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#101: "Modern Media: More Information, Less Common Ground and Common Sense?"
A spirited discussion about the contemporary state of political media in the United States and the impact, for better or worse, of the rapidly-changing media landscape on American democracy.
Guests: John Avlon, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast and a CNN Political Analyst, Albert Hunt, Bloomberg News, and Chris Matthews, MSNBC host

#102: "Is American Politics Broken?"
As the partisan divide in the United States seems larger and more set in stone than at any time and public confidence in the institutions of American government has fallen precipitously, the panel discusses the potential causes of these developments and what can be done about them.

Guests: Michael Boos, Vice President and General Counsel, Citizens United, Tom Davis, Former Congressman (R-VA) and author of The Partisan Divide, and Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law professor

#103: "Income Inequality: New Gilded Age or Age of Opportunity?"
The panel explores the consensus view that the United States is becoming a more economically unequal society but diverges on causes and appropriate policy responses, if any.

Guests: Robert Gordon, economist and professor, Northwestern University, Jim Iuorio, managing director, TJM Institutional Services, Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and Joan Walsh, national affairs correspondent, The Nation and Political Analyst, MSNBC

#104: "Was the Iraq War a Mistake?"
One of the principle architects of the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq, a senior Obama administration Middle East policymaker and an exiled cousin of Syrian President Assad, discuss and debate U.S. policy options in the world’s most chaotic region, past, present and future.

Guests: Ribal al-Assad, founder and director, Organization for Democracy and Freedom in Syria, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (Obama Administration), Douglas Feith, Former Undersecretary of Defense For Policy (Bush Administration)

#105: "The United States and China: Destined to Coexist or Doomed to Collide?"
Experts on various aspects of the US-China relationship, including a leading U.S. policy scholar from China joining via satellite from Shanghai, seek the truth of the question of whether U.S./China economic interdependence will outweigh the historical tendency of great powers to clash.

Guests: Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, Robert Knake, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Zhang Zhexin, Research Fellow, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies

#106: "American Military Power: Too Much? Too Little? What Missions?"
A diverse panel, including retired general and former presidential candidate Wesley Clark, debates the proper size, cost, and missions for the United States Armed Forces in the 21st century. Some argue we spend far too much on preparing for and waging war while others see a gathering storm of global dangers requiring a buildup of the American military.

Guests: Nora Bensahel, scholar at the School of International Service at American University, General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe , Justin Johnson, defense budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation, Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute.

#107: "Exploring 21st Century Islam: Roles, Rights, Traditions, and Upheaval"
A wide-ranging discussion with three American Muslims offers widely varied points of view on developments within Islam and in the relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in the United States, the conflict within the Muslim world and between parts of the Muslim world and the United States and its non-Muslim allies.

Guests: Nihad Awad, executive director and co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Raza Bokhari, North American Point of Contact for former President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Asra Nomani, journalist, author, and political activist