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.
Sabrina Siddiqui, Capitol Hill correspondent for the Huffington Post, on the Congressional Budget Conference Committee. Special broadcast of Orson Welles War of the Worlds which originally aired 75 years ago today.
Ralph Nader on corporate surveillance. Jesmyn Ward, author of The Men We Reap.
Patrick Toomey of the ACLU. Historian Alfred McCoy on the beginning of the US surveillance state.
The Politics of Crisis with John Nichols of the Nation Magazine. Confronting the Militarization with Wilson Riles and Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb.
Marion Nestle, author of Eat Drink Vote. Mark Epstein on Buddhism.
Roundtable on the public sector and the attack on public worker unions with Bill Fletcher with the American Federation of Government Employees, Mark Brenner with Labor Notes and former BART employee Pamela Drake. In conversation with Edwidge Dandicat.
Capitol Hill Correspondent Alice Ollstein on deal to open the government. Eric Schlosser, author of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. Play write Torange Yeghiazarian on her work 444 Days.
