With Elizabeth Hinton, Professor of History at Harvard University and author of the book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. About the book: In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American … Continued
In a true win for California’s unionized teachers, the Appeals Court last week unanimously rejected another well-funded attempt to strip rights to due process in hiring and firing. We talk with David Bacon, about this and other labor news. AND: How has the Tenderloin, alone of S.F.’s neighborhoods, avoided gentrification? We talk with Randy Shaw. … Continued
With Azi Paybarah, reporter for Politico New York. He has covered politics for The New York Observer, WNYC, The New York Sun and the New York Press. And Ruth Conniff, Editor in Cheif of The Progressive Magazine. Then, David Rosen, author of Sin, Sex & Subversion: How What Was Taboo in 1950s New York Became America’s New Normal. … Continued
Jack Blum spent years as a staff attorney for the Senate Anti-Trust Subcommittee specializing in white-collar corporate crime and off-shore tax evasion. He’ll join us for a conversation on what the Panama Papers tell us about the global financial world and the difficulties in stopping questionable business practices. Then, Peter Manseau, author of the book … Continued
With James Moore, author of the book Darwin’s Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views on Human Evolution. About the book: There has always been a mystery surrounding Darwin: How did this quiet, respectable gentleman come to beget one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought? It is … Continued
Wikileaks has posted a $100,000 bounty on the TPP, and has leaked more documents from the massive secret trade deal. PLUS: over 300 authors from around the world to attend the first annual Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley. We speak with Elaine Elinson about her history of California civil liberties heroes. With host Kris … Continued
Alexander Harcourt, Professor Emeritus at UC Davis and author of the forthcoming book Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human Diversity. And social justice advocate Hilary Klein, author of Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories, about women’s involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico.
James McGrath Morris is a former journalist, historian, and author of several books including The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism, and Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press. Today we often bemoan the 24 hour … Continued
Rebecca Herzig is professor of women and gender studies at Bates College and the author of the book Plucked: A History of Hair Removal. About the book: From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today, Americans have used a staggering array of … Continued
