Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins
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.
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Zachary Carter on John Maynard Keynes
00:08 Zachary Carter, consultant with the Hewlett Foundation’s Economy and Society Initiative. His most recent book is The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the life of John Maynard Keynes. [This is a repeat broadcast of an interview first recorded in the summer of 2021]
The Politics of Red States Across the Nation; Plus, Community Responses to the Harms of Residential Segregation
0:08 — William Kleinknecht is a longtime newspaper reporter who covered politics, government, criminal justice, and the environment for the Detroit Free Press, New York Daily News, and Newark Star-Ledger. His latest book is “States of Neglect: How Red-State Leaders Have Failed Their Citizens and Undermined America” 0:33 — Leah Rothstein is co-author, with Richard … Continued
Seeking Abortion Care Across State Lines; UAW Members and Student Workers Arrested at UCSD
0:08 — Amy Littlefield, is the abortion access correspondent at The Nation and a freelance investigative reporter who focuses on the intersection of religion and health care. Her latest feature for The Nation, “Life on the Abortion Borderland,” appears in the magazine’s new special issue, “Body Politics.” 0:33 — Adam Schwartz, is SENIOR STAFF ATTORNEY … Continued
Floods, Fires and Hurricane Response: Climate Change Roundup
0:08 — Jeff Masters, has worked as a hurricane scientist with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990. He co-founded Weather Underground in 1995 and writes, he is also an author for Yale Climate Connections
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Covid Call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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.
Andrew Alden on the Geology of the East Bay
Andrew Alden, geologist and science writer, publisher of the Oakland Geology Blog, and now author of Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
Christina Gerhart on Disappearing Islands
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
Naomi Oreskes on The Big Myth
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
Malcolm Harris on Palo Alto, and Capitalism
00:08 Malcolm Harris, author of several books; the newest is Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World