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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.
0:08 – Matt Gertz (@MattGertz), a senior fellow at Media Matters joins us to discuss former President Donald Trump’s arraignment and how Trump’s prosecution is being interpreted by right wing media. 0:33 – State Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) is back to explain the budget proposal that he and other legislators plan to pass on Thursday to … Continued
0:08 – Robert Gray (@firebobbc) a fire ecologist in British Columbia explains some of the factors influcing the wildfires in Canada this year. 0:33 – Eugene Cordero (@eugenecordero), professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University discusses the anomalous sea surface temperatures identified in the Atlantic and their impact on future weather … Continued
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 — Kenneth White, is a former federal prosecutor, a current federal defense attorney, and the host of the podcast “Serious Trouble” about Donald Trump’s legal problems. John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation.
0:08 — Horace G. Campbell, Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University 0:33 — Ethan Varian is a reporter covering housing for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Shaunn Cartwright, co-founder of Unhoused Response Group 0:45 — Andrew Wood, founder and Executive Director of the San Francisco International Arts Festival.
