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.
Guest: Richard Becker is the Western Region Coordinator of the ANSWER – Act Now to Stop War & End Racism – Coalition, and the author of Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire, and The Myth of Democracy and the Rule of the Banks. He is also co-author of several books Storming the Gates: How the … Continued
Guest: Margaret A. Burnham is the founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University (crrj.org), she has been a staffer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a civil rights lawyer, a defense attorney, and a judge. Professor Burnham was nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the US Senate to … Continued
Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of the book Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for those who Caused the Crisis. His latest piece in The Nation is Attorneys General Elections Take Center Stage Post-Roe: AG races across the country will determine whether local prosecutors … Continued
Guest: Zakhar Popovych is a member of the Left Opposition in Ukraine. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons
Guest: Katrina Vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation and a columnist for The Washington Post. She is the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers. She … Continued
Guest: Katherine Corcoran is a former Associated Press bureau chief for Mexico and Central America and is currently co-coordinator of MasterLAB, an investigative editor training program in Mexico City. She is the author of In The Mouth Of The Wolf: A Murder, A Cover-up, and The True Cost Of Silencing The Press.
Part I. Ukraine and the U.S. Military Budget Guest: William Hartung is an expert on national security/foreign policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His work focuses on the arms industry and U.S. military budget. He is the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (2011). Part II. The Third … Continued
Guest: Serhii Plokhy is Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. He is the author of several books including, Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2021) and most recently, Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (2022).
Guest: Peter Kuznick is a professor of history and director of the award-winning Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. He has written extensively about science and politics, nuclear history, and Cold War culture. He is the author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America (2019); the co-author of Rethinking the Atomic Bombings of … Continued
Guest: Kai Bird is an award-winning historian and journalist. Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, he is the acclaimed author of biographies of John J. McCloy and of McGeorge and William Bundy. He won the Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (co-authored with Martin J. … Continued
