Today on the show: We track: the progress of the select subcommittee ask they keep researching the :origins: of the Coronavirus pandemic,  Sam Husseini, independent journalist, joins us to anayize their findings. Then, Tracking Hate! First, I talk to a recently unionized california bookstore employee, about how they are staying resilient, despite being targeted with hate flyers … Continued


Background Briefing

Background Briefing – July 12, 2023

We begin with the heatwave in the south across Florida, Texas, Arizona and California with record temperatures impacting 54 million Americans about to see triple-digit highs this week.  Arizona, and Phoenix in particular, will experience intense heat and could swelter for its longest period on record in 110-degree high temperatures with California and the Desert … Continued


Why is the aging of populations framed as a crisis? What settler-colonial and capitalist logics are at work, and how are older people viewed and treated as a result? Sandy Grande delineates and critiques mainstream frameworks; she also advances a decolonial perspective that draws on indigenous attitudes toward elders and toward old age-associated conditions like … Continued