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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.

Part I. The Afghanistan Papers Guest: Craig Whitlock is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post. He has covered the global war on terrorism for the Post since 2001 as a foreign correspondent, Pentagon reporter, and national security specialist. In 2019, his coverage of the war in Afghanistan won the George Polk Award for Military Reporting, the Scripps Howard Award for Investigative Reporting, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Freedom of Information Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for international reporting. He has reported from more than sixty countries and is a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  His latest book is The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War. Part II. Geniuses at War Guest: David A. Price is the author of the books, The Pixar Touch, Love and Hate in Jamestown, and his latest, Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age. The post The Afghanistan Papers & Geniuses at War appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Karen J. Greenberg is director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, an international studies fellow at New America, and a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her books include Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State, The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days, and her latest, Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump.  Twitter: @KarenGreenberg3 The post From the War on Terror to Afghanistan to Donald Trump appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Mike Duncan is the author of the New York Times–bestselling book, The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic, and his latest, Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution. He is one of the most popular history podcasters in the world, his award-winning series, The History of Rome, remains a legendary landmark in the history of podcasting.  Duncan’s ongoing series, Revolutions, explores the great political revolutions that have driven the course of modern history. The post The Marquis de Lafayette and His Revolutions appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Richard Wolff is professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York City. His latest book is The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself. You can find his writings and materials on his website democracyatwork.info The post Richard Wolff: State of the Economy & America In Decline appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Mae Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and a professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of the award-winning book Impossible Subjects, The Lucky Ones, and her latest, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics. The post The Opium Wars, The Gold Rush and the Formation of Global Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Vijay Prashad, director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research which describes itself as an international, movement-driven institution focused on stimulating intellectual debate that serves people’s aspirations. He is also the author of such books as The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His latest book is Washington Bullets. His latest article Afghanistan’s long struggle with reforms and conservativism can be found here.   The post A Brief History of Reformers & Communists in Afghanistan appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Nazif Shahrani, Professor of Anthropology, Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan and Modern Afghanistan: The Impact of 40 Years of War. The post Afghanistan In History: Then and Now appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Edward J. Watts is Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny, The Final Pagan Generation, Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher, and his latest, The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea. The post The Eternal Decline: From Ancient Rome to the United States appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Rafia Zakaria is an American Muslim author, human rights attorney, political philosopher and a journalist.  Her writings appear in several outlets and is a regular columnist for Dawn in Pakistan and the Baffler in the United States.  She is the author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan, her latest (out today) is Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption.  Today, her article White Feminists Wanted to Invade: Afghan women never asked for US air strikes can be found in the Nation Magazine.    The post Rafia Zakaria: Against White Feminism appeared first on KPFA.