April 12 – Shattering the Ultimate Glass Ceiling; Drones and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare; The U.S. and Cuba’s President At An Historic Meeting

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the announcement by Hillary Clinton that she is running for president and will champion income equality, for women in particular, and fight for a higher minimum wage, affordable education and child care. Heidi Hartmann, the President of the Washington-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research, joins us to discuss the ultimate shattering of the glass ceiling with the election of the first woman to be president of the United States.

Part 2

Then we speak with one of the country’s premier military experts, William Arkin, about his new book Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare and how our security is being undermined by an impulse to gather as much data as possible, as well as the increasing use of America’s nuclear submarines as spying platforms.

Part 3

Then finally we examine the historic meeting between Cuba’s President Raul Castro and President Obama at the summit of the Americas in Panama and speak with a former political analyst for the Cuban government, Arturo Lopez Levy, a professor at the Center of Global Affairs at New York University. We discuss the removal of Cuba form the list of state sponsors of terrorism and how and when the embargo will be lifted.