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.
William Gould, former Chair of the National Labor Relations Board, on the Supreme Court hearing of the case NLRB Vs. Noel Canning Hugh Wilford, author of America’s Great Game, on the history of the CIA in the Middle East.
Matthew Fox, former Catholic priest and author of Letters to Pope Francis. Edwidge Danticat, author of Claire of the Sea Light.
50 Year Anniversary of LBJ’s War on Poverty Address with Annelise Orleck, professor of history at Dartmouth College and Sharon Parrott with the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. History of the Jamaican Slave Revolt with Vincent Brown, curator of the website revolt.axismaps.com
In conversation about the rise of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon with Fawaz Gerges, the former director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics, and Vijay Prashad, the Edward Said Chair at American University in Beirut.
John Nichols of the Nation Magazine. Abdullahi Gallab, professor of African Studies at Arizona State University, on the conflict in and history of Sudan.
