Terrence McNally podcast

Episode 639: The Myths of Poverty & the Role of Luck-MARK RANK-The Random Factor

Why does our society produce more poverty than other wealthy countries? Why don’t we or why can’t...

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• 9 días

Episode 638: CHARLES EISENSTEIN (2019), Climate - A New Deeper, Fuller Story - People connect more with nature than...

I describe the goal of my engagement with what we call the environment as “a healthy relationship...

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• 15 días

Episode 637: Can we build immunity to mis- & dis-information? ANDY NORMAN & MELANIE TRECEK-KING of the MENTAL...

With social media and AI, bad actors weaponize information, stressing democracy. We have two...

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• 24 días

Episode 636: Two for the Campaign Ahead: 1) DREW WESTEN (2007), The Political Brain 2) BERNIE HORN (2009), Framing...

As we fasten our seatbelts and plunge into the 2024 campaign, here are two conversations worth a...

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Episode 635: ROB JOHNSON & I talk about the State of the Union - Biden’s speech plus our own take on things

ROB JOHNSON is a plain-speaking and passionate critic of an economic, financial, and political...

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Episode 634: TIM DeCHRISTOPHER-Courage & Conviction-Tim served 21 months in prison for civil disobedience...

We know Republicans exercise minority rule in the states, the House, and the Supreme Court. Now...

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Episode 633: ANGUS DEATON, co-author, Deaths of Despair - ECONOMICS IN AMERICA: An Immigrant Economist Explores the...

ANGUS DEATON won the Nobel prize in Economics for work accomplished before he and his wife,...

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• 2 meses

Episode 632: 5 BROKEN CAMERAS (2013)-EMAD BURNAT (Palestinian) & GUY DAVIDI (Israeli) co-directors, of the...

This week the media offers Academy Award buzz as well as the horrors of Israel’s response to the...

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• 2 meses

Episode 631: MARGOT SUSCA-HEDGED: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine...

We all know the newspaper business is in trouble. A weekday edition of the LA Times - once a...

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Episode 630: ROBERT P. JONES-THE HIDDEN ROOTS OF WHITE SUPREMACY and the Path to a Shared American Future

The last time a Democratic presidential candidate won a majority of White voters was in 1964....

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• 3 meses

Episode 629: JONAH SACHS (2012)-Winning the STORY WARS-Key to persuasion & motivation - and as timely as ever

In todays fractionalized & polarized world, facts and reality are too often less important than...

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Episode 628: CORPORATE BULLSH*T- JOAN WALSH-Six lies they use to hold onto power and hold back progress

The market – using money in politics to write its own rules - cannot respond effectively to...

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Episode 627: DARING DEMOCRACY (2017)-FRANCES MOORE LAPPE (Diet For A Small Planet) & ADAM EICHEN-Pro-democracy...

American democracy is under attack in 2024. Last week I talked with SAM DALEY-HARRIS about the...

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• 3 meses

Episode 626: SAM DALEY-HARRIS-Our work for 2024-RECLAIMING OUR DEMOCRACY-Learn to practice transformational advocacy

We must up our game in 2024. We sign petitions and make donations, but how many meet with a...

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Episode 625: UNLIKELY BROTHERS (2011)-John Prendergast & Michael Mattocks talk about their 25 year Big...

Despite the conflicts and injustices in the news, during this season we’re reminded to love and...

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• 4 meses

Episode 624: ZEV YAROSLAVSKY - 40 years of public service - ZEV’S LOS ANGELES: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of.

ZEV YAROSLAVSKY, who served on the Los Angeles City Council and LACounty’s Board of Supervisors...

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• 4 meses

Episode 623: MARSHALL GANZ-Public Narrative - Key to Successful Organizing

Whether trying to influence involvement in foreign wars, fight for social justice, or win an...

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• 4 meses

Episode 622: NELSON LICHTENSTEIN -Labor Is Delivering + Bill Clinton, Fabulous Failure?

I talk with NELSON LICHTENSTEIN, History professor at UC Santa Barbara, and the author of several...

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• 5 meses

Episode 621: MICHIO KAKU-QUANTUM SUPREMACY: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything

I speak with theoretical physicist, futurist, and best-selling author, MICHIO KAKU, about his...

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• 5 meses

Episode 620: NANCY MAC LEAN (2018)-DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America - a long marc

In the five years since I recorded this conversation with NANCY MAC LEAN about her book,...

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• 5 meses