Guest: Emma Marris is an award-winning journalist. She is the author of several books including Rambunctious Garden, and her latest, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World.

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Guest: Douglas W. Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. His book Bringing Nature Home was awarded the 2008 Silver Medal by the Garden Writers’ Association. He is also the author of two New York Times bestsellers: The Living Landscape and Nature’s Best Hope.  His latest book is The Nature of Oaks.

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Guest: William Bauer, professor of history at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where he is the Director of American Indian & Indigenous Studies.  He is also a citizen of the Round Valley Reservation in northern California.  He is the co-author of the book We Are the Land: A History of Native California. Previously he also wrote such books as California Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History, and We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here: Work, Community and Memory on California’s Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941.

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Part I. Analysis on the 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”.  His latest pieces can be found in The Nation.com

Part II. The Nature of Fires 

Guest: David Carle is President of the California State Park Rangers Association, a retired park ranger, and the author of thirteen nonfiction books, including introductions to California’s water; air; earth, soil, and land; and fire. The second edition of his book Introduction to Fire in California is out this month.

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Guest: Sarah Schulman is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. Professor Schulman is the author of more than twenty books including her latest, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.  She is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.

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