How are race and ethnicity represented in U.S. news coverage of health and medicine? Charles Briggs argues that whiteness tends to be portrayed as an aspirational state of well-being, while people of color are far too often depicted as deficient, as trapped by culture and thus to be blamed for their own health problems. Charles … Continued
Covering issues facing working people and the trade union movement from education, healthcare, housing, the environment and public workers. It also examines the role of international labor and the US trade union movement
With David Cay Johnston, an investigative journalist, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. Since 2009 he has been a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer who teaches tax, property, and regulatory law of the ancient world at Syracuse University College of Law and the Whitman School of Management. He … Continued
In this episode of UpFront we hear recordings from a film on the genesis of capitalism, tracing it’s history through an exploration of the life Adam Smith, and the many historic moments that built up to The Wealth of Nations. “Adam Smith: The Birth of the Free Market,” is part of a six-part series on the history of … Continued
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Ever wonder about the lives and perspectives that were left out of your history textbooks? Howard Zinn uncovers these histories in his A People’s History of the United States. We play excerpts. You can receive A People’s History of the United States, among many other gifts, by donating to KPFA here.
In conversation with journalist Dan Rather to talk about the news media and Donald Trump. With a famed and storied career that has spanned more than six decades. Dan Rather has interviewed every president since Eisenhower and covered almost every important dateline in the United States and around the world From Civil Rights, the Kennedy assassination, … Continued
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Today on HKR we offer critique from author , writer, journalist, and educator. Mark Danner. Danner has written for three decades on foreign affairs and international conflict. He has covered Central America, Haiti, Balkans, Iraq and the greater Middle East, among many other stories, and has written extensively about the development of American foreign policy … Continued
Hillary Clinton officially accepts the Democratic Presidential nomination, becoming the first woman to be the nominee of either major party. She reaches out to Bernie Sanders supporters say they had put economic and social justice issues front and center, where they belong and pledging to work with Sanders on making public college education free for poor … Continued
