing In The Marcellus Shale

• Dan Rather: "Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News"

Added 2012-05-12

• Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein: "It's Even Worse Than It Looks"

• John Irving: "In One Person: A Novel"


• Week in the News -- 5/11/2012  

• Friday News Roundup - Domestic

• Friday News Roundup - International

• Bomb Plot Foiled

• Rhetoric’s Political Punch

• Voting Out Austerity France and Greece vote out austerity. We’ll look at what their elections mean for Europe’s debt crisis and the world.

• The Future Of Food

• Paul Krugman Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says we’re in an economic depression and we’ve got to act to end it.

• Martha Nussbaum: "The New Religious Intolerance"

• Ross Douthat: "Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics"

Older

• Prosecuting Financial Titans 

• Straight Talk on the Price of Gas

• The Future of Elder Care

• The Battle Over the Economy

• Weighing the Iranian Threat

• Cornel West and Tavis Smiley on Poverty

• Atheists Rally in Washington

• When God Talks Back 

• Debt Struggles As Old As America Itself

• Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power: Rachel Maddow Interview on Fresh Air

• Book Of Revelation: 'Visions, Prophecy And Politics'

• Glenn Beck: Drawing On 1950s Extremism? 

• Jobs' Biography: Thoughts On Life, Death And Apple
   

Also, from YouTube:

• What You Don't Know About Oil - TYT Nation