00:08 Emily M. Bender is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR); they’ve co-authored the book The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

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00:08 — Annalee Newitz is a San Francisco based journalist and author. They write for New Scientist and co-host the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Their latest book is “Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind.”

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00:08 — Joel Beinin Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.

00:33 — Juliette Cubanski is deputy director of the Program on Medicare Policy at KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research, polling and news organization.

00:45 — Zaidee Stavely is education and immigration reporter at EdSource and hosts the weekly Education Beat podcast.

The post Netanyahu Visits the White House; Plus, Medicare Drug Price Negotiation and Education Hit Hard by Budget Bill appeared first on KPFA.

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

00:33 — Tim Redmond is the founder and editor of 48hills.org.

The post Economic Fallout from Trump’s Big Budget Bill and New Tariffs; Plus, San Francisco Budget Vote appeared first on KPFA.

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 Vincent Bevins, formerly Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles times, and Southeast Asia correspondent for the Washington Post, both of which jobs gave him a front-row seat to recent social upheavals. His new book is If We Burn: the mass protest decade and the missing revolution. (this is a rebroadcast of an interview originally recorded in January 2024) 

The post Vincent Bevins on why uprisings fail, lately (rebroadcast) appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 — Mouin Rabbani is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, previously principal political affairs officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria.

00:33 — Phil Galewitz is senior correspondent for KFF Health News.

00:45 — Daniel Costa is Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at Economic Policy Institute.

The post Trump Executive Order Signs Away Major Syria Sanctions; Plus, “Big Beautiful Bill” Cuts Healthcare, Expands ICE appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 — Kaveh Ehsani is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at DePaul university. He is a contributing editor to the Tehran-based journal, Dialogue.

00:33 — Elizabeth Taufa, Senior Policy Attorney & Specialist with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.

The post Aftermath of the “12-Day War” in Iran; Plus, DOJ Could Denaturalize 25-Million Naturalized US Citizens appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 — David Dayen, Executive Editor of the American Prospect.

00:33 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation.

The post Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes the Senate appeared first on KPFA.

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

00:33 — Art Reingold is the Division Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

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