Pre-Debate Discussion; Is The Presidential Debate Process In Need Of Reform?; Recent Study On The Latino Workforce In California; Orange County Journalist Roundtable; The War For Muslim Minds; T. Jefferson Parker
Pre-Debate Discussion
Larry Mantle and Tom Frederick, the national political editor of the Los Angeles Times, discuss the first presidential debate and what the candidates need to accomplish during the debate in order to shore up support for their campaigns.
Is The Presidential Debate Process In Need Of Reform?
Larry Mantle talks with George Farah, the founder and Executive Director of Open Debates, a Washington-based nonprofit committed to reforming the presidential debate process. Farah is also the author of No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates.
Recent Study On The Latino Workforce In California
Larry Mantle talks with Jean Ross, Executive Director of the California Budget Project about their recent study, Moving Ahead or Falling Behind? California’s Fast-Growing Latino Workforce, that examines the well-being of California’s Latino Workers. The study suggests that the gap between Latino and non-Latino wages in California has widened since 1979 despite substantial gains made by Latinos over the past eight years.
Orange County Journalist Roundtable
Larry Mantle talks with Orange County journalists Chris Reed, Orange County Register op-ed column editor, Jean Pasco, Los Angeles Times staff writer and Gustavo Arellano, Staff Writer for the OC Weekly, about the latest news events and developments in Orange County.
The War For Muslim Minds
The events of September 11th, 2001, polarized people in the West and in the Arab world. Jihadists called the tragedy a “triumph,” a way of rallying the Arab world to their cause. Reeling from the disaster, the Bush administration began to wage an all-out war on terrorism. Mainstream Arab sentiment was courted by all sides, via the Internet, on newscasts and in overseas communities of Muslims living in the West. Gilles Kepel, Professor and Chair of Middle East Studies at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, joins Larry to talk about his new book The War For Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. He says that one of the most important battles will not be in Palestine or Iraq, but for the sentiment of Arabs living in the West, a new generation of Muslims not dispossessed by events in the Middle East.
T. Jefferson Parker
Larry Mantle talks with the prolific and highly-praised Southern California crime writer T. Jefferson Parker about his new novel, California Girl, which takes place in Orange County in the 1960’s.