KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and professor of religion at Columbia University. He is the author of several books including his latest, A Darkly Radiant Vision: The Black Social Gospel in the Shadow of MLK.       The post The Black Social Gospel and the Roots of Social Justice appeared first on KPFA.

  Guest: Aaron S. Lecklider is Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author of Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture. The post Homosexuals & Communists in the First Half of the 20th Century appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Peter Gleick is an environmental scientist and expert on issues related to water and the environment. He is the co-founder of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and is the author of The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future. The post The Past, Present, and Future of Water appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Olga Baysha is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia and author of War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine. The post An Eastern Ukrainian’s Perspective of the War appeared first on KPFA.

Understanding the Electoral College in the Trump’s Indictment Guest: Robert M. Alexander is a professor of political science and founding director of the Institute for Civics and Public Policy at Ohio Northern University.  He is the author of Representation and the Electoral College. Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash.     Then, The Science and Enigma of the Owl  Guest: Jennifer Ackerman is a science and nature writer. She is the author of The Bird Way, The Genius of Birds, and her latest, What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds.     The post Understanding the Electoral College in the Trump’s Indictment & The Science and Enigma of the Owl appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Tom Mueller is the author of Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil; Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud; and his latest, How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine. The post The For-Profit Catastrophe of Kidney Dialysis appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Hadar Aviram is a Professor of Law at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.  She is the author of several books including her latest, Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. The post Third Trump’s Indictment: Efforts to Overturn his 2020 Presidential Election Loss appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Kathryn Cramer Brownell is associate professor of history at Purdue University and the author of Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life and her latest, 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News.     The post The History of Cable Television and Its Impact on Politics appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of many books including his latest, It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, co written with Senator Bernie Sanders.  His latest piece in the Nations is Sinéad O’Connor Always Knew That Black Lives Mattered. The singer, who died on Wednesday, made an unforgettable protest song about the police killings of Black people 30 years before the murder of George Floyd. The post John Nichols: Analysis on the GOP and Democratic Presidential Candidacies appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, host of The Ralph Nader Radio Hour that broadcasts on the Pacifica Radio Network.  He is the author of several books including his bestselling first book “Unsafe at Any Speed”, it was responsible for US auto safety standards shown to have saved 3.5 million lives over fifty years.  His other books include The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future (2012); To the Ramparts: How Bush and Obama Paved the Way for the Trump Presidency and Why It Isn’t Too Late to Reverse Course (2018);  Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lies and Lawbreaking Betray All (2020, co-authored with Mark Green),  How the Rats Re-formed the Congress (2020); and The Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook (2020). The post KPFA Special – Ralph Nader on the Politics of Today appeared first on KPFA.