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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Today, former deputy national security adviser Charles Kupperman failed to appear for a close-door deposition before the House impeachment investigators. Mitch Jeserich joins us from Washington D.C for an update on this issue and on the latest happenings in Capitol Hill. Then, a conversation with Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-15) explaining the impeachment inquiry process and why … Continued
Mitch Jeserich talks to Max Pringle about the latest happenings in Capitol Hill about the impeachment inquiries. Then, Mitch Jeserich talks to Lisa Gilbert about the process of the impeachment inquiry. She is Public Citizen’s vice president of legislative affairs.
Guest: Aaron Glantz, a journalist and two-time Peabody Award winner, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, multiple Emmy Award nominee and author of the book Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.
From Capitol Hill, KPFA’s special correspondent Mitch Jeserich talks to Max Pringle about the current process of the impeachment inquiry against president Donald Trump. Then, a conversation about the gig economy with technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat. She is the author of the book Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work.
Guest: Stephen Kinzer, former New York Times foreign correspondent, now Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and author of the book Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.
The richly diverse and fascinating world of letters and politics of the United States.
Guest: Andrej Grubacic, former teacher at the University of Rojava and is the founding Chair of Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Andrej talks with Mitch about Rojava the autonomous, mostly Kurdish region of Northeastern Syria. From Dissent magazine: “Turkey’s invasion of Rojava is not only a source of … Continued
Guest: Laura Dassow Walls, an English literature professor, currently Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and author of the book Henry David Thoreau, A Life.
An Oral History Project. Guest: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a scholar of Indigenous History, radical writer and author of the book An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
An Oral History Project. Guest: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a scholar of Indigenous History, radical writer and author of the book An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
