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 – February 13, 2013
We spend the hour on the state of the country with economists Sylvia Allegretto and Max Fraud Wolff, journalists Arun Gupta, Aura Bogado, Adele Stan and John Nichols and labor activist Bill Fletcher.
Letters and Politics – February 12, 2013
Former Chair of FDIC Sheila Bair, author of Bull By the Horns
Letters and Politics – February 11, 2013
As President Obama prepares for his State of the Union Address tomorrow night, we talk to filmmaker Michael Kirk who has just finished a Frontline documentary chronicling the series of budget fights on Capitol Hill. We also speak to the former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Blinder who is warning about new economic … Continued
Letters and Politics – February 6, 2013
Neil Barofsky, former Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and author of Bailout: How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street.
Letters and Politics – February 5, 2013
Examining the state of manufacturing in the United States and trade with Ben Beachy, Research Director with Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. Excerpts from the House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration. The History of the US/Mexico Border with Rachel St John, author of Line In the Sand.