On today’s show: Rachel Bronson, executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, talks about what led to its Doomsday Clock adjustment. WBEZ film contributor Milos Stehlik joins professor and author Nora Annesley Taylor to discuss her film series, Apocalypse Then: The Vietnam War On Film, and the recent reexamination of the Vietnam War. Chicago-area native Janai Brugger discusses being in the opera Turandot and what it’s like to sing in Chicago’s legendary Civic Opera House.

On today’s show: Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle — an interpreter, community organizer, and member of La Voz de Los de Abajo — discusses the 2017 presidential election in Honduras. Coming Together chairperson Susan Van Dusen and co-organizer Habeeb Quadri talk about the annual Niles Township celebration, which is focused on Muslim-American cultures this year. Former WBEZ Odyssey host Gretchen Helfrich and religious scholar Martin Marty discuss how we can learn about religion and philosophy through film.

On today’s show: Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle — an interpreter, community organizer, and member of La Voz de Los de Abajo — discusses the 2017 presidential election in Honduras. Coming Together chairperson Susan Van Dusen and co-organizer Habeeb Quadri talk about the annual Niles Township celebration, which is focused on Muslim-American cultures this year. Former WBEZ Odyssey host Gretchen Helfrich and religious scholar Martin Marty discuss how we can learn about religion and philosophy through film.

On today's show: We discuss the latest attack on the economics of renewable energy with Lisa Albrecht, a renewable energy specialist for Solar Service, Inc., a local solar panel installer, and John Rogers, a senior energy analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists. We talk with Paul O’Brien, Oxfam America’s vice president for Policy and Campaigns, about the numbers and trends detailed in a report that claims around 82 percent of the world’s generated wealth went to the richest 1 percent of the global population in 2017. Jeffrey Winters, director of Northwestern University's Equality Development and Globalization Studies Program, talks about how government, the private sector, and other institutions cooperate, directly or indirectly, to benefit the rich rather than level the playing field.

On today's show: We discuss the latest attack on the economics of renewable energy with Lisa Albrecht, a renewable energy specialist for Solar Service, Inc., a local solar panel installer, and John Rogers, a senior energy analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists. We talk with Paul O’Brien, Oxfam America’s vice president for Policy and Campaigns, about the numbers and trends detailed in a report that claims around 82 percent of the world’s generated wealth went to the richest 1 percent of the global population in 2017. Jeffrey Winters, director of Northwestern University's Equality Development and Globalization Studies Program, talks about how government, the private sector, and other institutions cooperate, directly or indirectly, to benefit the rich rather than level the playing field.

On today's show, Worldview opens up the phones to listeners to talk about how Midwesterners can save their money by exploring the unrivaled biodiversity of the tri-state region with  Mike MacDonald, a nature photographer and founder of ChicagoNatureNow!, an initiative to get people engaged with nature and author of the book My Journey into the Wilds of Chicago Dr. Gerould Wilhelm, botanist/ecologist at Conservation Design Forum and formerly at the Morton Arboretum for over 20 years. He co-authored the book, Flora of the Chicago Region. A Floristic and Ecological Synthesis.

On today's show, Worldview opens up the phones to listeners to talk about how Midwesterners can save their money by exploring the unrivaled biodiversity of the tri-state region with  Mike MacDonald, a nature photographer and founder of ChicagoNatureNow!, an initiative to get people engaged with nature and author of the book My Journey into the Wilds of Chicago Dr. Gerould Wilhelm, botanist/ecologist at Conservation Design Forum and formerly at the Morton Arboretum for over 20 years. He co-authored the book, Flora of the Chicago Region. A Floristic and Ecological Synthesis.

To discuss the intersectionality of race, gender, and colonized mentalities for the hour, we’re joined by Yasmin Nair, an academic, activist, freelance writer, and editor-at-large at Current Affairs; Jennifer Brier, director of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Lewis Gordon, an Afro-Jewish philosopher at the University of Connecticut. 

To discuss the intersectionality of race, gender, and colonized mentalities for the hour, we’re joined by Yasmin Nair, an academic, activist, freelance writer, and editor-at-large at Current Affairs; Jennifer Brier, director of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Lewis Gordon, an Afro-Jewish philosopher at the University of Connecticut. 

On today’s show: As the U.S. heads towards a government shutdown that would delay the fate of hundreds of thousands of so-called Dreamers, we’ll talk with Susan Gzesh from the University of Chicago’s Pozen Family Center for Human Rights and Mary Meg McCarthy, executive director of Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center, about the political fight over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals bill. Film contributor Milos Stehlik talks with Emmy Award-winning producer and journalist Alexandra Dean about her latest project — a documentary about Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr. Omar Torres-Kortright, executive director of the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, and musician Roy McGrath discuss Chicago’s Fiestas de La Calle that will have food, visual displays, and live music this Saturday, Jan. 20.