Ask Beatty – 02.27.17

Beatty talked about what depression is and is not and what you need to know about depression at every age. The good news is that depression can be successfully treated. Would you want your parents to choose your life partner? Beatty discusses a new dating show in China where the parents choose their adult children’s mates. And how many of you watched the HBO series ‘Girls’ last night. Lena Dunham who plays the character Hannah, explores the issue of sexual assault vs consent. Beatty’s guest husband Jim Vrettos, sociologist, activist and host of the Radical Imagination on MNN engage in a lively discussion about this very important subject.

Greg Grandin – Kissinger, the Bombardier

In April 2014, ESPN published a photograph of an unlikely duo: Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and former national security adviser and secretary of state Henry Kissinger at the Yankees-Red Sox season opener. In fleece jackets on a crisp spring day, they were visibly enjoying each other’s company, looking for all the world like a twenty-first-century geopolitical …