Today Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Elisabeth Rosenthal about her book An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal was for twenty-two years a reporter, correspondent, and senior writer at The New York Times before becoming the editor in chief of Kaiser Health News, an independent journalism newsroom focusing on health … Continued
As the GOP’s dream of repealing the Affordable Care Act is once more deferred with the latest defection of two Republican Senators, we’ll turn today to a new study by the Commonwealth Fund that helps us put US healthcare into an international perspective. My guest will be Eric Schneider, lead author of the study. Then, … Continued
What is happening in Bakersfield? Last year, The Guardian assembled some data and declared the city has America’s deadliest police department. Now, video of Tatyana Hargrove, a teenage resident who says she was beaten by police and bitten by their dog – after police mistook her for a suspect reports describe as a 30-year-old man … Continued
Dr. Carol Paris: We Must Make It Toxic for Politicians to Not Get on Board with Single Payer; Gaza on Verge of Collapse as Israel Sends 2.2M People “Back to Middle Ages” in Electricity Crisis; Activist & Father of Four Faces Deportation to Devastated Haiti Because of Decades-Old Conviction.
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Entrevista en Democracy Now! con Bertita Zúniga Cáceres sobre un intento de asesinato en su contra. El músico y productor Max Urso y Agustin Caballero, sobre el proyecto artístico Tunkul.
Wondering what to add to your summer reading list? Well, we’ve got some ideas for you! Join guest host Vylma V as she welcomes local Bay Area authors Norman Zelaya and Aya de Leon to The Talkies. Both writers will talk about their new books and explore how growing up in the San Francisco Bay … Continued
On today’s show host Mitch Jeserich interviews Brian Carso. Brian Carso, is both a lawyer and a historian. He is Associate Professor of History and Government at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. And the author of the book “Whom Can We Trust Now?: The Meaning of Treason in the United States, from the Revolution through the Civil War”. … Continued
The state assembly is about to vote on AB 943, a bill that would make it harder for voters to limit development where they live. Proponents say it’ll help fix California’s housing shortage – opponents say it could kill efforts preserve open space, or limit office construction. Two legislators debate the details. Plus: When Congress … Continued
Dr. Vanessa Grubbs will discuss kidney disease, dialysis, the long wait for transplants, and inequities in care. In her book, “Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers,” she describes her journey to donate a kidney to Robert Phillips, the man she fell in love with and then married.
What happens when “reason” is in decline, when the world appears to be moving in the direction of irrationality and political pathology? Martin Jay discusses how two Frankfurt School thinkers, Theodor Adorno and Jürgen Habermas, tried to salvage a critical version of reason. Whereas Adorno looked to art and aesthetics, Habermas appealed to practices of … Continued
