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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Nathan Robinson is the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine. He is the author of many books including his latest American Monstrosity. Donald Trump: How We Got Him. How We Stop Him and his upcoming, Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments.
Guest: Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History at the University of Washington and the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, and most recently, Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State.
Guest: David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. And is author of several novels and non-fiction books including his latest, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present.
Guest: Damien Lewis is an award-winning writer who spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones for the BBC and other global news organizations. He is the bestselling author of more than twenty books, many of which are being adapted into films or television series; his latest is Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy.
Guest: Adam Hochschild is the author of eleven books, including the contemporary classics King Leopold’s Ghost and To End All Wars (both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Spain in Our Hearts (a New York Times bestseller), and Bury the Chains (a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA … Continued
Part I. Nancy Pelosi’s Meteoric Rise from SF Politics Guest: Tim Redmond is long-time San Francisco political and investigative reporter, former executive editor of the SF Bay Guardian and founder of 48hills.org. Part 2. An Homage to KPFA’s Host and Producer Jennifer Stone Guest: Laura Prives is KPFA Fund drive Manager, former Program Director, … Continued
Guest: John Nichols is Washington correspondent for the Nation Magazine.
Part I. A Modern History of Disinformation: From the Tobacco Industry to Climate Climate Change. Guest: Naomi Oreskes is Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She is a leading voice on the role of science in society, the reality of anthropogenic climate … Continued
Guest: Dr. Clarence Lusane is an author, activist, scholar, and journalist. He is a Professor and former Chairman of Howard University’s Department of Political Science. He is the author of several books, including The Black History of the White House and his latest, Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and democracy.
Guest: Colia Lafayette Clark (July 21,1940 – November 4, 2022), was a committed Pan Africanist, she spent a lifetime in activist work in the areas of civil rights, human rights, women’s rights, workers rights and rights for the homeless and youth. She was the Green Party’s candidate for the United States Senate in New York in 2010 and 2012. She was … Continued
