Author Eve Ensler discusses the origin of the "Free Barbie" story from her latest book "I Am an Emotional Creature". Ensler says the story of Barbie, from manufacturing plant to...

President Jacob Zuma of South Africa responds to the criticism of HIV/AIDS policies under his predecessor, President Thabo Mbeki. He asserts that South Africa has prioritized health, and that current...

Comparing Haiti to Rwanda and Indonesia, former U.S. president Bill Clinton expresses his belief that Haiti will recover from 2010's tragic earthquake. Clinton explains his hope that the disaster may...

Guantanamo whistleblower Stephen Abraham defends the White House's proposal to move Gitmo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Facility in rural northwestern Illinois and calls for a public demolition of the...

David Boies, one of the high-profile lawyers who filed the suit, discusses California's Proposition 8 federal trial. Referring to the history of marriage precedents, Boies says the U.S. Constitution's equal...

Jonathan Safran Foer, author of "Eating Animals", claims agribusiness is guilty of "the worst kind of manipulation." He says the lies range from leading people to believe there's a "well...

In 2007, Russian explorers staked their nation's claim to the arctic region by placing a Russian flag on a seabed at the North Pole. In this video from Fora.tv, a...

Norm Stamper, former chief of the Seattle Police force, questions the motives of law enforcement's regulation on drug prohibition. "I think making profit off the criminal justice system, which deals...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discusses the unique challenges presented by the recent financial crisis. He explains that because the crisis was global, America cannot rely on increased trade as...

Dr. Henry N. Pollack, author of "A World Without Ice," addresses accusations of climate change as an uncertain theory. "Uncertainty should not lead to policy paralysis," he says. "Uncertainty is...

Activist and "Nickel and Dimed" author Barbara Ehrenreich criticizes the "delusional" positivity that has permeated American culture in this FORA.tv segment. She suggests that so-called "negative" realists are persecuted for...

Genetically engineered foods are "only unnatural if you don't know the biology," says author and futurist Stewart Brand in this speech at the Long Now Foundation from our partners at...

Linguist Noam Chomsky expresses concern that American listeners are consuming the "crazy content" broadcast by right-wing media outlets as "substantive" -- as answers to why the "rich liberals" running the...

Kevin Bales, author of The Slave Next Door, discusses how the Cocoa Protocol is helping to eradicate child labor in West Africa's cocoa industry. "It's the first time in history...

"If you are looking for a new revolution in Iran, you can stop holding your breath now because it's not going to happen," says religious scholar and author Reza Aslan...