KPFA - UpFront

08:00 — Naghmeh Sohrabi is Professor of Middle East History at Brandeis University.

33:00 — Karen Musalo is Professor of International Law and Director of the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies at UC Law.

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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.

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00:08  Christopher Mathias, journalist who’s covered the far right for most of the past decade, now out with the forthcoming book To Catch a Fascist, the fight to expose the radical right  [This is a repeat broadcast of an interview originally recorded in January 2026]

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

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

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00:08 Rebecca Solnit, just out with The Beginning Comes After the End. She also has a newsletter called “Meditations in an Emergency”

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08:00 — Mark Joseph Stern is a legal analyst who covers courts and the law for Slate. He is also co-host of the Amicus podcast. 

33:00 — Daniel Miller is executive director of Spiral Gardens, a non-profit community food security project located in Southwest Berkeley.

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08:00 — Laleh Khalili is Professor at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.

33:00 — Harimandir Khalsa is a therapist at Kaiser Walnut Creek. 

45:00 — Clara-Sophia Daly is a reporter for Mission Local covering immigration. 

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08:00 — Ari Berman is national voting rights correspondent at Mother Jones. He’s the author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It.

33:00 — Ervand Abrahamian is Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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08:00 — 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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08:00 — John Nichols is Executive Editor for the Nation.

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

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