Ari Berman is the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. He’s the author of several books including, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America; Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics; and his latest, Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It. The post Anti-Democratic Rule In The United States: A History appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Anthony D’Agostino is an Emeritus Professor of History at San Francisco State University.  He is an expert on the history of the Russian Revolution and the Cold War and the author of several books including Soviet Succession Struggles: Kremlinology and the Russian Question from Lenin to Gorbachev published in 1988 and republished in 2024.     The post A History of the Soviet Union and its Influence on the Global Left appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Keith O’Brien is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist.  He is the author of Paradise Falls, Fly Girls, Outside Shot, and his latest, Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball. The post Charlie Hustle and the Culture of Gambling in Professional Sports appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine.  He is the author of several books including his latest, co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders, “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.”  His Latest piece in the Nation is: Donald Trump Was Convicted Because of Democracy—Not in Spite of It    Photo (C): Tingey Injury Law Firm, West Charleston Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV, USA   The post The Convicted Presidential Candidate: Eugene V Debs vs Donald J Trump appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. A Book for Kids (& You) to Think About Palestine & Israel. Guest: Reza Aslan is a writer and scholar of religions.  He is a recipient of the prestigious James Joyce Award and the author of such books as Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth; No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam; and his latest, A Kids Book About Israel & Palestine. Part II. KPFA’s Audacious History with Liam O’Donoghue,  Guest: Liam O’Donoghue is the host and producer of the KPFA radio program and podcast East Bay Yesterday and co-creator of the Long Lost Oakland map. Event: “Rebel Airwaves” KPFA history with Liam O’Donoghue,  WHEN: Monday, JUNE 3rd, 2024 @ 7:00 PM   WHERE: SHOTGUN PLAYERS AT THE ASHBY STAGE 1901 ASHBY AVE, in BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, CA 94703 The post A Book for Kids (& You) to Think About Palestine & Israel. Then, KPFA’s Audacious History. appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Glory Liu is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism. The post How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon appeared first on KPFA.

Today’s Letters & Politics is preempted by a special KPFA broadcast: Mitch Jeserich hosts a special 2-hour remembrance of former broadcaster Larry Bensky. This program airs live from 10am-noon and includes time for listeners to call in with memories of Larry. KPFA call-in numbers: 510-848-4425, 800-958-9008     The post KPFA Special Programming: A Tribute to Larry Bensky appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Sudhir Hazareesingh is a British-Mauritian historian. He is a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy.  He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history, among his books are The Legend of Napoleon, In the Shadow of the General and How the French Think. He won the Prix du Mémorial d’Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation Napoléon for the first of these, a Prix d’Histoire du Sénat for the second, and the Grand Prix du Livre d’Idées for the third. His latest book is Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture. Image credit: Wikimedia The post The Making of a Haitian Revolutionary: From Toussaint Breda to Toussaint L’Ouverture appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York City.  Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national syndicated television and radio program Economic Update that airs weekly on KPFA. The post KPFA Special: Richard Wolff on US-China Dynamics and the New Global Order appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Benjamin Balthaser is associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend. He is the author of Anti-Imperialism Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War, and Dedication, a personal history of growing up in a Jewish “red diaper” family. His forthcoming book from Verso, Citizens of the Whole World:  The American Jewish Left and Cultures of Anti-Zionism, is due to be out this fall.   Image credit: Wikimedia An elections poster of the General Jewish Labour Bund hung in Kiev, 1917.  The note reads: “Where we live, there is our country!.”  Bottom: “A democratic republic! Full national and political rights for Jews!” The post KPFA Special – A History of Jewish Anti-Zionism: From The Communist Party to The New Left appeared first on KPFA.