Sex & politics: not a love story

On today’s show, we ask why there seems to be such a close connection between power and sex. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been known for years as a womaniser and believed to have had multiple conquests. And it's not just a French idiosyncrasy: earlier this week the wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger left him after the former governor of California revealed he'd had a child out of wedlock 10 years ago...

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Craig COPETAS, Senior writer, Bloomberg News.
Sofia BOURATSIS, PhD Candidate in Art Philosophy.
Elaine SCIOLINO, NY Times journalist & author of La Séduction.
Frank FARLEY, Professor of Educational and Psychological Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia (from Philadelphia).

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François Picard

10/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

France - Return of the Far Right

As French far-right leader Marine Le Pen rides high in the polls, one of the leaders of her National Front party tells François Picard that his party does not hate immigrants. Le Pen is nonetheless planning a trip to the Italian island where asylum seekers fleeing North Africa have been landing.

08/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

Women in the Arab Revolution (Part 2)

Don't steal our revolution. With guests from Egypt, Tunisia, and Bahrain, François Picard’s panel on International Women’s Day highlights the cause of gender equality before it falls on the backburner.

08/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

Women in the Arab Revolution

08/03/2011 - THE DEBATE

Oil spikes, food fears (part two)

It's not just oil. The world is now gobbling up grains faster than we can grow them. Will inflation and hot commodity prices kill the recovery and undermine pro-democracy efforts in places like Egypt and Tunisia? François Picard’s panel argues over how to feed an overcrowded planet that's trying to sustain a recovery.