KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Zachary D. Carter is a senior reporter at HuffPost, where he covers Congress, the White House, and economic policy. He is the author of the book The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes.   Photo: John Maynard Keynes, 1933 on Wikipedia   Click Here to Support KPFA The post Money, Democracy, and the Keynesian Economy 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     Click Here to Support KPFA The post The Failure of Capitalism in a Pandemic appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Hilary Holladay is a biographer, novelist, poet, and scholar of modern and contemporary American literature. She is a former director of the Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies and professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.  Holladay is the author of several books, her most recent is The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography.   Click Here to Support KPFA The post The Power of Adrienne Rich appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Robert M. Alexander is a professor of political science and founding director of the Institute for Civics and Public Policy at Ohio Northern University.  He is the author of Representation and the Electoral College.   Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash.com   Click Here to Support KPFA The post The Electoral College: How Does it Work and How the Trump Campaign is Trying to Manipulate it appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Judith Flanders is a social historian.  She is a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham. Her books include the bestselling The Invention of Murder, Inside the Victorian Home, and her latest, A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order.     Click Here to Support KPFA The post How the Alphabet Ordered Our World appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Aaron Glantz is a Peabody Award-winning radio, print and television journalist. He is a senior reporter at Reveal and the author of several books including his latest, Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.   Click Here to Support KPFA The post Contrasting the Foreclosure Crisis From the Obama Era and the Looming Eviction Crisis Facing a New Biden Presidency appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a historian, educator, and commentator. She is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. She is the author of several books including her latest, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.   Click Here to Support KPFA The post A Hundred Years of Right Wing Authoritarianism From Mussolini to Trump appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1: The Second Stimulus Package  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. His latest piece in the Nation is Crooked David Perdue Is Afraid to Debate His Record of Self-Dealing: Amid mounting evidence of sordid financial abuses, the Republican senator from Georgia is skipping a big debate on Sunday with Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff. Part 2: The Prospects on Immigration Policy under the Biden Administration Guest: Catherine Tactaquin is an immigration policy expert, co-founder and former director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Photo: Barbara Zandoval o Unsplash The post Updates on the Second Stimulus Package & Challenges on Immigration Under a Biden Presidency appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Maureen Ferran is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and viral researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York State.   Photo by Daniel Schludi on Unsplash The post Covid Vaccine Differences and Reaching Herd Immunity appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: John Fabian Witt is the Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law and History at Yale, where he serves as Head of Davenport College. He is author of the Bancroft Prize–winning Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History, his latest book is American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19. The post How Pandemics Have Shaped The Law appeared first on KPFA.