Host Mitch Jeserich debunks the idea of a US president’s absolute powers within the executive branch and the current administration’s use of those powers. Photo credit: Wikimedia
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.
Host Mitch Jeserich analyses the latest directives by the Trump administration.
Greg Grandin is Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of many books including The End of the Myth, The Empire of Necessity, Fordlandia; and his forthcoming, América, América: A New History of the New World. He is a Professor of History at Yale University. Photo (C): Miraflores Locks at Panama Canal on Wikimedia.
Guest: Daniel Farber is Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley and faculty director of the Edley Center on Law & Democracy. He is the author of several books, including his most recent Contested Ground: How to Understand the Limits on Presidential Power.
Guest: Antonia Juhasz is a leading energy, climate, and environmental justice author, analyst, and investigative journalist. She is the author of Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill, The Bush Agenda, and The Tyranny of Oil. The Trump Resistance Inside Washington’s National Cathedral by Antonia Juhasz (Rolling Stone, Jan 15) Photo … Continued
Host Mitch Jeserich explains the executive orders on immigration signed by president Trump on Day 1 of his administration. Guest: Pedro Rios is the director of the American Friends Service Committee’s U.S./Mexico Border Program.
Letters and Politics – January 20, 2025
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Adam Goodman is a professor of History at the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is the author of The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants.
Letters and Politics – January 15, 2025
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – January 14, 2025
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.