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Matt Rothschild interviews activists, scholars, and artists who are making the world a better place. Recent guests include Cindy Sheehan, Camilo Mejia, Laura Flanders, Jim Hightower, and Junot Diaz. RSS | Subscribe in iTunes

Julie Bolz, »

My guest this week is Julie Bolz, a women's rights and human rights activist, who has built or repaired dozens of schools in Afghanistan.

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Reverend Dr. Michael Schuler »

My guest today is the Reverend Dr. Michael Schuler, author of Making the Good Life Last: Four Keys to Sustainable Living.

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Gerda Lerner »

My guest this week is the founder of women's history, Gerda Lerner, whose most recent book is Living with History: Making Social Change.

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Bruce Friedrich »

My guest this week is Bruce Friedrich, the co-author of The Animal Activist’s Handbook and the vice president for policy and government affairs at PETA.

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Satinath Sarangi »

My guest this week is Satinath Sarangi, who runs a clinic in Bhopal, India.

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Patrick Jones »

My guest this week is Patrick Jones, author of "The Selma of the North."

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Anna Baltzer »

My guest this week is Anna Baltzer, author of "Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories."

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Robert Jensen »

My guest today is Robert Jensen, professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Jennifer Baumgardner »

My guest this week is Jennifer Baumgardner, the feminist author and activist whose latest book is "Abortion and Life."

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Sol Thea Kelley-Jones »

My guest this week is Sol Thea Kelley-Jones, a playwright, director, and human rights activist whose recent play is about the similarities between the West Bank and the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Jefferson Cowie »

My guest today is Jefferson Cowie, associate professor of history at Cornell and a scholar on the working class in America in the twentieth century.

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Robert Stone »

My guest this week is the documentary filmmaker Robert Stone, whose latest work is "Earth Days."

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Karl Meyer »

My guest this week is Karl Meyer, veteran foreign policy journalist and author, most recently, of "Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East."

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Alan Wolfe »

My guest this week is Alan Wolfe, author of "The Future of Liberalism."

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Dave Zirin  »

My guest this week is the leftie sports writer Dave Zirin, author of A People's History of Sports in the United States.

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Why I Don't Like the Fourth of July

Unemployment Figures Underscore Need for New Stimulus

Julie Bolz,

My guest this week is Julie Bolz, a women's rights and human rights activist, who has built or repaired dozens of schools in Afghanistan.
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Shepard Fairey, Citizen Artist

The maker of the iconic “Hope” poster has turned frustration and anger into inspiration.

Changing Obama's Mindset

Obama has to be pulled in the right direction.

Pete Rose Hits it Around

Want to feel old? Pete Rose just turned sixty-eight. Want to feel young? Talk baseball with Pete Rose.

Naomi Klein Interview

“We don’t have a right to be disappointed” by Obama, says the author of The Shock Doctrine.
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Links from the Editors
The United States’ Anti-Democratic Pattern in Honduras [link]
Progressivism is Mainstream [link]
The Banks Own Congress [link]
U.S. Evangelicals join the nuclear-weapon-free world movement [link]
Netanyahu Speaks; The Israel-Palestine Ball Remains in Obama's Court [link]
[link] Why Feingold Opposed McChrystal


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