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  • Marxist Army Officer Chris Helali on Buddhism, Marx, and the Democratic Left
  • Teaching Marx at Harvard: An Interview with Steven Jungkeit
  • Education and “The Public Promotion of Moral Genius”: An Interview with Peter Hershock
  • Buddhist Activism and Public Policy: An Interview with Jonathan Watts of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists
  • “President Obama is a Screen Onto Which We Project our Most Intimate Affinities and Intense Anxieties”: Harvard’s Tim McCarthy on the Cult of Consensus, President Obama’s Cognitive Dissonance, and How American Can Avoid Ending Up Like the Roman Empire
  • What is College For? An Interview with The New Yorker’s Louis Menand
  • An Interview with Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council
  • “We’re Not Going to Have Better Public Conversations Unless People Want It, So It’s Figuring Out How to Get People to Want It”: Philosopher Christopher Robichaud on Truth and Knowledge in the American Political Context
  • “By the Time I Left Congress, There Was No Significant Bipartisan Legislative Activity – None.” Artur Davis on Life in a Fiercely Partisan House, and Why it Might Not Get Better Any Time Soon
  • “How People Live the Consequences of the Mess We’ve Made”: Carlo Rotella on “The Wire,” How Bill Clinton was Like a Character in a Spielberg Movie, and Why Good Pundits are So Hard to Find
  • Podcast Episode 1: An Interview with Jack Abramoff
  • Fixing Congress and Finding Peace: An Interview with Jack Abramoff
  • “You Don’t Want the Thing to Turn into a Pissing Contest”: Michael Dukakis on Campaign Jujitsu, Improving Obama’s Communications Strategy, and Where Occupy Should Go Next
  • Religion and Reckless Courage: Activist Val Kalende on the Fight for LGBT Rights in Uganda
  • Marshall Ganz, Obama’s 2008 Organizer-in-Chief, on the Moral Urgency of Occupy Wall Street
  • Former DNC Chairman Ed Rendell on Intransigent Politicians, Compromise, and Occupy Wall Street
  • “From a Position of Moral Strength”: Harvard Professor and Gay Rights Activist Tim McCarthy on President Obama, the Republican Party, and Life as a Second-Class Citizen
  • “Desperation and Wild Inspired Hope”: Todd Gitlin on Why the Occupy Movement is Different From All Other Social Movements, How Initial Media Coverage Was Like a Pre-Programmed Computer Algorithm, and How Not to Judge the Movement’s Success
  • “We Are Moving in a More Humanitarian Direction”: An Interview with Philosopher Peter Singer (Full Text and Video)
  • The Banality of Evil, Revisited: An Interview with Paul Katz on Transitional Justice and Civil Society
  • An Interview with Nizar Farsakh, Former Adviser to the Palestinian Leadership
  • An Interview with Former Congressman Tom Perriello
  • An Interview with Theda Skocpol
  • An Interview with Ernesto Cortes, Jr.
  • An Interview with Bill Richardson
  • An Interview with Former Congressman Bart Stupak
  • An Interview with Sociolinguist Otto Santa Ana
  • An Interview with John Fife
  • An Interview with Jeb Bush
  • An Interview with Richard Parker, Founder of Mother Jones Magazine
  • An Interview with Israeli Politician Ophir Pines-Paz
  • An Interview with Economist James Galbraith
  • An Interview with Interfaith Activist and Harvard Divinity School Professor Dudley Rose
  • An Interview with Former AFL-CIO President John Sweeney
  • An Interview with Former Congressman Ernest Istook
  • An Interview with Former Haitian Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis
  • What Would You Die For? An Interview with Timothy Patrick McCarthy
  • More on Marshall Ganz and Obama’s Health Reform Strategy
  • An Interview with Marshall Ganz, Architect of the 2008 Obama Organizing Effort
  • An Interview with Noam Chomsky
  • My Exchange With RNC Chair Michael Steele (Video)
  • RNC’s Michael Steele: Dems’ Health Proposals Sought to “Own the Means of Production”

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