Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is the President-elect of Mexico, sweeping to victory on Sunday in highly anticipated elections. The left-leaning leader has been compared to Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn but my guest Roberto Flores likens him more to Barack Obama. Then we’ll get a special report from our field correspondent Nic Cha Kim as … Continued
As the issue of immigrant family separation becomes a make-or-break moment of morality for the United States, we’ll turn to Kathryn Hampton of the group Physicians for Human Rights to discuss the profound psychological impact of separating children from their parents, and the blatant lies coming out of the Trump administration in its attempt to … Continued
The Supreme Court ruled in a 7 to 2 decision on Monday in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. The decision, while devastating on the surface, is apparently narrow enough in scope that it does not open the door to broad-based discrimination on the basis … Continued
As more than a hundred refugees from Central America arrived at the US border with Mexico earlier this week American immigration authorities have begun letting a handful trickle in through the border to process their asylum applications. On our show today Laura Carlsen will join us from Mexico for more. Then, as part of our … Continued
In the wake of US airstrikes against Syrian government targets there have been protests and well-deserved criticism of the Trump administration, as well as denial of the crimes of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. On our show today we’ll turn to a Syrian author and journalist based in the UK who has closely been following … Continued
