LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST The Progressive Honor Roll of 2010: JOHN NICHOLS names the names of some of our political heroes; number one is Bernie Sanders. John is Washington Correspondent for The Nation and writes “The Beat” blog at TheNation.com. “Most Valuable Online Activism”: Progressive Change Campaign Committee, HERE. Also: [...]
A new batch of Nixon White House tapes and documents were released by the National Archives in 2010, putting the former president back on page one. Herewith, the top ten: 10. “The Irish can’t drink. What you always have to remember with the Irish is they get mean. Virtually every Irish I’ve known gets mean when he drinks.” –to [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST For our year-in-review show, we’ll ask HAROLD MEYERSON what happened to Obama in 2010? Why did he make so many concessions to Republicans? Harold writes op-ed columns for the Washington Post and the L.A. Times, and he’s editor-at-large of The American Prospect. Also: Islamophobia — the [...]
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For the 30th anniversary of Lennon’s murder, we’ll do a one-hour special featuring excerpts from Lennon’s last interview, rare clips of different versions of “Give Peace a Chance” performed live at different shows; and a chat with GREG MITCHELL, former editor of Crawddaddy (and current blogger at TheNation.com) about his meetings with Lennon in New [...]
Remembering John Lennon on the Diane Rehm Show, along with Philip Norman, author of John Lennon: A Life, and Richard Harrington, former music critic for the Washington Post: Listen HERE.
It was 30 years ago today: Dec. 8, 1980, on what would turn out to be the last day of John Lennon’s life, he did an interview promoting his new album, “Double Fantasy.” He talked about the sixties: “The thing the sixties did was show us the possibility and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t [...]
At a high school in Riverside in 1991, student Aaron Salinger wrote the lyrics to “Imagine” on the stripes of an American flag as an art project. It was Lennon’s birthday and the Persian Gulf War was underway, and Salinger and his friends carried the “Imagine” flag in an antiwar demonstration. Aaron’s mother, Sharon V. [...]
Lennon’s legacy lives on, 30 years after his death : CNN’s Candy Crowley interviews Jon Wiener on “State of the Nation.” WATCH Streaming video HERE.
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ROBERT REICH on Obama’s economy: the Senate has failed to pass unemployment extension, and is getting ready to approve tax cuts for the rich. Robert Reich was secretary of labor under Bill Clinton; his new book is Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future. Our Haiti [...]