Cover to Cover – October 14, 2025
A celebration of the art of poetry and prose with Jack Foley, Nina Serrano, and Jovelyn Richards.
Featured Episode
Sam Roberts discusses how to stock your pantry for maximum kitchen-based plant magic this fall and winter. During this episode they detail tools and ingredients that are good to have on hand for the modern kitchen witch, and explore plant allies in cooking as spellwork. Hosted and produced by Emiliano Lemus and Renée Camila. Additionally … Continued
In his latest book, Lawrence Grossberg describes ways of thinking that have laid the foundation for the development of contemporary Western theory. Two of the thinkers he writes about are Friedrich Nietzsche, who “rejected the enlightenments,” and Stuart Hall, a pioneer in the field of cultural studies. (Encore presentation.) Lawrence Grossberg, On the Way to Theory Duke University Press, … Continued
On October 9th, Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya announced what he called a permanent ceasefire, declaring that Gaza had “endured two years of genocide” and would “never belong to its enemies.” Veteran investigative journalist and co-founder of Drop Site News Jeremy Scahill joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to take us inside the Gaza ceasefire … Continued
Guest: Scot Danforth is the Jack H. and Paula A. Hassinger Chair in Education and Professor of Disability Studies at Chapman University. He is the author of several books including his latest, An Independent Man: Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights.
Democracy Now! (Rebroadcast) – October 14, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Usual Cruelty, The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System w/ Alec Karakatsanis
In this episode, we speak with Alec Karakatsanis, lawyer and author of the book Usual Cruelty The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System, a profoundly radical reconsideration of the American “injustice system” by someone who is actively, wildly successfully, challenging it. Learn more about Alec’s book here https://thenewpress.org/books/usual-cruelty/?v=eb65bcceaa5f Our Resistence in Residence Artists … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
Democracy Now! – October 14, 2025
ON TADAY’S SHOW: “Recognize Palestine”: Israeli Knesset Member Ofer Cassif on Protesting Trump, Netanyahu Speeches Free Dr. Abu Safiya: Calls Grow for Israel to Release Imprisoned Gaza Healthcare Workers Will Gaza Ceasefire Last? Trump’s Plan “Short on Details” Beyond Release of Captives Juan González on Chicago’s Grassroots Movement to Protect Immigrants from ICE Democracy Now! is … Continued
Veteran Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller, DAWN’s Sarah Leah Whitson, and former CIA analyst Paul Pillar join to unpack Trump’s proposed Gaza peace and reconstruction plan, the exclusion of Palestinians from negotiations, and the uncertain prospects for its success.
A Veteran Middle East Negotiator on the Gaza Peace Deal and Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan We begin with the return of Israeli prisoners minus the remains of many hostages, the release of 1,700 Palestinian prisoners, Donald Trump’s address to the Israeli Knesset and the meeting of regional leaders in Egypt and speak with Aaron … Continued