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Part 1 – What’s in the Future with the New Congress Guest: Ruth Conniff is Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Examiner and Editor-at-Large for The Progressive Magazine.   Part 2 – Analysis on the Georgia’s Runoff Elections Guest: Dr. Amy Steigerwalt is a Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Justice System Journal.  Her research focuses on the federal judicial selection process, as well as the role of courts as institutions and the differing influences on court operations and decision-making. Image source: Wikipedia   The post The Georgia Senate Runoff & What’s Ahead for the New Congress appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Edward B. Foley directs the election law program at Ohio State University, where he also holds the Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law. He is the author of such books as Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States, and most recently, Presidential Elections and Majority Rule: The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College. Feature photo by Annie Spratt on Usplash The post Trump Pressures Georgia & the GOP’s New Election Challenge appeared first on KPFA.

Today host Mitch Jeserich interviews Barnard professor Rosalind Rosenberg, author of the book Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. Pauli Murray was the first African American to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and her legal work on the 14th amendment provided the groundwork for Brown v. Board and inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s work with women’s rights and the 14th Amendment. Murray also struggled with issues of identity: by today’s standards, she would be considered transgender. The post The Life of Pauli Murray appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and author of the book VANGUARD: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. The post History of the Black Women’s Rights Movement [Rebroadcast] appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Robert Ovetz discusses his new book, When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921, and covers insurrectionary labor history from the Great Upheaval to the Redneck War. [Rebroadcast] The post An Insurrectionist History of US Labor appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Doug J. Swanson is a veteran reporter and editor, he spent much of his carrier at the Dallas Morning News. Currently he is a research assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of several books including Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, The Texas Gangster who Created Vegas Poker. His new book is Cult Of Glory: The Bold And Brutal History Of The Texas Rangers.     The post The History of the Texas Rangers [Rebroadcast] appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Laura Dassow Walls, an English literature professor, currently Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and author of the book Henry David Thoreau, A Life. The post The Life of Henry David Thoreau appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Cal Winslow, a labor activist and educator, is Director of the Mendocino Institute and a retired fellow in environmental history at U.C. Berkeley.  Author of Radical Seattle: The General Strike of 1919. The post When Washington (Almost) Went Socialist: Seattle’s General Strike of 1919 [Rebroadcast] appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Susan Berfield, award-winning investigative reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News. She is the author of the book The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism. [Rebroadcast] The post When T.R. Took On the Monopolies [Rebroadcast] appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Peter Fritzsche, professor of history at the University of Illinois and author of the book Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich.  [Rebroadcast] The post How to Dismantle a Republic: The Fall of the Weimar Republic appeared first on KPFA.