00:08 Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based writer who’s been reporting on Central Europe’s far right since the early 1990s. He wrote about this week’s electoral gains for the AfD for The Nation

00:33 Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.

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00:08 Annelle Sheline, research fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute; she resigned her position as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State in protest over the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israeli military operations in Gaza.

00:33 Lori Wallach is the director of the Rethink Trade program at American Economic Liberties Project.

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00:08 — Kasey Meehan is director of PEN America’s Freedom to Read program and co-author on the report “Public Libraries Face ‘Existential Threat,’ Putting Books, Information and People at Risk”

00:33 — Annie Waldman is a reporter at ProPublica covering health care.

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Scott Kurashige, interdisciplinary scholar who was a  longtime collaborator of the late philosopher Grace Lee Boggs; he’s just out with the book American Peril: the violent history of anti-asian racism [originally recorded in May 2026]

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00:08 — Gabrielle Canon is climate reporter and extreme weather correspondent for Guardian US.

00:25 — Remembering Gloria Steinem.

00:33 — J.W. Mason is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College of the City University of New York, and a senior fellow at the Groundwork Collaborative

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00:08 — Dean Baker is a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

00:33 — Golnar Nikpour is Associate Professor of modern Iranian history at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on the history of law, incarceration, revolution, and rights. She is the author of “The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran” (2024)

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00:08 — Sarah Lazare is the editor of Workday Magazine.

00:33 — Emanuel Maiberg is a reporter for 404 Media. 

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00:08 — John Nichols, Executive Editor of the Nation.

00:33 — Miguel R. Tinker Salas is Professor Emeritus of History at Pomona College. He is the author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela.

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00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.

00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

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00:08 — Christopher Cox is a reporter for the New York Times Magazine.

00:33 — Rick Hasen is Professor of Law and Director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA School of Law.

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