Antonin Scalia; The Federalist Society
With Marjorie Cohn, Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, on Supreme Court votes with eight justices. Then, Amanda Hollis Brusky on the Federalist Society.
Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
With Peter Ross Range, world-traveled journalist who has covered war, politics and international affairs. A specialist in Germany, his latest book is 1924: The Year That Made Hitler. And Noah Strycker. Noah Strycker, 29, is living an adventurous life of birds. In 2015, he set a new world big year record by seeing 6,042 bird species … Continued
New Hampshire Primary Debrief; A People’s History of the American Public Library
With Steve Phillips, author of the book Brown is the New White How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority. He is also a civil rights lawyer, a fellow at the Center for American Progress, and founder and chairperson of PowerPAC Plus. And John Nichols, political correspondent at the Nation Magazine. Then, a conversation … Continued
With David Moore, professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire and Founding Director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Former senior editor of the Gallup Poll, where he worked for thirteen years. Associate editor of the new online journal Survey Practice, sponsored by the American Association for Public Opinion Research. He is … Continued
The 4 month campaign that changed American Politics
With Geoffrey Cowan, Professor at the University of Southern California and author of the book Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary. About the book: Let the People Rule tells the exhilarating story of the four-month campaign that changed American politics forever. In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt came out of … Continued
With Dayna Bowen Matthew, Professor at University of Colorado Law School and the Colorado School of Public Health. She serves on the faculty of the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities, and she is co-founder of the Colorado Health Equity Project, a medical legal partnership whose mission is to remove barriers to good health … Continued
With Simon Mabon, lecturer at Lancaster in University and author of the book Saudi Arabia and Iran: Power and Rivalry in the Middle East. Then, David Abraham, natural resource strategist, director of the Technology, Rare and Electronics Materials Center, and author of the book The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare … Continued
We’ll talk about Iowa and moving forward for the Presidential Candidates with: Adele Stan, weekly columnist at the American Prospect. She is the former Washington Bureau chief for Alternet and a longtime chronicler of national politics. Normal Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, author of the book War … Continued
With Brian Beutler of the New Republic on his recent article Is Nominating Bernie Sanders a Worthwhile Gamble? Beutler is a senior editor at the New Republic. He covers domestic policy, politics, and political movements. And Mike Lofgren, author of The Party Is Over. He spent twenty-eight years in Congress, the last sixteen as a senior analyst on the … Continued
The Iowa Caucuses; A Labor (Oral) History of the Golden Gate Bridge
With David Redlawsk, professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and author of Why Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process. And Harvey Schwartz, curator of the Oral History Collection at the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Library in San Francisco. He is author of the book Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Workers’ … Continued