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Click on the date of the show you'd like to hear. You will need RealAudio to listen to the archive.August 2007
08.17.07 Media Roundtable: Betsy Reed, Executive Editor of The Nation; Danny Schechter, Editor of MediaChannel.com; Jonathan Ledgard, Africa Correspondent for The Economist
08.16.07 What Did Democrats Accomplish in Congress? Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (CA's 14th Congressional District); Zachary Coile, Washington Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle
08.15.07 Barack Obama: Marie Horrigan, staff writer, Congressional Quarterly in Washington; Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times editorial board; Salim Muwakkil, senior editor, In These Times
08.14.07 What's Happening in Iran? Mansour Farhang, Professor, Bennington College, Vermont; Asef Bayat, Professor and Chair of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) at Leiden University in Holland
08.13.07 Treading Lightly and Kicking Back: John Vlahidies, is a travel writer whose work has been published by Lonely Planet, Fodor’s, Condé Nast, Sunset, San Francisco, Out Traveler, Genre Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, Miami Herald, and the New York Times
08.10.07 Media Roundtable: Harrison Chastaing, KPOO; Jesse Taylor, Daily Planet; David Folkenflik of NPR
08.09.07 Who Is Al Qaeda Now? Fawaz Gerges, Sarah Lawrence College; Ivan Eland, Independent Institute
08.08.07 What's Behind the Middle East Arms Deal? Juan Cole, professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan; Carah Ong, Iran Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation
08.07.07 Rupert Murdoch: S. Derek Turner, Free Press; Bruce Page, former Sunday Times investigative reporter, and author of "The Murdoch Archipelago;" E.S. Browning, Wall Street Journal
08.06.07 Why Are We Still In Iraq? Thomas Ricks, Washington Post; Josh Rushing, Al-Jazeera
08.03.07 Media Roundtable: Robert Hodierne, Army Times; Prathap Chatterjee, CorpWatch; David Enders, independent reporter in Iraq and author of "Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation"
08.02.07 China Road author Rob Gifford
08.01.07 On the Record - Duncan Hunter
July 2007
07.31.07 Executive Power 101
07.30.07 What Are Kids Reading? Dana Goldberg, Executive Editor, Children's Book Press; Toni Bernardi, San Francisco Public Library Chief of Children and Youth Services; Elizabeth Jenkins, Cody's Bookstore
07.27.07 Media Roundtable: David Enders, author of Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation; Zahid Hussain, Times of London; Gail Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor
07.26.07 Stories from the Holy Land: Duki Dror, Director, Mr. Cortisone Happy Days, Sidewalk; Ido Haar, Director, 9 Star Hotel; Nurit Kedar, Director, Borders, Lebanon Dream, Wasted
07.25.07 Trash Talk: Heather Rogers, Author of "Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage;" Katie Quan, Associate Chair of the Labor Center at UC Berkeley
07.24.07 Alan Weisman, author of "The World Without Us"
07.23.07 Affirmative Action: Phyllis R. Beaumonte, Rainier Beach High teacher and chairwoman of the Washington NAACP's Education Committee; Goodwin Liu, UC Berkeley Law professor; David Compos, General Counsel, San Francisco Unified School District
07.20.07 Media Roundtable
07.19.07 India at 60
07.18.07 What do Iraqis Say? Basma AlKhateeb, Iraqi AlAmal Association, Projects Management, Gender and Youth based in Baghdad; Saad Eskander, Director, Iraqi National Library and Archives in Baghdad; Sinnan Antoon, Novelist and political analyst in NY
07.17.07 On the Record with Joe Biden: John Nichols, Washington Correspondent, The Nation; Al Mascitti's, Columnist, Wilmington Delaware News Journal, and Talk Show Host, WDEL 1150 AM in Delaware.
07.16.07 Anthony Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
07.13.07 Media Roundtable: Franc Contreras, Mexico correspodent, Al-Jazeera English; Laila al-Arian, Writer, Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, Jeanne Carstensen, Executive Editor, Salon.com
07.12.07 Sacramento Update: Emily Rusch, Legislative Advocate, CalPIRG; Frank Russo, Editor, The California Progress Report
07.11.07 Politics of Sports: Dave Zirin, Author of "Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports"
07.10.07 Suburbanization of San Francisco: Richard Walker, Professor of Geography at University of California, Berkeley; Tom Radulovich, Executive Director of Livable City
07.09.07 Gaza and the Palestinian State: Beshara Doumani, Professor, UC Berkeley; Eyad El-Sarraj, Founder, Gaza Community Mental Health Program and human rights activist
07.06.07 Media Roundtable: Rekha Basu, Des Moines Register; Ken Silverstein, Harper's Weekly; James Cusick of the Sunday Herald of Glasgow
07.05.07 Immigration Reform: Catherine Tactaquin, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights; Adrian Avila, Silicon Valley Debug; Dan Kowalski, Bender's Immigration Bulletin
07.04.07 Empire Vs. Democracy: Chalmers Johnson, Author, American Empire Project
07.03.07 On the Record with Tom Tancredo: John Caldera, President of the independence Institute; Patricia Calhoun, Editor of Westword, Denver's free weekly newspaper
07.02.07 "Sicko:" Mohit Ghose, America's Health Insurance Plans; Michael Lighty, California Nurses Association; Regina Herzlinger, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of "Who Killed Healthcare?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure"
June 2007
06.29.07 Media Roundtable: Nancy Youssef, Chief Pentagon correspondent, McClatchy newspapers; Betsy Reed, Executive Editor, The Nation; Anna Badkhen, Former staff writer and foreign reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle (She starts with the Boston Globe Monday)
06.28.07 Mixed Race Families: Andrew Jolivette, San Francisco State University; Dan Nainan, Comedian; Jilchristina Vest, iPride
06.27.07 Farmers' Markets: Chris Adams, Heart Of The City Farmers' Market; Kirk Lumpkin, Berkeley Farmers' Market; Toby Garrone, Far West Fungi
06.26.07 Affordable Family Activities: Gina Goff, City Editor at City Search; Michael Peck, Senior Editor at City Search; Cindy Byrne, Publisher of Bay Area Parent
06.25.07 Supreme Court: Martin Garbus, First Amendment Lawyer and Author of "The Next 25 Years: The New Supreme Court and What It Means for Americans"
06.22.07 Media Roundtable: Marc Sandalow, Former DC Bureau Chief, San Francisco Chronicle; Jonathan Curiel, Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle; John Bowman, Former Executive Editor, San Mateo County Times
06.21.07 China Road: Rob Gifford, NPR Correspondent
06.20.07 World Refugee Day: Emily Arnold Fernandez, Executive Director, Asylum Access; B. Katenge, Survivor of Rwandan Genocide; Sean Garcia, Refugees International
06.19.07 Atul Gawande: Author of "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance" and Writer for The New Yorker
06.18.07 San Francisco Budget: N'Tanya Lee, Executive Director, Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth; Egon Terplan SPUR, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association
06.15.07 Media Roundtable: Norman Solomon, Institute for Public Accuracy; Michael Kirk, Frontline; Andrew Gumbel, the Independent
06.14.07 Fearing Google: Mark Frauenfelder, Author of Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet---Better, Faster, Easier; Nicole Ozer, ACLU of Northern California; David Spark, Technology Reporter and Commentator
06.13.07 On the Record with Mike Gravel: Mike Gravel, Mike Gravel 2008; Joe Lauria, The Progressive; Greg Griroux, Congressional Quarterly
06.12.07 Trade Debate: Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizens Global Trade Watch division; Ed Gresser, director of Progressive Policy Institutes Project on Trade and Global Market
06.11.07 Food Safety: Dr. William Hubbard, former Associate Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration and Advisor to the Coalition for a Stronger FDA; Dr. Roger Clemens, Spokesperson for the Institute of Food Technologists; Carolone Smith-DeWaal, Food Safety Director at Center for Science in the Public Interest
06.08.07 Media Roundtable: Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Times; Jeffrey Sharlet, The Revealer; Andreas Zumach, Tageszeitung
06.07.07 World Bank: Stephen Hellinger, Development Gap; Katherine Marshall, Georgetown University
06.06.07 On the Record with Republican Party Nominee and Congressman Ron Paul: T.J. Aulds, Producer, Channel 11's KHOU.com; Greg Giroux, Senior Writer at Congressional Quarterly
06.05.07 Prozac at 20: Dr. Larry Diller, Psychiatrist and Author, The Last Normal Child; Dr. Peter Kramer, Professor of Psychiatry at Brown University Author of the books Listening to Prozac and Against Depression
06.04.07 Summer Movies
06.01.07 Media Roundtable: Merrill Goozner, Center for Science in the Public Interest; Lawrence Pintak, Arab Media & Society; Marcela Sanchez, Washington Post
May 2007
05.31.07 Hillary Clinton: Michael Tomasky, Guardian USA; Ari Berman, The Nation
05.30.07 Indian Gaming: Patrick Dorinson, Morongo Band of Mission Indians; Peter Dreier, Professor of Politics and Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Program, Occidental College in Los Angeles; Joely De La Torre, Professor of Public Administration at California State University, San Bernardino
05.29.07 Photography: Andy Patrick, FiftyCrows; Chuck Mobley, San Francisco Camerawork; Terri Whitlock, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
05.28.07 Impact of the Iraq War: The Impact of the Iraq War: Linda Bilmes, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Dahlia S. Wasfi, an Iraqi born American physician and activist; Robert Barron, Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, and Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education
05.25.07 Media Roundtable: Stewart Powell, Hearst Newspapers; David Folkenflik, NPR; Hisham Melhem, al Arabiya
05.24.07 Sudan 101: Alex de Waal, writer and fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University; Scott Edwards, Amnesty International Sudan Specialist
05.23.07 Who Should We Let Out From Prison? Rose Braz, Director of Critical Resistance; Joseph D. McNamara, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution
05.22.07 Religion in Public Schools: Professor Stephen Prothero, author of "Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know And Doesn?t;" Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
05.21.07 Manager's Report to the Listeners: Matt Martin, KALW Station Manager
05.18.07 Media Roundtable: Robert Hodierne, Army Times; Gail Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor; AC Thompson, Center for Investigative Reporting
05.17.07 Gamer Theory: McKenzie Wark, author of "Gamer Theory"
05.16.07 Is Torture Inevitable? Dr. Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University; Tony Lagouranis, former US Army interrogator, Abu Ghraib prison
05.15.07 Artists and Environmentalists on Respecting Nature: Chris Jordan, photographer; Mia Hanak, executive director of Natural World Museum; Subhankar Banerjee, artist, educator and activist
05.14.07 The Mommy Wars: Miriam Peskowitz, author of the book ?The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars;? Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, author, journalist, and Executive Director of MomsRising.org
05.11.07 Media Roundtable: Dahr Jamail, Independent Middle East Reporter; James Sterngold, Staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle; Brendan O?Neill, Editor of Spiked Online
05.10.07 The Farm Bill/The Food Bill: Dan Imhoff, Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill; Sara Cohen, Washington Post
05.09.07 The Impact of the Iraq War: Linda Bilmes, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Dahlia S. Wasfi, an Iraqi born American physician and activist; Robert Barron, Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, and Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education
05.08.07 Future of Venezuela: Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela's ambassador to the United States
05.07.07 When Soldiers Speak Out: Liam Madden, former Marine Corps Seargant in Iraq and co-founder of Appeal for Redress; Andrew Bacevich, Professor, Boston University
05.04.07 Media Roundtable: Greg Gordon, McClatchy; Brenda Payton, Oakland Tribune; Martin Fletcher, The Independent
05.03.07 What's Killing the Bees? Eric Mussen, UC Davis; Danny Weaver, American Beekeepers Federation; Laurie Davies-Adams, Coevolution Institute
05.02.07 Pro-Choice Movement: Amy Everitt, NARAL Pro-Choice California; Krista Jacob, author of "Abortion Under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice;" Loretta J. Ross, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
05.01.07 Israeli Peace Movement: Jeff Helper, Founder, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions; Anat Biletzki, Teacher, Tel Aviv University
April 2007
04.30.07 Mexicans in America: Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Times Reporter, author "Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration"
04.27.07 Media Roundtable: Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation; Tony Cross, Radio France International; Zachary Coile, San Francisco Chronicle.
04.26.07 What Next In Darfur? Brian Steidle, author of "The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur;" Eltayeb Ibrahim Suliman Giddo, Darfur Peace and Development Organization
04.25.07 Is Torture Inevitable? Dr. Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University; Tony Lagouranis, former US Army interrogator, Abu Ghraib prison
04.24.07 Speaking Out Against Rape: Brian H. O'Connor, Family Violence Prevention Fund; Michelle J. Anderson, Dean and Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law
04.23.07 African Oil: John Ghazvinian, author of "Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil."
04.20.07 Media Roundtable: Pakistani Journalist Zahid Hussain, Danny Schechter, the "news dissector" and blogger; Charlie Savage, Boston Globe
04.19.07 Gonzales Hearings: Neil Kinkopf, Georgia State University Law Professor; John Nichols: The Nation magazine
04.18.07 After Tax Day: Bob McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice; Anita Dancs, National Priorities Project; Martha Burk, Ms. Magazine
04.17.07 Virginia Tech: Richard Rapaport, freelance writer; Alexander Geroud, professor of Sociology and criminal Justice at San Francisco State University
04.16.07 Sexual Crime Fighting or Entrapment? Chris Hansen, Dateline NBC; L. C. Miccio-Fonseca PhD, California Coalition on Sexual Offending; Richard Rapaport, San Francisco Bay Area freelance writer
04.13.07 Media Roundtable: Borzou Dargahi, Los Angeles Times Iraq correspondent; Dave Zirin, Sport Journalist
04.12.07 Global Warming: May Boeve, Step It Up 2007; David Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council; George Monbiot, Oxford University
04.11.07 Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist and author "Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy"
04.10.07 From Harlem to Congress: Charles Rangel, Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the House and Author of "And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since"
04.09.07 Democracy vs. Empire: Chalmers Johnson, Author, American Empire Project
04.06.07 Media Roundtable: Joan McCarter, Daily Kos; Jamal Dajani, WorldLinkTV; Nikki Finke, LA weekly
04.05.07 Consumerism: Benjamin Barber, Author of "Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole" and "Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy"
04.04.07 Future of Food: Deborah Koons Garcia, Director the ?Future of Food;? Jessica Prentice, Author ?Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection?
04.03.07 Oil on the Brain: Lisa Margonelli, Author, Journalist, and Fellow at the New America Foundation
04.02.07 Museums and City Life: Rene de Guzman, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Pamela Winfrey, Exploratorium; Lori Fogarty, Oakland Museum of California
March 2007
03.30.07 Media Roundtable: Neil Henry, Journalist and Professor, UC Berkeley School of Journalism
03.29.07 Paying Full Price: Richie Unterberger, Author of "Rough Guide to Shopping with a Conscience;" Micha Peled, China Blue
03.28.07 Gang Violence: Tyrone Poblete, United Playaz; Francis Chan, CYC San Francisco; Shawn Richard, Brothers Against Guns
03.27.07 AIPAC 101: MJ Rosenberg, Director of Policy Analysis, Israel Policy Forum (IPF); Gregory Levey, Israeli Government's Speech writer, United Nations Delegate; Dorothy Naor, Israeli Peace Activist
03.26.07 California Education: Susana Loeb, Stanford University; Tom Timar, University of California - Davis; Annie Mladinich, Mount Eden High School
03.23.07 Media Roundtable: Jeanne Carstensen, Salon; Jay Rosen, Press Think
03.22.07 Jeremy Scahill, Author of "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary"
03.21.07 What are the Dems Doing about Iraq? Ann Eshoo and Lynn Woosley, California Congresswomen; John Nichols, Writer, The Nation
03.20.07 Meat Out: Tristram Stuart, Journalist and Author of "The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times"
03.19.07 Privacy in the Age of MySpace? Armen Adzhemyan, Blogger, Boalt School of Law; Rachel Severance, Blogger, Art Institute of California; Souheila Al-Jadda, Journalist and Producer in San Francisco
03.16.07 Media Roundtable: Sara Corbett, The New York Times Magazine; David Westphal, MccLatchy Papers; Jonathan Ledgard, The Economist
03.15.07 What Kind of Protests Work? Stephen Duncombe, Professional New York University; Jim Haber, United for Peace and Justice-Bay Area; Toby Blome, Code Pink
03.14.07 Why Are We Poor? William Vollmann, author of Poor People
03.13.07 Bush in Latin America: Bryan McCann, Georgetown University; Daniel Schweimler, BBC reporter; Gabriel Lopez, Blogger
03.12.07 Why do Men Control Most of the World?: Lis Wiehl, Fox News commentator and author; Ruth Rosen, UC Davis Professor and author
03.09.07 Media Roundtable: Ari Berman, The Nation; Allison Stevens, Women's eNews; David Brooks, Mexican Daily La Jornada
03.08.07 Fight Like a Girl: Professor Sharon Lamb, Saint Michael's College in Vermont; Megan Seely, Sierra College.
03.07.07 Federal Immigration Raids: Arnoldo Garcia, National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights; Barbara Pierce, Mayor of Redwood City; Kevin Westlye, Golden Gate Restaurant Association
03.06.07 Pakistan 101: Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas, Austin; Zahid Hussein, Editor, Pakistan's monthly Newsline magazine
03.05.07 Who is a Conservative? Charles Kesler, Claremont-McKenna College; Scott McConnell, American Conservative Magazine
03.02.07 Media Roundtable: Reese Erlich, Independent Reporter; Tony Pugh, McClatchy Capitol Hill Reporter; Alysia Tate, Chicago Reporter
03.01.07 War with Iran? Afshin Molavi, New America Foundation; Peter Tarnoff, International Advisory Corporation
February 2007
02.28.07 Transformational Leaders? Kelly Young, 21st Century Democrats; Dr. Sam Rima, Center for Transformational Leadership
02.27.07 Saudi Arabia 101: As'ad AbuKhalil, Professor, California State University and Author; Craig Unger, Investigative Journalist and Author
02.26.07 The Science and Mystery of Sleep: Carlos Schenck author of Sleep: the Mysteries, the Problems and the Solutions
02.23.07 Media Round table: Chris Toensing, Middle East Report; Kelly Kennedy, Army Times; Deepa Fernandes, "Wake Up Call," WBAI Radio
02.22.07 What can Democrats in Congress do for New Orleans? Carolyn Cheeks Kirkpatrick Congresswoman, 13th district, Michigan; Dr. Calvin Mackie, Louisiana Recovery Authority; Soleil Rodrigue, Common Ground Legal Collective
02.21.07 Hip-Hop Beyond Beats and Rhymes? Byron Hurt, Filmmaker; Jeff Chang, Hip Hop Journalist and Author; Crykit, Sisterz of the Underground.
02.20.07 The FY2008 Budget: Robert Borosage, Institute for America's Future; Marguerite Nowak, Food Bank for Monterey County.
02.19.07 The Virgin of Flames: Chris Abani, Author of The Virgin of Flames
02.16.07 Media Roundtable: Robert Parry, Consortium News; Gail Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor; Anna Maria Tremonti, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
02.15.07 What do Iraqis Say? Dr. Tahseen Al-Shekhly, Academic & Political Researcher; Sinnan Antoon, NYU Professor in Premodern Arabo-Islamic culture; Hanna Edwards, General Secretary for the Iraqi Al-Amal Association
02.14.07 Ralph Nader, Consumer Activist, Lawyer and Author
02.13.07 Flower Confidential: Amy Stewart, author, "Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers"
02.12.07 California's Presidential Primary: Rick Jacobs, Chair and Founder of the Courage Campaign; Paul Hogarth, Columnist with BeyondChron.org
02.09.07 Lowell Bergman, Frontline; John Micklethwait, The Economist
02.08.07 The Golden Gulag: Ruth Gilmore, author of "The Golden Gulag"
02.07.07 Can Soldiers be Peacemakers? Chen Alon and Suleiman al-Hamri, Combatants for Peace
02.06.07 Conversations Across the African Diaspora: Rhodessa Jones, artistic director for the San Francisco International Arts Festival; Robert Moses, artistic director of Robert Moses Kin; Kendra Kimbrough Barnes, co-founder of the Black Choreographers Festival
02.05.07 What a Party! Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe
02.02.07 Media Roundtable: Sam Roe, Chicago Tribune, Aaron Glantz, reporter and author of "How America Lost Iraq", Douglas Fischer, ANG newspapers in the Bay Area
02.01.07 I Want It Now: Dr. Donna Bee-Gates, author and professor
January 2007
01.31.07 Force in Somalia: Khalid Mustafa Medani, McGill University; Emira Woods, Institute for Policy Studies
01.30.07 Military Moms: Sara Rich, Military family Speak Out and Code Pink; Nadia McCaffrey, the founder of Angelstaff.org; Carolyne Ho, mother of Lt. Ehren Watada, the first officer to publicly refuse to serve in Iraq; Pat Soler, member of Blue Star Moms
01.29.07 The Mark of Shame: Stephen Hinshaw, UC Berkeley psychology professor
01.26.07 Media Roundtable: Geneva Overholser, Missouri School of Journalism and John Nichols, Nation Magazine
01.25.07 What do Abraham Lincoln, Philip Roth, and David Lynch have in common? Greil Marcus
01.24.07 Talking about Israel: Cecilie Surasky, Jewish Voice for Peace; Rabbi Jane Litman, Temple Beth El, Berkeley
01.23.07 Drowning in Debt: Erica Sandberg, Consumer Credit Counseling Services; Christian Weller, Center for American Progress
01.22.07 Is Mother Nature Confused? Dr. Brenda Ekwurze, Union of Concerned Scientists and Jason Barbose, Environment California
01.19.07 Media Roundtable: AC Thompson, SF Weekly and Mark Seibel, McClatchy
01.18.07 What are Aaron Peskin's plans for San Francisco? Aaron Peskin, President, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
01.17.07 What has Yoga Become? Baxter Bell, M.D.; Judith Hanson Lasater, yoga teacher and author of Living Your Yoga; Kaitlin Quistgaard, Editor-in-Chief, Yoga Journal
01.16.07 Who will own Iraq's Oil?- Antonia Juhasz, author: The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time; Richard Swann, Platt's Energy Information Services
01.15.07 MLK Jr. Day- What happened to Non-violent Resistance: Jack DuVall, Intenrational Center on Non-Violent Conflict; Adrienne Maree Brown, The Ruckus Society; Erik Brown, Impact Game
01.12.07 Media Roundtable: Peter Waldman, Wall Street Journal; Robert Hodierne, The Army Times; Charlie Cobb, allafrica.com
01.11.07 The Ethics of International Adoption: Thomas DiFilipo, Joint Council on International Children's Services; Sara Dorow, author of "Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship"
01.10.07 Five Years of Guantanamao: Vincent Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights; Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo detainee; Dr. Len Rubenstein, Physicians for Human Rights
01.09.07 What is Iran up to?: Mansour Farhang, Bennigton College; Dr. Kaveh Ehsani, University of Illinois
01.08.07 Winter Theater Preview: Greg Hubbard, American Conservatory Theater; Chloe Voltman, SF Weekly; Chris Smith, Magic Theatre
01.05.07 Media Roundtable: Lawrence Pintak, Adham Center for Journalism; Bruce Schapiro, The Nation; Jeff Cohen, FAIR
01.04.07 Dems and Small Biz: Lloyd Chapman, American Small Business League; Scott Hauge, Small Business California
01.03.07 What's the Good News? Nina Utne, Editor at Large, Utne Reader; Susan Gleason, Yes! Magazine
01.02.07 America's Airports: Don George, Lonely Planet; Jeane Cooper, San Francisco Chronicle; Bruce Schneier, security technologist
December 2006
12.29.06 Media Roundtable: Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press; Robert Scheer: Truth Dig; Matthew Bajko, The Bay Area Reporter; Gail Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor; Barbara Harris, Jackson Advocate; Michael Kirk, Frontline
12.28.06 Life In Gaza: Mohamed Omer, independent photojournalist; Mona al-Farra, Al-awda Hospital; Amira Hass, Ha'aretz, and Mohamed Farah, the Dynamite Rapper
12.27.06 Creating an Artistic Life: Playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith
12.26.06 Forgotten Afghanistan: Carlotta Gall, New York Times; Sohailoa, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan; Manija Atli, local Afghan woman
12.22.06 Media Roundtable: Bob Egelko San Francisco Chronicle, Mark Glaser, Media Shift
12.21.06 Your Citizenship Test? Ira Mehlman of The Federation for American Immigration Reform; May Chen of Self Help for the Elderly and Sharon Rummery of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
12.20.06 The Book Show
12.19.06 Zebra Murders: Prentice Earl Sanders, author: ??The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights??
12.18.06 The 110th Congress and Ethics: Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Craig Holman, Public Citizen
12.15.06 Media Roundtable: Marcia Kuntz, Media Matters, Craig Silverman, Regret the Error, Dahr Jamail, Tomdispatch.com
12.14.06 Crisis in Lebanon: Robert Fisk, correspondent for the Independent
12.13.06 Escaping Poverty: Katherine Newman, author of "Chutes and Ladders" and Eric Weaver, founder of Lenders for Community Development
12.12.06 On the Brink: Tyler Drumheller, author of On The Brink: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence
12.11.06 The 110th Congress and Trade: Edward Gresser, Progressive Policy Institute and Thea Lee, AFL-CIO
12.08.06 Media Roundtable: Dave Marash, Al Jazeera English, David Bacon, KPFA
12.07.06 Harry Shearer, host of "Le Show" and author of "Not Enough Indians"
12.06.06 Creating an Artistic Life: Playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith
12.05.06 Robert Gates Senate Hearings: William Arkin, Washingtonpost.com
12.04.06 The 110th Congress and Health Care: Pete Stark, Congressman from the East Bay
12.01.06 Media Roundtable: Gary Younge, author of "Stranger in a Strange Land: Travels in the Disunited States"; Clara Jeffrey, Mother Jones Magazine; Habib Battah, Middle East Broadcasters Journal
November 2006
11.30.06 Gauging Global Warming Amy Luers, Union of Concerned Scientists; Jason Barbose, Environment California; Ken Alex, California Office of the Attorney General
11.29.06 A Sleeping Giant? Rosa Rosales,League of United Latin American Citizens; Raquel Donoso, Latino Issues Forum; Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Professor of Chicana and Political Studies at UC Irvine
11.28.06 The 110th Congress: Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco, and Megan Scully of Congressional Daily
11.27.06 Soldiers Speak Out: Garrett Reppenhagen, U.S. Army veteran; Ted Wong, U.S. Marine Reservist; Audrey Clark, National Guard
11.24.06 Democracy on Deadline: Cal Skaggs, Director of Democracy on Deadline and Deborah Nelson, University of Maryland Journalism School
11.22.06 Unbowed: Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
11.21.06 An Ethical Christman: Tex Dworkin, Global Exchange; Kalle Lasn, Adbusters; Valeria Orth, Sweat Free Communities
11.20.06 Women in Overdrive: Nora Isaacs, author and former editor of Yoga Journal
11.17.06 Media Roundtable: Jane Mayer (The New Yorker), Amira Hass (Ha'aretz)
11.16.06 Top Shelf Books: Oscar Villalon, San Francisco Chronicle Book Editor
11.15.06 The New Yorker Covers the World: Deirdre English (Felker Magazine Center at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism), David Remnick(New Yorker)
11.14.06 Gang-Free Zoning? Jack Jaqua (Omega Boys Club), Michaela Hoctor (Deputy City Attorney)
11.13.06 Soldiers Speak Out: Garrett Reppenhagen, U.S. Army veteran; Ted Wong, U.S. Marine Reservist; Audrey Clark, National Guard
11.10.06 Media Roundtable: Lakshmi Chaudry (In These Times), Robert Hodierne (Army Times), Bill Scher (Liberal Oasis)
11.09.06 God's Green Earth: Richard Cizik (National Evangelical Association), Melanie Griffin (Environmental Partnerships, the Sierra Club)
11.08.06 Post-Election: What Happened? MARK LOTWIS (21 Century Democrats) DAVID BINDER (David Binder Research), KRISTINA WILFORE (Ballot Initiative Strategy Center), KIM GANDY (National Organization for Women)
11.07.06 Do You Know Where Your Vote Is? Steven Hill (New America Foundation), Justin Levitt (Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law), Marybeth Kuznik (VotePA), Mary Boyle (Common Cause)
11.06.06 If Dems Get the Reins, Where Should They Go? Edward Epstein, Washington Correspondent for the Chronicle; Greg Shaw, President, Harvey Milk Club; Jamal Dajani, Director of Middle Eastern Programming, Link TV
11.03.06 Media Roundtable: Jonathan Curiel of the San Francisco Chronicle, Jeanne Carstensen of Salon.com, and David Brooks of La Jornada
11.02.06 Saving the Old Neighborhood : David Lee, Executive Director of the Chinese American Voter Education Committee; Tommy Avicolla Mecca, housing rights advocate; Willie Ratliffe, publisher of the San Francisco Bay View
11.01.06 Buying Votes with Cheap Gas? Stephen Kretzmann, Executive Director of Oil Change International and Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Energy and Environment correspondent for The Economist
October 2006
10.31.06 Unbowed: Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
10.30.06 Choice in America: 1973-? Amy Everitt (NARAL Pro-Choice California), Lindsay Roytman (South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families), Parker Dockray (Access), and Susan Hill (National Women's Health Organization)
10.27.06 Media Roundtable: Omar Fekeiki, Washington Post in Iraq; Marc Cooper, The Nation; Carlos Ramos, freelance reporter for Spanish-language publications
10.26.06 A Green Future? Jo Chamberlain, campaign manager for Peter Camejo and Richard Winger of Ballot Access News
10.25.06 Abandoning Angelides? Mark Leno, Assmeblymember for the 13th district of California, Mark Dicamillo, director of the Field Poll, and Joe Mathews, Los Angeles Times reporter
10.24.06 Funding our Future: HD Palmer, Deputy Director State Department of Finance; Steve Levy from Center for the Continuing Study of California's Economy; Erika McDonald from the San Francisco Green Party
10.23.06 Proposition 89: Susan Lerner, Yes on 89 and Sandy Harrison, No on 89
10.20.06 Media Roundtable
10.19.06 The Future of American Labor: Andy Stern, President of Service Employees International Union
10.18.06 Iraq's Wounded: Jonathan Parfrey, Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility; Gene Bolles, former head of neurosurgery in Landstuhl Air Base in Germany, Dahlia Wasfi, M.D. Global Exchange.
10.17.06 Prop. 83: Robert Coombs, California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and Stacie Rumenap, Stop Child Predators
10.16.06 Do Cops Equal Quality? Dawn Edwards, director of the Ella Baker Center; Professor George Kelling, Rutgers University, and Frank Williams, Bayview Hunters Point Senior Center Re-entry Program
10.13.06 Media Roundtable: Jessica Clark (In These Times), Peter Waldman (Wall Street Journal) and Naeem Mohaiemen (shobak.org)
10.12.06 Global Blogs: Sree Sreenivasan, head of the New Media Program at Columbia Journalism School and Ndesanjo Macha, with Global Voices
10.11.06 900 New Laws: Jordan Rau (Los Angeles Times), Bill Allayaud (Sierra Club of California), Vince Solitto (California Chamber of Commerce), and Katelynn Vega (California Labor Federation)
10.10.06 Fighting Words: Feminist writer Robin Morgan on her new book, "Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right"
10.09.06 Playing to the Crowd: Tony Taccone, artistic director for Berkeley Reperatory Theater, Brad Erickson, executive director of Theatre Bay Area, Catherine Castellanos, member of Campo Santo
10.06.06 Media Roundtable: Matthew Bajko, assistant editor for the Bay Area Reporter; Nikki Finke, business and entertainment reporter for the LA Weekly; Linda Feldmann, staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor
10.05.06 After Annan: James Traub of the New York Times Magazine and Shogo Kawakita with NHK News
10.04.06 Youth Speaking for Themselves: David Inocencio and Will Roy from The Beat Within and Chinaka Hodge, Youth Speaks
10.03.06 Proposition 89: Susan Lerner, Yes on 89 and Sandy Harrison, No on 89
10.02.06 Daycare for All? Dr. Ronald Lally, Co-Director, WestEd's Center for Child & Family Studies and Dr. Lella Gandini, U.S. Liaison, Reggio Emilia Program and Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts
September 2006
9.29.06 Media Roundtable: independent Afghanistan reporter Fariba Nawa, Christian Science Monitor Congressional reporter Gail Chaddock, and Neil MacKay, investigations editor for the Sunday Herald of Glasgow
9.28.06 Book Show: San Francisco Chronicle book editor Oscar Villalon
9.27.06 Prop. 90 debate: Andrew Schwartz, an attorney with Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger and California Assemblyman Ray Haynes
9.26.06 Noam Chomsky on his book, "Failed States"
9.25.06 Building Green: Ed Mazria ( Architecture 2030), Greg Snowden ( Green Fusion Design Center)
9.22.06 Media Roundtable: NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik, the San Francisco Chronicles Robert Collier, and Corpwatch managing editor Pratap Chatterjee
9.21.06 Amy Meyer, author of "New Guardians of the Golden Gate"
9.20.06 Mel White, author of "Religion Gone Bad"
9.19.06 Nuclear Power is Not the Answer: Anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott
9.18.06 Healthy at 100: John Robbins of "Diet for a New America" fame
9.15.06 Pretensions of Empire: Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's
9.14.06 Chicano Visions: Daniell Cornell (Curator of American art at the de Young), Max Benavidez (author of the forthcoming book "Gronk")
9.13.06 Arianna Huffington, author of "On Becoming Fearless"
9.12.06 Thom Hartmann, author of "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class"
9.11.06 Sarah Chayes, former NPR reporter in Afghanistan and author of "The Punishment of Virtue"
9.08.06 IJoe Mathews, author of "The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy"
9.07.06 Iraq for Sale: Sara Feeley, Producer of the movie, "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers"
9.06.06 Supervising Labor: Ross Eisenbrey (Economic Policy Institute), Elizabeth Guadio (National Federation of Independent Business), Kathy Cassavant (Voice at Work, AFL-CIO)
9.05.06 Who are the Uninsured? Dr. Bree Johnston (Physicians for a National Health Program, David Grant (Senior Action Network)
9.01.06 Media Roundtable: Michael Scherer (Salon), Jim Carlton (Wall Street Journal), Reese Erlich, author of the forthcoming book "The Iran Agenda"August 2006
8.31.06 Where is the Immigration Movement Headed? Judy Golub (Immigrant Legal Resource Center), Juan Carlos Ruiz ( National Capital Immigration Coalition)
8.30.06 California's Energy Future: Dr.Shelley Luce (Yes on 87), Nick DeLuca (No on 87)
8.29.06 Creative Education: Susan Stauter (SFUSD Artistic Director), Ronald Chase (SF Art and Film for Teenagers)
8.28.06 How did Katrina Change Society? CeCe Campbell Rock (Survivors for Survivors), Natalie Walker (Advocates for Environmental Human Rights), Adrien Wing (Professor of Law at the University of Iowa)
8.25.06 Media Roundtable: Josh Norton (Biloxi Sun Herald), Betsy Reed (The Nation), Robert Hodiere (Army Times)
8.24.06 Who is Poor? Menachem Krajcer (Applied Research Center), Diana Spatz (LIFETIME), Barbara Robles, author of The Color of Wealth
8.23.06 How do we keep students interested in science? Rebecca Smith (co director of UCSF's Science and Heatlh Education Partnership), Theresa O'Brien (Graduate Students' Association, UCSF)
8.22.06 What's the role of the military in schools? Cody Kopowski (Oakland Military Institute), Paul McNiel, (San Francisco JRTOC), Escenthio Marign (Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors)
8.21.06 How do we fight fear? Bruce Schneier, author of "Beyond Fear", David Rees (Get Your War On), John Mueller, author of "Overblown"
8.18.06 Media Roundtable: Dahr Jamail, Linda Feldmann (The Christian Science Monitor), Rinku Sen (Colorlines)
8.17.06 Sexual assault in the military Chris Hanson (executive director of the Miles Foundation), Colleen Mussolino (national vice-commander of Women Veterans of America)
8.16.06 How do we oust incumbents? Mark Lotwis (21st Century Democrats), Chris Bowers (MyDD.com), David Keating (Club for Growth), Peter Goldmark (Goldmark for Congress) John Mercurio (Hotline from the National Journal)
8.15.06 How do we fight AIDS in the first world? Shalini Eddens (W.O.R.L.D), Jen Hecht, (Stop AIDS Project), Joe Amon (Human Rights Watch)
8.14.06 Why are coming of age rituals important? Jill Bornor-Brown (The Links, Inc. ), Liliana Cortez (El Tecolote), Rachel Brodie (Jewish Milestones)
8.11.06 Media Roundtable: Eric Boehlert, (The Huffington Post), Niraj Warikoo, (Detroit Free Press) Bob Egelko, (San Francisco Chronicle)
8.10.06 Who is served by the tax system? David Cay Johnson (New York Times)
8.09.06 Is there good graffiti? Suaro Cervantes (Precita Eyes), Mohammed Nuru (Department of Public Works), Dennis Herrera (San Francisco City Attorney)
8.08.06 A Moral Counterinsurgency? Joel Beinin (Director of Middle East Studies at the American University in Cairo), Amos Guiora (Professor of Law at Case-Western University and former commander of the of the Israeli Defense Forces School of Military Law)
8.07.06 The Book Show Oscar Villalon, book editor for the San Francisco Chronicle
8.04.06 Media Roundtable: Andrew Gumbel, Independent, Saul Landau, El Progreso, Habib Battah, Middle East Broadcaster's Journal
8.03.06 How does memory shape us? Eric Kandel, author of "In Search of Memory" and Nobel prize winner
8.02.06 How are women helping rebuild Afghanistan? Raihana Popalzai (Kabul Universitys Womens Council), Heba Tarzi (Health and Development Center for Afghan Women), Marilyn Fowler (Womens Intercultural Network)
8.01.06 What is the future of business? Chris Anderson, former Wired editor and author of "The Long Tail"
July 2006
7.31.06 What is a conservative? John Dean, author "Conservatives Without Conscience"
7.28.06 Media Roundtable: Tim Redmond (San Francisco Bay Guardian) and Lawrence Pintak (American University of Cairo)
7.27.06 How did Hillary Clinton become the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination? Maryscott O'Connor (My Left Wing), Chris Nolan, Spot On, and Joan McCarter (Daily Kos)
7.26.06 How can teens become more self sufficient? Madeline Levine, author of The Price of Privilege, and Paul Pitcoff (Youth Advocacy Center)
7.25.06 Has the moment for solar arrived? David Hochschild(Photovoltaics Now) and Gary Gerber (Sun Light & Power)
7.24.06 What is Israel's strategy in the Middle East? Gideon Levy (Haaretz newspaper and a critic of the current campaign) and Stephen Zunes (Institute for a New Middle East Policy)
7.21.06 Media Roundtable:Abderrahim Foukara (Al Jazeera) and Ruth Conniff (The Progressive)
7.20.06 What does poetry do for us? Madge McKeithen, author of Blue Peninsula and Tree Swenson, executive director, Academy of American Poets
7.19.06 Peter Galbraith, author of The End of Iraq
7.18.06 Robert Scheer, political columnist and author of Playing President.
7.17.06 Should there be a ban on internet gambling? Adam Small (PocketFives.com) and David Robertson (National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling).
7.14.06 Media Roundtable: Deepa Fernandes (WBAI) and Jaxson Vanderbeken (San Francisco Chronicle).
7.13.06 What's the real nuclear threat in today's world? Kennette Benedict (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists) and Michele Flournoy, Center for Strategic and International Studies
7.12.06 Sexual slavery and the trafficking of women and sexual slavery.
7.11.06 How are retired people working to serve society? Marc Freedman (Civic Ventures), Elaine Marten (Waste Reduction Partners), Gail Srevodonic (Peninsula Raging Grannies)
7.10.06 Good ideas for a cheap summer vacation.
7.7.06 Gary Younge, New York correspondent for The Guardian of London and author of Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States.
7.6.06 Who killed the electric car?
7.5.06 Are women human? A conversation with feminist legal scholar and activist Catharine Mackinnon.
7.4.06 Richard Hughes, author of Myths America Lives By.
7.3.06 Paul Robeson, Jr., author of A Black Way of Seeing: From 'Liberty' to Freedom.
June 2006
6.30.06 Media Roundtable:
6.29.06 Can universal health care be achieved from the bottom up? With Karen Davis (Commonwealth Fund), Steve Heilig (San Francisco Medical Society), and Jessica Jenkins (Network: A Catholic Social Justice Lobby).
6.28.06 A debate on the Mexican economy and the Mexican election. Alejandro Alvarez Bejar (UNAM) v. Isaac Katz (ITAM).
6.27.06 Can sloth be subversive? With Tom Lutz, author of Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers and Bums in America.
6.26.06 The literature of the Iranian women's diaspora
6.23.06 Media Roundtable: Barbara Ehrenreich (author of Nickled and Dimed), Fariba Nawa (freelancer in Afghanistan) and Norman Solomon (author of War Made Easy)
6.22.06 Where does gay marriage fit in the agenda for gay liberation? With Pamela Brown (Marriage Equality) and Lisa Duggan (author of The End of Marriage).
6.21.06 Surviving Guantanamo. With Ruhel Ahmed ("Tipton Three") and Mat Whitecross (co-director of The Road to Guantanamo).
6.20.06 Gary Younge, New York correspondent for The Guardian of London and author of Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States.
6.19.06 Miriam Engelberg, author of Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics.
6.16.06 Media Roundtable: Michael Kirk (Frontline) and Chris Kromm (Southern Exposure).
6.15.06 Humboldt County's Measure T: Corporate cash & local politics. With Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap (Yes on Measure T), Chris Crawford (No on Measure T), and Steven Levin (Center for Govenrmental Studies).
6.14.06 Summer reading, with San Francisco Chronicle book review editor Oscar Villalon.
6.13.06 Open line to Baghdad: The voices Bush won't hear in the Green Zone. With "Dr. Hussein", Ghazwan al-Mukhtar, and Chris Toensing (Middle East Report).
6.12.06 Empire of default: How much debt is too much? With Tamara Draut (author of Strapped) and Michael Shedlach (Global Economic Trend Analysis).
6.9.06 Media Roundtable: Bloggeras & journalists. With Mark Glaser (PBS MediaShift), Glenn Greenwald (author of What Would a Patriot Do?), and Nicole Sawaya (Yearly Kos).
6.8.06 How does the World Cup bring us together, and when does it push us apart? With Wendy Parker (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Michelle Kaufman (Miami Herald), and Christian Seebode (German Consulate, San Francisco).
6.7.06 Women in California's prisons. With Maisha Quint, Ida McCray, and Yvonne Crooks.
6.6.06 It's Election Day: Is your vote secure? Alan Dechert (Open Voting Consortium), David Dill (Stanford University), and Steven Hill (New America Foundation).
6.5.06 What will get you out to vote? With Jesse Taylor (Berkeley Daily Planet), Karen Nakamura (Coastal Post), and Jay Thorwaldson (Palo Alto Weekly).
6.2.06 Media Roundtable David Enders (Iraq freelancer, author of Baghdad Bulletin) and David Lazarus (San Francisco Chronicle).
6.1.06 How do you get disaster relief right? Lessons from the Pakistan earthquake of 2005. With Waseem Baloch (Hidaya Foundation), Tim Irwin (U.N. High Commission on Refugees), Farshad Rastegar (Relief International).
May 2006
5.31.06 How to live without a car. With Rick Hutchinson (City CarShare), Andy Thornley (San Francisco Bike Coalition), and Michael Kiesling.
5.30.06 How do you fight a big corporation -- and win? With Marie Harrison (Greenaction) and Paul Loeb, author of The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear.
5.29.06 Can kids be convinced to defect from the fast food nation? With Eric Schlosser, author of Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food.
5.26.06 Media Roundtable: James Cusick (Sunday Herald, Glasgow), Aaron Glantz (author of How America Lost Iraq), and Michael Massing (Columbia Journalism Review).
5.25.06 What can we do to bring peace to Darfur? With Jason Miller (National Sudan Divestment Task Force) and Marie Clarke Brill (Africa Action).
5.24.06 Should there be limits placed on the use of technology to make us "better than well"? A debate between Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society) and James Hughes (author of Citizen Cyborg).
5.23.06 What role will Iraq war veterans play in the debate over how to end the war? With Paul Rieckhoff, author of Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington.
5.22.06 Forgiveness, personal and political. With Kathleen Griffin (author of The Forgiveness Formula) and Father Michael Lapsley (Institute for Healing of Memories).
5.19.06 Media Roundtable: Eric Boehlert (author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush) and Maria Hinojosa (PBS-NOW/Latino USA).
5.18.06 Can we create a more humane juvenile justice system? With Jean Amabile (San Francisco Public Defender's Office), Perry Jones (The Beat Within), and David Utter (Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana).
5.17.06 What's the future of equal access and innovation on the internet? A debate on internet neutrality between Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law School) and Kyle Dixon (Progress & Freedom Foundation).
5.16.06 How can mothers set a healthy path in life for their daughters? With Dr. Christiane Northrup, author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Understanding the Crucial Link Between Mothers, Daughters, and Health.
5.15.06 How has corruption in Washington distorted the way our government works? With David Sirota, author of Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government -- and How We Can Take It Back.
5.12.06 Media Roundtable: Gail Chaddock (Christian Science Monitor), Dave Marash (al-Jazeera), and Katrina van den Heuvel (The Nation).
5.11.06 What are the perils of prosperity? With Avner Offer, author of The Challenge of Affluence.
5.10.06 Has "No Child Left Behind" promoted testing at the expense of learning? Russlynn Ali (Education Trust West) v. Jennifer Knudsen (Parents for Public Schools).
5.9.06 The poetry and culture of Iraq. With Prof. Saadi Simawe, Denmo Ibrahim, and Zach Rogow (Center for Art in Translation).
5.8.06 What's the economic agenda animating Bush foreign policy? With Antonia Juhasz, author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time.
5.5.06 Media roundtable: Covering business, workers, and the economy. With Adam Davidson (NPR) and Lou Uchitelle (New York Times).
5.4.06 Dr. Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
5.3.06 Building bridges to China's environmental movement. With Yu Xiaogang (Green Watershed), Vinya Sysamouth (International Rovers Network), and Daniela Salaverry (Pacific Environment).
5.2.06 The legacy of urban visionary Jane Jacobs. With Scott Bollens (UC Irvine) and Kate White (Urban Land Institute).
5.1.06 Immigration & solidarity. With Thom Hartmann (Air America Radio), Roberto Rodriguez (Column of the Americas), and Steve Williams (People Organized to Win Employment Rights).
April 2006
4.28.06 Media Roundtable: Carla Marinucci (San Francisco Chronicle) and Peter Waldman (Wall Street Journal).
4.27.06 Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma -- A Natural History of Four Meals.
4.26.06 Prof. Catharine MacKinnon, author of Are Women Human? And other international dialogues.
4.25.06 Is Ma Bell carrying the water for Big Brother? AT&T and N.S.A. wiretapping. With Jim Dempsey (Center for Democracy and Technology), David Kravetz (Associated Press), and Tim Shorrock (The Nation).
4.24.06 What are the challenges facingtoday's returning combat veterans? With Amy Fairweather (Swords to Ploughshares), Romeo Horvath (Peninsula Vet Center), and Polly Rose (San Francisco VA).
4.21.06 Media Roundtable: Michael Scherer (Salon.com), Chris Toensing (Middle East Report), and Helen Thomas (Hearst News Service).
4.20.06 The best in books, with San Francisco Chronicle book review editor Oscar Villalon.
4.19.06 Voting rights alert. With Debo Adegbile (NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund) and Steven Hill (10 Steps to Repair Democracy).
4.18.06 How has Care Not Cash changed the lives of homeless people in San Francisco? With Shelly Roder (St. Boniface Neighborhood Center), Kevin Sharps (Episcopal Community Services), and Herman Taft (Tenderloin Housing Clinic).
4.17.06 What's the future of birth control? With Kathy Kneer (Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California) and Dr. Sarah Prager (UCSF Center for Reproductive Health, Research & Policy).
4.14.06 Media Roundtable: Roberto Lovato (New America Media), James Sterngold (San Francisco Chronicle), and David Willey (BBC).
4.13.06 Is the Bush Administration seriously considering airstrikes on Iran? And can we stop it? With Joseph Cirincione (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and Mansour Farhang (former Iranian ambassador to the U.N.).
4.12.06 What works to reduce violent crime? With Eric Fleming (San Francisco D.A.'s office), David Kennedy (Center for Crime Prevention and Control), and Frank Rose (Oakland Community-Police Advisory Board).
4.11.06 Organized religion in the secular metropolis. With Father Charles Kullman (Old Saint Mary's), Michael Heimlich (Mission Minyan), and Reverend Alan Jones (Grace Cathedral).
4.10.06 The science and politics of the Endangered Species Act. With Emily Brin Roberson (Center for Biological Diversity) and Andrew Wetzler (National Resources Defense Council).
4.7.06 What's the economic agenda behind U.S. policy in Iraq? With Antonia Juhasz, author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy At a Time.
4.6.06 Amartya Sen, author of Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.
4.5.06 What impact is Wal-Mart having on our economy and society? With Charles Fishman, author of The Wal-Mart Effect.
4.4.06 Can the Democratic Party be reinvented from the bottom up? With Markos Moulitsas, author of Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics.
4.3.06 The trees of San Francisco. With Mike Sullivan.
March 2006
3.31.06 Media Roundtable. With Franc Contreras (The World), Mark Danner (New York Review of Books), and Nathan Guttman (Jerusalem Post).
3.30.06 What makes a great community? With Stuart Cohen (Transportation and Land Use Coalition) and Don Neuwirth (Urban Ecology).
3.29.06 Immigration and economic justice. With Jared Bernstein (Economic Policy Institute) and Eliseo Medina (Service Employees International Union).
3.28.06 The future of California's fisheries. With Duncan McLean (Half Moon Bay Fisherman's Association) and Erin Simmons (Ocean Conservancy).
3.27.06 Should environmentalists embrace nuclear power to slow global warming? A debate: Patrick Moore (Greenspirit) v. Ralph Cavanagh (Natural Resources Defense Council).
3.24.06 Media Roundtable: Robert Hodierne (Military Times) and Peter Waldman (Wall Street Journal).
3.23.06 Do international criminal tribunals create peace and justice? A debate: Paul van Zyl (International Committee for Transitional Justice) v. Helena Cobban (Al-Hayat).
3.22.06 A debate on impeachment, censure, and the politics of accountability. Bob Fertik (Democrats.com) v. Marc Cooper (The Nation).
3.21.06 The new DIY. With Shoshana Berger (Ready-Made) and Mark Frauenfelder (Make).
3.20.06 New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.
3.17.06 Media Roundtable: Aaron Glantz (How America Lost Iraq), Michael Stoll (GradetheNews.org), and Nina Totenberg (NPR).
3.16.06 What's the future of fiction? With Oscar Villalon, book editor for the San Francisco Chronicle.
3.15.06 How should we understand Russia's renewed assertiveness on the international stage? With Boris Kagarlitsky (Institute of Globalisation Studies, Moscow) and Peter Zeihan (StratFor).
3.14.06 Life as an undocumented immigrant. With Guillermina, "Diego Ramirez," and Renee Saucedo (San Francisco Day Laborer Program).
3.13.06 William Vollmann, author of Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.
3.10.06 Media Roundtable: Rekha Basu (Des Moines Register), Jefferson Morley (WashingtonPost.com), and Mark Schapiro (Center for Investigative Reporting).
3.9.06 Iraqi women speak their truth. With Faiza Al-Araji ("A Family in Baghdad") and Nadje Al-Ali (Act Together).
3.8.06 Can the Democrats take back Congress? Should they want to? With Jennifer Duffy (Cook Political Report), Marc Sandalow (San Francisco Chronicle), Lou Dubose (author of The Hammer Comes Down), and Joshua Green (The Atlantic).
3.7.06 Is a booming wine industry good for Northern California? With Ann Thrupp (California Sustainable Wine Growers Alliance, Chris Malan (Redwood Chapter, Sierra Club), and Nat Dubuduo (Allied Grape Growers of California).
3.6.06 Why are so many young people flocking to MySpace? With Danah Boyd and Lisa Aultman.
3.3.06 Media Roundtable.
3.2.06 What does the Peace Corps mean in a time of war?
3.1.06 Is it time to stop buying?
February 2006
2.28.06 Could a Black Party transform American politics? With Walter Mosley, author of Life Out of Context.
2.27.06 Do scientists need a crash course in ethics? With David Magnus and Mildred Cho from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.
2.24.06 Media Roundtable: Adam Davidson (NPR), David Enders (Mother Jones), and Abderrahim Foukara (Al-Jazeera).
2.23.06 BART v. Buses: What would a just and effective public transportation system look like? With Randy Rentschler (Metropolitan Transit Commission), Randall O'Toole (Thoreau Institute), and David Schonbrunn (TRANSDEF).
2.22.06 Kenji Yoshino, author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights.
2.21.06 Will business get behind health care reform? Deb Richter (Physicians for a National Health Program) and Sara Rogers (Sen. Sheila Kuehl's office).
2.20.06 What's the latest research in brain science? With Gerald Edelman (The Neurosciences Institute), Daniela Kaufer (UC Berkeley), and Greg Simpson (UC San Francisco).
2.17.06 Media Roundtable: Isabel MacDonald (independent Haiti reporter), Gary Robertson (BBC), and Michael Scherer (Mother Jones).
2.16.06 Winning the unwinnable? A debate on the Bush military strategy in Iraq. Conrad Crane (Army War College) v. Winslow Wheeler (Center for Defense Information).
2.15.06 Are the National Parks under threat? With Kristin Brengel (The Wilderness Society), Tod Hull (National Park Hospitality Association), and Rep. George Radanovich (R-Fresno).
2.14.06 What do men really want from relationships? With Neil Chethik, author of VoiceMale: What Husbands Really Think About Their Marriages, Their Wives, Sex, Housework, and Commitment.
2.13.06 Planets beyond Pluto? With Michael Brown (CalTech) and Greg Laughlin (UC Santa Cruz).
2.10.06 Media Roundtable: Linda Feldmann (Christian Science Monitor), Lindsey Hilsum (ITN Channel Four News), and Betsy Reed (The Nation).
2.9.06 What does Hamas want? And how will they govern? With Khalid Amayreh (Palestine Times) and Azzam Tamimi (Institute for Islamic Political Thought).
2.8.06 What's happening in West Coast art? With Kenneth Baker (San Francisco Chronicle), Janet Bishop (SFMOMA), and Larry Rinder (California College of the Arts).
2.7.06 How can you find out what's in your government file? With Harry Hammitt (Access Reports) and Peter Scheer (California First Amendment Coalition).
2.6.06 What's the ad you hate? With Dave Zirin, author of What's My Name Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States.
2.3.06 Media roundtable: Pratap Chaterjee (Corpwatch), David Lazarus (San Francisco Chronicle), and Jerry Levin (Christian Peacemaker Team).
2.2.06 What's the corporate responsibility of the gambling industry? Valerie Lorenz (Compulsive Gambling Center), Earl Grinols (Baylor University), and Bill Lee (author of Born to Lose: Memoirs of a Compulsive Gambler).
2.1.06 Finding hope in Bushworld. With Medea Benjamin (CodePink), Daniel Ellsberg, Rep. Barbara Lee, Deborah Burger (California Nurses Association), and Raahi Reddy (SEIU Local 715).
January 2006
1.31.06 Eco-tactics: How should the environmental movement respond to charges of "eco-terrorism"? With Judith Lewis (LA Weekly), Mark Potok (Southern Poverty Law Center), John Sellers (Ruckus Society).
1.30.06 How do we know whether we live in a universe with more than four dimensions? A conversation with physicist Lisa Randall, author of Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Earth's Hidden Dimensions.
1.27.06 Media Roundtable. With Nathan Guttman (Jerusalem Post), Sandip Roy (New American Media), and James Sterngold (San Francisco Chronicle).
1.26.06 Will teenage girls have more control over sex if they understand what they like about it? With Rosie Austin (Center for Young Women's Development) and Prof. Deborah Tolman (Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk About Sex).
1.25.06 Have secret, unwarranted wiretaps ordered by President Bush created a constitutional crisis? A debate between Lee Casey (Baker & Hostetler) and Elizabeth de la Vega (TomDispatch.com).
1.24.06 What's the legacy of the Beat Generation for today's poetry and culture in San Francisco? With San Francisco poet laureate Jack Hirschman, Jennifer Joseph (Manic D Press), and Brenda Knight (Women of the Beat Generation).
1.23.06 Does the Bush Administrtion have a problem with science? With Chris Mooney (The Republican War on Science) and Susan Wood (former Director of the FDA's Office of Women's Health).
1.20.06 Media Roundtable: Pablo Bachelet (Miami Herald), Anna Maria Tremonti (CBC's The Current), and Joan Walsh (Salon.com).
1.19.06 Surviving justice: America's wrongfully convicted and exonerated. With David Pope (exonerated prisoner) and Lola Vollen (author Surviving Justice).
1.18.06 What's happening with Iraq's oil? With Antonia Juhasz (author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time) and Yahia Said (Iraq Revenue Watch).
1.17.06 What do lobbyists do? And what should they be able to do? Paul Miller (American League of Lobbyists), Massie Rich (Center for Responsive Politics), and Celia Wexler (Common Cause).
1.16.06 What will it take to create educational justice? With Pedro Noguera (City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education).
1.13.06 Media Roundtable: Lane Greene (The Economist), Tim Redmond (SF Bay Guardian), and Norman Solomon (Media Beat). [NOTE: Program begins at about 13 minutes in, following the Alito hearings.]
1.12.06 Alito: The environment, immigrants, and workers' rights. With Ian Bassin (The Alito Project) and Glenn Sugameli (Earthjustice). [AUDIO NOT AVAILABLE]
1.11.06 Alito: Civil liberties and civil rights. With James Brosnahan (Morrison & Foerster) and Margaret Russell (Santa Clara University Law School).
1.10.06 Alito: Reproductive rights and the prospects for filibuster. With Gail Chaddock (Christian Science Monitor) and Kate Michelman (former president of NARAL /Pro-Choice America).
1.9.06 No program. Preempted by the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Supreme Court justice nominee Samuel Alito.
1.6.06 The future of radio. With Mark Ramsey (Mercury Radio), Theda Sandiford (new technology consultant), Stephen Salyer (Salzurg Seminar/PRI), and Ben Scott (Free Press).
1.5.06 The future of fuel. With Hunter Lovins (Natural Capitalism) and Daniel Sperling (UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies).
1.4.06 The future of global democracy: Russia, Turkey and Venezuela. With Alma Guillermoprieto (New York Review of Books), Michael McFaul (Hoover Institution), and Omer Taspinar (Brookings Institution).
1.3.06 The future of food. With Fergus Clydesdale (Institute for Food Technology) and Michael Pollan (author of The Omnivore's Dilemma).
1.2.06 The future of independent media. With Cara Mertes (P.O.V.), Lois Vossen (Independent Lens), and Lawrence Wilkinson (Global Business Network).
December 2005
12.30.05 How can you move forward in peace after experiencing war and violence? With Claude Anshin Thomas, author of At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Story.
12.29.05 2005: The best in Bay Area music.
12.28.05 2005: The Year in Corporate Crime. With John Emswhiller (Wall Street Journal) and Russell Mokhiber (Corporate Crime Reporter).
12.27.05 How big is the global underground economy? With Moises Naim, author of Illicit : How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy.
12.26.05 2005: The Year in Military Technology. With John Arquilla (Naval Postgraduate School) and Philip Coyle (Center for Defense Information).
12.23.05 Media Roundtable: Alexander Cockburn (Counterpunch), Franc Contreras (The World), and Sandip Roy (New American Media).
12.22.05 What are the special challenges facing gay and lesbian elders? And how is the LGBT community responding? Brian DeVries (San Francisco State University), Bill Kirkpatrick (New Leaf), and Moli Steinert (Open House).
12.21.05 In a time of war and fiscal crisis, who'll pick up the tab? A debate on tax cuts and economic justice with Chris Edwards (Cato Institute) and Jason Furman (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities).
12.20.05 Where can you find nature in the city? With Chris Giorni (Tree Frog Treks) and Mike Sullivan (The Trees of San Francisco).
12.19.05 Where does our garbage go? With Elizabeth Royte, author of Garbageland.
12.16.05 Media Roundtable: Jenni Bergal (Katrina Watch/Center for Public Integrity), Mandalit del Barco (National Public Radio), and David Enders (MotherJones.com).
12.15.05 2005: The year in political movies. Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader), Natalie Silverstein (Ironweed Film Club), and Ben Svetkey (Entertainment Weekly).
12.14.05 Why do we reread? And which books are worth it? With Anne Fadiman, author of Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love.
12.13.05 Have you seen New Orleans? With Marcel Diallo (Oakland2NewOrleans), Shilpi Gupta, Kate Hilsenbeck, and Bess Carrick.
12.12.05 Are foreign researchers in U.S. labs a threat to national security? With William Clements (Foley & Lardner), Tobin Smith (Association of American Universities), and Arthur Bienenstock (Stanford University).
12.9.05 Media Roundtable: Farai Chideya (News & Notes/Pop & Politics), Khaled Dawoud (al-Ahram), and Ken Silverstein (L.A. Times).
12.8.05 Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter talks about his new book Iraq Confidential.
12.7.05 Can you wear a diamond on your finger without having blood on your hands? With Cecilia Gardner (Jewelers Vigilance Comittee), Corinna Gilfillan (Global Witness), and Kareem Edouard (director of Bling: Consequences and Repercussions).
12.6.05 What is charity? And what kind of giving deserves a tax break? With Lilliam Barrios-Paoli (Safe Space) and Bill Somerville (Philanthropic Ventures Foundation).
12.5.05 What does the latest research tell us about the causes of breast cancer? With Barbara Brenner (Breast Cancer Action) Runi Chattopahdyay (UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center), and Tina Clarke (Northern California Cancer Center).
12.2.05 Media Roundtable: Michael Massing (Columbia Journalism Review), Rinku Sen (ColorLines), and John Simpson (BBC).
12.1.05 Are the politics of crime and punishment in California changing? Stefanie Faucher (Death Penalty Focus), Matt Gray (The Capital Alliance), and Jakada Imani (Books Not Bars).
November 2005
11.30.05 How is the U.S.-led war on terror affecting civil liberties and human rights in Europe?
11.29.05 What messages will allow the Democrats to capitalize on Bush's weakness in 2006?
11.28.05 Why do so many more people have allergies now?
11.24.05 & 11.25.05 No progr