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Guest:  Adam Tooze is a professor of economic history at Columbia University and the author of Crashed, winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, The Wages of Destruction, and his latest, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy.   The post Adam Tooze on How Covid has Shook the Worlds Economy appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. The Politics of the California Recall Guest: Tim Redmond is a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years now. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian.  He is the founder and editor of the independent news and culture website 48hills.   Part II. The Rise and Fall of Soul City Guest: Thomas Healy is a professor at Seton Hall Law School. He is the author of The Great Dissent, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.  His latest book is Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia.   Feature photo by Parker Johnson on Unsplash The post CA Recall Election and the Future of Democratic Control & The Rise and Fall of Soul City appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Matt Taibbi is an award-winning author and investigative reporter.  His writings can be found on Substack.   He is the author of such book as I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street, about the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police; the New York Times bestsellers Insane Clown President, The Divide, Griftopia, The Great Derangement, and his latest, The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing: An Almost True Account. The post Matt Taibbi on Drug Dealing, The Media, and the Politics of Division appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, she is the author or editor of many books, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States and her latest NOT “A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS” Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.   The post A History of Settler Colonialism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Deepa Kumar is an award-winning scholar and activist, and Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: 20 years after 9/11 The post Deepa Kumar on Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Arsalan Iftikhar was a young human rights lawyer in the days following the 9/11 attacks. It would change his life. He joins us for a conversation on how the attacks and the US response to them effected and continues to effect Muslim Americans. Arslan Iftikhar is the founder of TheMuslimGuy.com & author of “FEAR OF A MUSLIM PLANET: Global Islamophobia in the New World Order.” The post Death Threats Were Daily: Human Rights Attorney Arsalan Iftikhar Reflects On 9/11 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Akhil Reed Amar is the Sterling professor of law and political science at Yale University and the author of several books on constitutional law and history, including America’s Constitution: A Biography, America’s Unwritten Constitution, and his latest, The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840. The post A Conversation On the Constitution with Leading Legal Scholar Akhil Reed Amar appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Neil Price is distinguished professor and chair of archaeology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of several books on the history of the Viking Age including his latest, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings.   The post The Gods Who Died: A History of the Vikings appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Michele Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and the Founding Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy.  She is the author of Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood, which examines how states have used the tools of legislation to restrict reproductive rights and what to do about it.  Professor Goodwin is the hosts of the podcast On The Issues with Michele Goodwin. The post Talking Reproductive Rights: The Future, the Present, and the Past appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. Biden’s Coronavirus Response  Guest: Greg Gonsalves is Public Health correspondent for The Nation, and an epidemiologist at Yale School of Public Health.  His latest article in the Nation is Sure, Biden’s Better on Covid Than Trump. That’s Not Good Enough.  Part II. The History of Policing Powers Guest: Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.  He is the author of many books including, The Conservative Assault on the Constitution, The Case Against the Supreme Court, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century, and his latest, Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights. The post The Inadequacy of Biden’s Covid Response & The History of Policing Powers appeared first on KPFA.