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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.
0:08 — Sameea Kamal is a reporter for CalMatters covering the state Capitol and California politics. 0:33 — Neil deMause, is a journalist based in Brooklyn, NY. He is a writer and editor at Fieldofschemes.com, the companion website to his book Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit.
0:08 — Alex Dean is Managing Editor at Prospect Magazine. 0:33 — Alissa Quart is a writer and the Executive Director of the non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Her latest book is Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream.
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 — Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.
0:08 — Manijeh Moradian is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her latest book is This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States.
0:08 — Dean Baker is a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. 0:33 — Yael Schacher, is the director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International.
