UpFront – June 6, 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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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. UpFront PM is the afternoon edition of UpFront. Pitch us at upfront@kpfa.org.
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Israeli Parliament in Disarray Over Draft Exemptions for Orthodox Jews; Trump Asks Congress to Defund Public Broadcasting
0:08 — Lior Sternfeld, associate professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. 0:33 — Craig Aaron, president and co-CEO of Free Press.
SCOTUS Revokes Biden Era Parole Status for Migrants; the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Explained
0:08 — Yael Schacher, director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. 0:33 — David Dayen, executive editor of the American Prospect. His latest book is “Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.”
SCOTUS Revokes Biden Era Parole Status for Migrants; The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Explained
7:08 — Yael Schacher, director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International 7:33 — David Dayen, executive editor of the American Prospect
UpFront – June 2, 2025
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
UpFront – May 30, 2025
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
Malcolm Harris on the paths through planetary crisis
00:08 Malcolm Harris, author of several books; the newest is What’s Left: three paths through the planetary crisis
Trump’s Big Budget Bill; Plus, The State of Humanitarian Aid in Gaza
00:08 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation. 00:33 — Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch is Executive Director of Middle East Children’s Alliance. He is a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank.
Latest from the War on Gaza and Failing Zionist Economy; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. 00:20 — Munira Lokhandwala is Director of Tech and Training at LittleSis, a nonprofit public interest research organization focused on corporate and government accountability. Their latest report is “Downgraded by War: Rising … Continued
Michael Mann On Wars [Rebroadcast]
00:08 Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology Emeritus at UCLA; Honorary Professor at the University of Cambridge; author most recently of On Wars [this is a re-broadcast of an interview originally recorded in September 2023]
UpFront – May 23, 2025
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.