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
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 – 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.
Letters and Politics – Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Jodi Jacob, RH Reality Check Trevor Timm, executive editor the Freedom of the Press Foundation
Letters and Politics – The Life & Times of Stokely Carmichael
Peniel Joseph, author of Stokely: A Life
Letters and Politics – Could Corporation Gain Religious Freedoms?
Supreme Court considers birth control and the Affordable Care Act. Guest: Jessica Mason Pieklo, adjunct professor of law and legal analyst with RH Reality Check. George Caffentzis, political philosopher and founding member of the Midnight Notes Collective.
Letters and Politics – Capitalism & Witches
Silvia Federici, founding member of the International Feminist Collective and former professor of political science.
Letters and Politics – The Tobacco Industry’s Playbook
Nicholas Freudenberg, a Professor at the City University of New York School of Public Health, is the author of Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health.