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Part 1: The Legal Challenges to the Election Guest: Eliza Sweren-Becker serves as counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, where she focuses on voting rights and elections.   Part 2: The Electoral College & Slavery (Rebroadcast)  Guest: Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. The post The Legal Challenges to the Election & The Electoral College and Slavery appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Vijay Prashad is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and the author of “Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations” (Monthly Review Press, 2020).   The post In Conversation with Vijay Prashad appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Max Elbaum has been involved a peace and anti-racist movements since joining Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in Madison, Wisconsin in the 1960s. Through the 1970s and 1980s he participated in campaigns defending affirmative action and opposing U.S. military interventions in the Third World while writing extensively for the radical press and taking part in then-widespread efforts to construct a new U.S. revolutionary political party. Currently he is one of the editors of Organizing Upgrade and is the author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. photo: clay banks The post What History Tells Us About the Election appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1: The Journalist Guest: Sasha Abramsky, contributor to the Nation and author of Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lotttie Dod, The World’s First Female Sports Super Stars.    Part 2: The Historian Guest: Geoffrey Kabaservice, historian and director of political studies at the Niskanen Center. He is the author of several books including Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party. The post A Historian & Journalist on the Election appeared first on KPFA.

Part I: The Election Map and Potential Challenges Guest: Steven Rosenfeld is the Editor and Chief Correspondent for Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Part II:  Analyzing the Known Results Guest: Arun Gupta, contributor to The Intercept, Daily Beast, The Nation, Jacobin, and the author of the forthcoming book Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. Guest: Cat Brooks, organizer with the Anti-Police Terror Project and host of KPFA’s Upfront. PHOTO: Element5 Digital   The post Analyzing the Election appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: A.J. Baime, journalist, contributor to the Wall Street Journal and author of the book Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America’s Soul. The post Surprise, Surprise: The 1948 Election & The Social Movements Behind It appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Alan Hirsch, Constitutional scholar and instructor in the Humanities and Chair of the Justice and Law Studies program at Williams College. He is the author of A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One). PHOTO: Markus Winkler   The post A History of Election Crises appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.  He is the co-author of the book Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court. The post The Warren Court & The Transformation of Rights appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:  Matt Grossmann, Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. He is also Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center where he hosts the podcast The Science of Politics The post Talking to a Political Scientist Before the Election appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1 – Money in Politics Guest: Sheila Krumholz is the Executive Director at the Center for Responsive Politics. The Center for Responsive Politics is an independent nonprofit research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy, The Center runs the website OpenSecrets.org, which is a comprehensive resource for federal campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis available to the public.   Part 2 – Donald Trump V The United States Guest: Michael S. Schmidt is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington correspondent for The New York Times. Over his fifteen years at the Times, he has covered the investigations of the Trump presidency, the Pentagon, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the war in Iraq.  The post 2020’s Record Level of Campaign Finance Dollars & Donald Trump v. The US appeared first on KPFA.