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Guest: Jonathan Cohn is a senior national correspondent at HuffPost, where he covers politics and policy. He is the author of the book The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage.  He has won several awards and was called “one of the nation’s leading experts on health policy” by the Washington Post. The post A History of the Fight for Universal Health Care 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:  David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), the Director of Research at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and the author of numerous books, his latest is The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles.  Professor Harvey has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital for nearly 50 years. Follow him on twitter: @profdavidharvey     The post David Harvey: A History of Neoliberalism and the Current Economic Crisis appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jacqueline Keeler is a Dine/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer. She is the author of Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands and the editor of the anthology Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears.  She is the editor-in-chief of Pollen Nation Magazine, creator of #NotYourMascot.   The post A History of Indian Land, Occupation and Colonialism in America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University.  She is the author of several books, including Undocumented, They Take Our Jobs!, and most recently, Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration.  Chomsky has been active in the Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for over thirty years. The post Aviva Chomsky on Central America’s Forgotten History appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Nazif Shahrani is Professor of Anthropology, Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War and the editor of Modern Afghanistan: The Impact of 40 Years of War.     The post Afghanistan: From the British Empire to the Soviet Union Occupations to the U.S. War on Terror appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History & African American Studies at the University of Houston.  He is the author of more than three dozen books including White Supremacy Confronted: US Imperialism & Anticommunism vs the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, and White Supremacy and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean.  His latest is The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering, and the political economy of boxing. The post The Political Economy of Boxing appeared first on KPFA.

Part I – The Biden’s Infrastructure Bill  Guest: John Nichols is the Washington Correspondent for the Nation Magazine.  He is the author of several books including his latest, The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics.    Part II – The Current Housing Crisis Guest: Conor Dougherty is an economics reporter for The New York Times. He is author of the book Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream.   The post The Biden Infrastructure Bill & The Fight for Housing appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1- Mass shooting and gun control policies Guest: Erica Rice, City Program Manager, Combating Crime Guns Initiative in Oakland with the Brady Campaign. Part 2 – The Current Landscape of Covid-19 Guest: Dr. Chris Beyrer MD, MPH  Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health and Human Rights  Professor of Epidemiology, Nursing and Medicine  at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Photo credit: Wikimedia Creative Commons The post Gun Control Policies & The Current Landscape of Covid-19 appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1. The Significance of Convicting Derek Chauvin Guest: Justin Hansford is a Howard University School of Law Professor and Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center.  Professor Hansford is a leading scholar and activist in the areas of law,  critical race theory, human rights, and social movements. He is a co-author of the forthcoming Seventh Edition of Race, Racism and American Law.   Part 2. The Tactics Used by Amazon to Defeat Union Organizing Drives Guest: Lynn Rhinehart is a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, where she works on labor and employment policy, with a focus on collective bargaining.  She wrote the piece How Amazon Gerrymandered the Union Vote—And Won.  The PRO Act would put voting decisions back in the hands of workers and the National Labor Relations Board.   The post The Conviction of Derek Chauvin & The Tactics Used by Amazon to Defeat Union Organizing appeared first on KPFA.