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Obama wants to “pivot” toward Asia. But has he forgotten Iran? Elliott Abrams, Deputy National Security Adviser in the Bush administration, discusses the sobering possibility of a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear plants. How would such a strike be carried out? From the air? A covert operation? Or a Stuxnet cyber attack. He tells Jim there really is a military option.
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Only the eighth man to hold the post, UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon struggles to make his voice count for peace in a cacophonous world. He tells of the challenges and successes of the office FDR called the "world's moderator."
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Matrimonial attorney Jacalyn F. Barnett and former CIA station chief Jack Devine tell it like it is.
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Attorney General Gonzales was forced out over his role in the firing of eight United States Attorneys. Was it all because of the tell-tale emails? Get the inside from Special Watergate prosecutor Ben-Veniste.
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Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, recently returned from Kabul where he helped McChrystal with the assessment. Now it's all up to Petraeus.
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When four days of rioting broke out in London last August with thugs mobilizing on the social media, the British government turned to our own Bill Bratton for advice in handling the violence, the street gangs and the Metropolitan Police. Bill explains his strategy to restore law and order in England.
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Hillary Clinton says that the cornerstone of American statecraft is the “freedom to connect.” Chinas Internet usage is soaring. Will the Net really lead China to a more open society? Ian tells Jim Zirin where the US-China relation is really headed.
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Author of a brilliant new book entitled “The Fatal Gift of Beauty,” Nina followed the Amanda Knox case from start to finish. She concludes that Knox’ Italian murder conviction, later overturned on appeal, was a total miscarriage of justice arguing that Knox was unfairly incriminated largely by ambiguous posts Knox and her boyfriend made on the Web.
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The House repealed Obamacare, but the Senate refused to go along. At least one federal judge has declared the entire law unconstitutional. The former HEW Secretary says he sees benefits in Obamacare, which should be preserved, but that reforms are necessary to make the measure work.
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Califano, who was at LBJ's side when Medicare was enacted, knows how healthcare costs can spiral out of control.
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Clinton didn't inhale. Obama and Bush went further. But now it's "You've Got Drugs" where Google searches for abusable substances without prescription produce hits in the six and seven figures.
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He reveals who is the real “client” of the Corporation Counsel? How independent is he of the Mayor? How well has he done in protecting the public fisc? Corporation Counsel Cardozo answers these and other questions as he tells about the post- 9/11 challenges faced by his office and how he met many of them by going digital.
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He tells how Arianna Huffington in five short years transformed a liberal blog into an online platform that may well overtake the daily newspaper.
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The Mid-East expert just returned from Egypt where she waded through mobs of protesters, interviewed autocrats, and drew some stark conclusions as to what Mubarak's toppling means for the foreign relations of the United States.
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Who will Lose the battle in Iran, Khamenei or the Internet? Iran was so terrified of Twitter, it jammed the Net for a day and named Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as co-conspirators in political trials.
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He answers some key questions about the Middle East: Did Obama really throw Israel under the bus? Is it dangerous to prosecute Mubarak? Can we break the stalemate in Libya? What’s going on in Syria, Bahrain, Yemen and Saudi, which are far more vital to U.S. interests than Libya? The CFR expert tells how the Twitter Revolution will play out in a post bin Laden world where the boxscore currently stands at Autocrats: Six, Protesters: Two.
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Is the Net a force for reform in the Islamic world or just a platform for Al Qaeda? Kohlmann, International Terrorism Consultant, and Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, CFR, discuss.
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A top litigator at a leading Wall Street law firm, Crowley retired to write about slowing the aging process. His book, “Younger Next Year,” written with a prominent physician, was a wild success. Now he is writing another book with some new ideas as to how we can lead healthier active lives well into our eighties--and beyond.
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Last August, Twitter, the social network site, was the victim of a massive denial of service attack. Who did it? Why has Obama delayed appointing a cyber czar when our critical infrastructure is so vulnerable to cyber attack?
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With the meltdown in the economy and strong competition from the 'net, is the sports bubble about to burst? NPR Radio's Frank Deford, the best sports writer in the world, explores the darker corridors of sports.
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China has almost 500 million citizens using the Net. Yet, the government blocks or filters many sites and keywords. The Council on Foreign Relations China hand has just returned from Beijing where she saw a more humbled and fearful China. She tells Jim that its bloggers will survive the censor.
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With the Yuan pegged low, China has the largest economic growth rate in the world, but is at the same time plagued by seemingly insurmountable domestic problems, including environmental protection, political dissidence and a closed Net.
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Formerly a top prosecutor, now a bestselling mystery novelist, Linda headed the sex crimes unit in the Morgenthau District Attorney’s office. She analyzes the DSK case from perp walk to dismissal, gives Jim her take on what really happened, as well as a sneak preview of her next book
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Does the Net help us catch terrorists or help al Qaeda recruit home-grown operatives? Hear why we are safer today than we were on 9/11. Learn the answers from NYPD Counterterrorism Czar Commissioner Richard Falkenrath. .
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She tells how gypsy tribes in Europe have been victims of Nazi genocide, hate crimes, mass deportations and unspeakable violence. Her NGO, Human Rights First, has used the new media to call attention to their plight.
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The Yoostar founders have made green-screen technology available to you and me.
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Cecilia was a top narcotics prosecutor putting bad guys in jail. Now, as head of the Jewelers Vigilance Committee, she is chasing fraudsters who sell fake diamonds on the Internet. She tells Jim that millions of dollars in diamonds change hands every day online in legitimate transactions, but you have to be careful.
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The Chairman Emeritus and Author "The Source of Success" was a teen-age refugee from Communist Romania who some 40 years later became Young & Rubicam's top dog. talks about the impact of interactive ads online.
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The Environmental Defense Fund Program Director and former Rockefeller Foundation Chairman discusses whether global warming is an environmental fact or fantasy? Is it a threat to life? Can the Internet help stop it?
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Jack Goldsmith took on the White House. He reversed John Yoo's opinion's that blessed torture. But Bush and Cheney refused to back down and vetoed a bill proscribing waterboarding.
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Goodale, lawyer for the New York Times in the legendary Pentagon Papers case, explains that the Supreme Court's landmark decision handed down in June 1971, holding the press had the right to publish classified leaked Defense Department documents, renders untenable the prosecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange.
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She discusses the current state of casual Internet relationships. Millions post to Facebook or elsewhere on the Net the most intimate details of their lives to be read by perfect strangers. Emily argues that privacy, as much as we might like it, is out the window in the Digital Age.
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We probe whether some things are so intimate they are better off unblogged. Or in the digital age is everyone's private life fair game? Emily discusses the flexible rules of the blogosphere which have made her a new media star.
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The Russian expert from Kissinger Associates tells how much U.S.-Russian relations have been damaged by the WikiLeaks cables, and whether ratification of the START treaty will help “re-set” the relationship.
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The biographer of Speaker Thomas B. Reed tells about the Gilded Age in America from 1870-1893, a time of dysfunctional government and deep partisan divide over such issues as international trade, monetary policy and foreign wars. Sound familiar? Reed, a staunch Republican from Maine, ungummed the government and broke the logjam.
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As CEO and Chairman of Bear Stearns, he saw the firm grow into a titan. Then came 2008, and the world turned upside down. Ace Greenberg pulls no punches as he tells of the sinking of an “unsinkable” ship.
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The redoubtable Council on Foreign Relations president considers whether it is the surging price of oil, the implosion of the Japanese reactors, revolutions in the Middle-East, Iran, North Korea, China or al Qaeda. Then, he gives an answer that will surprise you.
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The CFR President, who advised both Presidents Bush, tells Zirin about his fascinating new memoir "War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars," and how his alarms in 2003 fell on deaf ears.
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I will go to my grave "not knowing the answer" as to why we went to war in Iraq, says the former Bush administration insider. President of Council on Foreign Relations Haass explains how the Internet can rationalize US foreign policy.
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FBI Director Robert Mueller said recently that the "information age means you don't need training camps to become a terrorist; all you need is an Internet connection." Counter-insurgency expert TX Hammes talks about terrorism in cyberspace and what you may do to stop it.
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The former CIA Inspector General discusses just how harmful were the WikiLeaks leaks, and whether Julian Assange is to be praised as a new media hero or hunted down and punished for violations of the Espionage Act.
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Kipling's Kim called espionage the "Great Game." Which is stranger spy fact or spy fiction? Oswald Ames and Kim Philby or Jean Le Carre and Alan Furst? Former CIA Inspector General Hitz spills the secrets to Jim Zirin.
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The lawyer, author and social reformer wants to overhaul the American legal system, and he wants the Net to help him do it.
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Al Qaeda's Christmas Day attempt to bomb a plane nearly spelled disaster. Obama said there was a systemic failure. Was it because the government failed to follow key recommendations in the 9/11 Commission Report?
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Is the newly created Director of National Intelligence just another layer of bureaucracy? Will intelligence reform prevent another disaster such as Iraq or a 9/11? Former 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean shares his views.
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The legendary New York City Police Commissioner tells whether in waging the war on terror we have struck the right balance between security and privacy.
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Is another terrorist attack on New York City inevitable? In Paris, London, Madrid and Mumbai, terrorists used blogs and cell phones to communicate. Does the Net make us safer or more vulnerable?
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David created a blog, Cyberdissidents.org, to support dissident pro-democracy bloggers in Iran and throughout the Arab world. He tells how his work impacted a revolution.
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The author of the bestseller, “The Facebook Effect,” tells the true story of the development of Facebook which you didn’t get in the hit movie.
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The "Business Week India" Bureau Chief explains how the Net has helped raise the standard of living in the second largest growing economy in the world? What more must India do to emerge from third world status?
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Are bloggers journalists? Can a journalist be a blogger? Lemann, Dean of Columbia Journalism School and new media critic, answers the question.
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MOMA's director discusses Google’s recently unveiled “Art Project,” presenting to millions of online viewers over 1,000 art treasures in 17 of the world's greatest museums. He says that in the digital age "bricks and mortar" museums will be supplemented by "virtual" museums situated only a click away.
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Anointed one of the “50 Most Powerful Women” in business, Susan broke the “glass ceiling” and put together a string of successes as a print journalist, at ABC-TV where she produced “Desperate Housewives,” winning six Emmys, and as CEO of Martha Stewart. Today, she is knocking the cover off the ball at the Gilt Groupe. She tells why e-Commerce works.
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Last year Steven Chen was a college dropout, and Chad Hurley wanted to go to grad school. This year, they sold YouTube for $1.65 billion even though their startup had never turned a profit. Is the tech bubble about to boom or bust?
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of publishing magazines online? What does the future of magazines look like? James Michaels, Editor of Forbes Magazine, and Mike Edelhart, President and CEO of Zinio Systems, Inc., discuss.
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He tells Jim how dictatorships use the Net for their own repressive ends--and why the cyber-utopians have got it all wrong.
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The Latin America expert and blogger uses her blog latintelligence.com to reposition United States foreign policy in Latin America.
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Serena Palumbo, an accomplished lawyer, leads a double life as a superstar online chef. Her instructional recipe videos for Italian food have won her thousands of web followers and a reality TV gig. She tells Jim Zirin about the vagaries of a charmed double life--and even serves him some lasagna.
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Republicans have made it a priority to repeal or reform the Healthcare Reform Act, but the president and CEO of New York Presbyterian Hospital, explains how soaring healthcare costs can be curtailed without new legislation.
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He has over 1.2 million followers on Twitter. When he Tweeted his posse, "I need a cure for hiccups right now," he instantly received a torrent of suggestions.
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The technology columnist for the New York Times explains what makes some tech products an e-hit or an i-miss.
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Bill Clinton's Undersecretary of Commerce and President of Washington's National Foreign Trade Council, talks about the fall-out for the Bush administration since DP World pulled out of a deal to acquire six US ports and terminals.
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She says that a delicate balance must be struck between free expression and free trade as Human Rights First calls out Microsoft for helping the Russians crack down on dissidents.
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The top trial lawyer tells how digital evidence has revolutionized the conduct of trials.
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On January 30, 1972, during a civil rights march in Northern Ireland, the British Army killed 13 civilians. The eminent English jurist, Lord Saville, was tasked to conduct a public inquiry into what happened that 'Bloody Sunday'. The report concluded that the soldiers were unjustified in firing and led to an unqualified apology by Prime Minister Cameron. In an exclusive Digital Age interview with Professor Richard Susskind, Lord Saville says that digital technologies were indispensable to the inquiry.
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The premier political analyst analyzes poll results, measures the Republican slate, reads the tealeaves and calls the race. He also speculates about unexpected events, such as an Internet-launched third party candidacy, which could derail Obama's re-election.
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The Democratic political strategist talks about the way forward for Obama as he faces a Republican House and a Senate where Democrats cling to a razor-thin majority.
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Scott Brown may owe his Massachusetts Miracle to the $1 million a day he raised on the Internet. Since then Obama can't seem to do anything right.
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Most polls say that Obama has it. But which poll are you supposed to believe? There are blogs that offer a snapshot of all the polls combined. Will the bloggers be the ones to call the election?
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Who wins, who loses, who's in, who's out? Hear an expert's analysis of where we are in the Presidential primary races by the top Democratic pollster and pundit.
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Chinese hackers recently attacked Google, but no one knows for sure who did it. Cyber- warfare represents a real threat to the Nations interests. What are the attackers motives? Must we heighten our state of readiness?
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He explains that commercial litigants traditionally bear their own legal expense, and the cost may be catastrophic. Many drop good cases, or lose their businesses entirely, because they run out of money. Recently, however, third parties have advanced legal costs. Is such funding illegal or unethical? Does this new structure stir up meritless litigation or improve access to justice?
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The distinguished author tells us what we can learn from Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President. Though a man of few words, Coolidge believed in less government, balanced budgets, lower taxes and a climate friendly to business. Unemployment averaged 3.3 per cent. Yet, in the vortex of the Great Depression and the New Deal which followed, his legacy has all but disappeared.
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The former Dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, now Director of Policy Planning at the State Department discusses whether Saddam Hussein can get a fair trial? Would an international trial be fairer?
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The CFR Japan expert defines what is meant by the "pivot" and compares Japanese Internet freedom with China’s crackdown on free expression. She tells Jim of Japan’s recovery from the March 11 “triple disasters", Prime Minister Noda’s dramatic December trips to Beijing and Delhi, how Japan will manage its security concerns with North Korea, and what this all means to United States interests in the region.
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Fiscally hemorrhaging, Greece was about to be turned down for EU membership until bankers convinced the Greek treasury to buy digitally priced currency swaps to sidestep regulatory requirements. Then the banks shorted Greece.
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Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman proposed a single global regulator who will gather economic data from all countries and assess risk via the Internet. But the late Bruce Wasserstein of Lazard pooh-poohed the idea.
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Susskind argues that the time charges oriented business model of the large law firm is flawed, and that if lawyers don’t reinvent themselves, and use technology to package their services, they will surely risk extinction.
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Brazil, long disparaged as the "country of the future," has become the world's seventh largest economy with an astonishing growth rate of 7.5%; its first female President, Dilma Rousseff, is talking turkey with Obama and Hu Jintao; and its free press and social media have turned it into a vibrant democracy. Julia tells Jim Zirin what has happened to Brazil...and why.
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From Viet Nam to 9/11 the Veteran NBC/CNN Anchor has seen it all. Hear him tell Zirin how the Internet has preempted the field of television reporting.
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He talks about his vision for the FDR Four Freedoms Park as the project nears completion. Planned in the 1970’s for the southern tip of Roosevelt Island in the shadow of the UN, and designed by renowned architect Louis Kahn shortly before his death, the Park will take a commemorative space into the digital age.
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David Westin enjoyed 14 eventful years as president of ABC News. He covered the death of Princess Diana, the 2000 tied election, 9/11, two wars and the financial crisis. Now he has a new venture.He tells Jim of his strategic plan and predicts that the Internet will never eclipse the mainstream media.
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Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson bet $10M on a start-up called Twitter. Five years later, Twitter has no profits, but it has brought down governments and a Congressman and is valued at $8B. Fred tells Jim Zirin what accounts for Twitter's meteoric rise.
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The former Ambassador to Egypt and India answers tough questions, such as "Can America really democratize the Middle East? Do we have the technology to deal with the challenges of a global economy?"
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Internet misconduct has ruined reputations and lives. What do you do if your online identity is stolen? Or your privacy invaded? Suppose you are defamed? Can the truth ever catch up with the libel? The author of a brilliant new book, "Violated Online," tells Jim how you can protect yourself, and even fight back, by remembering a few simple rules.
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Is the Zagat survey real? Is the commentary legitimate or made up by editors who never saw the restaurant? Learn about how Zagat is using the Net to take its survey to a new level.