Mustoufa Bayoumi, author of This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror Shelly Schiff, author of The Witches: Salem, 1692
Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
With Marion Nestle, Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. Marion Nestle is the author of many books. Her most recent is Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning). About the book: Sodas are astonishing … Continued
With Jimena Canales, Professor of History of Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and author of the book The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time. And Gerry Spence, trial lawyer who has been practicing law since 1952 and author of Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder. … Continued
‘The Most Dangerous Communist in the United States’; Baptists in America
With Gary Murrell, Professor of History at Grays Harbor College and author of the book “The Most Dangerous Communist in the United States:” A Biography of Herbert Aptheker. And Thomas Kidd, Professor of History at Baylor University and author of several books, including Baptists in America: A History, which he co-authored with Barry Hankins. About The Most Dangerous … Continued
With Matthew Green, Associate Professor of Politics at The Catholic University of America, and author of the book The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership. And Barry Miles, acclaimed Beat biographer author of the book Call Me Burroughs: A Life. About The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership Matthew N. Green provides the first comprehensive … Continued
With Ruth Conniff, Editor of the Progressive Magazine, on Speaker-elect Paul Ryan. And Jason de Leon, author of The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail. de Leon is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and Director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a long-term anthropological study of clandestine border crossings between … Continued
With Steven Lee Meyers. Meyers has worked at The New York Times for twenty-six years, seven of them in Russia during the period when Putin consolidated his power. He spent two years as bureau chief in Baghdad, covering the winding down of the American war in Iraq, and now covers national security issues. He is author of … Continued
With Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York City. He is host the the radio show Economic Update from WBAI in New York. By now, everyone knows that Bernie Sanders calls … Continued
Steve Fraser is a labor historian and author several books including Wall Street and Labor Will Rule, which won the Philip Taft Award for the best book in labor history. He also is the co-editor of The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order. His latest book is The Age of Acquiescence: The Life … Continued
Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a public grilling before a congressional committee today. The House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya will also ask her about statements she made regarding her use of a personal email account as secretary of state. We’ll talk about her testimony with Gerald Horne, professor of History and African American Studies at the University … Continued