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

18/04/2013 - THE DEBATE

Obama's worst week: terror, tragedy and a stinging political defeat

From bombs in Boston to a massive blast in Texas, and now a stinging defeat on a hard-fought gun control bill, has this has been the worst week so far for Barack Obama's presidency? Can the US president regain the political upper hand and heal a polarised nation?

17/04/2013 - THE DEBATE

Show me the money: France's transparency problem (part 2)

"Show me the money": a few days after the French government revealed the wealth and assets of all its cabinet ministers online, many in the political establishment are fighting back against François Hollande's "transparency" drive. But is there anything wrong with being a millionaire... and a Socialist?

17/04/2013 - THE DEBATE

Show me the money: France's transparency problem

16/04/2013 - THE DEBATE

The Boston bombings: a painful reminder of vulnerability (part 2)

There are still no hard answers, but lots of anguish and questions, a day after back-to-back explosions rocked America's oldest and most prestigious marathon. Douglas Herbert's panel discuss how Americans are dealing with a tragedy that Barack Obama is calling a cowardly "act of terror" - and look at how the rest of the world is reacting.