Charter schools, parent protests, anti-vaxxing, funding cuts, teachers leaving the field—it’s not a pretty picture for public education.  We get the grim reality, plus a surprising optimism from Louis Freedberg. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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It’s not just here: the far right is flexing real muscle all over the globe. We hear history, present, and possible future from John Feffer, of Foreign Policy in Focus.  Your calls welcome. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Supreme Court storm clouds gather over a woman’s right to choose.  We get the latest.  PLUS: poet Raymond Nat Turner, the Town Crier.Hosted by Kris Welch.

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The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Guest host Max Pringle speaks with Strand Magazine publisher Andrew Gulli about a previously unpublished Tennessee Williams short story in the magazine’s latest issue.

Then the San Francisco Mime Troupe are back this holiday season with “the Red Carol” a radio/podcast musical based on Charles Dickens’ “a Christmas Carol.” Max Pringle speaks with the musical’s author Michael Gene Sullivan.

And KPFA’s annual Craneway Crafts Fair returns November 27 and 28. The internship program has produced a retrospective on the Crafts Fair’s first 50 years.

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Guest host Max Pringle speaks with author and gun reform advocate Ryan Busse about the Ahmaud Arbery and Kyle Rittenhouse cases and what they say about the interplay between gun violence, race, vigilantism and criminal justice.

Then, Max speaks with author and historian Scott Farris about his new book “Freedom on Trial: The First Post Civil War Battle Over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression.” Farris writes that aggressive Reconstruction era prosecutions against the Ku Klux Klan would all but dismantle the terror group. But, he argues, that instead of following through on pursuing racial justice, the nation would tragically turn away from ensuring African-American civil rights and that decision would clear the way for generations of Jim Crow laws.

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Guest host Max Pringle speaks with author and historian Giles Tremlett about his new book “the International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War.” The book examines the history of the international volunteer brigades who went to Spain in the 1930s to defend democracy during the Spanish Civil War.

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Guest: Jessica Mason Pieklo is Senior Vice President and Executive Editor at Rewire News Group.

Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Stan Cox, Ecosphere Studies Research Fellow at the Land Institute in Kansas, writes on the economic and political roots of our global crises.  He also shares some healing ideas. Hosted by Kris Welch.

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

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