Jeff Stein is the Washington Post’s blogger on matters of intelligence. His blog, SpyTalk, tracks insider news from the intelligence services. One of his most recent entries, however, attracted much wider attention from across the web. CIA unit’s wacky idea: depict Saddam as gay. David speaks with Stein about this and other strange initiatives contemplated […]
David speaks with Mary Tillman, mother of the former NFL star Pat Tillman who died while serving in Afghanistan. Pat was an NFL running back who left football to join the army after 9-11. He was killed in Afghanistan from friendly fire. But his parents were told that he was killed by the enemy. This […]
Howard Hart is the most-decorated spy in CIA history. Following the firing last week of Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence (essentially the highest position in intelligence meant to oversee and coordinate between all the different intelligence gathering agencies), Hart speaks to the implications on the CIA and the larger intelligence community. Original Air […]
David speaks with Wilbert Rideau about his book In the Place of Justice. In 1961 Wilbert Rideau committed a murder in pre-civil rights Louisiana. Sentenced to death by an all-white jury, Rideau managed to survive but spent 44 years in prison. He became a reader then a writer then an award-winning journalist behind bars. His […]
David speaks with blogger and food critic Ed Levine. Levine’s blog, Seriouseats.com – which he co-founded and now edits – just won two James Beard Foundation Awards for Best Food Blog and Best Video Webcast. The James Beard Foundation awards are the most highly respected awards in the field of all things food and culinary […]
David speaks with Doug Shipman, the executive Director of the forthcoming Center for Civil and Human Rights which be located on Centennial Park alongside the aquarium and the Coke museum. David talks with Shipman about the genesis of the project, its current status, and what role the center wants to play in Atlanta as well […]
Legendary boxing corner man Angelo Dundee has written a book about his remarkable career that began in seedy boxing gym and led him to train multiple world champions and wander the globe. Dundee helped train Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, amongst many others. His memoir is called, My View from the Corner. Original […]
David speaks with columnist Laurie Roberts of the Arizona Republic about Arizona’s new controversial immigration law. While opposed to the bill itself, Roberts claims that it sought to address a real and immediate threat in Arizona that the federal government has yet to fully address: the spillover of drug-related violence from Mexico. As Roberts notes, […]
In honor of Mother’s Day is an interview that David did with author and former columnist for the New York Times, Anna Quindlen. As she herself acknowledges in their conversation, the common theme across all her fiction has been an examination of motherhood – though often its most difficult moments. Her most recent book is […]
David speaks with New York Times op-ed columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Nicholas Kristof about his new book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women World Wide. The book, which he cowrote with his wife and fellow New York Times writer, Sheryl WuDunn, is a passionate call to arms against our era’s […]