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Joseph Biden will be inaugurated, but what is the health of our democracy?  Harvey Wasserman opines.  PLUS: a path to comfort, and even joy, despite troubled times. 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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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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Malika Redmond, executive director and co founder of Women Engaged, and Eleanor Eagan, research assistant with The Revolving Door Project, respond to Raphael Warnock’s historic win as Georgia’s first African American senator and what next for progressives now that democrats control the house and senate?

Warren Farrell talks about the importance of listening, to bridge deep partisan divide fomented by President Donald Trump, and to support strained relations during the pandemic.

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Dr. Stuart Ray, an Infectious Diseases expert at Johns Hopkins University, talks about the new mutated strain of COVID-19 and why people should take more precautions.  He also talks about the coronavirus, what’s known about it and what makes it such a deadly disease to some.  Dr. Ray is also a physician and scientist at Johns Hopkins, and he’s a professor of medicine at the division of infectious diseases.  Johns Hopkins University is a premier university and medical center that is tracking, treating and researching the coronavirus.

Ninez Ponce, Director of UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research, talks about health equity and who lives and who dies during the pandemic-with a focus in Los Angeles County, which has become ground zero of the pandemic with six people dying every hour from the disease.  Hospitals are so overwhelmed with patients, they’re treating them in hallways and gift shops.  Those in low income communities of color are getting hit hardest.  Ninez Ponce is also a professor at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. @NinezPonce. 

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On today’s Talkies, guest host Max Pringle speaks with healthcare industry expert Wendell Potter about the daunting healthcare challenges facing the incoming Biden Administration as it tackles a once-in-a-century pandemic and a healthcare system badly in need of reform. Wendell Potter is a former insurance industry executive turned industry whistleblower. He now runs the non-profit Center for Health and Democracy.

Then, Max welcomes Hunter College historian and author Benjamin Carter Hett to the program to discuss his latest book — “The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and the Road to War.” The book details the behind-the-scenes decisions and arguments that would lead, tragically, to the Second World War.

To end the show, Strand Magazine Managing Editor Andrew Gulli discusses a previously unpublished short story from noted 20th Century American author Shirley Jackson. It’s in the latest issue of “the Strand.”

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On today’s Talkies: Guest Host Max Pringle is in conversation with historian and author Leanna Keith about her latest book “When It Was Grand: the Radical Republican History of the Civil War.”

It’s a detailed examination of the radical Republicans of the mid-19th Century and their relentless anti-slavery crusade and pursuit of racial justice.

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On today’s Talkies. Guest host Max Pringle speaks with historian and author Claudio Saunt about his latest book “Unworthy Republic: the Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Country.” It’s a detailed examination of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which resettled tens of thousands of Native Americans from their ancestral land to territories west of the Mississippi River. The repercussions of the act are still being felt today.

Then, the latest on the Coronavirus surge in California.

And, a conversation with the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Michael Gene Sullivan on the SFMT’s audio production of “A Red Carol.” It’s a contemporary reimagining of the Dickens holiday classic “A Christmas Carol.”

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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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