Left, Right & Center
Provocative, up-to-the-minute, alive and witty, KCRW's weekly confrontation over politics, policy and popular culture proves those with impeccable credentials needn't lack personality. This weekly "love-hate relationship of the air" features three of the most insightful news analysts anywhere.
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Matt Miller (center/moderator) is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress; a weekly columnist for the Washington Post's online edition; and an award-winning contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine and many other publications. A former aide in the Clinton White House, Miller's first book, The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. His new book, The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, was recently released in paperback. In his business life, Miller consults to corporate, nonprofit and government organizations on issues of strategy, policy and communications, with an emphasis on agenda-setting projects in the education, health care and economic sectors.
Robert Scheer (Left) is Editor of the Webby Award-winning political website TruthDig.com. He was a national correspondent and columnist for 19 years at the Los Angeles Times where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Currently a columnist represented by Creators Syndicate, Scheer is a clinical professor in communications at the University of Southern California. He has authored eight books, including The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street, and The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America.
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