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 – The Untold Story of Women in the Baseball Negro Leagues
With tensions on the rise in the Korean Peninsula, and as the threat of nuclear weapons are being discussed, we’ll look at the last 20 years of US Korean relations with Hyun Lee of the Working Group for Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific. With the opening day of the baseball season now … Continued
Letters and Politics – Movements of the Last 6 Decades
As the Supreme Court considers same gender marriage this week, we’ll spend the hour in conversation about the social movements that formed out of the LGBT community over the last 6 decades and the important role that transgender activists have played in these movements. Our guest is Dr. Ardel Thomas, the Chair of the Lesbian, … Continued
Letters and Politics – Anti-Communist Purges
The Supreme Court has wrapped up its second day of hearings on same gender marriage. Today the Court took up the Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1996, that defines marriage at the federal level as being between a man and a woman. Coming up we’ll talk about what DOMA … Continued
Letters and Politics – March 26, 2013
As the Supreme Court hears two important cases this week on same gender marriage, we look at how sexuality became a Constitutional issue with Leigh Ann Wheeler, author of the book How Sex Became a Civil Liberty. But first we have audio from today’s Supreme Court hearing on California’s anti same gender marriage measure Proposition … Continued
Letters and Politics – March 25, 2013
Catch phrases such as chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction are back: 10 years after they were used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Today we talk about how such phrases have been used in the past and the history of western rhetoric towards the middle east with Deepa Kumar, Associate Professor of Media … Continued
Letters and Politics – March 21, 2013
We hear what Obama had to say in Jerusalem and talk to former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy and Yussef Munayyer of the Palestine Center about Obama’s first visit to Israel. But first Congress reaches a budget deal that will avert a government shutdown next week. We go to Capitol Hill for the latest and we … Continued
Letters and Politics – March 19, 2013
Today we look at the business of the Iraq War with investigative journalist Greg Muttit who uncovered documents showing big oil companies were meeting with the Bush administration in the lead up to the war. But first we’ll talk about how the invasion and occupation marks an important historic moment towards the privatization of war … Continued
Letters and Politics – March 18, 2013
US plans to beef up its missile defense program. We talk to Conn Hallinan of Foreign Policy in Focus. Rand Paul’s Influence in the Republican Party with Brian Doherty with Reason Magazine and Adele Stan of Alternet.