David Grann discusses his two most recent books, “The Wager,” and “Killers of the Flower Moon”, recorded June, 2023. Yi-Yun Li talks about her first novel, “The Vagrants” in an interview recorded in 2009. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Austerity, economics, and fascism • AMLO’s presidency in Mexico
Clara Mattei, author of The Capital Order, explores the links among neoclassical economics, austerity, and fascism • Edwin Ackerman, author of this article, looks at AMLO’s presidency in Mexico
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – July 6, 2023
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Khalil and Malihe.
Part 1. Stephen Hawking and his Theory on the Origin of Time Guest: Thomas Hertog is an internationally renowned cosmologist who was for many years a close collaborator of the late Stephen Hawking. He is professor of theoretical physics at the University of Leuven, where he studies the quantum nature of the big bang. He is the author of On … Continued
Democracy Now 9am – July 6, 2023
On Today’s Show: Elena Milashina Attack: Rights Groups Condemn Brutal Beating of Russian Journalist in Chechnya Syria’s Missing: New U.N. Body Will Investigate Disappearance of 130,000 People in 12-Year Civil War’ How Syria Profits from Trafficking Captagon, Highly Addictive Amphetamine Propping Up Assad Regime Rep. Ro Khanna on Term-Limiting SCOTUS Justices, Sole “No” Vote on Pentagon Budget … Continued
Anti-Trans Laws Supported by Technology; Tenants Use Tech to Defend Rights; Plus, State Terror Roundup
We start off today’s show with our State Terror Roundup. Then, we look at how surveillance technology is and could be used to aid and enforce anti-trans legislation around the country. We’ll be in conversation with René Kladzyk, an investigative reporter at POGO – the Project On Governmental Oversite, whose reporting has been published in … Continued
Christina Gerhart on Disappearing Islands
00:08 – Christina Gerhardt is an environmental journalist and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she founded the environmental humanities initiative. She’s just out with a new book called Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
Democracy Now 6am – July 6, 2023
On Today’s Show: Elena Milashina Attack: Rights Groups Condemn Brutal Beating of Russian Journalist in Chechnya Syria’s Missing: New U.N. Body Will Investigate Disappearance of 130,000 People in 12-Year Civil War’ How Syria Profits from Trafficking Captagon, Highly Addictive Amphetamine Propping Up Assad Regime Rep. Ro Khanna on Term-Limiting SCOTUS Justices, Sole “No” Vote on Pentagon Budget … Continued
Background Briefing with Ian Masters – July 6, 2023
We begin with growing alarm at the possibility Europe’s largest nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhya in Ukraine, which is now at the frontline in the current counteroffensive, could be blown up by the Russian occupiers in a false flag to be blamed on Ukraine or at the very least rendered inoperable by the Russians in … Continued
Non-fiction Music – July 6, 2023
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A mix of jazz, folk, blues and more with Joel Sachs.