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Donald Trump pulls off a stunning upset ending a long and contentious election race, upending polls, and liberal expectations. With the GOP in control of the House, Senate, and Presidency, we’ll spend the hour today starting first with how it could have happened. Author and academic Janine Wedel will join us. Her book is called … Continued
with David Cay Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has covered Trump off and on for 27 years, reflects on the disaster of electing Donald Trump. Johnson says Donald Trump has life long deep connections to drug kingpins, felons and the mafia and Donald Trump has the psyche of a 13-year-old boy who creates his own reality. … Continued
“Not My President”: Tens of Thousands Take to Streets, Block Freeways & Rally Against Trump; Glenn Greenwald: Why Did Trump Win? Blame the Failed Policies of the Democratic Party; Glenn Greenwald: Bernie Sanders Would Have Been a Stronger Candidate Against Donald Trump; Bill McKibben: Trump’s Presidency Comes When the Warming World Can Least Afford It.
On today’s would discuss Trump becoming the 45th President of the United States and what does that mean for the future of America with author Jeff Chang. Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. His first book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, garnered many honors, … Continued
With Hosts Norman Solomon and Dante Chinni, Director of The American Communities Project. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Mitch hosts a round table on the Presidential election results–the how and the why with: Adele M. Stan is a columnist for The American Prospect, and AlterNet‘s Washington editor. Rick Perlstein, is the author of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. Before that, he published Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the … Continued
In the first hour of this two hour special, Mitch Jeserich speaks with economist, James Galbraith about the effect of Trumps win on the economy of the US and the world and talks results with Hatem Bazian, co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College, Sonali Kolhatkar, host of Rising Up, Tim Redman, editor of … Continued
From the First African-American President to One Supported by the Ku Klux Klan: Trump Wins in Upset; Just Like After Reconstruction, Trump Vote Highlights White Backlash to Recent Racial Progress; How Do We Explain to Young People We Have a Sexist, Racist Islamophobe in the White House?
KPFA News Department Election Coverage