Here’s the latest in our series of “PBC Minute” videos, featuring top progressive authors. Here, Rick Perlstein, author of Before the Storm and Nixonland, talks about the current disarray in conservative ranks and tells us about the book he’s currently working on, the third installment of his “Backlash” trilogy. We taped this a few weeks ago at the America’s Future Now! conference in Washington, D.C.  (See previous PBC Minutes here.)

Here’s another in our series of short video interviews, each running a minute (give or take), with PBC authors. This one’s with Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side, which tells the inside story of how the US government shredded the Constitution after 9/11, adopting “war on terror” policies —indefinite detention, rendition, torture—that violated the most basic and cherished American values.

Here’s another in our series of short video interviews, each running a minute (give or take), with PBC authors. This one is with Van Jones, author of The Green Collar Economy, which details how investing in green jobs will solve the nation’s two most pressing challenges: how to alleviate poverty and make the economy work for all Americans and how to tackle climate change.

Here’s another in our series of short video interviews, each running a minute (give or take), with PBC authors. This one is with Robert Scheer, who talks about his recent book The Pornography of Power, which tells how defense hawks hijacked military spending after 9/11 and made America less safe.

Here’s the first in a series of short video interviews, each running a minute (give or take), with PBC authors. This one is with Samantha Power, who dropped by the PBC offices last fall to talk about her book Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World.