On today's show, Christina Aanestad, filing in for Mitch Jeserich, talks with Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno about the impacts of mass criminalization and criminal justice reform under Trump. Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno is the Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance [1].

 

 

Then, Christina Aanestad is in conversation with Michael Tanglis, Senior Researcher at Public Citizen's Congress Watch, about President Trump Inc  [2]report. The report also contains interactive data [3]. This report reveals the many businesses Trump has created since his Presidential campaign and is still creating as President of the US, and how it jeopardizes democracy.

[1] https://www.drugpolicy.org/

[2] https://www.citizen.org/system/files/case_documents/president_trump_inc.pdf

[3] http://www.citizenvox.org/2017/09/05/president-trump-inc-history/

Today our host Olive Sand, filling in for Mitch Jeserich, interviews Stephen Hinshaw, chair of UCBerkeley's psychology department, about his book The Triple Bind: Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today's Pressures and Conflicting Expectations, written in collaboration with Rachel Kranz. It was written in 2009 but has lost nothing of its accuracy in the intervening years. Its goal is to explain why one fourth of all American teenage girls are depressive, have suicidal thoughts,or suffer from eating disorders. This discussion of the expectations of femininity, which start at a very young age and shape the way women perceive themselves, is particularly relevant given the recent stories of sexual harassment and abuse emerging from Hollywood surrounding Harvey Weinstein. The need to break this triple bind is urgent.

Today our host Christina Aanestad, filling in for Mitch Jeserich, is in conversation with three climate activists about their involvement in and perspectives on climate-related civil disobedience, particularly in terms of the defense of "necessity" in criminal law. We speak with Kelsey C. Skaggs, Executive Director of the Climate Defense Project [1], Tim DeChristopher, founder of the Climate Disobedience Center [2], and Annette Klapstein, an activist for Climate Direct Action [3]. With them, we also discuss climate-related precedents in order to better understand the ongoing cases against Standing Rock protestors.

[1] https://climatedefenseproject.org/

[2] http://www.climatedisobedience.org/

[3] http://www.shutitdown.today/

On today's show, Max Pringle, filing in for Mitch Jeserich, talks about the Kurdish separatist movement in Iraq. After Kurds voted overwhelmingly for an independent Kurdistan a few weeks ago, the situation is worsening as Iraqi forces took over the important Kurdish stronghold Kirkuk earlier this week. To address this issue, we are in conversation with Peshawa Ahmad, a Kurdish citizen currently in Iraqi Kurdistan, and Dr. Robert Olson, a professor of Middle East History and Politics at University of Kentucky.

 

Then, we talk to Scott Stephens, a Professor of Fire Science at UC Berkeley, about the ongoing recovery from last week's wildfires.

 

After that, Max Pringles speaks with Rutger Bregman about the controversial project of Universal Basic Income.

 

On today's show, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Mark Bowden about his latest book Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam. He narrates the crucial battle of the Tet Offensive through the points of view of its participants and explains how the American mindset evolved during this few months.

First, our host Max Pringle, filing in for Mitch Jeserich, is in conversation with John Nichols about the political split inside the Republican Party. John Nichols, author of The Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America and blogger for The Nation magazine, explains the reasons of this division among the Republicans.

 

In the second part of the show, Max Pringle talks to Chad Terhune, Senior Correspondent for Kaiser Health News and California Healthline, about the healthcare debate happening inside the White House.

On today's show, Christina Aanestad, filing in for Mitch Jeserich, is in conversation with Ari Berman, reporter for The Nation magazine and author of the book Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. This book focuses on what happened since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and how strategies to keep minorities out of the voting booth jeopardize voting rights in today's America.

Today our host Philip Maldari, filing in for Mitch Jeserich, is in conversation with Christopher Ingraham, reporter for the Washington Post, about gun violence in the US and the impact of mass shooting on the gun industry.

 

Then, Mitch Jeserich talks to Dan Kovalik about his book The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin. They discuss the interference of Russia in the American presidential elections and the image of Russia in American minds.

Today our host Philip Maldari, filling in for Mitch Jeserich, is in conversation with Mark Schwartz, a professor of plant ecology in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis. He will be discussing the raging Northern California wildfires that are consuming vast swaths of the state and have so far claimed 17 lives.

Ahead of President Trump's anticipated announcement to 'decertify' Iran and thus put President Obama's historic 2015 Iran deal in jeopardy, we also speak with Trita Parsi, the president of the National Iranian American Council. His new book, Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy, draws upon over 70 in-depth interviews with diplomats and political players on all sides of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that secured a non-nuclear Tehran and avoided a war between the US and Iran.

 

On today’s show host Mitch Jeserich interviews world-famous economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis about his book Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment. In this account, Varoufakis reveals the corridors of power and his struggle with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth.