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Part 1 – The Immigration Crisis in Central America and the Migrant Caravans Seeking Refuge Guest: Arturo J. Viscarra is staff attorney for CHIRLA’s International Programs. Part 2 – The Immigration Policies Under the New Biden Administration Guest: Catherine Tactaquin is an immigration policy expert and co-founder of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.   Photo source: Wikimedia commons The post The Central American Exodus & The Immigration Policies Under the New Biden Administration appeared first on KPFA.

I – The Biden Administration’s Economic Recovery Act. Guest: Robert Pollin is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is author of several books, his latest co-author with Noam Chomsky is Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet.   II – The Effects of the Financial Regulations of the Last Four Years and the Challenges for the New Administration. Guest: Carter Dougherty is Communications Director at Americans for Financial Reform. Photo by Pepi Stojanovski on Unsplash The post The Economic Challenges Ahead for the New Biden Administration appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Manisha Sinha is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and a leading authority on the history of slavery and abolition and the Civil War and Reconstruction.  She is the author of several books including The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina and The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.       Photo source: Wikimedia Commons – The Wilmington coup carried out by white supremacists in North Carolina of 1898. The post A History of Violent Mobs Overthrowing Democratically Elected Governments in America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Peniel E. Joseph, historian of the Black Power Movement and author of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.  He is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin. Photo by Unseen Histories on Unsplash The post Malcolm & Martin: Rivals and Allies appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1: The Far Right Mob at the Capitol and Online Guest: Talia Lavin is a journalist author of the book Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. Part 2 – The Future of National Security in the US Guest: Karen Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law. She is the author of several books and the host of the podcast Vital Interests dedicated to issues of governance, law and policy. The post The Far Right Mob at The Capitol & The Future of National Security appeared first on KPFA.

Direct from the US House of Representatives, KPFA brings you the proceedings on a vote to impeach President Donald Trump, with hosts Brian Edwards Tiekert and Mitch Jeserich Guest: Ruth Conniff is Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Examiner and Editor-at-Large for The Progressive Magazine. The post Letters and Politics Special: House Impeachment Proceedings Live appeared first on KPFA.

Part I: The Case for Impeaching Trump for a Second Time  Guest: Frank O. Bowman III is University of Missouri Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law, as well as Dean’s Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center.  He is the author of the book High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump. His latest article The Constitutional Case for Impeaching Donald Trump (Again) can be found in justsecurity.org. Part II:  The rural-urban divide overtaking the national conversation: The Nebraska Political Landscape  Guest: Ross Benes is the award-winning author of several books, his latest is Rural Rebellion: How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold. He is a contributor to the Nation magazine. Photo by Mike Doherty on Unsplash The post Impeaching Trump a 2nd Time & How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold appeared first on KPFA.

Part I: Articles of Impeachment and 25th Amendment to hold Trump Accountable  Guest: Hadar Aviram is Thomas Miller Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. She is the author of Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole will be out this month. Part II: Role of Big Tech and Social Media in Speech Moderation  Guest: Michael Brennan is a research fellow at the Democracy Collaborative and a policy organizer for the Democracy Policy Network. Photo source: Wikimedia The post Holding Trump Accountable for Capitol Riots & The Role of Social Media in Speech Moderation appeared first on KPFA.

Part I: Removing Trump From Office Sasha Abramsky is a journalist, author, and a regular contributor to the Nation magazine. He is the author of several books including The American Way of Poverty, Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream, and his latest Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lotttie Dod, The World’s First Female Sports Super Stars.  He wrote the cover story in The Nation called Is Trump Planning a Coup d’État.  His latest piece in the Nation is The GOP Is No Longer a Viable Governing Party: If you buy into a lethal personality cult, eventually the chickens of mob violence will come home to roost. Part II: The Capitol Hill Putsch Kali Akuno is a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson and co-editor of Jackson Rising: the struggle for economic democracy and black self-determination in Jackson, Mississippi. The post The Capitol Hill Putsch appeared first on KPFA.

Today, Mitch is live on KPFA and YouTube to bring you coverage on the Joint Session of Congress Counts, Debates and Votes the Electoral College Outcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuIEOwF8Bn0 Guest: Alan Hirsch is a Constitutional scholar and lecturer in the Humanities. He is the Chair of the Justice and Law Studies at Williams College and the author of several books, his latest A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One) The post Broadcast of the Joint Session of Congress to Count Electoral Ballots appeared first on KPFA.