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Jul 8, 2025 • 60min
Economic Fallout from Trump’s Big Budget Bill and New Tariffs; Plus, San Francisco Budget Vote
00:08 — Dean Baker is a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
00:33 — Tim Redmond is the founder and editor of 48hills.org.
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Jul 7, 2025 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.
00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
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Jul 4, 2025 • 60min
Vincent Bevins on why uprisings fail, lately (rebroadcast)
00:08 Vincent Bevins, formerly Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles times, and Southeast Asia correspondent for the Washington Post, both of which jobs gave him a front-row seat to recent social upheavals. His new book is If We Burn: the mass protest decade and the missing revolution. (this is a rebroadcast of an interview originally recorded in January 2024)
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Jul 3, 2025 • 60min
Trump Executive Order Signs Away Major Syria Sanctions; Plus, “Big Beautiful Bill” Cuts Healthcare, Expands ICE
00:08 — Mouin Rabbani is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, previously principal political affairs officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria.
00:33 — Phil Galewitz is senior correspondent for KFF Health News.
00:45 — Daniel Costa is Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at Economic Policy Institute.
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Jul 2, 2025 • 60min
Aftermath of the “12-Day War” in Iran; Plus, DOJ Could Denaturalize 25-Million Naturalized US Citizens
00:08 — Kaveh Ehsani is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at DePaul university. He is a contributing editor to the Tehran-based journal, Dialogue.
00:33 — Elizabeth Taufa, Senior Policy Attorney & Specialist with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
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Jul 1, 2025 • 60min
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes the Senate
00:08 — David Dayen, Executive Editor of the American Prospect.
00:33 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation.
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Jun 30, 2025 • 60min
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.
00:33 — Art Reingold is the Division Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
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Jun 27, 2025 • 37min
Remembering Stonewall (and Compton’s Cafeteria)
00:08 Remembering Stonewall: a radio documentary on the birth of a movement (1990) narrated by Michael Schirker; produced by David Isay.
An documentary consisting of oral histories about the New York Police Department Public Morals Section’s raid upon the Stonewall Inn on June 27 1969. Patrons of The Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar, fought the police officers
00:44 Felicia Elizondo, veteran of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, interviewed by Salima Hamirani (2016)
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Jun 26, 2025 • 60min
US, Israel, Iran and the War They All Claim Victory Over; Plus, Trump Administration’s Refugee Resettlement Ban and Supreme Court Ruling Allowing Third Country Deportations; Plus, Children’s Hospital Oakland Strike Over Union Contract
00:08 — Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration.
00:33 — Yael Schacher, director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International.
00:50 — Griselda Chavez, is an Infant Development Specialist at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and has worked there for fourteen years.
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Jun 25, 2025 • 60min
Brett Christophers on why markets don’t fix climate change (rebroadcast)
00:08 Brett Christophers is an economic geographer at Upsalla University’s Institute for Housing and Urban Research. His new book is The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet [originally recorded June 2024]
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