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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
On today’s show, Mitch Jeserich send us a Letter about immigration and power, and what we can learn from history about it. Then we are in conversation about women code breakers during World War II and the recognition they never received until now. Our guest is Liza Mundy, author of the book Code Girls: The Untold … Continued
On today’s show, we are in conversation about the United States Constitution and its potential breaking-points. Our guest is Ray Raphael, constitutional scholar and teacher, and author of the book The U.S. Constitution: Explained–Clause by Clause–for Every American Today.
While the Democratic Party is preparing reforms to the presidential nomination process, a new report has been published, named “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis”. On today’s show, we comment this crisis of the Democratic Party with Karen Bernal, Chair of the California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus, and Margarita Lacabe, member of the Alameda Democratic Central Committee California.
In the book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts have come together to speak out about their concern over Trump’s ability to lead the country as President. On today’s show, Mitch Jeserich speaks with two of them, Bandy Lee and Dee Mosbacher.
On today’s show, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with British philosopher A. C. Grayling about the limits of the democratic system. He highlights what he calls the ‘dilemma of democracy’: the power belongs to the people but, at the same time, the power needs to be stable to be efficient. A. C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy … Continued
Today host Mitch Jeserich talks to Richard Rothstein about the history of housing law in the Twenty century. How it meant to segregate beyond the South and how this led to wealth inequality today. Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP … Continued
Host Mitch Jeserich talks to Catherine Tactaquin, Executive Director and Co-founder of the National Network for Immigrants and Refugee Rights about the controversial debate on immigration. The controversy seems to be part of the deteriorating negotiations over how to handle the potential expiration of deportation protections for the so-called Dreamers. All this comes as the … Continued
Today host Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Anna Feigenbaum, author of Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today, about the history of this chemical weapon. She shows how its use has evolved for one hundred years, from the hands of French soldiers in the trenches to the ones of police officers in the streets. … Continued
On this MLK Day, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Civil Rights activist of the 1960s Colia Lafayette Clark.
On the first part of today’s show, Mitch Jeserich talks with Linda Gordon, Professor of History at New York University and author of The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition. She examines the history of a revived Klan in the 1920s, their organization, and … Continued
