Hammer Museum: Forum

Season 1

What is Pakistan

Frank Schaeffer, author of the New York Times best selling memoir, Crazy For God: How I Grew Up as One of t...

With California struggling to pay bills, raise revenues, and borrow money, politicians in Sacramento are fa...

Over 45 million Americans are without health insurance, and an estimated 14 million of the uninsured suffer...

Former CIA officer Robert Baer makes the case that the US has unwittingly made Iran an emerging superpower....

Since the 2000 election in Florida, we have grown increasingly insecure about the integrity of our voting s...

While more states move to legalize same-sex marriage, California has instead eliminated this right with the...

As Mexico fights a war against criminal cartels, fueled by a demand for drugs in the U.S. and inflamed by t...

As the mainstream press continues to downsize and alternative media grow, many are pronouncing newspapers d...

William K. Black, the former litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board who investigated the S...

As President Obama implements his new strategy in the war in Afghanistan, we will examine the chances of su...

As America gets tougher on crime, our prison population continues to grow as one out of every one hundred a...

Two distinguished legal scholars, offering different viewpoints, discuss how Obama might relinquish the unp...

With banks failing, credit frozen, homes foreclosing, and unemployment rising at a rate not experienced sin...

Ani DiFranco created her own record label Righteous Babe Records in 1990 at the age of eighteen. Since then...

Photojournalist Molly Bingham was Official Photographer to the Office of the Vice President of the United S...

Richard Anderson and Gail Lapidus discuss the relationship between the U.S. and Russia. Ian Masters moderates.

In January, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations and unions are now permitted to pay for advertising f...

Thirty days into the administration of President Barack Obama, we offer a political analysis of the early d...

Is America home to a secret underworld of militant political groups bent on overthrowing the U.S. Constitut...

After the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Wall Street is back but Main Street still suffe...

Aside from palm trees and movie stars, Los Angeles also has a reputation for epic traffic congestion, endle...

Retired U.S. Marine officer Thomas X. Hammes and writer Robert Young Pelton discuss the growing role of mer...