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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 Sam Quinones, journalist and author of the book Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic. The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review has called Quinones “the most original writer on Mexico and the border.” His new book is about the opiate trade.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on inequality, the TPP, rent, and more. His new book of essays, The Great Divide, is out now. About the book: How has America become the most unequal advanced country in the world, and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the … Continued
Megan Garber, staff writer at the Atlantic. Her most recent piece is The History of ‘Thug’ : The surprisingly ancient and global etymology of a racially charged epithet. Elizabeth Nix, assistant professor of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies at the University of Baltimore and co-author of the book Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an … Continued
Dayvon Love, Director of Research and Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle and resident of Northwest Baltimore City. Stephen Janis, Baltimore-based investigative reporter with The Real News and author of You Can’t Stop Murder: Truths About Policing in Baltimore and Beyond. Peniel Joseph, author of Stokely: A Life.
How geography shapes interpretation of the US constitution. Tomorrow the US Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments on marriage equality in four cases consolidated under the name Obergefell v. Hodges. We’ll talk about that and more with Yale Political Science Professor Akhil Reed Amar, author of the new book The Law of the Land: … Continued
Alexander Harcourt, Professor Emeritus at UC Davis and author of the forthcoming book Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human Diversity. And social justice advocate Hilary Klein, author of Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories, about women’s involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico.
Selma James, lifelong intellectual, activist and writer. And sports writer Dave Zirin.
James McGrath Morris is a former journalist, historian, and author of several books including The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism, and Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press. Today we often bemoan the 24 hour … Continued
Nelson Denis, author of War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony And a tribute to Wesley Burton, a member of the KPFA family. “In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence … Continued
With John Carr, author of The Defense and Fall of Greece 1940-41.
