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Building a New Middle East

How do we win the war against jihadists and preserve our way of life? Author and terrorism expert Walid Phares, The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad has written the third in a trilogy of books. He offers a multi-pronged global strategy to defeat jihadism. Then ...

Should America be engaged in democracy building in the Arab world? Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Tamara Cofman Wittes, Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy says that the Arab world is changing rapidly, and the U.S. had better play a part.

"The ideological factions which basically reject democracy as a concept. They’re not shy about it. But they control the microphone. … Those freedom seeking, liberal, democracy forces in the region simply don’t have a microphone. And when they do have a microphone, you’re going to listen to a very different message."

- Walid Phares

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Reality Check - Life in Palestine and Israel

In one of the most volatile areas of the world, emotions run high on both sides of the issue. In this show, we bring you a reality check. Saree Makdisi, Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation describes everyday life of Palestinians living under occupation. He then explains why he thinks a one-state solution is best.  Then ....

Gregory Levey, Shut Up I'm Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government was a Canadian law student living in New York. Through a bizarre series of events he ended up working for the Israeli mission of the UN, then in the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem.

"How can the Isrealis have seriously meant to end the occupation and allow the formation of an independent Palestinian state when at the same time they were, and they continue, to actively settle the territory with their own population?"

- Saree Makdisi

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Just Some Good Ol' Boys

Two very unlikely Congressmen. As Cooter in the popular TV show The Dukes of Hazzard, Ben Jones, Redneck Boy in the Promised Land: The Confessions of "Crazy Cooter" grew up in the hills of Virginia. He battled alcoholism and became a successful actor, then a two-term congressmen. www.cootersplace.com Then ...

As a child, James E. Rogan, Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington dreamed of going to Congress. He eventually achieved his dream, but on the way had a few bumps on the road. As the illegitimate son of a cocktail waitress and bartender, he was initially raised by his grandparents in San Francisco's hardscrabble neighborhoods. As a young man, he bartended at biker bars and strip joints to pay for law school.

"There’s a disconnect between the people who make television shows – in Los Angeles and New York and those kind of sensibilities and tastes and all that hot, young, what’s new, edgy stuff, and the folks out in the heartland of America who have to watch that crap."

- "Crazy Cooter"

Annie Griffiths Belt, A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel: My Journey in Photographs

We Will Never Forget

Patrick Creed and Rick Newman, Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11

Lynn Spencer, Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies over America on 9/11