The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays

Texas Democrats flee state to stop Republicans from passing bill to limit voting rights; President Joe Biden calls for gun control at White House meeting on rising crime; Fire season starts with more than 1,200 wildfires in the west, California sees largest wildfire this year

Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Texas Democrats flee state to stop Republicans from passing bill to limit voting rights. Former President Donald Trump keynote speaker at CPAC-Conservative Political Action Conference. Progressive Senator Bernie Sanders meets with President Joe Biden, pushes a $3.5 … Continued


What happens when missionaries try to get indigenous people to read and write English? Sometimes what results is very different than what the missionaries intended. Laura Rademaker describes how members of an aboriginal community in Australia resisted and repurposed English literacies. Tony Ballantine, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla, eds., Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing … Continued


Letters and Politics

Michio Kaku: The Quest for a Theory of Everything [Re-broadcast]

Guest:  Michio Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York, co-founder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including Beyond Einstein, The Future of Humanity, The Future of the Mind, Hyperspace, Physics of the Future, Physics of the Impossible, and his latest, The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything