KPFA - UpFront

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  Michael Willrich is a Professor of History at Brandeis University. His latest book, a Pulitzer finalist, is American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.

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

00:33 — David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. His most recent book is “Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.”

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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 — Laura Carlsen, director of the Mexico-City based international relations think tank Mira: Feminisms y Democracies.

00:33 — Ryan Cooper is senior editor of The American Prospect and author of “How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics.”

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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 Andrew Hartman, professor of history at Illinois State, just out with the book of Karl Marx in America

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00:08 — Claudia Boyd-Barrett is the Southern California Correspondent for KFF Health News. She writes about health care access and local impacts of national health policy changes.

00:33 — Michael Willrich is professor of history at Brandeis University. He discusses his book “Pox: An American History.”

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

00:33 — Zoya Teirstein is a senior staff writer at Grist, covering the impacts of climate change on human health. 

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00:08 Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology Emeritus at UCLA; Honorary Professor at the University of Cambridge; author most recently of On Wars [this is a re-broadcast of an interview originally recorded in September 2023]

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