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00:08 – Christina Gerhardt is an environmental journalist and professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she founded the environmental humanities initiative. She’s just out with a new book called Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
00:08 Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. Her new book, co-authored with Erik Conway, is The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
00:08 Malcolm Harris, author of several books; the newest is Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
0:08 — Amelia Possanza is a Brooklyn-based writer and book publicist. Her debut work is Lesbian Love Story, A Memoir in Archives, published by Catapult Books.
0:08 — Imara Jones is the creator of TransLash Media, a cross-platform, non-profit journalism and narrative organization working to shift the current culture of hostility towards transgender people in the US. Tuck Woodstock is a journalist and educator based in Brooklyn. A co-founder of Sylveon Consulting, and host of the podcast Gender Reveal.
0:08 — Mark Joseph Stern is a senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. 0:33 — Alexei Koseff is a reporter for Calmatters covering CA state politics 0:45 — Senator Scott Wiener represents CA Senate District 11.
0:08 — Joel Beinin a Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. 0:33 — Rajan Menon is Director of the Grand Strategy Program at Defense Priorities, a non Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute; also a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 0:33 — Dr. Peter Chin-Hong is a professor of medicine and infectious disease physician at UCSF Medical Center.
0:08 — Bettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her latest book is Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s.
