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Guests:  Geoff Kabaservice is a historian of the Republican Party and the Director of Political Studies at the Niskanen Center.  He is the author of Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party.  John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. His latest book co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders, is It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. His latest pieces on the GOP campaign in The Nation are: Tonight’s GOP Debate Could Put the Final Nail in Ron DeSantis’s Political Coffin. Trump has trashed DeSantis for months. Yet the Florida governor apparently plans to defend Trump in the debate. Dumb move! Trump’s (Still) the One: Despite the Georgia indictments—and all his other legal troubles—Democrats are still going to have to beat him next November. The post Analysis of the First GOP Presidential Debate and Trump’s Absence appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Siddharth Kara is Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.  He is the author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. The post From King Leopold II To Big Teach: The Plundering of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day Slavery appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate Professor of African American studies at Wayne state. and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Research and Political Education Team. She is the c-editor, along with Jodi Dean, of the book Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing. The post How Black Women Shaped the Communist Party in America appeared first on KPFA.

  Guest: John Kaag is the Donohue Professor of Ethics and the Arts at UMass Lowell and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His books include Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are and Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (Princeton), and his latest, Henry at work: Thoreau on Making a Living, co-authored with Jonathan van Belle.   The post Capitalism & Alienation: The Economics of Henry David Thoreau appeared first on KPFA.

Guests: Douglas Frantz is a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and shared a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent at The New York Times.  After his career in journalism, he was chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, an assistant secretary of state in the Obama administration, and deputy secretary-general at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. He has written several nonfiction books with his wife, Catherine Collins, including Fallout and Celebration, U.S.A. His latest, co-authored with Catherine Collins is Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish.   Catherine Collins is a former private investigator with specialty in international financial fraud. Previously, Catherine Collins was a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and a contributor to The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She has written several nonfiction books with her husband, Douglas Frantz, including The Man from Pakistan and Death on the Black Sea. Her latest, co-authored with Douglas Frantz is Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish.     The post Salmon Wars: How the Industrialization of Atlantic Salmon is Endangering our Health and Environment appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University. He is the author of many books including Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic. His latest, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune. The post The Sullivanians: Psychoanalysis, Marxism, & A Commune To Break The Traditional Family appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. Racketeering Charges in the Trump’s Georgia Indictment Guest: Karen Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law. Her most recent book is Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump, now out in paperback. Part 2. Birds and Evolution Guest: Jennifer Ackerman is a renown science and nature writer.  She is the author of several books including, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think, which was a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award; and her latest, What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds.   Feature image credit front page: Pix4Free.org The post Racketeering Charges in the Trump’s Georgia Indictment. Then, Birds & Evolution appeared first on KPFA.

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.