UpFront – January 13, 2025
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
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Eugene Linden on why the world’s burning [rebroadcast]
Eugene Linden, veteran climate and science writer whose most recent book is Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climae Change, from 1979 to the present [this is a re-broadcast of an interview originally recorded in June 2022]
Los Angeles is Burning
00:08 Gabrielle Canon, climate reporter and extreme weather correspondent for Guardian US, most recently reporting from Pacific Palisades 00:12 Dani Anguiano, The Guardian‘s west coast breaking news reporter; also co-author of Fire in Paradise 00:20 Eugene Cordero, professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University. 00:33 Marissa Kendall covers homelessness for the nonprofit … Continued
State Department Declares Genocide in Sudan; Plus, Meta Ends Factchecking Programs
00:08 — Abdullahi Halakhe is Senior Advocate for East and Southern Africa at Refugees International. 00:33 — Will Oremus is a Technology news analysis reporter for the Washington Post.
What’s Next for South Korea’s Impeached President? Plus, CA Laws Affecting Renters Rights; And, Incoming Lurie Administration’s Picks for San Francisco
00:08 — Paul Liem is the Board Chairperson of the Korea Policy Institute. 00:33 — Shanti Singh, is Communications and Legislative Director at Tenants Together. 00:45 — Joe Eskenazi, is Managing Editor and columnist at Mission Local.
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis on Abolishing Rent
00:08 Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis, co-founders of the L.A. Tenants Union, and now co-authors of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy on the history of money in American politics
00:08 Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is Professor of Law at Stetson University and a Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Her latest book is Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians.
Manisha Sinha on Reconstruction and its discontents [rebroadcast]
00:08 Manisha Sinha is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. Her new book is The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic. Reconstruction: 1860 – 1920 [rebroadcast – originally recorded in July 2024]
Jason Stanley on authoritarianism, history, and education
00:08 Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. His latest book is Erasing History: how fascists rewrite the past to control the future
Scott Reynolds Nelson on Grain and Empire [repeat]
00:08 Scott Reynolds Nelson, professor of humanities at the University of Georgia who’s written a series of histories looking at railroads, the civil war, and financial crises in 19th-century America. His latest looks at how one crop built and broke empires – it’s called Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World [rebroadcast of … Continued