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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: Michael Hiltzik is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author who has covered business, technology, and public policy for the Los Angeles Times for three decades. He currently serves as the Times’s business columnist and hosts its business blog, The Economy Hub. His books include Big Science, The New Deal, Colossus, Dealers of Lightning, and The Plot Against Social Security. Michael Hiltzik received … Continued
Guests: Dr. Richelle Brooks is a Black Momma, Educator, the founder of ReTHINK It, an organization dedicated to addressing antiblackness through education and mutual aid, and a Grassroots Organizer and Biden Jubilee 100 Striker. She is the co-founder of Los Angeles chapter of the Debt Collective and wrote the piece Why I Joined the Jubilee … Continued
Guest: Congressman Eric Swalwell represents California’s 15th congressional district since 2012. The district currently covers most of eastern and southwestern Alameda County as well as part of Contra Costa County. He is now in his fourth term and serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Judiciary Committee. Congressman Swalwell was … Continued
Guest: Elizabeth Kolbert is an environmental reporter and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. For her work at The New Yorker, where she’s a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts … Continued
Guest: Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University in Macomb and a research associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of the award-winning Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area and Wobblies … Continued
Guest: Jacqueline Jones is the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and the Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical and the winner of the Bancroft Prize for her previous … Continued
Guest: Todd Miller is a journalist and author who has researched and written about border issues for more than 15 years, the last eight as an independent journalist and writer. He is the author of the books Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security, Storming the Wall: Climate Change; Migration, and … Continued
Guest: Brenda Wineapple is the author of the book The impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. This is the story of the period shortly after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, when Vice-President Andrew Johnson, now “the Accidental President,” ignored Congress, pardoned rebel leaders, promoted white supremacy, opposed civil rights, and called Reconstruction … Continued
Part I – Impeachment as tool to deal with impunity Guest: Frank O. Bowman is a professor of law at the University of Missouri. He also teaches a seminar on impeachment at Georgetown law school. And is the author of the book High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump. … Continued
Guest: Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History & African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of more than three dozen books including White Supremacy Confronted: US Imperialism & Anticommunism vs the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, and … Continued
