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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 Adele Stan, Washington editor at AlterNet; columnist at The American Prospect. Peter Montgomery, senior fellow at People For the American Way and a freelance writer where he contributes to the Right Wing Watch blog, and is an associate editor at Religion Dispatches, where he writes a weekly column on global developments at the intersection … Continued
With Paul Taylor, former Executive Vice President of the Pew Research Center. Taylor was president and board chairman of the Alliance for Better Campaigns, which sought to reduce the cost and improve the content of political campaign communication on television. For 25 years, Taylor was a newspaper reporter, the last 14 with The Washington Post. He … Continued
With Suzy Kim, professor of Korean History at Rutgers University. Author of the book Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950. About the book: During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed … Continued
With James S. Henry, senior advisor to the Tax Justice Network, a global justice fellow at Yale, a senior fellow at the Columbia University Center for Sustainable investment and former chief economist of McKinsey and Company. Henry‘s books include The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Underground Economy and The Pirate Bankers.
With Adam Kokesh, libertarian activist who plans to run as presidental nominay with the Libertarian Party in 2020. Kokesh is an Iraq war veteran well known for his anti-war activism which has envolved numerous arrests including for dancing with Medea Benjamin. Kokesh is author the book Freedom!.
With journalist and author Deena Stryker. During the 1960’s Stryker traveled to Cuba and interviewed Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Che Guevara, and Celia Sanchez. Deena Stryker just published her diary from this period Cuba: Diary of a Revolution, Inside the Cuban Revolution with Fidel, Raul, Che, and Celia Sanchez. We talked to Deena about Cuba today. About … Continued
With Nobel Prize Laurate, Joseph E. Stiglitz, professor of economics at Columbia University. He is a former chief economist of the World Bank and is former member and chairman of the (US president’s) Council of Economic Advisers. He is known for his critical views of the management of globalization, free market economics and some international institutions like … Continued
With journalist and investigative reporter Juan Gonzalez. Gonzalez is the co-host of the radio and television program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. He was also a columnist for the New York Daily News from 1987 to 2016. Juan Gonzalez is author of Harvest of Empire: A Histoty of Latinos in America. And his latest News for All The People: The Epic … Continued
With Mark Singer, author of the book “Trump and Me.” Singer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1974. He is the author of Funny Money and Somewhere in America. About the book: Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race—in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican … Continued
With Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami talking about the current situation in Syria. Guest: Robin Yassin-Kassab is a media commentator on Syria and the Middle East and the author of the novel The Road From Damascus and contributor toSyria Speaks. He co-authored with Leila Al-Shami the book “Buring Country: Syrians in Revolution and War.” Leila Al-Shami is a founding … Continued
