Letters and Politics – Roe v Wade Legal History
The legal history of Roe v Wade with Jessica Mason Pieklo, adjunct professor of law and legal analyst with RH Reality Check. Sports report with Samori Benjamin.
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 – January 21, 2014
Shahid Buttar of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on President’s NSA reforms. Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston on the surveillance program the Domain Awareness Center in the California City of Oakland.
Letters and Politics – Net Nuetrality & The Water Crisis
Craig Aaron, President of Free Press. Matthew Heberger, Research Associate with the Water Program at the Pacific Institute in Oakland.
History of Guerrilla and Counter Insurgency Warfare
Laleh Khalili, author of the book Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies.
Letters and Politics – Richard Wolff
Economist Richard Wolff on Marxism and the economic trends of 2013 and 2014.
Letters and Politics – Ending Quantitative Easing
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.
Letters and Politics – Pope Francis, Liberation Theology & The Catholic Church
Matthew Fox, former Catholic priest and author of Letters to Pope Francis. Edwidge Danticat, author of Claire of the Sea Light.
Letters and Politics – LBJ’s War on Poverty
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
Letters and Politics – The Resurgence of Al Qaeda
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.