Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. A federal government shutdown this weekend is looking all but certain, as a bipartisan Senate attempt to keep the government open met a cold response from House Republicans. If there’s no agreement by Sunday, October 1, a … Continued


The Reconstruction Amendments and How They’ve Created Our Political World Today   Guest: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.  He is the author of several books including, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men; The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery which won the Pulitzer; and The Second Founding : How the Civil War and … Continued