Has the Arab Spring failed to deliver on its promise of change?

Unrest in Tunisia

In January 2011, protesters forced former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to step down, prompting a wave of uprisings against authoritarian rule in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring. Now, Tunisia's democratically elected ruling party is facing massive protests, as activists claim the country's secular traditions are under attack. Christopher Dickey, the Middle East editor of The Daily Beast, and Joshua Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, will join Consider This host Antonio Mora to discuss what is happening in Tunisia and the surrounding region.

Is the sequester good or bad for the US economy?

A Goldman Sachs economist says the across-the-board federal spending cuts known as the sequester are starting to affect personal income growth in the U.S. Josh Barro, the politics editor at Business Insider, and Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute will join Antonio Mora to look at the impact of the sequester.

Should assisted suicide be legal?

Physicist Stephen Hawking has reconsidered his stance on assisted suicide, telling the BBC this week that people with terminal illnesses "should have the right to choose to end their lives and those that help them should be free from prosecution." Barbara Coombs Lee, the president of Compassion & Choices, and Stephen Drake of the disability rights group Not Dead Yet will join Antonio Mora to explore this topic.

Creationism in schools

Should creationism be taught alongside evolution? At least 14 states have recently dealt with questions of incorporating creationism into textbooks or curriculum. Dr. Eugenie Scott, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education, and Zack Kopplin, an advocate opposed to the teaching of creationism in public schools, will join Antonio Mora to discuss this issue.