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Jul 25, 2024 • 60min
Netanyahu Visits Congress; Plus, A Look at Kamala Harris’s Career in Public Office
0:08 — Joel Beinin is a Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
0:33 — David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. His most recent book is Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power (2020).
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Jul 24, 2024 • 60min
Who is Kamala Harris today?
00:08 – Jamilah King, editorial director at Mother Jones (and author of many articles about the arc of Kamala Harris’s career in politics)
00:34 – Tahir Hamut Izgil, one of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur. He fled China and now lives near Washington, DC. His latest book is a memoir entitled Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide. His translator, Joshua L. Freeman, is a specialist in Uyghur history and literature at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. [repeat broadcast]
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Jul 23, 2024 • 60min
San Francisco Political Roots of Kamala Harris; Plus, ICJ Rules Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territories is Illegal, What Happens Now?
0:08 — Joe Eskenazi, is managing editor at Mission Local
0:33 — George Bisharat, Professor Emeritus at University of California College of Law, San Francisco.
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Jul 22, 2024 • 60min
UpFront – July 22, 2024
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
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Jul 19, 2024 • 60min
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC
Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee.
The first hour can be found here.
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Jul 18, 2024 • 60min
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC
Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee.
The first hour can be found here.
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Jul 17, 2024 • 60min
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC
Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee.
The first hour can be found here.
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Jul 16, 2024 • 60min
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC
Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee.
The first hour can be found here.
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Jul 15, 2024 • 60min
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC
Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee.
The first hour can be found here.
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Jul 12, 2024 • 60min
Brett Christophers on how de-regulation’s stymied the clean-energy transition
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
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