UpFront

Encouraging vaccine results from Moderna spurs hope amid devastating COVID surge; Plus: Claire Potter on how alternative media hooked us on politics and broke our democracy

0:08 – Monday’s with Mitch

Mitch Jeserich hosts Letters and Politics, weekdays at 10AM on KPFA

0:34 – COVID-19: updates on latest research and listener calls

John Swartzberg is clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

1:08 – Author interview: Claire Bond Potter (@TenuredRadical) is a political historian at the New School for Social Research. She is executive editor of Public Seminar. Her latest book is Political Junkies:  From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy.