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Latest Interviews:
Nov 5, 2009
Washington Wire: You’ve been credited by some of your election-year rivals with running a perfect campaign, and Obama called it the best political campaign in U.S. history. But your book makes it clea...
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Recent Interviews:
Nov 5, 2009
Early in the book, you talk about your experience going to a family and ...
Nov 4, 2009
Why is your book subtitled: "The End of the World as We Know It"?
Ke...
Nov 3, 2009
KOLBERT: It’s been three and a half years since An Inconvenient Truth. S...
Oct 27, 2009
Q: Let me begin by inviting you to sum up, if you would, the central ide...
Oct 22, 2009
In the introduction to your book you refer to a “vast robbery” that bega...
Oct 1, 2009
How is the city greener than the country?
When we move people closer ...
Sep 30, 2009
Popcorn Youth: Let’s talk about the book. It’s a terse, often chilling p...
Aug 28, 2009
Rumpus: This book, Zeitoun, is coming out very close to Away We Go.
E...
Aug 28, 2009
Q: Of all the things you could have written about, what drew you to the ...
Jul 28, 2009
Robert Wright has carved out a distinct niche in American journalism. Wh...
Jul 23, 2009
Correspondent for The Atlantic and author of a 2002 report on the obesit...
Jul 23, 2009
If you read only one China book this year, make it Joe Bennett’s Where U...
Jun 29, 2009
Last Sunday, I reviewed Dave Neiwert’s excellent new book, The Eliminati...
Jun 29, 2009
Thank you to everyone who turned out to hear me read from Our Lot and of...
Jun 28, 2009
Chances are you can't name a single central banker from the 1920s, but i...
Jun 27, 2009
What are you working on?
I am writing my second novel, a story about ...
Jun 9, 2009
Q. When you were governor of Vermont, you built upon Medicaid in y...
Jun 9, 2009
l...
May 29, 2009
Alain de Botton is an acclaimed contemporary philosopher whose new book,...
May 28, 2009
In Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (Nation Books; Reviews, April 13)...
May 27, 2009
Steven Johnson is the author of the new book, The Invention of Air which...
May 14, 2009
Q: There’s no shortage of books trying to explain and detail the financi...
May 14, 2009
Q: When did you start to write The Unforgiving Minute?
A: When I ret...
May 7, 2009
Q. You write that American civilization is "a palimpsest of world experi...
Apr 30, 2009
Progressive Book Club’s David Rosen interviews James William Gibson, aut...
Apr 30, 2009
Q: So Damn Much Money is about the rise of lobbying in Washington D.C....
Apr 30, 2009
Q: Why did you choose this particular moment to write this particular bo...
Apr 30, 2009
Former Washington Post reporter Linda Perlstein spent a full year immers...
Apr 29, 2009
IE: What do you hope readers take away regarding U.S. immigration policy...
Apr 29, 2009
We’re joined today by Craig Mullaney, author of the just-released The Un...
Apr 29, 2009
The Winter Fiction Issue includes “The Gangsters,” a short story by Cols...
Apr 29, 2009
Kim Phillips-Fein is an assistant professor at the Gallatin School of In...
Apr 29, 2009
In his new book, Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Pr...
Apr 8, 2009
Q: In Engaging the Muslim World you set out to debunk myths and mi...
Apr 5, 2009
This article first appeared in The Borzoi Reader online, a publication o...
Apr 3, 2009
What made you decide to write a memoir?I began writing as an attempt to ...
Anastasia Kousakis, Progressive Book Club Mar 31, 2009
So, what is the purity myth? The purity myth is the lie that virgin...
Mar 23, 2009
A light flickering on and off in Jehan Sadat's sunlit sitting room is bu...
Mar 20, 2009
Your new book, My Hope for Peace, comes at a sadly unpeaceful moment. So...
Mar 20, 2009
Juan Cole is one of the nation’s leading historians focusing on the Midd...
Mar 20, 2009
ALUN ANDERSON: It has been less than two years since the Stern review. W...
Mar 20, 2009
Juan Gonzalez and I spoke to David Korten on Friday about the nation’s e...
Mar 20, 2009
Mark Bittman, author of the wildly popular How to Cook Everything, is kn...
Mar 19, 2009
It's not clear if longtime Washington Post reporter Robert Kaiser holds ...
Mar 19, 2009
20 Questions with Jessica Valenti
Since founding Feministing.com in 200...
Mar 5, 2009
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Mar 3, 2009
Interview by Sarah Karlin, Campus ProgressFebruary 3, 2009Think you’re n...
Feb 27, 2009
Rick Perlstein, what is in your book, Before the Storm, about Barry Gol...
Feb 27, 2009
Rick Perlstein, what is in your book, Before the Storm, about Bar...
Feb 27, 2009
This article originally appeared in The Borzoi Reader, a publication of ...
Feb 19, 2009
This article originally appeared in The Borzoi Reader, a publication of ...
Feb 10, 2009
Q: Why did you write this book?A: My father is a black African, was a bl...
Feb 10, 2009
Q: Let's start with a definition. What exactly do you mean when you talk...
Feb 9, 2009
Will, when you fly into D.C., do you call it National Airport or Reagan...
Jan 31, 2009
by Mike Shea, Texas Monthly
In light of the American military’s increas...
Jan 31, 2009
Tavis: David Sanger is the chief Washington correspondent for The New Yo...
Jan 30, 2009
During his seven years covering the White House for the New York Times, ...
Jan 12, 2009
Q. Let’s start with the basic idea at the heart of the book, which...
Dec 31, 2008
PW: How would you describe The True Patriot?
EL: The book is an argum...
Dec 31, 2008
Five Questions for Mark Schapiroby Heather Maddan, Chronicle Staff write...
Dec 31, 2008
Lessons from Dad
by Lynell George
It was brief. It was beautiful: t...
Dec 31, 2008
Tavis Smiley: Jonathan Alter is a senior editor and columnist at "Newswe...
Dec 30, 2008
Jonathan Alter is a senior editor and award-winning columnist at Newswee...
Nov 25, 2008
Q. You begin your book, Obama’s Challenge, by saying that Obama has the ...
Nov 25, 2008
Q. Your book features original writing on all 50 states by 50 leading wr...
Nov 14, 2008
Q. The title of your book is The Case for Big Government. Isn’t th...
Nov 12, 2008
Q. I remember, when you wrote The Puzzle Palace, no one even knew what t...
Nov 12, 2008
Q. [E]xplain exactly what the NSA is. I don’t think most people realize ...
Oct 31, 2008
Q. It’s particularly important to talk to you in these critical times, w...
Oct 31, 2008
Q. Of the two types of traveling -- the epic and the lyrical -- do you h...
Oct 31, 2008
Q. Why did you decide to write this book?A. I had stumbled upon a photog...
Oct 28, 2008
“I write because I like doing it,” says Mr. Parini. “I can't wait to get...
Oct 24, 2008
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Oct 24, 2008
Q. You’re an academic philosopher. How did you come to write Moral Clari...
Oct 24, 2008
Far more than most reporters, you really seem to get inside the heads of...
Oct 22, 2008
Leading political strategist Erica Payne is at the forefront of an e...
Oct 17, 2008
Q. I had such a good time reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel ...
Oct 14, 2008
Q. Working at Alternet, you are engrossed in many of the most critical i...
Oct 14, 2008
Q. Your first three books did not exactly paint the current President Bu...
Oct 14, 2008
Q. It's been a long time since I've read a book in which I highlighted p...
Oct 1, 2008
Q. If you were emperor, what would your clean-energy jobs strategy be?A....
Sep 30, 2008
Q. The style of writing in this book is not really about taking a black-...
Sep 24, 2008
Q: Why did you write The Forever War, and why did you choose that title?...
Sep 18, 2008
text tk....
Sep 8, 2008
Q. Why do future presidents need a good working knowledge of physics?A. ...
Aug 31, 2008
Q. How did writing your memoir differ from writing as a journalist? Did ...
Aug 31, 2008
Q. What's the genesis of this book?A. Well, probably the last eight...
Aug 28, 2008
Q. How is blogging changing the landscape of activism today? How does it...
Aug 8, 2008
Q. What attracts you to your cartoon topics that are political in nature...
Aug 8, 2008
Q. How did your linguistic studies, your field, what you were developing...
Aug 8, 2008
Q. Your story, “An Ex-Mas Feast,” is about a family living on the street...
Aug 7, 2008
Q. How did this man Habbush go from the man who basically said, “There’s...
Aug 6, 2008
Q. The obvious question for you is: Could you compare Kennedy's campaign...
Aug 6, 2008
Q. [Why do you feel the need to defend food?]A. Food’s under attack from...
Aug 6, 2008
Q. A New Yorker profile a year ago mentioned that some of your fellow ec...
Aug 6, 2008
Q. This is nonfiction, this one, your latest book?
A. his is no...
Aug 5, 2008
Q. In an interview several years ago, you said you started Carry Me acro...
Aug 5, 2008
Twenty years ago, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote an article for the New York T...
Aug 1, 2008
Q. What is a "javatrekker," and are there others beside you?
A....
Jul 31, 2008
Q. Quite a few novels cover the same territory as Netherland: New York C...
Jul 29, 2008
Q. Why do think there’s an uprising going on in this country?A. Well, yo...
Jul 29, 2008
Why Goodnight Bush?Eric Origen: First, because it's funny--it meets Stev...
Jul 18, 2008
Q. What do you mean by "The Audacity of Hope"?A. Well, you know, I got t...
Jul 17, 2008
Q. You begin the book by describing the panic and confusion at the upper...
Jul 1, 2008
Q. What do you mean by "the end of food"?A. We are coming to what may be...
Jul 1, 2008
Q. You served John F. Kennedy for 11 years, as his counselor, adviser a...
Jun 30, 2008
Q. The planters responded to the antislavery movement with
their own ...
Jun 28, 2008
Q. What is “Blue Grit”?A. Blue Grit. You know, grit, that’s the stuff th...
Jun 28, 2008
Q. Where do you get your ideas?A. I buy all of my ideas at IDEAS-R-US. S...
Jun 28, 2008
Q. When did conservatives become so good with language?A. Well, with Rea...
Jun 27, 2008
Q. Let me start by asking what you mean when you say moral clarity, so t...
Jun 17, 2008
Q. How did the CIA get started?A. During World War II, the United States...
Jun 17, 2008
Q. How did the CIA get started?A. During World War II, the United States...
Jun 15, 2008
In the coming days we'll be discussing my book, The Good Fight: W...
Jun 15, 2008
Q. Times are tough for American workers. How tough?A. Things haven’t bee...
Jun 15, 2008
Q. In Daydream Believers, you argue that the Bush administration premise...
Jun 15, 2008
Q. What was the inspiration behind The Bulldozer and the Big Tent?A. Lik...
Jun 15, 2008
Q. What’s the basic argument of your book?A. It's that conservative idea...
Jun 14, 2008
Q. Some have called you “the bard of the working class.” Is this a title...
Jun 14, 2008
Q. I'm not a fan of yours and I certainly won't read your book. But I wo...
Jun 12, 2008
Q. In some commentaries, you touch on the latest journalistic trends, su...
Jun 12, 2008
Q. Why did you choose Sergio Vieira de Mello as the subject of your new ...
Jun 12, 2008
Q. Bottled water has become so popular that in the last year, it's exper...
Jun 11, 2008
Q. Could
you tell us where the title, Unforgivable Blackness, comes fro...
Jun 11, 2008
Q. You spent a year getting to know kids at Tyler Heights Elementary Sch...
Jun 9, 2008
Q. The Brennan Center recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. What do ...
Jun 9, 2008
Q. How did you get your idea for the book?A. I started to have this disq...
Jun 9, 2008
Q. Could
you tell us where the title, Unforgivable Blackness, comes fro...
Jun 7, 2008
Q. I’m very interested in the comparisons you make between Nixon and Bus...
Jun 7, 2008
Q. Seen as a figure who governed in a time in between sunny Franklin Roo...
Jun 7, 2008
Q. Why write a book?A. Well, I wrote this book really for two reasons, L...
Jun 7, 2008
Q. Your memoir devotes a considerable amount of attention to the years 1...
Jun 7, 2008
Q. Talk to me about what you learned about Jefferson, because I think Je...
Jun 7, 2008
Q. In a nutshell, what is this book about?A. The comparison of modern Am...
Jun 7, 2008
Q. So, you’ve compiled these sixty scandals - everyone from Jack Ryan to...
Jun 6, 2008
Q. You say that antirationalism is much more disturbing today but not ne...
Jun 6, 2008
Q. Aren’t you somewhat afraid that the management of a labeling system w...
Jun 4, 2008
Q. Your book begins in 1919, with the Palmer Raids. Why did you decide t...
Jun 4, 2008
Q. What do you think of the role of protest? I mean, you have extensivel...
Jun 4, 2008
Q. Isn’t it a little late in the day to be re-examining the trial of Soc...
Jun 3, 2008
Q. What would you like, in your work, to be most remembered for? What co...
Jun 3, 2008
Q. Despite more than $106 billion in development aid that was paid last ...
Jun 3, 2008
Q. You claim that Americans don’t know much about religion, a fact that ...
Jun 3, 2008
Q. Because of your military background, you’ve been mentioned frequently...
Jun 3, 2008
Q. Okay, Cliff, you wrote The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don’t Trust...
Jun 3, 2008
Sherman Alexie combines his successful writing career with stand-up come...
Jun 3, 2008
The novel takes its title from the real-life story of Sarajevo's sitting...
Jun 3, 2008
Q. Isn't there something paradoxical about the idea of green shopping, a...
Jun 3, 2008
Q. [C]an you lay out what you call the intelligence-industrial complex?A...
Jun 3, 2008
Q. The book takes readers through a history of foreign policy and the li...
Jun 3, 2008
Q. Forty years ago, yours was the hopeful voice of American renewal in S...
Jun 3, 2008
Q. You write that even in death, Martin Luther King was a polarizing fig...
Jun 3, 2008
Q. Since the web makes organization and dissemination easier and less co...
Jun 3, 2008
Q. [Republicans have] been very effective at creating frames and ways in...
Jun 2, 2008
Q. It's easy to define the South
through its history of racism, but yo...
Jun 2, 2008
Q. You write eloquently about the importance of public institutions -- l...
Jun 2, 2008
Q. But things have come an
incredibly long way and now Stonyfield is b...
Jun 2, 2008
Q. You said you were getting this little skeptical thing.A. Yeah.Q. What...
Jun 2, 2008
Q. The Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion has probably been one...
Jun 2, 2008
Q. What were you most
shocked by, Rajiv, as you—sum up now as you wrot...
Jun 1, 2008
Q. What led you to this particular subject?A. This is my seventh book, a...
Jun 1, 2008
Q. There are lots of books about animal protection and animal rights. An...
Jun 1, 2008
Q. [W]hat's it like to spend a day as the Nation's editor and publisher,...
Jun 1, 2008
Q. You believe that nuclear power should be on the menu of solutions to ...
May 31, 2008
Q. David Horowitz named you one of America’s 101 most dangerous academic...
May 31, 2008
Q. Haven't we now become kind of a one-legged empire in the sense that, ...
May 31, 2008
Q. How did you get involved in the study of social entrepreneurs?A. I ha...
May 31, 2008
Q. Do you think that these so-called "unstable" countries are more apt t...
May 31, 2008
Q. You have modeled your book, at least to a degree, on George Dangerfie...
May 31, 2008
Q. Do you favor some sort of global government?A. I'm against global gov...
May 31, 2008
Q.In [The Bubble of American Supremacy], you make the analogy that forei...
May 31, 2008
Why did you choose The Candy Bombers as the title of this book? Who were...
May 30, 2008
Q. The title of your book is How to Rig an Election. Can elections be ri...
May 30, 2008
Q. The Pornography of Power—why pornography?A. Because it’s not the real...
May 30, 2008
Q. And now I want to talk about the presidents you’ve interviewed. For e...
May 27, 2008
Q. Throughout The Known World, you intersperse your fictional account wi...
May 14, 2008
Q. This isn't the first book that discusses how things have
gone off-tr...
May 14, 2008
Sean, why have you taken a look at Reagan, and have other ...
May 12, 2008
Q. The big idea in your book is the creation of a Federal Reserve Board ...
May 12, 2008
Q. Describe how your bags full of business cards
inspired the book.
...
May 12, 2008
Q. Well, congratulations to you. And it's remarkable, the number of
...
May 12, 2008
Q. The administration and its supporters have often cited statements fro...
May 12, 2008
Q. What initially sparked the idea
of the story in your head?
A. My ...
May 12, 2008
Q. On the issue of broadcasting and media, you’re
broadcasting on PBS. ...
May 12, 2008
Q. I was struck by the concept that was developed by the Mom's Rising
t...
May 12, 2008
Q. Your book “Giving” is just out and has soared to the top of the
best...
May 12, 2008
Q. I wanted to ask you about Tom Swetnam of the University of Arizona, o...
May 12, 2008
Q. ...you have the NAACP holding a funeral for the
N-word, burying it. ...
May 12, 2008
Q. What was the impetus for the book?A. It was the confluence of informa...
May 12, 2008
Q. So, what did you discover?A. It's very interesting, the contrast betw...
May 12, 2008
Senator Ted Kennedy yesterday addressing the
Brookings Institution. “Ir...
May 9, 2008
Q. Why don’t you start off by talking about exactly what you consider to...
May 5, 2008
Q. Where did you get the idea for The Infernal Machine from?A. Violence ...
May 5, 2008
Q. What was the hardest
part of your book to...
May 5, 2008
Q. [I]t struck me that there are two influences that were an important p...
May 5, 2008
Q. How did you personally get onto this story?A. Interestingly, I lived ...
May 5, 2008
Q. What role did religion play in your life growing up?A. In my early li...
May 4, 2008
Q. Harvey, I have never met a historian more
enthusiastic about his sub...
May 4, 2008
Q. Please explain the title of your book. What is being squandered here?...
May 4, 2008
Q. [W]hat could the Democrats do right now as an opposition party?
A...
May 4, 2008
Q. Your book’s emphasis on the possibility of controversy is consistent....
May 4, 2008
Q. Did the ideas that would eventually turn into this book start to gest...
May 4, 2008
Could
you tell us where the title, Unforgivable Blackness, comes fr...
May 2, 2008
Why did you choose The Candy Bombers as the title of this book? Who were...
May 2, 2008
Q. Jim Hightower, your book, Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish ...
May 2, 2008
Q. I’d like to throw out topics that are of concern to Americans and get...
Apr 30, 2008
Q. Can you explain the thesis of the book, the key points you found afte...
Apr 29, 2008
Q.In the book, you discuss how
immigration reform became central to Mex...
Apr 29, 2008
Q. Let's take up a big question first -- your fears about
the upc...
Apr 29, 2008
Q. How does the current Bush Administration differ from past administrat...
Apr 29, 2008
Q. Explain the title of your book. A. We've put Earth at the brink of cl...
Apr 29, 2008
Q. [H]ave you found any overarching trends among presidential candidates...
Apr 29, 2008
What made you choose the "American eating disorder," as you call it, as...
Apr 29, 2008
... [Hedges frames] the issue in its most unnervingly complex light: as ...
Apr 29, 2008
Q. Why did you write this book?A. Anger. I mean, I grew up in the Church...
Apr 29, 2008
Q. Let's start with the title. A lot of liberals who write about the
ri...
Apr 29, 2008
Q. I want to know something about your roots, growing up in the projects...
Apr 29, 2008
Q. Stepping back from the catastrophe in Iraq, what do you make
of th...
Apr 29, 2008
Q. You were very young when you started writing A Kid’s Guide
to Giving...
Apr 29, 2008
Q. Why should white-collar workers be worried?A. Because between now and...
Apr 27, 2008
Lobster was inspired by a local newspaper article about people who showe...
Apr 27, 2008
Q. You are well known as a
writer concentrating on the Middle East and...
Apr 24, 2008
Q. What exactly is Supercapitalism?A. It’s a turbo-charged, Web-based sy...
Apr 21, 2008
Fifteen months before the 2008 election, the Democrats are odds-o...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. What is your new book, Simple Prosperity, about?A. It’s a syst...
Julian Brookes Apr 21, 2008
What are you reading right now?My Dad read five books at a time, right u...
Julian Brookes Apr 21, 2008
What are you reading right now?Julie Salamon, Rambam's Ladder: A Meditia...
Julian Brookes Apr 21, 2008
What are you reading right now?Robert Richardson, William James, because...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. How has the U.S. government changed its approach to public "co...
Apr 21, 2008
Media consolidation affects us all, but we might not realize it. ...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. How did you report this book? The court is famously secretive.A. I we...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. What does a deep economy look like?A. It's more a trajectory ...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. You and Anthony Arnove just came out with a new book, Voices o...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. What inspired you to sit down on that day, in 2002, and start bloggin...
Apr 21, 2008
The blogs terrorizing Dan Rather and CBS the past couple of weeks...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. Let’s start off with a definition of several terms that I thin...
Tara McKelvey Apr 21, 2008
Naomi Wolf, a former Rhodes scholar who graduated from Yale, has ...
Apr 21, 2008
Why did you write this book to a Southern Baptist pastor?Well-- I...
Apr 21, 2008
To say, as some have, that the 2004 presidential election was won and lo...
Apr 21, 2008
During the 2004 presidential campaign, when the role of religion in poli...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. What are the first couple of things the global community ought to be ...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. In your book, "The Bubble of American Supremacy," you make the...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. What drove you to write the book?A. I’ve spent many years going in an...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. You've said that you didn't like the idea of writing about sla...
Apr 21, 2008
Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science, was online to dis...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. First, just briefly explain what the Left Hand of God means.A....
Apr 21, 2008
Your book is called "Grace (Eventually)." But I thought the deal ...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. Four years ago, [George Lakoff] and colleagues at the University of C...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. The Conscience of a Liberal. Tell me why you chose the ...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. What is a brand versus a product?A. Brands and products are enmeshed ...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. You've written a three-part series of books on the United States as a...
Apr 21, 2008
One of the great pleasures of reading history is being introduced...
Apr 21, 2008
In the late 18th century, a small group of Englishmen went out on...
Apr 21, 2008
Long before President Bush articulated his Middle East doctrine, ...
Apr 21, 2008
AL GORE: The point of this book is that our nation is so shockingly vuln...
Apr 21, 2008
...Gore was very serious when taking the administration to...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. How did you get the idea to write Framing the Debate?A. I knew I want...
Apr 21, 2008
It may be pop culture heresy to rope together Susan Faludi's new book, "...
Apr 21, 2008
What didn't make sense to you about our reaction to 9/11?Susan Faludi: I...
Apr 21, 2008
Faludi wonders why the nation's response to the 2001 attacks was to retr...
Apr 21, 2008
In late March of this year, the Office of the Independent Counsel for th...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. You started writing about the health-care system in the '90s, not lon...
Apr 21, 2008
I've always been given to remembrance and remembering—more when I was yo...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. The 2008 elections have engaged
young adults in tremendous ways. On...
Apr 21, 2008
I see two broad types of groups that need to be convinced that we should...
Apr 21, 2008
Karen Armstrong is a one-woman publishing in...
Apr 21, 2008
Q. Before writing Harbor, you worked as a reporter for the...
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