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Guest: Karen J. Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law. She is the author and editor of many books, including The Torture Papers;  Subtle Tools; Rogue Justice; and her latest, Our Nation at Risk Election Integrity as a National Security Issue co-edited with Julian E. Zelizer.   She is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an International Studies Fellow at New America, and a Visiting Fellow at the Soufan Center. The post 2024 Election: Integrity as a National Security Issue appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Sonali Kolhatkar is an award-winning multimedia journalist and Senior Editor covering race, economy, and democracy at YES! Media.  She is the host of YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated TV and radio program on Free Speech TV and Pacifica Radio.  She is also the author of Rising Up,  Bleeding Afghanistan, and her forthcoming Talking About Abolition will be released in 2025. Her latest article on Yes! magazine The Complexity of Harris’ Historic Candidacy can be found here. Sonali is also involved in the YES! Effort Progress 2025, a response that centers human and planetary needs—and uplifts the solutions that make them possible.     Photo by Lories Shaull on Wikimedia. Senator Harris at the 2019 Iowa Democrats Hall of Fame Celebration in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.     The post The Complexities of Kamala Harris’ Candidacy appeared first on KPFA.

Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of a special 2-hour Democracy Now, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Audio for the first hour of Democracy Now can be found here. Information about the topics covered on today’s Democracy Now can be found here.   The post Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC (hour 2 of 2-hour special) appeared first on KPFA.

Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of a special 2-hour Democracy Now, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Audio for the first hour of today’s Democracy Now can be found here. Information about the topics covered on today’s Democracy Now can be found here.   The post Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC (hour 2 of 2-hour special) appeared first on KPFA.

Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of a special 2-hour DemocracyNow!, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Audio for the first hour can be found here. Information about today’s show can be found here. The post Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC (hour 2 of 2-hour special) appeared first on KPFA.

Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of a special 2-hour DemocracyNow!, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Audio for the first hour can be found here. Information about today’s show can be found here.   The post Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC (hour 2 of 2-hour special) appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Paul Cooper is a podcaster, a historian, and the author of Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline.  He writes, produces, and hosts the Fall of Civilizations podcast which explores the collapse of different societies through history.   The post Paul Cooper of Fall Of Civilizations: In Conversation appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ilan Pappe is Professor of History at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine;  A History of Modern Palestine; and his latest, Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic. The post Lobbying for Zionism: A History appeared first on KPFA.

Guests Jeff Spinner-Halev is the Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books including his latest, Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality co-authored with Elizabeth Theiss-Morse.  Elizabeth Theiss-Morse is the Willa Cather Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.  Her research focuses in the areas of American politics and political psychology. Her most recent book is Respect and Loathing in American Democracy, co-authored with political theorist Jeff Spinner-Halev.     The post Are Liberals Intolerant at Conservatives? appeared first on KPFA.

Part I.  Causes and Consequences of Homelessness in California Guest: Margot Kushel, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, She is the Director of the Principal Investigator of the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness (CASPEH). Conducted by UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI), (CASPEH) is the largest representative study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s. It provides a comprehensive look at the causes and consequences of homelessness in California and recommends policy changes to shape programs in response. #CAHomelessnessStudy   Part II. The Ineffectiveness of SF’s Homeless Policies  Guest: Christopher D. Cook is an author and award-winning investigative journalist based in San Francisco. He has covered the homelessness crisis in the last few years. His latest article in 48Hills is Mayor makes inhumane, ineffective sweeps a major part of her re-election campaign: Stealing people’s possessions and moving them around town solves nothing—but it makes for mayoral politics.   Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash     The post Unraveling the Misinformation about Homelessness in California appeared first on KPFA.