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NOTE: Dr. Swartzberg’s regular COVID call-in segment will take place Tuesday, 1/4, after 7:30 news headlines. 0:08 Zachary Carter, writer in residence with the Reimagining Capitalism initiative at the Omidyar Network. His most recent book is The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the life of John Maynard Keynes 1:08 Brian Fagan, distinguished emeritus professor … Continued
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
A herd of Tule Elk. Credit: Lee Eastman/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters. Reported and produced by Sam Anderson. Edited by Lucy Kang. Point Reyes National Seashore in northern California is one of the most iconic national parks in the region, known for rugged sweeping beaches, lush pastures, and wild animals like the famous Tule … Continued
0:19 Alec MacGillis is a senior reporter at Propublica just out with a new book that uses the story of one company to tell the story of an entire country coming apart at the seams — it’s called Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America 1:08 A new audio documentary from KPFA’s Sam Anderson on the clash … Continued
0:08 Claire Potter is a political historian at the New School for Social Research. She is executive editor of Public Seminar Her latest book is Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy. 1:08 Savala Nolan, executive director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social … Continued
0:08 Mitchell Schwarzer is Professor of Architectural and Urban History at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. His new book is Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption. 1:08 Gene Slater has spent four decades advising public agencies on affordable housing; his new book is Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to … Continued
0:08 Omicron: the view from the hospitals Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at UCSF Asantewaa Boykin, Registered Nurse working in the UC Davis Medical Center’s Emergency Room, also co-founder of the Anti Police Terror Project and program director of Mental Health First Sacramento. Dr. Rupa Marya, Associate Professor of Medicine … Continued
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
0:08 Journalist Jaime Lowe on her new book Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires 1:08 Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her latest, Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
On today’s show: 0:08 – Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13), senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research joins us to discuss the possibility of economic deflation following rising concern over widespread inflation. 0:33 – We discuss San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s declaration of a state of emergency in the Tenderloin with Tim Redmond (@timredmondsf) … Continued
