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Noam Chomsky Talks About Activism & Politics – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING NOAM CHOMSKY – One of the most well-known left intellectual scholars and authors, Noam Chomsky, in a new book ...
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Erik Edstrom Discusses His Memoir ‘Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ERIK EDSTROM – Just as there is a national conversation around defunding the police as we see the human ...
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Imani Perry Discusses Her New Book – Breathe: A Letter to My Sons – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING IMANI PERRY – The United States is a deeply racialized country, no matter what pundits and commentators like to ...
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Jeffrey Sterling Discusses His Book ‘Unwanted Spy’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING JEFFREY STERLING – In early 2015, the Obama administration pursued the conviction of a former CIA analyst named Jeffrey ...
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Thom Hartmann Discusses the Hidden History of Guns in America – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING THOM HARTMANN – The United States stands out from much of the world today in proliferating firearms at a ...
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Bess Williamson Discusses Her Book Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING BESS WILLIAMSON – A young mother in New York City died in a subway station in late January. Twenty-two ...
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Cherríe Moraga Discusses Her Memoir ‘Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING CHERRÍE MORAGA –  The United States today is grappling with becoming a majority minority nation, leading to a growing ...
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Martin Shoenhals Discusses His Book ‘Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia: Equality Reimagined ‘ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING MARTIN SCHOENHALS – Progressives can clearly articulate what we are fighting against: poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, wars, climate change, ...
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Doreen Dodgen-Magee Discusses Her Book ‘Deviced: Balancing Life and Technology in a Digital World’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING DOREEN DODGE-MAGEE – Digital technology has reshaped societies all over the world. Broadband internet access is now considered a ...
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Plastic & Climate: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING CARROLL MUFFETT – There has been tremendous concern around the pollution of our oceans, our soil and food systems, and ...
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Renowned Author Francis Fukuyama Discusses His Latest Book ‘Identity: The Demand for Dignity and Politics of Resentment’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING FRANCIS FUKUYAMA – The rise of Donald Trump has sent shock waves through the American political landscape. But his ...
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Professor Noliwe Rooks Discusses Her New Book ‘Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING NOLIWE ROOKS – Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy Devos is finding it hard to attend public events without ...
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David Cay Johnston Discusses His Latest Book on Donald Trump ‘It’s Worse Than You Think: What The Trump Administration Is Doing to America’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING DAVID CAY JOHNSTON – By the time outrage spreads over something unbelievable that Donald Trump has done, he has ...
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Rutger Bregman Discusses His New Book ‘Utopia For Realists’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING RUTGER BREGMAN – Imagine a life where you didn’t need to work more than 15 hours a week to ...
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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Discusses Her Book ‘They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING STEPHANIE E. JONES-ROGERS – When we think about the institution of slavery in America we think of slave-owning whites ...
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L.A. Kauffman Discusses Her New Book ‘How To Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING L.A. KAUFFMAN – The midterm elections this past November were a strong rebuke to the Trump Presidency. The wave ...
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New Comienzos’ Founder Discusses How Deportees Are Rebuilding Lives in Mexico – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ISRAEL CONCHA – Deportations of undocumented people living in the US have risen under Donald Trump. But they were ...
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Author Edgar Villanueva Discusses His Book ‘Decolonizing Wealth’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING EDGAR VILLANUEVA – The United States is experiencing record levels of wealth inequality, with money flowing to the top ...
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Alissa Quart on her book Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ALISSA QUART – The US is the most unequal developed nation in the world. Inequality is so high today ...
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Terry Heaton Discusses His Book ‘The Gospel of Self: How Jesus Joined the GOP’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING TERRY HEATON: Televangelist Pat Robertson is not happy that Donald Trump is facing mass criticism for his unprofessional, dishonest, ...
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Author Raj Patel Discusses His New Book ‘A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature and the Future of the Planet’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING RAJ PATEL – Most of us middle and working class Americans are always looking for a good bargain. In ...
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Onnesha Roychoudhuri Discusses Her New Book ‘The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ONNESHA ROYCHOUDHURI – As we hurtle toward the midterms elections this November, many Americans who despair of the future ...
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James S. Fishkin Discusses His Book ‘Democracy When The People Are Thinking: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING JAMES FISHKIN – American politics are in trouble. As a nation we are polarized. We question the truth and ...
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Professor Larry Moore Discusses Book He’s Co-Authored ‘Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING R. LAURENCE MOORE – The US is a deeply religious country. A poll in 2016 by the Public Religion ...
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Mark Hertsgaard Discusses His In-Depth Story for The Nation: ‘How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING MARK HERTSGAARD – The American Cancer Society says on its website that, “Radio frequency waves given off by cell ...
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Bill Schneider Discusses His New Book ‘Standoff: How America Became Ungovernable’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING BILL SCHNEIDER – Our current political moment in the United States seems to be unprecedented. We have the type ...
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Author Isa Blumi Discusses His Book ‘Destroying Yemen: What Chaos In Arabia Tell Us About the World’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ISA BLUMI – The United Nations has declared the war in Yemen as the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” Four ...
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Martin Puchner Discusses His New Book ‘The Written World:  The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, and Civilization – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING MARTIN PUCHNER – We tend to think of literature as part of art, reflecting on history rather than making ...
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Oscar López Rivera Speaks Out on Hurricane Maria, His Incarceration, and Political Activism – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING OSCAR LÓPEZ RIVERA – Oscar López Rivera has been called the Nelson Mandela of Puerto Rico. Indeed, like the ...
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L.A. Kauffman Explores the History of Past Movements on New Book ‘Direct Action’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING L.A. KAUFFMAN – There is a powerful history of direct action in the United States that has achieved serious ...
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Sanford Levinson Discusses the Book He’s Co-Authored ‘Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING SANFORD LEVINSON – Politicians in the US like to say they are devoted to the Constitution of this nation ...
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Robin Yassin-Kassab Puts Trump’s “Mission” in Syria into Context – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ROBIN YASSIN-KASSAB – President Donald Trump on Friday announced airstrikes against Syrian government targets in retaliation for a recent ...
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Alia Malek Discusses Her New Book: The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ALIA MALEK – The nation of Syria was once associated with beauty, culture, history, and, sadly, a long-term dictatorship ...
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Paul Kivel’s Book ‘Uprooting Racism’ Explains ‘How White People Can Work for Racial Justice’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING PAUL KIVEL – The resurgence of virulent and overt racism and expressions of white supremacy in the US since ...
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Zeynep Tufekci Discusses Her Book ‘Twitter and Teargas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ZEYNEP TUFEKCI – We take for granted the Internet today and all its myriad social networking tools. We use ...
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Anthony Ray Hinton Discusses His Book ‘The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ANTHONY RAY HINTON – Anthony Ray Hinton was only 29 years old when he found himself on death row ...
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David Van Reybrouck, a Leading European Intellectual, Discusses His New Book ‘Against Elections’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING DAVID VAN REYBROUCK – A book entitled “Against Elections” might lead you to believe it is an anti-democratic treatise ...
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Jessica Bruder Discusses Her New Book ‘Nomadland: Surviving America In the Twenty First Century’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING JESSICA BRUDER – You’ve heard of the so-called “gig economy,” where American workers are now increasingly free lancers working ...
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Rickey Gard Diamond Discusses Her Book ‘Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING RICKEY GARD DIAMOND – April 10th 2018 marked Equal Pay Day – a day that is meant to highlight ...
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Cynthia Enloe Discusses Her New Book ‘ ‘The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING CYNTHIA ENLOE – Many millenials who are coming of age in the era of #MeToo and the push back ...
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Gary Taubes Discusses His New Book ‘The Case Against Sugar’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING GARY TAUBES – ‘This is the season for holiday cheer and presents, and also sugar. Lots and lots of ...
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Alexander Reid Ross Explores Fascism and Political Power on Book ‘Against the Fascist Creep’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ALEXANDER REID ROSS – The rise of white supremacy in the US going hand-in-hand with the election of Donald ...
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Lance Selfa Discusses the Book He’s Edited ‘US Politics in an Age of Uncertainty: Essays on a New Reality’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING LANCE SELFA – The Democratic Party has been enjoying minority status in Congress for some years now but the ...
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Stephanie Abraham Reviews the Movie ‘Black Panther’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING STEPHANIE ABRAHAM – The latest Disney-Marvel superhero blockbuster has all the hallmarks of recent such films: breath taking scenery, ...
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Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Discusses Her New Book ‘Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ – We live in a country where mass shootings are so common that they follow a script: ...
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Philip Acherman-Leist Discusses His New Book ‘A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING PHILIP ACHERMAN-LEIST – The tiny picturesque town of Mals, in northern Italy is an unlikely leader in the fight ...
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Jeremy Lent Discusses His Book ‘The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING JEREMY LENT – The way in which we view the world is deeply influenced by earlier generations and our ...
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Nader Hashemi Discusses the Book ‘Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING NADER HASHEMI – The Muslim world has experienced much violence for decades now, with internecine warfare fueled by foreign ...
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Frances Moore Lappé Discusses the Book She’s Co-Authored ‘Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ – The state of our democracy is in deep trouble and Donald Trump’s electoral college victory ...
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John O’Brien Discusses His New Book ‘Keeping it Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING JOHN O’BRIEN – The Federal Bureau of Investigation released its annual findings of hate crimes in November 2017 and ...
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Danielle Allen Discusses Her Book ‘Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING DANIELLE ALLEN – The statistics around mass incarceration in the US are depressing. We are a nation that imprisons ...
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Carl Anthony Discusses His Memoir ‘The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING CARL ANTHONY – The architecture of our cities and communities often reflects the current social order but it can ...
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Matthew Hoh Discusses the Expansion of the CIA in Afghanistan – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING MATTHEW HOH – The New York Times on Sunday published an expose of the CIA’s expanding role in Afghanistan ...
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Andrea J. Ritchie Discusses Her New Book ‘Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ANDREA J. RITCHIE – African American men continue to be disproportionately targeted by police all over the country. But ...
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Sasha Abramsky Discusses His New Book ‘Jumping At Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING SASHA ABRAMSKY – Americans place terrorist attacks high on their list of fears yet very few people actually die ...
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Matthew Stein Discusses His Book ‘When Disaster Strikes: A Comprehensive Guide for Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING MATTHEW STEIN – If you live on the East Coast, especially the Southeast, this year’s hurricane season may have ...
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George Monbiot Discusses His New Book ‘Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING GEORGE MONBIOT – The world is in crisis – there is no doubt about it. For Americans, a year ...
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Alexander Klimburg Discusses His New Book ‘The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ALEXANDER KLIMBURG – The 2016 US Presidential election was a good example of how the Internet is playing an ...
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Rick Wartzman Discusses His Book ‘The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING RICK WARTZMAN – There is a persistent and powerful myth in the US, of a past where hardworking Americans ...
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Wendy Pearlman Discusses Her New Book ‘We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices From Syria’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING WENDY PEARLMAN – Syria and its unending war remain in the news after many long years of fighting, bloodshed, ...
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Melvin A. Goodman Gives An In-Depth Account of the Politics of the CIA – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING MELVIN GOODMAN – Melvin Goodman’s long career as a respected intelligence analyst at the CIA, specializing in US/Soviet relations, ...
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Author Marissa Landrigan Discusses Her Book ‘The Vegetarian’s Guide To Eating Meat’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWListen to story: https://ia801508.us.archive.org/31/items/20170428MarissaLandriganExtended/2017_04_28_Marissa_Landrigan_extended.mp3 Download: mp3 (Duration: 27:32 — 25.2MB) FEATURING MARISSA LANDRIGAN _ The progressive minded activists among us ...
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Author John A. Farrell Discusses His New Book ‘Richard Nixon: The Life’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING JOHN A. FARRELL – Donald Trump’s presidency, even before it officially began, drew immediate comparisons to Richard Nixon. Nixon ...
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Author Sara Ahmed Discusses Her New Book ‘Living a Feminist Life’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING SARA AHMED – The word “feminist” is a heavy one, with history, implication, and judgment. It has been seen ...
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Tressie Cottom Discusses Her Book ‘Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING TRESSIE MCMILLAN COTTOM – The 45th President of the US once ran a for-profit college – Trump University – ...
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Sir Richard J. Evans on What Lessons Can We Learn About Germany’s Descent Into Fascism? – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING SIR RICHARD J. EVANS – Americans have descended into a mass collective trauma over the past several months since ...
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Sheelah Kolhatkar Discusses Her Book ‘Black Edge: Inside Information and Dirty Money’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING SHEELAH KOLHATKAR – The Republican Party and Donald Trump’s pledge to roll back the Dodd-Frank financial regulations has Wall ...
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Ramesh Srinivasan Discusses His New Book ‘Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World’FEATURING RAMESH SRINIVASAN – Much of the organizing against Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda is taking place on social media and ...
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George Lakoff on How Much of a Master Manipulator Trump Is – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING GEORGE LAKOFF – A majority of Americans are experiencing shock, anger, and disgust at the way in which our ...
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Author Lisa McGirr Discusses Her New Book ‘The War on Alcohol’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING LISA MCGIRR – Most of us view the strange era of prohibition in the US as a historical footnote, ...
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George Lakey on His Book Viking Economics – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING GEORGE LAKEY – Americans are overworked, underpaid, stressed, and mostly non-unionized. They may lack healthcare, or pay too much ...
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NDLON’s Olga Tomchin Discusses Mayra Machado’s Case And More – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING OLGA TOMCHIN – Thirty-one year old Mayra Machado is a typical American woman, mother of three, who was working ...
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William W. Goldsmith Shares His Progressive Plan to Transform Cities – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING WILLIAM W. GOLDSMITH – A common theme emerging in the aftermath of the disastrous Presidential election was that Donald ...
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Rahul Mahajan Analyses Obama Vs. Trump Foreign Policies – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING RAHUL MAHAJAN – The US-backed Iraqi offensive on the ISIS stronghold of Mosul has resulted in thousands of Iraqis ...
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Arun Gupta Looks into the Bundy Brothers’ vs. #NODAPL Protests, Union Organizing, Elections And More – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ARUN GUPTA – Remember the Bundy brothers’ led takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon earlier this year? ...
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Conversation With Political Comedian John Fugelsang on His Film ‘Dream On’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING JOHN FUGELSANG – A Washington Post article in mid-October entitled, “Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better ...
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Kimball Taylor On How Thousands of Bicycles Helped Migrants Cross US Border – EXTENDED CONVERSATIONFEATURING KIMBALL TAYLOR – The US-Mexico border is nearly 2000 miles long and is one of the most politicized borders ...
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Bill Ayers’ New Book Asks Us to ‘Demand the Impossible’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING BILL AYERS – We find ourselves at an extraordinary crossroads today in the US. While anger against racist violence ...
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Sharon Ellison Explains Her Powerful Form of Non-Defensive Communication – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING SHARON ELLISON – The Donald Trump phenomenon is an undeniable part of the American political landscape today, no matter ...
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Jeff Chang Discusses His New Book on Race and Resegregation – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING JEFF CHANG – The US Presidential election this year has inspired severe levels of anxiety, particularly among people of ...
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Mara Einstein Discusses Her New Book ‘Black Ops Advertising – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING MARA EINSTEIN – When you open your newspaper, there is content that is clearly written and edited by journalists, ...
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Gerald Horne Discusses Paul Robeson as Artist and Revolutionary – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING GERALD HORNE – If ever there was a single person who exemplified the term “renaissance man” like no other, ...
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Behrooz Ghamari Reflects on His Years As A Political Prisoner In Iran after the Iranian Revolution – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING BEHROOZ GHAMARI – Nearly 40 years ago, a major revolution took place in Iran to overthrow the Western backed-Shah ...
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Maria Armoudian Discusses Her New Book ‘Reporting From the Danger Zone: Frontline Journalists, Their Jobs, and an Increasingly Perilous Future’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING MARIA ARMOUDIAN – Journalism is a rapidly changing field with many pressures. Among them are the on-going corporatization of ...
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Karlos K. Hill Analyses The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING KARLOS K. HILL – The Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative has just announced that it plans to erect a national ...
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Larry Tye Discusses His New Book on Bobby Kennedy – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING LARRY TYE – Although this year’s election seems like the most chaotic and unpredictable one in recent memory, there ...
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Former SEIU President Discusses a Bold Vision For the Economy – A Universal Basic Income on His Book – EXTENDED VERSIONFEATURING ANDY STERN – What would you with your life if you didn’t have to worry about earning a salary ...
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Investigative Journalist Alison Flowers’ Book Chronicles the Stories of 4 Wrongfully Convicted AmericansFEATURING ALISON FLOWERS – What happens when the US criminal justice system wrongly convicts and incarcerates you for a crime ...
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A Conversation with Deena Stryker on Her Journey 50+ Years Ago When She Interviewed Fidel and Raul Castro, Che Guevara, Celia Sanchez and Others – EXTENDED VERSIONFEATURING DEENA STRYKER – Commercial airlines have just been ok’d for direct flights from 10 US cities to Cuba – ...
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Dennis Henigan Discusses His Book ‘Guns Don’t People, People Kill People,’ And Other Myths about Gun and Gun Control – EXTENDED VERSIONFEATURING DENNIS A. HENIGAN – Cleveland, Ohio, will be the site of the upcoming Republican National Convention, and in anticipation ...
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Conversation With Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza on 3rd Anniversary of the Movement – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ALICIA GARZA – It was in July 2013 that three African American women, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia ...
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Mark Danner Discusses His Book ‘Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING MARK DANNER – The September 11th 2001 attacks provided the spark for a multi-front war crafted by President George ...
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Corey Saylor Discusses New Report on the Industry of Islamophobia in the U.S. – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING COREY SAYLOR – The FBI, after being pressured by the public released a more complete transcript of the calls ...
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Norm Stamper Discusses His New Book ‘How To Fix America’s Police’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING NORM STAMPER – In his new book, To Protect and Serve, former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper opened with ...
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Mark Gerzon Discusses How We Can Bridge the Partisan Divide – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING MARK GERZON – If there’s one thing most Americans would agree on about politics it is that many of ...
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Jeremy Scahill on the US’s Global Assassination Program – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING JEREMY SCAHILL – The Intercept, the online investigative news site founded by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill, ...
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Ralph R. Frerichs Discusses His Book About the ‘Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING RALPH R. FRERICHS – A group of scientists at Yale University recently concluded that Haiti’s devastating cholera epidemic could ...
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Yanis Varoufakis Speaks Out On His Time in GovernmentWatch excerpts from a talk given by former Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis on April 23, 2016 in Pasadena, California ...
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Kristen Hogan Discusses Her Book The Feminist Bookstore Movement – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING KRISTEN HOGAN – One of the most important outcomes of second wave feminism were brick-and-mortar institutions that emerged around ...
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Chaédria LaBouvier Analyses Beyoncé’s New Album ‘Lemonade’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING CHAÉDRIA LABOUVIER – The pop megastar Beyoncé surprised her fans last week by releasing an album called Lemonade. She ...
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Jean Trounstine on A Young Man Charged, Tried, and Sentenced to An Adult Prison – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING JEAN TROUNSTINE – Most of us are familiar with the disturbing statistic about the US imprisoning more people than ...
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Alison Stewart Explores America’s Love Affair With Stuff – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ALISON STEWART – Here are some shocking statistics about how Americans live: According to the Los Angeles Times, the ...
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Stefanie DeLuca on Baltimore, Race, and Poverty – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING STEFANIE DELUCA – April 12 marks the first anniversary of the death of Freddie Gray, a young African American ...
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Tom Hayden on US-Cuba Relations – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING TOM HAYDEN – In late March President Obama made history when he traveled to Cuba with his family. Mr ...
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Christopher Emdin on His Book – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING CHRISTOPHER EMDIN – Hollywood loves a good story about how a heroic and earnest young, white teacher single handedly ...
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Mara Keisling on Anti-Transgender Bills – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING MARA KEISLING – The state of Kansas has become the latest flashpoint in the battle over bathroom rights nationwide ...
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Zahra Billoo on Islamophobia – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ZAHRA BILLOO – – Within hours of the attacks in Brussels, Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz released a statement ...
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Robert Greenwald on ‘Making A Killing’ – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING ROBERT GREENWALD – Gun proliferation activist Jamie Gilt was shot in early March – by her own 4-year old ...
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Jill Stein Speaks Out – EXTENDED INTERVIEWFEATURING DR. JILL STEIN – Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been an outsider for most of his Senate career ...
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