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0:19 Alec MacGillis is a senior reporter at Propublica just out with a new book that uses the story of one company to tell the story of an entire country coming apart at the seams — it’s called Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America 1:08 A new audio documentary from KPFA’s Sam Anderson on the clash … Continued
0:08 Claire Potter is a political historian at the New School for Social Research. She is executive editor of Public Seminar Her latest book is Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy. 1:08 Savala Nolan, executive director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social … Continued
0:08 Mitchell Schwarzer is Professor of Architectural and Urban History at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. His new book is Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption. 1:08 Gene Slater has spent four decades advising public agencies on affordable housing; his new book is Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to … Continued
0:08 Omicron: the view from the hospitals Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at UCSF Asantewaa Boykin, Registered Nurse working in the UC Davis Medical Center’s Emergency Room, also co-founder of the Anti Police Terror Project and program director of Mental Health First Sacramento. Dr. Rupa Marya, Associate Professor of Medicine … Continued
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
0:08 Journalist Jaime Lowe on her new book Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires 1:08 Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her latest, Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
On today’s show: 0:08 – Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13), senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research joins us to discuss the possibility of economic deflation following rising concern over widespread inflation. 0:33 – We discuss San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s declaration of a state of emergency in the Tenderloin with Tim Redmond (@timredmondsf) … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – We discuss Chile’s election of Gabriel Boric with Naomi Larsson Piñeda (@naomilars), a freelance journalist and editor based in London. 0:33 – Sammy Roth (@Sammy_Roth) covers energy for the Los Angeles Times. He joins us to explain the proposed decision by the California Public Utilities Commission which would affect net … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich), joins us to explain key voting rights bills and social spending bills that Democrats are struggling to get passed. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer more COVID questions. 1:08 – Oakland … Continued
On today’s show: We spend the full hour with Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Presbyterian minister, and author. His latest book Our Class, Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison is available as a fund drive gift for your pledge of $150.
