Guest: Michael Hiltzik is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author who has covered business, technology, and public policy for the Los Angeles Times for three decades. He currently serves as the Times’s business columnist and hosts its business blog, The Economy Hub. His books include Big Science, The New Deal, Colossus, Dealers of Lightning, and The Plot Against Social Security.  Michael Hiltzik received … Continued


0:08 – Fund Drive Special: Maya Angelou in Oakland Maya Angelou was a poet, playwright, and filmmaker, best-known for her memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She was also an incredible performer. When the recording here was made, she’d just received a Grammy Award for the recording of the poem she read at … Continued


Black History Month special: Tonight Sing Out salutes TOM WILSON, the first African-American producer at a major record company (Columbia Records). The Harvard grad’s role in the recording studio in the 1960s changed all of our lives and pushed musicians to change the sound of music itself, from producing the first Sun Ra album in 1957 … Continued


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Joe Biden’s pick to lead the C.I.A. receives bipartisan praise, calls Russia “threat”; Berkeley passes police reform – February 24, 2021

Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the C.I.A. receives bipartisan praise, pledges independence, calls Russia a threat. House to vote on $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill Friday with no Republican support. Nominee to lead Department of Interior, … Continued