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KPFA - Letters and Politics

Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.

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Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC...

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/08/20

Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of a special 2-hour DemocracyNow!, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Audio for the first hour can be found here. Information about today’s show can be found here. The post Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC (hour 2 of 2-hour special) appeared first on KPFA.

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Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC...

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/08/19

Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of a special 2-hour DemocracyNow!, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Audio for the first hour can be found here. Information about today’s show can be found here. The post Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC (hour 2 of 2-hour special) appeared first on KPFA.

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59:57

Paul Cooper of Fall Of Civilizations: In Conversation

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/08/15

Guest: Paul Cooper is a podcaster, a historian, and the author of Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline. He writes, produces, and hosts the Fall of Civilizations podcast which explores the collapse of different societies through history. The post Paul Cooper of Fall Of Civilizations: In Conversation appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Lobbying for Zionism: A History

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2024/08/14

Guest: Ilan Pappe is Professor of History at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine; A History of Modern Palestine; and his latest, Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic.The post Lobbying for Zionism: A History appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Are Liberals Intolerant at Conservatives?

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/08/13

GuestsJeff Spinner-Halev is the Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books including his latest, Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality co-authored with Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. Elizabeth Theiss-Morse is the Willa Cather Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her research focuses in the areas of American politics

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59:58

Unraveling the Misinformation about Homelessness in...

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/08/12

Part I. Causes and Consequences of Homelessness in California Guest: Margot Kushel, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, She is the Director of the Principal Investigator of the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness (CASPEH). Conducted by UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI), (CASPEH) is the largest representative study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s. It provides a comprehensive look at the

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59:58

Crisis in the Middle East: Israel and the Axis of...

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/08/08

Guest: Assaf Kfoury is a mathematician, computer scientist, and political activist. An Arab American of Lebanese-Palestinian background who grew up in Beirut and Cairo. Currently, he is a Professor of Computer Science at Boston University. He recently wrote Hamas: From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe published by the International Union of Scientists.He is editor of Inside Lebanon: Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam Chomsky and Carol Chomsky. He acted as translator for Noam Chomsky in

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59:58

The Political Record of Kamala Harris

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/08/07

Guest: David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of several books including his latest, Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power (2020) and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud (2016), which earned the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize. He won the Hillman Prize for excellence in magazine journalism in 2021. On Twitter @ddayenThe post The Political Record of Kamala Harris appeared first on KPFA.

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Harris’s Pick for...

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/08/06

Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.”The post Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Harris’s Pick for Vice-President appeared first on KPFA.

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59:57

Joe Biden’s Economy and Presidential Record

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/08/05

Guest: Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. Find his weekly commentary at Beat the Press. Photo by Vladimir Solomianyi on Unsplash The post Joe Biden’s Economy and Presidential Record appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Ancient North American Cities and Why People Left Them

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/08/01

Guest: Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. Her previous work includes Independence Lost, a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. She is a co-author of Give Me Liberty! and coeditor of Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America. Her latest book is Native Nations: A Millennium in North

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59:58

The Mizrahi: From the Black Panthers to Likud

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/07/31

Guest: Asaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli American journalist. He is a staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the author of the book, Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth. The post The Mizrahi: From the Black Panthers to Likud appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

The Life and Times of Huey P. Long

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/07/30

Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed “The Kingfish“, was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. (Wikipedia)Guest: Robert Mann is retired professor of Journalism and Communication at Louisiana State University. He is the author of several books including Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise of a Conservative Icon; and Kingfish U: Huey Long and

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59:58

Venezuela’s Presidential Elections: Nicolas Maduro,...

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/07/29

Guest: Miguel Tinker Salas is an Emeritus Professor of History and Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Pomona College. He is the author of several books on Latin American history including Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know; The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela; co-editor of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an Exceptional Democracy. The post Venezuela’s Presidential Elections: Nicolas Maduro, Right-Wing Opposition & US Policies appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Kamala Harris on Gaza

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/07/25

Host Mitch Jeserich takes listener’s calls to examine Kamala Harris’s statements and actions concerning Israel’s assault on Gaza and how the conflict in the Middle East has affected listener’s views of this year’s general election. The post Kamala Harris on Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Letters and Politics – July 24, 2024

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/07/24

A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.The post Letters and Politics – July 24, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

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Letters and Politics – July 23, 2024

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/07/23

A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – July 23, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

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Letters and Politics – July 22, 2024

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/07/22

A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – July 22, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/07/18

Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee.The first hour can be found here. The post Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC appeared first on KPFA.

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Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC

KPFA - Letters and Politics ·

2024/07/17

Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee.The first hour can be found here. The post Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC appeared first on KPFA.

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