Download Interview with Cass SunsteinFrom health care plans and investments options to the small choices of what to have for lunch, Cass Sunstein wants to help people make better decisions. Sunstein, a professor at Harvard Law School, is the coauthor, along with economist Richard Thaler, of Nudge about the subtle ways that government can push [...]

Download Interview with Del McCouryMoneyland, the new album by bluegrass legend Del McCoury, is a scathing indictment of the rampant corruption and greed in America today. The album features both classic bluegrass standards and newly recorded songs, with guest appearances by Merle Haggard, Tim O’Brien, Emmylou Harris, Patty Loveless, Bruce Hornsby, and Gillian Welch. Having grown [...]

Download Standard PodcastThis Sunday, HBO is airing the first episode of Generation Kill, a darkly funny miniseries about American soldiers on the eve of the Iraq invasion. The show was produced by David Simon and Ed Burns, the acclaimed creators of the police drama The Wire. For the latest UtneCast, I spoke with Susannah White, [...]

Download Lucas Conley on Advertising“We will always have brands,” Lucas Conley writes in his new book Obsessive Branding Disorder, but some brand marketing campaigns are just wrong. In this week’s episode of the UtneCast, Conley sits down with Utne Reader assistant web editor Bennett Gordon to listen to a few advertisements and to talk about [...]

Download Robert Greenwald on Advocacy JournalismFor the latest episode of the UtneCast, I sat down with film director Robert Greenwald during the 2008 National Conference for Media Reform to talk about the blurring line between advocacy and journalism. Greenwald rose to fame with his fiery polemics against Fox News in his 2004 documentary OutFoxed, and private [...]

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