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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
With Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post. Pratap Chatterjee, investigative journalist and author. He is executive director of CorpWatch, and Oakland-Base corporate accounbtability organization. Author of The Earth Brokerers, Iraq Inc.: A profitable Occupation and Haliburton’s Army. And an update on Haiti’s Presidential Election with Margaret Prescod reporting from Haiti. Margaret Prescod is the … Continued
with Laura Carlsen, Director of the Center for International Policy’s Americas Program, and with Hiroshi Motomura, a Professor at UCLA Law, and influential scholar on immigration and citizenship law.
with Thomas Frank, is an American political analyst, historian, journalist, and columnist for Harper’s Magazine. He has written many books, his latest is Listen Liberal: or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange. She is one of America’s best-known and courageous activists. Medea is the recipient of the 2012 U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation’s Peace Prize. She is the author of the book Drone Warfare. And her latest “Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S. – Saudi Connection.” About “Kingdom … Continued
with Mark Potok, Senior Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, an experienced journalist and expert on hate and extremism in America. and The Electoral College with Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University, renowned legal thinker, and the author of many books. His latest is The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era. … Continued
Mitch hosts a round table on the Presidential election results–the how and the why with: Adele M. Stan is a columnist for The American Prospect, and AlterNet‘s Washington editor. Rick Perlstein, is the author of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. Before that, he published Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the … Continued
with Dr. Richard Wolff, a renowned American Marxist economist, and Professor of Economics Emeritus, about the state of the world economy, politics in the US and his ideas for rewriting the economic script. His latest book is Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism.
with Antonio Gonzalez, President of The William C. Velasquez Institute, an organization dedicated to political and economic participation in Latino communities, and Beth Harris, founder of Black Box Voting, a national elections watchdog group. then with Ellen FitzPatrick, Professor and Historian, about the extraordinary Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President, all the way back … Continued
Mitch and Economist Robert Reich have a wide-ranging conversation — from the Cubs winning the World Series to the looming Election and the quality of this Election season. Will Hillary Clinton win North Carolina, the Rust Belt, the Union vote? Reich, for 25 years, has been talking about inequality, the people who have been left … Continued
