The award-winning adventure writer describes his voyage to the Antarctic with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the midst of 30ft waves to stop an illegal Japanese whaling fleet.
For more than 30 years, professor and political scientist Larry Sabato has been examining the workings of the U.S. Constitution - in the classroom, in the court room, on the campaign trail, and at the ballot box. He talks with Diane about why the Constitution is in need of updating and offers 23 specific proposals to end the political dysfunction in America today.
Larry Sabato, founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and author of some 20 books.
Evangelicals, once at the periphery of American life, now wield power in the White House and on Wall Street, at Harvard and in Hollywood. How have they reached the pinnacles of power in such a short time? And what does this mean for evangelicals–and for America? Drawing on personal interviews with an astonishing array of prominent Americans–including two former Presidents, dozens of political and government leaders, more than 100 top business executives, plus Hollywood moguls, intellectuals, athletes, and other powerful figures–D. Michael Lindsay shows first-hand how they are bringing their vision of moral leadership into the public square.
D. Michael Lindsay is a member of the sociology faculty at Rice University where he is also the Faculty Associate of Leadership Rice and Assistant Director of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life. He is the author of two books, both with George Gallup, Jr., and has written many scholarly and popular essays.
This Authors@Google event took place October 5, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
Fifty-seven million Americans are too poor to be considered middle class and too wealth to qualify for government assistance. A sociologist describes the housing, education, health care, and debt challenges facing families living on the financial edge.
The main gist of this book is that a single mother cannot support four children on $30K per year, especially if they have medical conditions or mental disorders. This is the near-poor that does not want to be on government assistance, but is financially on par with the working or non-working poor due to their circumstances.
In The Israel Lobby, which grew out of a controversial 2006 article in the London Review of Books, Stephen Walt and co-author John Mearsheimer examine the impact of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy. They argue that American support for Israel cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds.
I hate it when a check-out person bags my one item. I know it’s their job to serve me. I usually remove the item and place the bag back on the counter–hopefully it will be re-used.
When I was in Ireland for a week, I had to pay for any bags that I needed. I’d be happy in levying a tax on grocery bags. This would promote re-use.
There are only 3 public places to recycle plastic “grocery” bags in Indianapolis. Several grocery stores and I hear that Wal-Mart have bins that people can return their grocery bags to for recycling.
Several U.S cities may follow San Fransisco’s lead in the effort to ban plastic bags at large grocery and pharmacies checkout counters. We’ll talk about some of the economic, environmental, and logistical challenges of cutting back on the use of plastic bags.
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President Clinton discussed his causes, his ideas and his wife’s run for the presidency.
Matthew Parris, Nick Cohen and Bernard Henri-Levy debate the rights and wrongs of spreading democracy.
Ambassador Dennis Ross talks about his role as chief Middle East peace negotiator during the Clinton and George H.W. Bush administrations. His new book is Statecraft: And How to Restore America’s Standing in the World.
Since when did a debate become a boxing match? Four years into the Iraq War, what have we learned? Soldiers, civilians, Iraqis, and Americans talk and sometimes yell? about what they’ve learned in the last few years.
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About halfway through is a debate between Saun Hannity and Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City, that has the atmosphere of a boxing match with booing and interrupting. It saddens me.