Politics Highlights

Considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the Middle East, Robert Baer will explore the gap of information between what is going on in Iran and what Americans know. Baer will discuss how and why Iran will control the most vital oil and gas trade routes, how it became a hero to the Palestinian Sunnis, and how it plans to seize oil from the Persian Gulf. In this video Baer talks about his experiences with suicide bombers.

The world has watched in helpless horror as years of atrocities have unfolded in Darfur. But what are the obligations to take action? At what are the instruments at the disposal of the international community? Angelina Jolie and Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times are two speakers in this timely discussion. In this video Moreno-Ocampo talks about the terrible crimes in Darfur.

Fouad Ajami discusses In the Shadow of Iraq: A Reading of the Arabs. In this video Ajami offers his opinion on the Bush administration.

How should the United States proceed in the Middle East beyond the borders of Iraq? Middle East experts Michael Barnett, Meghan O'Sullivan, Stephen Cook and Vali Nasr, consider national security priorities from Israel/Palestine to Afghanistan and Pakistan, with particular attention paid to the rise of Iran in the wake of America's intervention in Iraq.

Advisors from the Obama and McCain camps - Austan Goolsbee from the University of Chicago and John Taylor from Stanford University, respectively - lay out the candidates' tax plans and duel over what they would mean for the American economy and the average family. Leonard Burman and Joel Slemrod Research referee. In this video Goolsbee expounds on Obama's tax program and clarifies facts misunderstood by the public.

At the Fall 2008 Hoover Retreat, Morris Fiorina and Daron Shaw analyze the state of John McCain's campaign two weeks prior to election night. In this video Fiorina speculates certain unexpected consequences of the 2008 elections.

Ann Wright talks about Dissent: Voices of Conscience. During the run-up to the Iraq War, Wright was deputy ambassador to a Central Asian Republic, culminating 29 years of military service. But for the first time she was unable to uphold a US policy. She saw clearly that the invasion would aid terrorism and make us less secure; and as an act of conscience, she submitted her resignation.

Ann Wright talks about Dissent: Voices of Conscience. During the run-up to the Iraq War, Wright was deputy ambassador to a Central Asian Republic, culminating 29 years of military service. But for the first time she was unable to uphold a US policy. She saw clearly that the invasion would aid terrorism and make us less secure; and as an act of conscience, she submitted her resignation.This is her story and the story of

Liberal commentator E.J. Dionne moderates a discussion on why contemporary conservatism has gotten off track during the eight years of the Bush administration and how "true" conservatism can be restored to prominence. Panelists David Frum, Mickey Edwards, and Ross Douthat consider what it means to call oneself a conservative in today's America and what it could mean in the coming

Moderated by Krista Tippett, host of American Public Media's Speaking of Faith, this panel of conservative evangelical Dr. Richard Land and liberal evangelical Jim Wallis separates faith from any one party and defines a broad faith-oriented agenda - University of Minnesota