Candidates for the 5th Judicial District on the Campbell Conversations
In this week’s segment, the Campbell Conversations returns to the upcoming November elections, with a discussion among six of the nine candidates for State Supreme Court Justice in the six-county fifth...
View ArticleJonathan Oberlander on The Campbell Conversations
If, like many Americans, you’re worried about the future of Medicare, you’ll want to listen closely to this conversation about the program and the contentious politics surrounding it. In a very...
View ArticleChris Mihm on The Campbell Conversations
Public trust in government—especially the federal government—is at a modern all-time low point. What are the biggest challenges to a well-run government? What are the best ideas for improving it?...
View ArticleBill Jankowiak on The Campbell Conversations
When we think about China these days, its emergent international economic power dominates most of our attention, but how are economics and changing demographics affecting the Chinese culture? In this...
View ArticleSharon Contreras on The Campbell Conversations
A little over 100 days ago, Sharon Contreras began her appointment as the superintendent of the Syracuse City School District. She inherited deep challenges--low test scores and graduation rates, and...
View ArticleCharles Dickens on The Campbell Conversations
Jim Greene is not an academic Dickens scholar, but he plays Dickens and runs the Dickens Christmas Festival in Skaneateles. In this holiday version of the Campbell Conversations, he talks - often in...
View ArticleJudith Wellman on The Campbell Conversations
What made Upstate New York such a hotspot for the abolitionist and women’s rights movements? Was it just geography, or was it something about the people who lived here? Historian Judith Wellman, an...
View ArticleIowa Caucus Discussion on The Campbell Conversations
It's an entirely political discussion on this week's Campbell Conversations, as Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle and political consultant Scott Armstrong consider the Republican presidential field in...
View ArticleOccupy Syracuse on The Campbell Conversations
What drives those who have invested their time in the Occupy Wall Street movement, and what message is at the movement's core? In this edition of the Campbell Conversations, three Syracuse activists...
View ArticleEliot Spitzer on the Campbell Conversations
Perhaps no one is better suited to evaluate President Obama’s new investigative and prosecutorial unit on abuses in the mortgage industry than former governor and attorney general Eliot Spitzer. As a...
View ArticleJoanie Mahoney on The Campbell Conversations
Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney works on the front lines of the "unfunded mandate" issue, a phrase we've been hearing with increasing frequency at all levels of political discussion. What...
View ArticleCampbell Debate - Increasing taxes on the wealthy
The Campbell Public Affairs Institute at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University presents The Campbell Debates, a debate series on timely issues of public importance with a fresh, provocative format.
View ArticleTom Devine on The Campbell Conversations
There is nothing more powerful than the truth. That’s the faith that has sustained Tom Devine’s three-decade campaign to promote and protect whistleblowers in the corporate and governmental realms.
View ArticlePeter Coleman on the Campbell Conversations
There are conflicts, and then there are conflicts. Peter Coleman, director of the international center for cooperation and conflict resolution at Columbia University, has identified a category of our...
View ArticleThe Brackett Refugee Education Fund on The Campbell Conversations
In their so-called retirement, Tom and Liz Brackett founded and now run an education non-profit, the Brackett Refugee Education Fund. In this conversation, they relate the story of how they decided to...
View ArticleLord Norton, a leading expert on British political institutions and politics
ListenOswego, NY – Grant Reeher speaks with Philip Norton, a Member of Britain's House of Lords and a leading expert on British political institutions and British politics.
View ArticleSandra Kaiser, the Minister Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy...
ListenOswego, NY – Grant Reeher speaks with Sandra Kaiser, the Minister Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in London, which means she oversees public affairs and public diplomacy. She...
View ArticleGrant Reeher speaks with Ash Sangha, the President of the Oxford Union Society.
ListenOswego, NY – Ash Sangha may have the most interesting elected student position on the planet. As the President of the Oxford Union Society, he meets the worlds' top political and business...
View ArticleTim Atseff on The Campbell Conversations
ListenOswego, NY – Prior to his recent retirement, Tim Atseff had worked 46 years for The Syracuse Post-Standard, starting off as a copy boy and working his way up through the art department to become...
View ArticlePat Driscoll on The Campbell Conversations
ListenOswego, NY – Grant Reeher speaks with Pat Driscoll, the operations director for Syracuse's Say Yes to Education Program. Driscoll discusses just what makes the program so different from previous...
View ArticleJean Bethke Elshtain on The Campbell Conversations
What is the state of American democracy? What are the roots of our democratic shortcomings, and what do we need to do to improve the health of the political process? Jean Bethke Elshtain, democratic...
View ArticleDan Grossman on The Campbell Conversations
Dan Grossman is a freelance environmental journalist who has frequently appeared on public radio and the BBC, and has written for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Scientific American. He’s won a...
View ArticleFourth City Council district candidates discuss issues on The Campbell...
Perhaps the most intriguing local race this November is the match-up in the fourth City Council district between Democrat and Working Families Party candidate Khalid Bey and Green Party candidate Howie...
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