Contemporary Issues Audio & Video

With this podcast, Harris hosts discussions with a range of experts in fields that reflect his varied interests, including the current conflict with ISIS, the shifting American religious landscape, ethical philosophy in the wake of globalization, scientific progress and his lifelong interest in mindfulness meditation.

To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has...

In this new video symposium from Yale University, former Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren hosts a few panels of journalists in this lively discussion of "Truth in the Internet Age".

The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

The BBC Global News Podcast is a daily news podcast that covers many top stories from around the world in about 30 minutes. The episodes are twice a day on weekdays and once a day on weekends.

I Am Malala is the memoir of a remarkable teenage girl who risked her life for the right to go to school.

He's irrepressible, opinionated and, of course, politically incorrect... and he's airing the world's dirty laundry live, uncensored and exclusively on HBO. Bill Maher, one of the most distinctive and provocative humorists on the comedy scene, host this one-hour talk show that allows him and his guests total freedom of speech without fear of network recrimination or criticism!

The Talks at Google podcast - where great minds meet. Talks at Google brings the world’s most influential thinkers, creators, makers, and doers all to one place.

In this popular daily podcast from The New York Times, host Michael Barbaro covers one of the day's top news stories with journalists' interviews about this story and audio clips of the news events spliced in.

America's leading young black intellectual reveals the hidden rules of race that dominate politics...