Virtually Speaking

Former US diplomat Joe Wilson and Marcy talk about the tension between transparency, security in a 'free' society.

Centrism is an ideology.....Stuart Zechman and JayAckroyd discuss the nature of US liberalism. This is the permanent location of a previously recorded show. No call-ins.

Woody Tasch - founder of Slow Money - and Jay talk about local investing strategies for healthy and vibrant economies.

Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle and Space Studies Institute Robin Snelson talk with planetary scientist Alan Stern, principal investigator for New Horizons, NASA’s mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, headed to a Pluto flyby in 2015. Associate VP at the Southwest Research Institute and leads SwRI’s suborbital space research effort. Organizing chairman for the annual Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference and serves as an adviser for suborbital space ventures. Stern will discuss the next frontier for spaceflight as well as what’s up with Pluto, exactly 81 years after the dwarf planet’s discovery was announced.

Susie Madrak talks with First Draft’s Jude Toche, who’s been covering Wisconsin; Dave Johnson from Seeing the Forest and Campaign for America’s Future, and Chris Savage from Eclectablog, who will be filling us in on the profoundly anti-democratic moves by Michigan’s Gov. Rick Snyder.

MoJo political blogger Kevin Drum, The inventor of Friday catblogging, Kevin was a blogosphere pioneer when, after a stint in marketing, he went online as Calpundit in 2003. Prior to joining MoJo, he blogged at the Washington Monthly's Political Animal. PJ Crowley's resignation, the NPR/O'Keefe flap, and Kevin's article on the effect of Plutocracy on the labor movement

Centrism is an ideology.....Stuart Zechman and JayAckroyd discuss the nature of US liberalism. This is the permanent location of a previously recorded show. No call-ins.

CUNY Professor of New Media CW (Chris) Anderson and Jay discuss the flap at NPR, in response to another James O'Keefe act of guerrilla journalism.

In this rebroadcast of last Sunday's program Canadian journalist Kevin Wood talks with Actor-musician-filmmaker Lindsay Stewart to talk about Canada's copyright crisis in the VS Maple Syrup Edition

Two journalists who share a passion for music -- Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News and Charles Pierce of the Boston Globe talk with writer Susie Madrak about the ten CDs they would take if they were stranded on a desert island. Be sure to call in with your top 10 desert island discs!

Marcy Wheeler and Eve Gittelson discuss the news of the week including the mess that is our health care financing system, and how it effects ordinary Americans who don't enjoy Congressional health coverage.

Every week Stuart and Jay discuss the developments of the week in the context of movement liberalism. This program is a rebroadcast of the show heard live on March 3rd, with no callins or chat.

Jay and syndicated columnist, author, and very funny public speaker, Lenore Skenazy - perhaps best known for her observations on popular culture and coining 'free range kids' - talk about sensible security, kids and parenting.

Jounalist, blogger and working class warrior Susie Madrak talks with Ted Rall, political cartoonist and autobiographical graphic novelist about his latest book, "The Anti-American Manifesto."

David Dayen FireDogLake News Desk and digby Hullaballoo. Dayen reports from Wisconsin. Discussion follows: Indiana Dems, Wisc Dems. State level responsiveness to the grassroots...