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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Pulitzer prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston has done groundbreaking reporting on corporations and the tax code. Today he joins us for a conversation on the Panama Papers, offshore shell companies and tax havens….including how this happens in US states like Delaware, Wyoming and Nevada. And Mary Bottari, Deputy Director of the Center for Media and Democracy, on the … Continued
Conn Hallinan, columnist and retired professor of journalism, on the history of the fight for Irish independence 100 years ago and how it ushered in a new era of so-called terrorism. He just wrote the piece Terrorism: Then and Now, for Counterpunch. David Pollard, Senior Scientist at the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Pennsylvania State University and … Continued
With Darwin Bond Graham of the East Bay Express. Oakland is changing and there is a fierce political battle to try to maintain the city’s traditions and residents. And Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large at The American Prospect and a columnist for The Washington Post. His most recent article for the Prospect is The Long March of Bernie’s … Continued
With Harry Enten, senior political analyst at fivethirtyeight and author of the recent article Bernie Sanders Continues To Dominate Caucuses, But He’s About To Run Out Of Them. And Johnathan Tasini, official surrogate for the Bernie Sanders campaign and author of the book The Essential Bernie Sanders and His Vision for America. About the book: Meet … Continued
With Meg Leta Jones, Assistant Professor of Communications, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University and Author of the Book Ctrl + Z: The Right to be Forgotten. And Monique Morris, social justice scholar and author of the book Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century. Her new book is called Pushout: The … Continued
With McKay Coppins, senior writer for the BuzzFeed News politics team, and the author of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party’s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House. About the book: After the 2012 election, the GOP was in the wilderness. Lost and in disarray. And doggedly determined to do whatever it took … Continued
With Risa Goluboff, Professor of Law and History at the University of Virginia School of Law and author of the book Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s. And Nick Casey, Andes Bureau Chief of The New York Times based in Caracas. His most recent article, about his visit to a remote FARC camp, … Continued
With Marguerite Feitlowitz, Professor of Literature at Bennington College where she also directs the program on the Art of Literary Translation. Author of the book A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture. About the book: Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant women tortured, 30,000 individuals “disappeared”–these were the horrors of Argentina’s Dirty War. A New … Continued
With Nadia Fadil, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at KU Leuven in Brussels, Belgium and co-author of the chapter on Belgium in the Oxford Handbook of European Islam.
With Samuel Farber, Emeritus Professor of Politics at Brooklyn College and author of the book Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment. He has a new book coming out in May called The Politics of Che Guevara Theory and Practice. About the book: Uncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, … Continued
