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.
Letters and Politics – Matt Tiabbi
Matt Tiabbi, author of Divide: American Injustice and the Age of the Wealth Gap. Todd Purdum, author of An Idea Whose Time Has Come.
Letters and Politics – DNA Privacy
The Privacy of DNA with Troy Duster, professor emeritus of sociology at NYU & UC Berkeley, and Jeremy Gruber, President of the Council for Responsible Genes.
Letters and Politics – The Heart Bleed Bug
On the Heartbleed Bug with Yan Zhu, Staff Technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Sohail Daulatzai, author of the book Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America.
Letters and Politics – April 7, 2014
Michael Wehner, Climate scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Nina Wilson, co-founder of Idle No More.
Letters and Politics – USAID “Tweets” Castro
USAID Secretly Acts in Cuba. Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. The Life & Times of Elisee Reclus with John Clarke, professor of philosophy at Loyola University.
Letters and Politics – The McCutcheon Decision
Jon Bonifaz, President and co-founder of Free Speech For People. Jeff Milchen, co-founder of the Montana-based American Independent Business Alliance. Rahna Epting, deputy executive director at Public Campaign Action Fund. Historian Peter Linebaugh.
Letters and Politics – The 21st Century Assembly Line
Simon Head, author of Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans. Martha Ackman on Toni Stone, the first woman professional baseball player in the Negro Leagues.