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• The big lie about Afghanistan

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  Listen live at 1pm ET/10am PT Malalai Joya was born in Afghanistan, and returned from living in exile in 1998. In 2005, she was elected to the Afghan Parliament. But in 2007, she was suspended from Parliament because she began denouncing the warlords who were serving with her. Joya has written A Woman Among ...
  14 hours ago

• Mark Danner on the frontlines of war

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT Journalist Mark Danner has covered war, and the consequences of war, for more than 20 years: in Haiti, Sarajevo and Iraq. He released information on the authorization of torture during the Iraq war. And he writes about Iraq regularly for The New York Review of Books . Danner with be ...
  1 day ago

• Last Wednesdays "The Conversation" on KUOW

  
  I Thought a Think — Authority: 132
  Some really good stuff . First they talked with the newest members of the Seattle City Council about the idea new mayor Mike McGinn floated to take over the school district (their response: "Were busy enough as it is"), then with the new members of the Seattle School Board about administrative spending in the Seattle ...
  3 days ago

• What it’s like for Muslim teenagers

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  Listen live at 3pm ET/12pm PT What’s it like to be a Muslim teenager in America? There’s a new book from Dilara Hafiz and her son, Imran, called The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook . The co-authors have written it for teens, and they cover a range of topics, ranging from religious extremism to ...
  5 days ago

• The other government health care

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT You may not have heard of the  Indian Health Service , but IHS is another public health system run by the government. It provides services to about 1.8 million Native Americans; its annual budget is $3.6 billion. Today on KUOW’s Weekday , Steve Scher leads a discussion about ...
  6 days ago

• Ending honor killings

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT Journalist Rana Husseini has written a new book about the practice of honor killings in Jordan, and today, she’ll talk about the topic on KUOW’s Weekday . Murder in the Name of Honor explores why the tradition of honor killings – in which girls and women are killed to ...
  1 week ago

• A literary history of America

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT Legendary music writer and cultural critic Greil Marcus has edited a new book of essays about the most important landmarks of American literature. But Marcus goes way beyond the standard definition of literature: Norman Mailer and Tennessee Williams in the same book with Bob Dylan and ...
  1 week ago

• A red tide in the Northwest

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  The description at the beginning of this story is “It’s like an oil spill, but without the oil.” That can’t be good.  But that’s how wildlife specialists are describing a bloom of algae along the coast in the Pacific Northwest. The red algae bloom has killed hundreds of seabirds. The Coast Guard and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stewart Brand on Green Myths

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT Stewart Brand’s latest book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto , questions some of the central tenets of environmentalism. Is nuclear power bad? Can biotechnology serve the planet? Can science and engineering advance the environmentalist cause? As the title ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mad Science with Theodore Gray

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT This is one of those interviews that doesn’t have a precisely defined endpoint, but that doesn’t matter because it could be a lot of fun. Theodore Gray joins Steve Scher today on KUOW’s Weekday . Besides his Gray Matter column for Popular Science and his role as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Barbara Ehrenreich on the Bright Side

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT The title of Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book states her premise pretty clearly: Bright–Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America . When does positive thinking turn into a willful ignorance of reality and societal problems? Ehrenreich will talk ...
  2 weeks ago

• KUOW Seeking Stories from Commercial Real Estate Investors

  
  Seattle Bubble — Authority: 129
  I received the following request from a KUOW reporter that I thought was worth forwarding on to the general reading audience: Another of our reporters is working on a story on commercial real estate investment. I recognize that your blog follows residential real estate more closely, but I know many of the people ...
  3 weeks ago

• Remaking the urban core

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 508
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT Ostensibly, this discussion is about the future of Seattle, but we expect much of it will apply to large American cities, generally, and that’s why we’re recommending it. Seattle’s struggles are similar to many other cities – revitalizing the urban core, controlling and ...
  4 weeks ago

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