This week on Dialectica: The Financial Crisis Fallout. Host/Producer James Tanner explores the role of government concerning the aftermath from the ongoing financial crisis. Guests interviewed are:

Dr. James Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and author, The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too.

This week on Dialectica: The Sustainability Workgroup will be discussing the differences between the platforms of Senator McCain and Senator Obama on issues of energy policy and environmental planning. Hosts for the show are Sustainability Workgroup members Meredith Grey and Susan Peterson, and LBJ graduate student Chris Smith is our special guest.

KVRX will be moderating the annual A&M College Republicans vs. UT University Democrats debate this Sunday, October 26, 2PM in Burdine 106. Click here for more info.

This week on Upstream we spoke with Irwin Tang about his latest book, Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters.

"The portrait of John McCain painted in Gook is far more disturbing than any racial epithet. A central thesis of Gook: war fertilizes racism, and racism justifies wars and the killing of civilians. This dynamic thrives within the most dangerous leaders of the world. Is John McCain one of them?"

After an exhausting five hours at the Scholz Garten, the country was right back where it was before the exhausting five hours...except for one little change (and no, it wasn't the "change" that Obama keeps on talking about).