Attorney General Jeff Sessions has promised to crack down on government leaks to the press, threatening to review policies for subpoenaing media outlets that publish classified materials. But it’s a practice of punishing whistleblowers and the press that began under Barack Obama’s presidency. On today’s show we’ll turn to journalism professor Robert Jensen for what … Continued


Playwright and poet Cherrie Moraga, co-editor of the class feminist of color book, This Bridge Called My Back, discusses her new play, THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE, with Lisa Dettmer. In a time-traveling re-encounter with a 16th century female slave-turned-slaveholder, a Mexican woman in the early stages of Alzheimers is forced to concede a radically revised … Continued


Ralph has a fascinating conversation about the billions of dollars spent on political philanthropy and what all that money is working for with David Callahan, author of The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. Also, Ralph answers more listener questions!