Guest: Olga Baysha is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia and author of War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine.
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.
Understanding the Electoral College in the Trump’s Indictment Guest: Robert M. Alexander is a professor of political science and founding director of the Institute for Civics and Public Policy at Ohio Northern University. He is the author of Representation and the Electoral College. Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash. Then, The Science and Enigma of the Owl … Continued
Guest: Tom Mueller is the author of Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil; Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud; and his latest, How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine.
Guest: Hadar Aviram is a Professor of Law at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She is the author of several books including her latest, Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 via … Continued
Guest: Kathryn Cramer Brownell is associate professor of history at Purdue University and the author of Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life and her latest, 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News.
Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of many books including his latest, It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, co written with Senator Bernie Sanders. His latest piece in the Nations is Sinéad O’Connor Always Knew That Black Lives Mattered. The singer, who died on Wednesday, … Continued
Guest: Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, host of The Ralph Nader Radio Hour that broadcasts on the Pacifica Radio Network. He is the author of several books including his bestselling first book “Unsafe at Any Speed”, it was responsible for US auto safety standards shown to have saved 3.5 million lives over fifty years. … Continued
Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at The New School University in New York. Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national television and radio program Economic Update. Image (C): Speak Out.
Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State.
Guest: Frank Costigliola is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Kennan Diaries, Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances, and his latest, Kennan: A Life between Worlds.