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Letters and Politics

Letters and Politics

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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.

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Letters and Politics – DNA Privacy

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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.


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Letters and Politics – The Heart Bleed Bug

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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.


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Letters and Politics – April 8, 2014 at 10:00am

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Letters and Politics – April 7, 2014

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Michael Wehner, Climate scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Nina Wilson, co-founder of Idle No More.


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Letters and Politics – USAID “Tweets” Castro

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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.


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Letters and Politics – The McCutcheon Decision

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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.


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Letters and Politics – April 1, 2014 at 10:00am

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Letters and Politics – The 21st Century Assembly Line

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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.


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Letters and Politics – Jimmy Carter

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Jimmy Carter Jodi Jacob, RH Reality Check Trevor Timm, executive editor the Freedom of the Press Foundation


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Letters and Politics – The Life & Times of Stokely Carmichael

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Peniel Joseph, author of Stokely: A Life  


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