Episodios

  • Letters and Politics – September 11, 2025

    Letters and Politics – September 11, 2025
    Sep 11 2025
    A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – September 11, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Serial Killers & Toxins: The Correlation

    Serial Killers & Toxins: The Correlation
    Sep 10 2025
    Guest: Caroline Fraser is the author of Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, which won the Pulitzer Prize as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heartland Prize, and the Plutarch Award for best biography of the year. She is also the author of God’s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church, and her latest Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers. The post Serial Killers & Toxins: The Correlation appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Letters and Politics – September 9, 2025

    Letters and Politics – September 9, 2025
    Sep 9 2025
    A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – September 9, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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    21 m
  • Shirley Chisholm, A Revolutionary Thinker

    Shirley Chisholm, A Revolutionary Thinker
    Sep 8 2025
    Guest: Zinga A. Fraser is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women’s Activism. She is the author of Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words: Speeches and Writings. The post Shirley Chisholm, A Revolutionary Thinker appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Federal Takeover of D.C.

    Federal Takeover of D.C.
    Sep 4 2025
    Guest: Clarence Lusane is an author, activist, scholar, and journalist. He is a Professor of Political Science at Howard University and is the author of many books including his latest Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy. Photo credit: Airmen from the D.C. National Guard were deployed in response to protests and riots after the death of George Floyd. (U.S. Army photo by Kevin Valentine) The post Federal Takeover of D.C. appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Understanding the Current Redistricting War

    Understanding the Current Redistricting War
    Sep 3 2025
    Guest: John Nichols is the executive editor of The Nation. He previously served as the magazine’s national affairs correspondent and Washington correspondent. He has written, co-written, or edited over a dozen books on topics ranging from histories of American socialism and the Democratic Party to analyses of US and global media systems. His latest, co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders, is the New York Times bestseller It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. Credit: Wikipedia by Elkanah Tisdale (1771-1835). Originally published in the Boston Centinel, 1812., Public Domain, The post Understanding the Current Redistricting War appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Ending Isolation with Dr. Terry Kupers

    Ending Isolation with Dr. Terry Kupers
    Sep 2 2025
    Guest: Dr. Terry A. Kupers is a psychiatrist and professor emeritus at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. He is an expert on the intersection of mental health and incarceration and is the author of several books including Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars, Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation, and most lately, Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement co-authored with Christopher William Blackwell, Deborah Zalesne, and Kwaneta Harris. The post Ending Isolation with Dr. Terry Kupers appeared first on KPFA.
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  • The Black Wobbly: Ben Fletcher

    The Black Wobbly: Ben Fletcher
    Sep 1 2025
    Guest: Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University in Macomb and a research associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Vitvatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cole is the author of the award-winning Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area and Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia. He coedited Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW. He is the founder and codirector of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project. The post The Black Wobbly: Ben Fletcher appeared first on KPFA.
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