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00:08 — Joel Beinin is Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. 00:33 — David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. His most recent book is Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power (2020). 00:45 — Hannah Mayree is founder of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project.
00:08 — David Daley is the author of “Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count.” His latest piece for The Nation is How the GOP Hopes to Gerrymander Its Way to a Midterms Victory. 00:33 — Margaret Kadifa is a reporter for Mission Local. 00:45 — Howard Blume is staff writer at the Los Angeles Times … Continued
00:08 — Lori Wallach is the director of the Rethink Trade program at American Economic Liberties Project. 00:33 — Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor emeritus of Arab Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance.
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.
00:08 — Nathan Thrall is an American writer living in Jerusalem. In 2024, he received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book, “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama”
00:08 — Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three presidential administrations, Republican and Democrat, as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, and has written eighteen books. His latest book is “Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America”
00:08 — George Bisharat is Professor Emeritus at University of California College of Law, San Francisco. His legal scholarship focuses on Palestine, Israel, and U.S. policies toward the Middle East. 00:33 — Abdulrahim Harara is the founder of Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland. Walter Riley is a veteran civil rights lawyer who has spent decades … Continued
00:08 — Josh Jackson is a writer, photographer. He advocates for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Through his Forgotten Lands Project, he employs storytelling and visual narratives to inspire engagement with California’s unknown landscapes. His latest book is The Enduring Wild: A Journey Into California’s Public Lands.
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
00:08 — Annalee Newitz is a San Francisco based journalist and author. They write for New Scientist and co-host the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Their latest book is “Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind.”
