KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of several books including his latest, Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power (2020) and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud (2016), which earned the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize. He won the Hillman Prize for excellence in magazine journalism in 2021. On Twitter @ddayen The post The Political Record of Kamala Harris 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.” The post Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Harris’s Pick for Vice-President appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).   He is the author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer.  Find his weekly commentary at Beat the Press.   Photo by Vladimir Solomianyi on Unsplash The post Joe Biden’s Economy and Presidential Record appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. Her previous work includes Independence Lost, a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. She is a co-author of Give Me Liberty! and coeditor of Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America. Her latest book is Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. The post Ancient North American Cities and Why People Left Them appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Asaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli American journalist.  He is a staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the author of the book, Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth. The post The Mizrahi: From the Black Panthers to Likud appeared first on KPFA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM7fb_nVqCg&t=3s Guest: Robert T. Mann is a former professor of mass communication at Louisiana State University and former Congressional aide to Senator Russell Long, Huey Long’s son.  He is the author of several books including, Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU. Feature photo: Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana, 1935 on Wikimedia. The post The Life and Times of Huey P. Long appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Miguel Tinker Salas is an Emeritus Professor of History and Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Pomona College.  He is the author of several books on Latin American history including Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know; The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela; co-editor of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an Exceptional Democracy. The post Venezuela’s Presidential Elections: Nicolas Maduro, Right-Wing Opposition & US Policies appeared first on KPFA.

Host Mitch Jeserich takes listener’s calls to examine Kamala Harris’s statements and actions concerning Israel’s assault on Gaza and how the conflict in the Middle East has affected listener’s views of this year’s general election.           The post Kamala Harris on Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – July 24, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – July 23, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.