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Jul 10, 2025 • 60min
Annalee Newitz on Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
00:08 — Annalee Newitz is a San Francisco based journalist and author. They write for New Scientist and co-host the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Their latest book is “Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind.”
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Jul 9, 2025 • 60min
Netanyahu Visits the White House; Plus, Medicare Drug Price Negotiation and Education Hit Hard by Budget Bill
00:08 — Joel Beinin Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
00:33 — Juliette Cubanski is deputy director of the Program on Medicare Policy at KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research, polling and news organization.
00:45 — Zaidee Stavely is education and immigration reporter at EdSource and hosts the weekly Education Beat podcast.
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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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