September 5, 2015
FUTUREWORK: How Technology Will Redefine the Culture of Work
Technological advances have put us on the edge of a new industrial revolution. Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor and Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, and Susan Hassler, Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Spectrum Magazine, are joined by engineers, scientists, and futurists from MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, Rice Univ., and the Institute for the Future to give listeners insights into how technology will redefine work in the not too distant future.
September 12, 2015
America Abroad - Examining the Nuclear Deal with Iran
On July 14, the United States and five other world powers signed an agreement to limit Iran's nuclear capability in exchange for lifting crippling economic sanctions. It's the culmination of nearly a decade of negotiations and will have far reaching impact throughout the Middle East. On this edition of America Abroad we present an in-depth look at the Iran nuclear agreement and a review of 10 years of negotiations with Iran. You will hear from those who have been directly involved in talks with Iran in the Bush and Obama administrations. In addition we will hear what Iranians in Tehran and Los Angeles think about the agreement and from experts on the impact in the years ahead.
September 19, 2015
Reveal
This September, Reveal takes us inside America’s coldest cases. There are more than 10,000 John and Jane Does in the U.S. – unidentified and unclaimed bodies languishing in limbo for years, sometimes for decades. In the episode, we criss cross the nation tracing John and Jane Doe cases, showing why so many bodies remain unidentified despite new and powerful forensic tools. Often the job of solving these cases is taken up by amateur web sleuths.
September 26, 2015
Intelligence Squared U.S. – Does the U.S. Need to Defeat ISIS, or is Containment Enough?
The region under the control of ISIS continues to expand, despite airstrikes and the deployment of U.S. military advisers. Should the U.S. goal be containment, or can ISIS be defeated? The debaters are Michèle Flournoy, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Philip Zelikow, and Dov Zakheim.
