We’re still thinking about Barbara Ehrenreich, who died last week. She was one of our best. We’ll listen to an interview with Ehrenreich from 2002, about “Nickel and Dimed,” her unforgettable book about trying to live on low-wage work which had just been published. 

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Patrick Leahy of Vermont has been a senator for almost 50 years. He describes how, on January 6, when senators took refuge from the mob attacking the capitol, they prepared to complete the work of counting the electoral votes in their underground bunker--until he insisted they should wait until they could return to the Senate chamber. His new book is ”The Road Taken.”

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Dirty work—and the people who do it: the low-income workers who do our most ethically troubled jobs. What does that have to do with the rest of us? Eyal Press explains—his book “Dirty Work” is out now in paperback.

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The Organization of American States released a statement admitting, finally, that the international community was responsible for the crisis ravaging Haiti today. But what is to be done now? Amy Wilentz comments.

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Orange County, California: Ronald Reagan called it “the place all good Republicans go to die.” But there’s another history of Orange County--a history of white supremacy and right wing power, and of people’s battles to resist—especially immigrants. LA Times columnist Gustavo Arellano will explain--he’s one of the authors of the new book “A People’s Guide to Orange County.”

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Historian Eric Foner talks about about voting rights and voter suppression, about who gets to be a citizen, the rights of undocumented immigrants, and about the roots of mass incarceration -- --they all relate to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, part of the country’s attempt to redefine citizenship after the end of slavery. His book, “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution,” is out now in paperback.

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The synergy between politics and popular culture has never been clearer or stronger than in the Age of Reagan – J. Hoberman will explain, he’s the author of a wonderful book called “Make My Day: Film Culture in the Age of Reagan.” Hoberman was a legendary film critic for the Village Voice for 30 years - now he writes for the New York Review, the New York Times, and The Nation. 

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Ivana Trump, the mother of Ivanka, Don Junior and Little Eric, died last week – Amy Wilentz comments on her memoir, “Raising Trump” (first broadcast in 2017).

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It’s not too late to act to slow climate change--that’s what Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua say. Their new project invites newcomers to join the climate movement, and guides people from despair to possibilities. Find them at www.NotTooLateClimate.com/; on Facebook at @NotTooLateClimate and on Twitter at @NotTooLate_hope.

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The people who say “America is a Christian Nation” had some big victories at the Supreme Court last week, on school prayer, and on taxpayer funding of religious schools. Sarah Posner comments on the endgame of the Christian Nationalists; she’s the author of Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind.

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