Ken Burns, “The Vietnam War”
Here's my conversation with Ken Burns, whose new PBS documentary series, "The Vietnam War," will debut on September 17th. Among my questions: Vietnam veterans don’t like talking about the war — how did you get them to open up? Was that because of how they were treated...
A War Has Actually Ended
Here's something you rarely read about: a war that has ended. In Colombia, the FARC rebels have surrendered their weapons and agreed to a peace plan with the government they have waged war against for more than five (!) decades. From Newsweek... FARC began as a group...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Eric Schlosser writes about the possibility of World War III by mistake, with a long look at the status of nuclear weapons in the US and Russia, and the possibility of accidental launches due to technology that's more outmoded than you could possibly believe... Today,...
Experiencing 9/11
On 9/01, as I watched the devastation in New York, my thoughts turned to my brother Seth, who commuted each day from New Jersey, through the World Trade Center, to his office a few blocks away. With the havoc caused in the communication system due to the loss of the...
Four 9/11-Related Guests
On the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on our country, here are some of the guests I've talked to over the years who said things different from what you may have heard elsewhere: John Farmer, senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and author of "The Ground Truth:...
Bogus Bomb Detectors Strike Again
I thought we were long done with the con man James McCormick, who sold Iraq fake bomb detectors and made over $80 million. That scam was first revealed by my friend James Randi more than six years ago (here's our conversation about it in January, 2010), but even after...
Sebastian Junger, “Tribe”
Sebastian Junger, director of "Restrepo" and author of "The Perfect Storm," "Fire," and "A Death In Belmont," returned to my show to discuss his new book, "Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging." We talked about the plight of the large number of veterans returning from...
Ryan Devereaux, “The Assassination Complex”
Here's my conversation with Ryan Devereaux, one of the investigative reporters at The Intercept who have compiled "The Assassination Complex: Inside The Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program." Among the questions I asked him: If the drone program is secret, how do...