With McKay Coppins, senior writer for the BuzzFeed News politics team, and the author of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party’s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House. About the book: After the 2012 election, the GOP was in the wilderness. Lost and in disarray. And doggedly determined to do whatever it took … Continued


This edition of Making Contact is Part I of our special series examining how immigrants are responding and participating in elections and politics today. From Dreamers in Arizona to Muslims in Michigan, we’ll meet immigrant communities upholding democracy. We’ll also have a conversation with author of the “Fight to Vote,” Michael Waldman about how immigrants … Continued


  Bay Area alto saxophonist Steven Lugerner brings his Jacknife band, with pianist Larry Willis, trumpeter JJ Kirkpatrick, drummer Michael Mitchell, and bassist Josh Thurston-Milgrom into the KPFA performance studio to play pieces from the album “Jacknife: The Music of Jackie McLean.“ Tony Ferro engineers the live radio concert. In the second hour, violinist Mads Tolling … Continued


Today on Flashpoints: We celebrate the 420 cannabis revolution toward legalization and distribution, Is the new Pulitzer-prize winning play, about Alexander Hamilton, a theatrical cleansing of early an early American racism? And we rebroadcast our interview with Beverly Bell of Other Worlds on the continuing violence against activist indigenous communities in Honduras