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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
With Simon Mabon, lecturer at Lancaster in University and author of the book Saudi Arabia and Iran: Power and Rivalry in the Middle East. Then, David Abraham, natural resource strategist, director of the Technology, Rare and Electronics Materials Center, and author of the book The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare … Continued
We’ll talk about Iowa and moving forward for the Presidential Candidates with: Adele Stan, weekly columnist at the American Prospect. She is the former Washington Bureau chief for Alternet and a longtime chronicler of national politics. Normal Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, author of the book War … Continued
With Brian Beutler of the New Republic on his recent article Is Nominating Bernie Sanders a Worthwhile Gamble? Beutler is a senior editor at the New Republic. He covers domestic policy, politics, and political movements. And Mike Lofgren, author of The Party Is Over. He spent twenty-eight years in Congress, the last sixteen as a senior analyst on the … Continued
With David Redlawsk, professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and author of Why Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process. And Harvey Schwartz, curator of the Oral History Collection at the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Library in San Francisco. He is author of the book Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Workers’ … Continued
With Journalist Arun Gupta, a co-founder of The Indypendent and the Occupied Wall Street Journal. He is writing a book on the decline of America empire for Haymarket books. And Henry Giroux, scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, and author of several books including his most recent, … Continued
With Ioan Grillo, A native of England who has covered Mexico since 2001 for top newspapers, magazines and TV stations in the US and UK. Author of the book Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America. About the book: In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body … Continued
In 1972, George McGovern was seen as a progressive long-shot to win the Democratic Presidential nomination. He did win, but then labor and traditional elements of the Democratic Party establishment turned against him, helping Nixon win in one of the most lopsided American Presidential races in history. We’ll be in conversation about that history and … Continued
With Kara Platoni, journalist and author of We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Human Perception, One Sense at a Time. About the book: An award-winning journalist investigates how scientists and citizens around the world are re-tooling our senses—and what their discoveries are teaching us about the nature and future of … Continued
With Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice University and author of several books including The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. And Tom Turner. Turner has worked at the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, and Earthjustice. He is the author of the biography David Brower: The Making of … Continued
With Robert Pollin, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and founding co-director of its Political Economy Research Institute. And Gerard Roland, professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley, on China’s transition to state capitalism from communism. Then, sounds from the MLK Day Demonstations.
