Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
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Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis on Abolishing Rent
00:08 Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis, co-founders of the L.A. Tenants Union, and now co-authors of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy on the history of money in American politics
00:08 Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is Professor of Law at Stetson University and a Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Her latest book is Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians.
Manisha Sinha on Reconstruction and its discontents [rebroadcast]
00:08 Manisha Sinha is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. Her new book is The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic. Reconstruction: 1860 – 1920 [rebroadcast – originally recorded in July 2024]
Jason Stanley on authoritarianism, history, and education
00:08 Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. His latest book is Erasing History: how fascists rewrite the past to control the future
Scott Reynolds Nelson on Grain and Empire [repeat]
00:08 Scott Reynolds Nelson, professor of humanities at the University of Georgia who’s written a series of histories looking at railroads, the civil war, and financial crises in 19th-century America. His latest looks at how one crop built and broke empires – it’s called Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World [rebroadcast of … Continued
Rebecca Nagle on native dispossession and the fight for justice [rebroadcast]
00:08 Rebecca Nagle, Cherokee citizen, journalist, and host of the podcast This Land, just out with the book By The Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land [rebroadcast from October 2024]
Nathan Thrall on life under occupation
00:08 Nathan Thrall, former director of the Arab-Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group, now author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on Solidarity [rebroadcast]
00:08 Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix, co-authors of Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea [this interview was originally recorded in February 2024]
Austin Frerick on the political economy of America’s food system [rebroadcast]
00:08 Austin Frerick, fellow of the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale University where he works on competition policy and antitrust enforcement. His latest book is Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry. [rebroadcast originally recorded in April 2024]