Q&A
Q&A features interviews with writers, economists, social scientists, activists and other big thinkers with important perspectives on issues affecting our democracy.
- February 15, 2013Government watchdog Michael Smallberg discusses the cozy relationship between SEC regulators and the financial players they’re supposed to police.
- February 6, 2013A Justice Department memo reveals the administration's legal case for drone strikes targeting American citizens. Legal expert Vicki Divoll dissects their argument.
- February 1, 2013Are U.S. drone strikes consistent with the idea of "just wars"? A military and political scholar breaks the question down.
- January 4, 2013Annie Leonard, director of The Story of Stuff, says reusable water bottles and canvas shopping bags are not enough.
- December 27, 2012From "Romnesia" to "Right to Work," linguist Geoffrey Nunberg decodes political buzzwords of 2012, including his pick for Word of the Year.
- December 19, 2012Victor Pickard answers our questions about the (almost) golden age of the FCC when progressive commissioners tried to make commercial media more attentive to public interests.
- December 13, 2012Yael Lehmann of Philadelphia's Food Trust explains how rates were reduced in one of America's poorest cities.
- December 4, 2012Bill Moyers speaks with former FCC commissioner Michael Copps about the effect a new FCC proposal could have on our news and our democracy.
- December 3, 2012Free Press' Craig Aaron talks with Bill about the campaign to stop the FCC from relaxing rules limiting media cross-ownership in cities.
- November 30, 2012Ai-jen Poo describes her efforts to provide basic protections for nannies, housekeepers, home health aides, and others whose work "makes all other work possible."