0:08 – The implosion of the NRA – Jane Coaston (@cjane87) is a Senior Politics Reporter at Vox with a focus on the GOP, conservatism, and the far-right. She joins to discuss the power struggles, lawsuits, and corruption that may end the National Rifle Association.
0:34 – Science and medicine writer Dean Haycock, PhD. discusses research about the psychology of despotic leaders in his new book, Tyrannical Minds: Psychological Profiling, Narcissism and Dictatorship.
0.56 – KPFA’s Richard Wollinsky reviews John Leguizamo’s Kiss My Aztec, running at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
1:08 – Albert Woodfox served more than 40 years in solitary confinement in Angola State Prison in Louisiana – the longest period of solitary confinement in US prison history. In 2014, his conviction was overturned, and in 2016 he was released. He joins us to discuss his experience, and his new memoir Solitary.