0:08 – Rounding up what’s happened recently and what’s still to come at the Supreme Court. The heavily anticipated decision on Roe v Wade hasn’t come down yet, but there have been some other significant rulings. We discuss the latest and preview what’s to come with Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC), a legal analyst and Supreme Court Correspondent for Slate magazine.

0:33 – We catch up with Y-Vonne Hutchinson (@hutchamachutch), CEO and founder of ReadySet, one of the country’s leading diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting firms. Her new book is How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: Speaking Up Without Getting Shut Down.

1:08 – Exploring California’s proposed budgets, and the difference between our State Senate’s budget proposal and that of the governor, we speak with Alexei Kossef (@akoseff), the state capitol reporter for non-profit newsroom CalMatters.

1:33 – Fighting California’s wildfires has had a heavy toll on firefighters. We are joined by Julie Cart (@julie_cart), environment reporter for the non-profit newsroom CalMatters, who just published a new series on the incredibly high rates of PTSD, substance abuse, depression, and quitting, among employees of CalFire.

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0:08 – It’s likely the fed will raise interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, which is the most severe hike since 1994, and this has wide ranging ramifications. We discuss the economy and how the interest rate hike will impact every-day people with Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood), an economic journalist and host of KPFA’s “Behind the News,” which airs Thursdays at Noon.

0:33 – Michael Mark Cohen (@LilBillHaywood), professor of African American Studies and American Studies at UC Berkeley joins us to discuss his book The Conspiracy of Capital: Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly. This interview originally aired in 2019.

1:08 – Catherine Belton (@CatherineBelton), is a reporter on Russia for the Washington Post, and from 2007 to 2013 was the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times. We discuss her book Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia, and Then Took on the West.

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0:10 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses the latest developments in the conflict in Ukraine.

0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, discusses the latest COVID science and answer listener questions.

1:08 – Insects are often thought of as pests, but they’re faced with a profound environmental collapse. Oliver Milman (@olliemilman), an environment correspondent for the Guardian, joins us to discuss his latest book, The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World.

1:34 – Debriefing election day in Los Angeles, we’re joined by Melina Abdullah (@DocMellyMel), Professor and Pan-African Studies at California State University in Los Angeles, she’s also Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter – LA, and host of the weekly radio program Move the Crowd our sister station KPFK.

1:45 – The Summit of the Americas wrapped up in Los Angeles last Friday, with the US hosting for the first time in decades. It produced the “Los Angeles Declaration,” even after numerous Latin American countries were not invited. Laura Carlsen (@lauraecarlsen), the Director of the Mexico City-based Americas Program of the Center for International Policy, joins us to discuss the regional implications of the Summit.

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