On today’s show host Mitch Jeserich interviews Catherine Lutz about the history of US-Guam relationships. Catherine Lutz is a professor at the Watson Institute at Brown University.   Then: Just a year after the US atomic bombing of Japan in 1945, American journalist John Hersey traveled to Japan and wrote a lengthy three-part series for … Continued


On today’s show, hosts Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Cat Brooks talk about diversity at Google, and in tech more broadly – and take your calls.  Google is the midst of a blow-up over an internal memo circulated by one of its engineers suggesting the reason so few women work there might have something to do with … Continued


Rock journalist and novelist Michael Goldberg on The Hear and Now – 10 p.m., Thursday, August 10, 2017

Michael Goldberg, former Rolling Stone editor and senior writer, and founder of the pioneering online music site Addicted to Noise, has just published his third novel, Untitled, the final installment of his Freak Scene Dream Trilogy, which includes True Love Scars and The Flowers Lied. They are tales of “Love, Truth, Innocence & Loyalty.  Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll … Continued


Life Insurance: Protect Whаt You’ve Got Whіlе insurance isn’t аn investment, it’s аn important раrt оf sound, savvy personal financial management. Insurance іѕ protection. It protects еvеrуthіng you’ve worked ѕо hard tо earn. It protects уоur spouse іn thе event оf premature death. It sends thе kids tо college. It holds tоgеthеr a family аt … Continued