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‘How’ and ‘why’ are not the only questions to ask, when looking at far-right recruitment of youth, says scholar Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss: ask also ‘where’ and ‘when’.  Eye-opening research. PLUS: the Town Crier, Raymond Nat Turner. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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A reminder—2016!–and a warning, plus a way forward for progressives from Jeff Cohen. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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A new big fire near Fresno: Vic Bedoian reports.  PLUS: Labor Day 2020: a status report from EPI, and a close-up of farm labor with David Bacon. Hosted by Kris Welch.

Photo by Levan Badzgaradze on Unsplash

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The Arctic is on fire, ice is melting, people and polar bears may go extinct there: what is to be done?  PLUS: the latest poems from The Town Crier. Hosted by Kris Welch.

Photo: Polar Bear jumping, in Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway

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National Affairs correspondent for The Nation, John Nichols on Kenosha and national politics. His latest piece on the Nation is “Donald Trump Came to Kenosha to Make the Most Vile Campaign Commercial in American Political History: Trump implemented his “law-and-order” strategy with a Wisconsin trip that was low on sympathy and high on campaign rhetoric.

Plus, we have entered the Pyrocene Era, says author/ fire historian Stephen Pyne. His latest book is The Still-Burning Bush. 

Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Alt-right clashes with BLM protesters are providing Donald Trump with fuel for his faltering re-election campaign. What’s really happening, and what’s behind the violence?  Hosted by Kris Welch.

Guest: Shane Burley is a journalist based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (AK Press, 2017) and Why We Fight (AK Press, 2021).

Photo by Joseph Ngabo on Usplash 

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A Cal-Matters report on the fire situation in California. PLUS: a conversation with John Tierney, former 9-term Mass. Congressman, about how progressives can get things done. Hosted by Kris Welch.

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Republican Convention!  Democratic Convention! QAnon! The whole ball o’convoluted wax that is our current political environment, with Jeet Heer. Hosted by Kris Welch.

Photo credit: Thanks to Tim Pierce

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Host Kris Welch talks to Lisa Graves about her new report on Charles Koch’s efforts to abolish the Postal Service.  

Lisa Graves served in Washington at the Department of Justice, the US Senate Judiciary Committee and the Administrative Office of the US Courts. She is the Executive Director and editor-in-chief of True North Research.org.

Then,

Lockdown Comedy with Lisa Geduldig and her mom Arline Geduldig (zoom performance TONIGHT, 7 p.m. Pacific; eventbrite/lockdowncomedyaugust20

Photo credit: Mick Haupt on Unsplash

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