Today our host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Eric Toder, co-director of Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute, about the history and the potential developments in American tax policy. We delve into the history of American tax reform and discuss the ways in which Trump is seeking to modify the existing tax code. Mr. Toder is … Continued
In the wake of the vote for Virginia Governor, UpFront speaks with John Nichols and Jeff Schapiro. Nichols is the Washington Correspondent for The Nation, and Schapiro has a long running career as a political columnist for columnist for The Richmond Times-Dispatch. John Nichols’ article in The Nation discusses some of the electoral outcomes emerging from yesterday’s vote. … Continued
Voters Reject Republican Candidates as New “Autopsy” Report Finds the Democratic Party in Crisis; Billionaire GOP Backer Robert Mercer Used Offshore Profits to Fund Breitbart & Attacks on Clinton; Trump’s Commerce Secretary Owns Stake in Russian Companies While He Oversees Potential Sanctions; Paradise Papers Expose “Cleverest Ways of Exploiting” Offshore Tax Havens by GOP & … Continued
We speak with Dr. James Taylor about Donna Brazile’s gripe with the DNC and Hillary Rodman Clinton. Later we speak with Marlene Sanchez about the recent prison strike at Glen Dwyer .
With Guests Dr. Brian Greene, on the string theory, and Dr.Lisa Randall, on higher dimensional physics. Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku.
Jonathan Latham, PhD, founder and executive director of the Bioscience Resource Project, discusses the implications of the Poison Papers, a collection of documents dating from the 1920s showing how regulators collude with industry in promoting harmful chemicals. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
There’s growing inequality and worker insecurity in the U.S., not to mention the escalating costs of health care as well as major threats to the environment. What should we make of these multiple, overlapping crises, and why hasn’t effective action been taken to address them? Anthony DiMaggio took up these questions and many others in … Continued
Today, our host Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Pamela Haag, author of the book The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture. In light of yet another mass shooting this past week in Sutherland Springs, Texas, we discuss the history of American gun culture and how it has grown not only … Continued
This morning, after the resignation of the Saudi-Allied Lebanese Prime Minister, the country was thrown into additional political turmoil. We speak with Rania Masri, Lebanese-American academic, activist, human rights advocate and professor of environmental science professor, who currently in Beirut about the situation. In light of ongoing events in the US, mass-shooting and targeted violence, … Continued
How Domestic Violence and Militarism “Open the Floodgates” to Mass Shootings Like the Texas Massacre; As NYPD Officers Are Charged with Rape of Teenager, Advocates Call for End to Mass Sexual Violence; Acclaimed Chilean Writer Isabel Allende on Death of Pablo Neruda, the 1973 Chilean Coup & Trump; Chilean Writer Isabel Allende’s New Novel, “In … Continued
