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A Guy
 Jan 23, 2019
Letters and Politics is one of the few shows, in any medium, that is consistently interesting and informing. Mitch is very likeable and a solid interviewer. Which is important here because his guests can be very scholarly. Highest of recs.

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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.

Episode Date
Dispossession: The Indian Removal Act of 1830
Aug 28, 2025
The Pirates That Halted The Slave Trade
Aug 27, 2025
IDF: A History of Israel’s Army of Occupation
Aug 26, 2025
The Shahnameh & Iran’s Ancient Past
Aug 25, 2025
Letters and Politics – August 21, 2025
Aug 21, 2025
How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon
Aug 20, 2025
THE BEGINNING OF CALIFORNIA & THE EVERGREEN REVIEW
Aug 19, 2025
Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
Aug 18, 2025
THE GRANDMOTHERS OF THE DISAPPEARED
Aug 14, 2025
Africa and the Making of the Modern World
Aug 13, 2025
Early Christianity & The Making of Hell
Aug 12, 2025
The Empire of Artificial Intelligence
Aug 11, 2025
The German Peasants’ Revolt
Aug 07, 2025
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
Aug 06, 2025
The America First Committee: A History
Aug 05, 2025
The Life & Times of Sigmund Freud
Aug 04, 2025
Letters and Politics – July 31, 2025
Jul 31, 2025
The Story Behind the Grimm Brothers’ Tales
Jul 30, 2025
Women in Ancient History: Penelope’s Bones
Jul 29, 2025
The Origins of the Proto-Indo-Europeans
Jul 28, 2025
Understanding the Psychology of Nazis
Jul 24, 2025
Karl Marx in America
Jul 23, 2025
Red Scare: The Early Years
Jul 22, 2025
The Pornography Wars
Jul 21, 2025
The Century Long PR Campaign Linking Capitalism to Democracy
Jul 17, 2025
George Monbiot on The Secret History of Neoliberalism
Jul 16, 2025
The Fall of Roman Societies
Jul 15, 2025
The Fugitive Slave Act
Jul 14, 2025
The Power of Agricultural Industry
Jul 10, 2025
The Proto-Indo-Europeans
Jul 09, 2025
What it Means for Israel To Be a Jewish State
Jul 08, 2025
The Nature of Imperial Power with Mary Beard
Jul 07, 2025
Analysis: Megabill Final Vote in the House of Representatives & Hakeem Jeffries Marathonic Speech
Jul 03, 2025
Analysis of the Latest Version of Trump’s Megabill
Jul 02, 2025
A Perspective on Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign
Jul 01, 2025
Erwin Chemerinsky on the Implications of Undoing Universal Injunctions. And, Analysis on the so called “Big Beautiful Bill”
Jun 30, 2025
Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare and Freud
Jun 26, 2025
Rebecca Solnit on No Straight Road Takes You There
Jun 25, 2025
D.D. Guttenplan on the History of the Nation Magazine and the Politics of Today
Jun 24, 2025
Viet Thanh Nguyen: In War Americans Experience Blowback; Then, US Bombing of Iran
Jun 23, 2025
Henrietta Wood: A Legacy of Slavery and Reparations in America
Jun 19, 2025
The Lives of Smugglers (Coyotes)
Jun 18, 2025
The Israel-Iran Conflict and Trump’s Mega-Bomb
Jun 17, 2025
Karl Marx’s Influence in the US
Jun 16, 2025
The Bath Riots of 1917 & the People’s Response to Racist Immigration Policies
Jun 12, 2025
Serial Killers & Toxins: The Correlation
Jun 11, 2025
The Military Response to Sanctuary Cities & Immigrant’s Right to Work
Jun 10, 2025
Trump’s Deployment of the National Guard to LA
Jun 09, 2025
Women in Ancient History
Jun 05, 2025
The 50 Year War on American Workers
Jun 04, 2025
A History of Indian Boarding Schools in America
Jun 03, 2025
The Witch Hunt Against the Left in the 1940s
Jun 02, 2025
A History of Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt
May 29, 2025
Lethal Injections & The Hidden Torture of Executions
May 28, 2025
Land & Power
May 27, 2025
Letters and Politics – May 26, 2025
May 26, 2025
The Iliad: War, Rage, and Sorrow
May 22, 2025
The Taoist & Christian: The Way of Chuang Tzu
May 21, 2025
Understanding the Psychology of Nazis
May 20, 2025
Ariel Dorfman on the Role of Beauty During Times of Chaos
May 19, 2025
Resisting Occupation Across the Continent
May 15, 2025
Fall Of Civilizations: A Conversation with Paul Cooper
May 14, 2025
What Monsters Tell Us About Us
May 13, 2025
The Mexican Revolution and The Migrants Who Sparked it
May 12, 2025
The Life & Works of Frantz Fanon
May 08, 2025
The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company
May 07, 2025
How Ancient India Changed The World: From Buddhism to Math
May 06, 2025
When Science & Magic Intermingled
May 05, 2025
The Life & Times of Lucy Parsons
May 01, 2025
When Workers Shot Back
Apr 30, 2025
Hitler’s First 100 Days
Apr 29, 2025
America: What’s In A Name?
Apr 28, 2025
Women In The Ancient World
Apr 24, 2025
What Monsters Tell Us About Us
Apr 23, 2025
A Constitutional Look at Trump and the Courts
Apr 22, 2025
The Legacy of Pope Francis and the Future of the Catholic Church
Apr 21, 2025
Letters and Politics – April 17, 2025
Apr 17, 2025
The Banality of Evil & the Dangers of Mindless Complicity
Apr 16, 2025
KPFA in the McCarthy Era: 76 Years of Alternative Media
Apr 15, 2025
Yanis Varoufakis: Trade War is Class War
Apr 14, 2025
Erwin Chemerinsky on Executive Powers and the Courts. Then, Cuts to Medical Research
Apr 10, 2025
How Black Labor Created An Interracial Movement
Apr 09, 2025
A Greek Tragedy: the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis
Apr 08, 2025
Economist Dean Baker on Trump’s Tariffs
Apr 07, 2025
The Greatest Threat to Social Security in Its 90-Year History
Apr 03, 2025
Labor Organizing in History & Building Blocks for a General Strike
Apr 02, 2025
Live: Senator Cory Booker Protesting the Trump Administration’s Policies on the Senate Floor
Apr 01, 2025
Cesar Chavez & the Farmworkers’ Struggle
Mar 31, 2025
Gutting the Federal Work Force. Then, Advocating for Gender Diversity in Sports
Mar 27, 2025
A History of Twentieth Century Social Movements
Mar 26, 2025
Ruth Conniff: First 64 Days of the Trump Regime & Nihilism in the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Mar 25, 2025
The German Peasant’s War
Mar 24, 2025
Deportations and the Abuse of War Time Powers
Mar 20, 2025
The Irish Potato Famine and Its Consequences
Mar 19, 2025
The Second Red Scare & Political Deportations
Mar 18, 2025
Loretta Ross: Working with Opposition to Affect Change
Mar 17, 2025
Deportations In The First Red Scare
Mar 13, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction & Targeting of Universities
Mar 12, 2025
Katrina vanden Heuvel on the Russia-Ukraine War, Trump, and a Potential Peace Deal
Mar 11, 2025
James Galbraith on Tariff Wars, Inflation, Recession, & the Politics of the Trump’s Economy
Mar 10, 2025
Kuan Yin: The Princess Who Became the Goddess of Compassion
Mar 06, 2025
Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God by Catherine Nixey
Mar 05, 2025
The Luddites: The First Revolt Against Big Tech
Mar 04, 2025
John Nichols on the Imperial Presidency, the Press, & the Mounting Anti-Trump Opposition
Mar 03, 2025
How Project 2025 Became Reality
Feb 27, 2025
Richard Wolff on the Impacts and Chaos of Trumpenomics
Feb 26, 2025
The Nature of Imperial Power with Mary Beard
Feb 25, 2025
Ralph Nader on the Trump and Musk Dismantling the Government & the Tax Cuts for the Rich
Feb 24, 2025
A History of the Athenian Democracy (Part 3): Decline and Fall of the Empire
Feb 20, 2025
A History of Athenian Democracy (Part 2): Demagogues, Tyrants, Coups, and the People
Feb 19, 2025
A History of Athenian Democracy (Part 1): Democracy & Tyranny
Feb 18, 2025
The Intellectual Life of Frederick Douglas
Feb 17, 2025
Big Tech & AI Monopolies Under Trump
Feb 13, 2025
Trump and The Courts with Elie Mystal
Feb 12, 2025
Humans: A Monstrous History
Feb 11, 2025
The Expansion of the Presidential Power
Feb 10, 2025
Trump’s Chaos and his Radical Expansion of Executive Power
Feb 06, 2025
The Assault on Diversity & the LGBTQ+ Community
Feb 05, 2025
The America First Committee: A History
Feb 04, 2025
On the Absolute Powers of a U.S. President
Feb 03, 2025
Trump Freezes All Grants and Loans for Education and Nonprofits
Jan 28, 2025
The Impact of a Second Trump Term in Latin America
Jan 27, 2025
Understanding the Limits of the Presidential Powers
Jan 23, 2025
Trump’s Energy Emergency: Drill, Baby, Drill!
Jan 22, 2025
The Impact of the Trump’s Immigration Executive Orders
Jan 21, 2025
Letters and Politics – January 20, 2025
Jan 20, 2025
Operation Wetback and the Bipartisan Legacy of US Deportations
Jan 16, 2025
Letters and Politics – January 15, 2025
Jan 15, 2025
Letters and Politics – January 14, 2025
Jan 14, 2025
An Update on the LA Wildfires & What Can We Do About them
Jan 13, 2025
The L.A. Wildfires: People Tell Their Stories
Jan 09, 2025
The Fast Growing Moving Fires in L.A. & No Containment at the Palisades
Jan 08, 2025
Trump Promises to Revoke Biden’s Ban on Offshore Drilling
Jan 07, 2025
Congress Certifies the 2024 Presidential Election Results & a Peaceful Transfer of Power
Jan 06, 2025
The Impact of the Opium Trade on Global History
Jan 02, 2025
A History of Jewish Anti-Zionism: From The Communist Party to The New Left
Jan 01, 2025
Mary Wollstonecraft, The French Revolution and The Tyranny of Men 
Dec 31, 2024
The Mizrahi: From The Black Panthers to Likud
Dec 30, 2024
Letters and Politics – December 26, 2024
Dec 26, 2024
Letters and Politics – December 25, 2024
Dec 25, 2024
A Reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: Part II
Dec 24, 2024
A Reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: Part I
Dec 23, 2024
The Biblical Apocalypse and Its Real World Consequences
Dec 19, 2024
The Life & Works of Frantz Fanon
Dec 18, 2024
How The Female Body Drives Evolution
Dec 17, 2024
The Life and Times of Huey P. Long
Dec 16, 2024
Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God by Catherine Nixey
Dec 12, 2024
Kuan Yin: The Princess Who Became the Goddess of Compassion
Dec 11, 2024
The Life of Neil Marcus: Disability, Art, and Our Society
Dec 10, 2024
Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God by Catherine Nixey
Dec 09, 2024
Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire Series (Part 2)
Dec 05, 2024
Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire Series (Part 1)
Dec 04, 2024
Ralph Nader on How People Can Resist the Upcoming Trump Administration
Dec 03, 2024
Sovereignty and Extortion in Mexico
Dec 02, 2024
A History of the Ghost Dance Religious Movement
Nov 28, 2024
Jane Crow: The Radical Legacy of Pauli Murray
Nov 27, 2024
Who is Inside and Who is Outside of the Circle of Citizenship in America
Nov 26, 2024
19th-Century Eugenics Movement and its Relation to Immigration in America
Nov 25, 2024
Jack Weatherford on Kublai Khan and the Making of China
Nov 21, 2024
The Religious Experience & Social Movements
Nov 20, 2024
How to Dismantle a Republic: The Fall of the Weimar Republic
Nov 19, 2024
John Nichols on Trump’s Cabinet Picks
Nov 18, 2024
A History of the Dreamers Movement
Nov 14, 2024
Arun Gupta on Election Results & What Comes Next
Nov 13, 2024
Richard Wolff on the Economy After the Election
Nov 12, 2024
Martin Niemöller: Then They Came For Me
Nov 11, 2024
Mitch Jeserich’s Let’s Talk About the Election RESULTS! Part 2
Nov 07, 2024
Mitch Jeserich’s Let’s Talk About the Election RESULTS!
Nov 06, 2024
Lets Talk About The Election Part 4
Nov 05, 2024
Lets Talk About The Election Part 3
Nov 04, 2024
Lets Talk About The Election Part 2
Oct 31, 2024
Lets Talk About The Election Part 1
Oct 30, 2024
Hamas & Its Multiple Facets
Oct 29, 2024
Is There a Deep State?
Oct 28, 2024
Gideon Levy on Israel’s Assault on Gaza
Oct 24, 2024
When President John Adams Tried to Overthrow Democracy
Oct 23, 2024
How Google Monopolized Almost Everything
Oct 22, 2024
Shirley Chisholm, A Revolutionary Thinker
Oct 21, 2024
Nathan Robinson on The Elections and U.S. Foreign Policy
Oct 17, 2024
Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism
Oct 16, 2024
Polarization in the US: Past and Present
Oct 15, 2024
Waorani Leader Nemonte Nenquimo’s Fight to Save the Amazon Rainforest
Oct 14, 2024
The Weimar Republic
Oct 10, 2024
How Native Nations Reclaimed Oklahoma
Oct 09, 2024
Norman Solomon on Gaza, the Middle East, the Media, and the Democratic Party
Oct 08, 2024
A Settler Colonial Project & the Meaning of the October 7 Attack
Oct 07, 2024
A History of the Gang Wars in East Los Angeles
Oct 03, 2024
Vance-Waltz & the Elusive K.O. Punch
Oct 02, 2024
The Scopes Monkey Trial: A Battle About Science, Religion, Truth, and Freedom of Thought 
Oct 01, 2024
Helena Cobban on the Escalation of the War: Israel, Lebanon, & Palestine
Sep 30, 2024
The Luddites & the Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Sep 26, 2024
The Life of Audre Lorde
Sep 25, 2024
KPFA Special – The Life & Times of Pancho Villa
Sep 24, 2024
KPFA Special: Medea Benjamin on the U.S. Role in the Wars Around the World
Sep 23, 2024
KPFA Special – A History of Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt
Sep 19, 2024
KPFA Special – Richard Wolff on Harris, Trump, & the Economy Part 2
Sep 18, 2024
KPFA Special – Lobbying for Zionism: A History
Sep 17, 2024
KPFA Special – Arlie Hochschild on the Pride Paradox & the Rise of the New Right
Sep 16, 2024
KPFA Special – In Conversation with Paul Cooper of Fall Of Civilizations
Sep 12, 2024
KPFA Special – Richard Wolff on Harris, Trump, & the Economy Part 1
Sep 11, 2024
KPFA Special – Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Sep 10, 2024
IDF: A History of Israel’s Army of Occupation
Sep 09, 2024
The Recall of Two Progressives in Oakland and Alameda County
Sep 05, 2024
Racialized Housing Policy, Police Violence & Social Unrest
Sep 04, 2024
A History of Political Parties
Sep 03, 2024
How Class Struggle Birthed Democracy in the Ancient World
Sep 02, 2024
Genocide: Its History & Meaning
Aug 29, 2024
The Six Far-Right Groups Weakening American Democracy
Aug 28, 2024
2024 Election: Integrity as a National Security Issue
Aug 27, 2024
The Complexities of Kamala Harris’ Candidacy
Aug 26, 2024
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC (hour 2 of 2-hour special)
Aug 22, 2024
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC (hour 2 of 2-hour special)
Aug 21, 2024
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC (hour 2 of 2-hour special)
Aug 20, 2024
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the DNC (hour 2 of 2-hour special)
Aug 19, 2024
Paul Cooper of Fall Of Civilizations: In Conversation
Aug 15, 2024
Lobbying for Zionism: A History
Aug 14, 2024
Are Liberals Intolerant at Conservatives?
Aug 13, 2024
Unraveling the Misinformation about Homelessness in California
Aug 12, 2024
Crisis in the Middle East: Israel and the Axis of Resistance
Aug 08, 2024
The Political Record of Kamala Harris
Aug 07, 2024
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Harris’s Pick for Vice-President
Aug 06, 2024
Joe Biden’s Economy and Presidential Record
Aug 05, 2024
Ancient North American Cities and Why People Left Them
Aug 01, 2024
The Mizrahi: From the Black Panthers to Likud
Jul 31, 2024
The Life and Times of Huey P. Long
Jul 30, 2024
Venezuela’s Presidential Elections: Nicolas Maduro, Right-Wing Opposition & US Policies
Jul 29, 2024
Kamala Harris on Gaza
Jul 25, 2024
Letters and Politics – July 24, 2024
Jul 24, 2024
Letters and Politics – July 23, 2024
Jul 23, 2024
The Meaning of Biden Dropping Out of the Presidential Race
Jul 22, 2024
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC
Jul 18, 2024
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC
Jul 17, 2024
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC
Jul 16, 2024
Special Event Programming: Democracy Now at the RNC
Jul 15, 2024
Anarchists & Communists In Asia’s Anti-Colonial Movements
Jul 11, 2024
A History of the AR-15
Jul 10, 2024
French Elections 2024: The Left, Center, and Rejection of the Far-Right
Jul 09, 2024
Josephine Baker: Anti-Fascist Spy
Jul 08, 2024
The California Redwoods: A History of Plunder & Resistance
Jul 04, 2024
The Lives of Smugglers (Coyotes)
Jul 03, 2024
George Kennan: The Cold War Architect Who Opposed The War
Jul 02, 2024
Unraveling the Imperial Presidency and the Supreme Court’s Decisions
Jul 01, 2024
Homosexuals & Communists in the First Half of the 20th Century
Jun 27, 2024
The Israeli Lobby & the Squad
Jun 26, 2024
An Age of Coexistence in Palestine
Jun 25, 2024
A History of Jewish Anti-Zionism: From The Communist Party to The New Left
Jun 24, 2024
Fannie Lou Hamer: A Life
Jun 20, 2024
On Juneteenth: A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed
Jun 19, 2024
John C. Calhoun: Defender of Racial Slavery & White Democracy
Jun 18, 2024
Bill Clinton & the Transformation of American Capitalism
Jun 17, 2024
David Duke and The Right Wing Populism of the 1990’s
Jun 13, 2024
Seattle, 1999: A History of the WTO Protests
Jun 12, 2024
How The Republican Party Went From Anti-Slavery to Pro-Imperialism
Jun 11, 2024
Joseph Stiglitz vs Friedrich von Hayek: One Nobel Prize Winning Economist Takes On Another. Then, Biden Seals the Border
Jun 10, 2024
Anti-Democratic Rule In The United States: A History
Jun 06, 2024
A History of the Soviet Union and its Influence on the Global Left
Jun 05, 2024
Charlie Hustle and the Culture of Gambling in Professional Sports
Jun 04, 2024
The Convicted Presidential Candidate: Eugene V Debs vs Donald J Trump
Jun 03, 2024
A Book for Kids (& You) to Think About Palestine & Israel. Then, KPFA’s Audacious History.
May 30, 2024
How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon
May 29, 2024
KPFA Special Programming: A Tribute to Larry Bensky
May 28, 2024
The Making of a Haitian Revolutionary: From Toussaint Breda to Toussaint L’Ouverture
May 27, 2024
KPFA Special: Richard Wolff on US-China Dynamics and the New Global Order
May 23, 2024
KPFA Special – A History of Jewish Anti-Zionism: From The Communist Party to The New Left
May 22, 2024
KPFA Special – The Life & Works of Frantz Fanon
May 21, 2024
Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience & Why it Matters Today
May 20, 2024
KPFA Special – Amy Tan: Connecting with Nature
May 16, 2024
KPFA Special – The Creation of Cities: Wealth, Inequality and Environmental Destruction
May 15, 2024
KPFA Special – Yanis Varoufakis: How Techno-Feudalism is Replacing Capitalism
May 14, 2024
KPFA Special – The Luddites & the Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
May 13, 2024
Ilan Pappe on A History of Palestinian Resistance
May 09, 2024
A History of Jewish Anti-Zionism
May 08, 2024
Speech in Times of War: the Israel’s Assault on Gaza
May 07, 2024
Anexos: Addiction Treatment Centers in Mexico City and Beyond
May 06, 2024
A History of Student Movements
May 02, 2024
Letters and Politics – May 1, 2024
May 01, 2024
The Creation of Cities: Wealth, Inequality and Environmental Destruction
Apr 30, 2024
The Mizrahi: From the Black Panthers to Likud
Apr 29, 2024
An Investigative Look Behind Trump’s Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election
Apr 25, 2024
The U.S. & Iraq Before The Wars
Apr 24, 2024
The Past, Present, and Future of the Labor Movement in America
Apr 23, 2024
The Life & Times of Sigmund Freud
Apr 22, 2024
The Pirates That Halted The Slave Trade
Apr 18, 2024
Understanding Secretary Mayorkas’ Impeachment. Then, The Dangerous Dynamic Between Israel and Iran  
Apr 17, 2024
Climate Change From A to Z with Elizabeth Kolbert
Apr 16, 2024
Special – KPFA’s 75th Anniversary
Apr 15, 2024
The Lives of Smugglers (Coyotes)
Apr 11, 2024
Inflation and the Economy with Richard Wolff. Then, Haiti’s Disaster Capitalism
Apr 10, 2024
U.S. Unconditional Support to Israel and the Imminent Assault on Rafah
Apr 09, 2024
Congress, the Military Budget, and the Uncommitted Vote Campaign to Demand Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza
Apr 08, 2024
The Sullivanians: Psychoanalysis, Marxism, & A Commune To Break The Traditional Family
Apr 04, 2024
American Democracy and the Tyranny of the Minority
Apr 03, 2024
How The Opium Trade Fueled Global Capitalism
Apr 02, 2024
The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery
Apr 01, 2024
The Pornography Wars
Mar 28, 2024
The Black Women in The Communist Party 1919-1956
Mar 27, 2024
The Houthis & Yemen: A History
Mar 26, 2024
The Murder of Regina Martinez Perez
Mar 25, 2024
The Pursuit of Happiness, The Founders, and America Today
Mar 21, 2024
The Roots and Legacy of the Qur’an
Mar 20, 2024
The Axis of Resistance: Palestine & West Asia Fight Against Imperialism
Mar 19, 2024
The Balfour Declaration: How the British Empire Broke Its promises to the People of Palestine
Mar 18, 2024
How The Female Body Drives Evolution
Mar 14, 2024
Palestinian Identity Through Culture and Exile 
Mar 13, 2024
Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan.
Mar 12, 2024
Linked Histories: The Holocaust & The Nakba
Mar 11, 2024
KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part IV)
Mar 07, 2024
KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part III)
Mar 06, 2024
KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part II)
Mar 05, 2024
KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part I)
Mar 04, 2024
KPFA Special – Allen Ginsberg: The Great American Poet of the Twentieth Century
Feb 29, 2024
KPFA Special – Grief Turns to Rage: A Reading from The Iliad by Mitch Jeserich
Feb 28, 2024
KPFA Special – The Odyssey and The Iliad, Why these Epic Verses Still Matter Today
Feb 27, 2024
KPFA Special – The History Behind The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
Feb 26, 2024
KPFA Special – The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company
Feb 22, 2024
KPFA Special – The Life & Works of Frantz Fanon
Feb 21, 2024
KPFA Special – Ilan Pappé on the History of the Palestinian Resistance
Feb 20, 2024
Fannie Lou Hamer: A Life
Feb 19, 2024
Biden’s Continued Support for the War on Gaza
Feb 15, 2024
Liberia: From the American Colonization Society to Firestone
Feb 14, 2024
Haiti’s Disaster Capitalism & Poverty and Homelessness at Home
Feb 13, 2024
A History of Authoritarianism in El Salvador
Feb 12, 2024
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Trump’s State Ballot Eligibility
Feb 08, 2024
A History of the War on Immigrants & the Immigration Politics of an Election Year
Feb 07, 2024
The Symbionese Liberation Army & The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst
Feb 06, 2024
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment & The Disqualification of a President
Feb 05, 2024
Case of Genocide Complicity Against Biden Dismissed & Gerald Horne on the Radical Origins of Black History Month
Feb 01, 2024
The Meaning of Freedom: A History of White Resistance to Federal Power
Jan 31, 2024
Genocide: Meaning & History
Jan 30, 2024
Unfolding the Genocide: Palestine Takes on Biden
Jan 29, 2024
The Life & Works of Frantz Fanon
Jan 25, 2024
Solidarity with the People of Palestine: The Global and Local Movement (LIVE at L3Harris)
Jan 24, 2024
New Hampshire Primary & the Rural Voter
Jan 23, 2024
The Houthis & Yemen: A History
Jan 22, 2024
Letters and Politics – January 18, 2024
Jan 18, 2024
Letters and Politics – January 17, 2024
Jan 17, 2024
Letters and Politics – January 16, 2024
Jan 16, 2024
Letters and Politics – January 15, 2024
Jan 15, 2024
Public Hearings in the Case South Africa v. Israel – Oral argument of South Africa
Jan 11, 2024
The US Politics in the Middle East & The South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel
Jan 10, 2024
Th Israeli Lobby and the Squad
Jan 09, 2024
The Supreme Court & Trump’s Eligibility for Colorado Primary Ballot
Jan 08, 2024
The Firebombing of Tokyo and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
Jan 04, 2024
Shakespeare & Race
Jan 03, 2024
An Age of Coexistence in Palestine
Jan 02, 2024
The California Redwoods: A History of Plunder & Resistance
Jan 01, 2024
The Life & Times of Anna May Wong
Dec 28, 2023
The Opium Wars, The Gold Rush and the Formation of Global Capitalism
Dec 27, 2023
The Biblical Apocalypse & Its Real World Consequences
Dec 26, 2023
A History of Settler Colonialism
Dec 25, 2023
On Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism with Phyllis Bennis
Dec 21, 2023
The Church Committee: Investigating Assassinations, Coups, and the Drugging of Americans
Dec 20, 2023
An Update on the Oakland’s Menorah & A History of the Palestinian Resistance with Ilan Pappe
Dec 19, 2023
Trump’s Conspiracy Theories And an Update on Congress with John Nichols
Dec 18, 2023
KPFA Special – Oakland’s Menorah and Xenophobia in America: Antisemitism and Anti-Arabism
Dec 14, 2023
KPFA Special – A History of the The Jewish Diaspora
Dec 13, 2023
KPFA Special – Edward Said: A Life
Dec 12, 2023
KPFA Special – A History of Palestinian Resistance with Ilan Pappe
Dec 11, 2023
KPFA Special – The Untold Story of Women Throughout History
Dec 07, 2023
KPFA Special – The Odyssey, Why It Still Matters Today & The Ancient War & Sorrow Pack
Dec 06, 2023
KPFA Special – The Iliad: War, Rage, and Sorrow
Dec 05, 2023
The Age of Coexistence in Palestine
Dec 04, 2023
A History of the The Jewish Diaspora
Nov 30, 2023
A History of Zionism and Settler Colonialism (Part II)
Nov 29, 2023
A History of Zionism and Settler Colonialism (Part I)
Nov 28, 2023
The Current Israel-Hamas Deal and the Future of the Palestinian People
Nov 27, 2023
Jim Thorpe: From Boarding School to Champion
Nov 23, 2023
The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery
Nov 22, 2023
Dispossession: The Indian Removal Act of 1830
Nov 21, 2023
Escaping & Remembering Fascism
Nov 20, 2023
Letters and Politics – November 16, 2023
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Letters and Politics – November 15, 2023
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How Pirates Halted The Slave Trade
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Letters and Politics – November 9, 2023
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Censuring Rashida Tlaib & Vijay Prashad Responds
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The 2024 White House Budget Request for the Border & The Trump’s Legal Cases
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Shutting Down Tacoma Port to Delay Military Aid to Israel & US Military Bases in the World
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The U.S. Military Aid for Israel, No Humanitarian Assistance for Gaza & the Calls for a Ceasefire
Nov 02, 2023
A History of Antisemitism in Today’s World & An Update on the Spending Request for Israel in Congress
Nov 01, 2023
The Palestine/Israel Conflict – US Foreign Policy. Then, the Backlash Against Lawmakers who Signed the Ceasefire Resolution
Oct 31, 2023
International Law in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Oct 30, 2023
Ilan Pappé: Crisis in Zionism, Opportunity for Palestine?
Oct 26, 2023
Congress, Gaza, and the Calling for a Ceasefire
Oct 25, 2023
How The Female Body Drives Evolution
Oct 24, 2023
The Geopolitics of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Oct 23, 2023
The Founder of Modern Gynecology & The Enslaved Woman He Experimented On
Oct 19, 2023
The House Speakership Chaos & The History of Hamas
Oct 18, 2023
The CIA Backed Assassination of Patrice Lumumba
Oct 17, 2023
The Palestine/Israel Conflict – The Media Coverage and the Backlash Across US
Oct 16, 2023
A History of the AR-15
Oct 12, 2023
The Palestine / Israel Conflict: The Root Causes of the Occupation and the US Involvement
Oct 11, 2023
The Palestine/Israel Conflict: Processing the Tragedy and Finding Justice
Oct 10, 2023
The Palestine / Israeli Conflict: A History of Settler Colonialism & Resistance
Oct 09, 2023
KPFA Special – Heather Cox Richardson on the State of Democracy in America
Oct 05, 2023
KPFA Special – Live with Bart D. Ehrman on the Biblical Apocalypse
Oct 04, 2023
KPFA Special – The Legacy of Dianne Feinstein
Oct 02, 2023
KPFA Special – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on the History of Settler Colonialism
Sep 28, 2023
KPFA Special – Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part III
Sep 27, 2023
KPFA Special – Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part II
Sep 26, 2023
KPFA Special – Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part 1 – The 1850s
Sep 25, 2023
Dr. Cornel West Takes Listener Calls About Presidential Run
Sep 21, 2023
KPFA Special – Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
Sep 20, 2023
KPFA Special – Cooking with Ralph Nader: Family Recipes From Lebanon and Beyond
Sep 19, 2023
Bill Clinton & the Transformation of American Capitalism
Sep 18, 2023
Mary Wollstonecraft, The French Revolution and The Tyranny of Men
Sep 14, 2023
The Presidency of Andrew Jackson: The Bank War, Indian Removal, Slavery & the Expansion of Democracy
Sep 13, 2023
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Lost Book: The Great War and the Black Experience
Sep 12, 2023
The Church Committee: Investigating Assassinations, Coups, and the Drugging of Americans
Sep 11, 2023
Disinvestment In Cities, Crime, and the Persistence of the Racial Wealth Gap
Sep 07, 2023
A History of US Intervention in Nicaragua
Sep 06, 2023
A History of Hacking
Sep 05, 2023
Letters and Politics – September 4, 2023
Sep 04, 2023
Shakespeare & Race
Aug 31, 2023
Current Political Trends in Latin American & Upending the Tenderloin’s ‘Doom Loop’ Narrative
Aug 30, 2023
The Life & Times of Anna May Wong
Aug 29, 2023
Poverty, Crime and Policy in America
Aug 28, 2023
Analysis of the First GOP Presidential Debate and Trump’s Absence
Aug 24, 2023
From King Leopold II To Big Teach: The Plundering of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day Slavery
Aug 23, 2023
How Black Women Shaped the Communist Party in America
Aug 22, 2023
Capitalism & Alienation: The Economics of Henry David Thoreau
Aug 21, 2023
Salmon Wars: How the Industrialization of Atlantic Salmon is Endangering our Health and Environment
Aug 17, 2023
The Sullivanians: Psychoanalysis, Marxism, & A Commune To Break The Traditional Family
Aug 16, 2023
Racketeering Charges in the Trump’s Georgia Indictment. Then, Birds & Evolution
Aug 15, 2023
The Black Social Gospel and the Roots of Social Justice
Aug 14, 2023
Homosexuals & Communists in the First Half of the 20th Century
Aug 10, 2023
The Past, Present, and Future of Water
Aug 09, 2023
An Eastern Ukrainian’s Perspective of the War
Aug 08, 2023
Understanding the Electoral College in the Trump’s Indictment & The Science and Enigma of the Owl
Aug 07, 2023
The For-Profit Catastrophe of Kidney Dialysis
Aug 03, 2023
Third Trump’s Indictment: Efforts to Overturn his 2020 Presidential Election Loss
Aug 02, 2023
The History of Cable Television and Its Impact on Politics
Aug 01, 2023
John Nichols: Analysis on the GOP and Democratic Presidential Candidacies
Jul 31, 2023
KPFA Special – Ralph Nader on the Politics of Today
Jul 27, 2023
KPFA Special – Richard Wolff on The Economy and the Current Political Landscape
Jul 26, 2023
KPFA Special – The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery
Jul 25, 2023
KPFA Special – George Kennan: The Architect of the Cold War Who Opposed the War
Jul 24, 2023
KPFA Special – The Mexican Revolution and The Migrants Who Sparked it
Jul 20, 2023
KPFA Special – The Biblical Apocalypse & Its Real World Consequences
Jul 19, 2023
KPFA Special – How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon
Jul 18, 2023
How a Hotter Planet Affects Life
Jul 17, 2023
The Founder of Modern Gynecology & The Enslaved Woman He Experimented On
Jul 13, 2023
A History of Democratic Socialism in America
Jul 12, 2023
A History of How Technological Innovation Has Led to Inequality
Jul 11, 2023
Operation Condor: A History of a Dirty War in Latin America
Jul 10, 2023
Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory. Then, Raj Patel on The Ants & the Grasshopper Film
Jul 06, 2023
A History of Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown and the Abolitionist Movement
Jul 05, 2023
The Second Amendment: How Slave Supporting Politicians Got Their Right to Quell Slave Revolts
Jul 04, 2023
The Intellectual Life of Frederick Douglas
Jul 03, 2023
A History of Discrimination and the Supreme Court Ruling Against Affirmative Action
Jun 29, 2023
The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery
Jun 28, 2023
The Presidency of Andrew Jackson: The Bank War, Indian Removal, Slavery & the Expansion of Democracy
Jun 27, 2023
A Conversation with Sonali Kolhatkar on Media, Race, and Justice
Jun 26, 2023
Honoring the Legacy and Memory of Daniel Ellsberg
Jun 22, 2023
The Plan that Almost Brought a Peaceful End to The Siege in Waco, TX
Jun 21, 2023
The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
Jun 20, 2023
Henrietta Wood: A Legacy of Slavery and Reparations in America
Jun 19, 2023
Before We Were Trans: A 3,500 Year History
Jun 15, 2023
In Conversation with Norman Solomon
Jun 14, 2023
The Rising Oceans & Trump’s Handling of Classified Documents
Jun 13, 2023
Trump Federal Indictment & The History of the Espionage Act of 1917
Jun 12, 2023
A History & The Case for Black Reparations
Jun 08, 2023
Money, Power, & Murder: The Beginnings of Stanford University
Jun 07, 2023
Radical By Nature:The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
Jun 06, 2023
A History of Affirmative Action
Jun 05, 2023
The Pornography Wars
Jun 01, 2023
Michio Kaku on The Future of Quantum Computers
May 31, 2023
The Debt Ceiling Deal & The Rediscovery of America
May 30, 2023
Jim Thorpe: From Boarding School to Champion
May 29, 2023
KPFA Special – How Big Business Linked Capitalism to Democracy
May 25, 2023
KPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part III)
May 24, 2023
KPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part II)
May 23, 2023
KPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part I)
May 22, 2023
KPFA Special – The Map of Knowledge
May 18, 2023
KPFA Special – A History of the Athenian Democracy (Part 3): Decline and Fall of the Empire
May 17, 2023
KPFA Special – A History of the Athenian Democracy (Part 2): Demagogues, Tyrants, and the People
May 16, 2023
KPFA Special – A History of the Athenian Democracy (Part 1): The Tyrannicide
May 15, 2023
Fund Drive Special – On the Biblical Apocalypse: From the Christian Zionism to Waco Texas
May 11, 2023
Fund Drive Special – Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire Series (Part 2)
May 10, 2023
Fund Drive Special – Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire Series (Part 1)
May 09, 2023
The Century Long PR Campaign Linking Capitalism to Democracy
May 08, 2023
Palo Alto: A History of California, Innovation & Exploitation
May 04, 2023
Life and Death of Homosexuals under the Nazi Regime
May 03, 2023
George Kennan: The Cold War Architect Who Opposed The War
May 02, 2023
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly: Ben Fletcher
May 01, 2023
Inside the Supreme Court’s Ruling to Overturn Roe v Wade
Apr 27, 2023
The Invention of Austerity and the Road to Fascism
Apr 26, 2023
The Sandy Hook Massacre & Conspiracy Theories
Apr 25, 2023
The Rise & Fall of the KKK in the 1920’s
Apr 24, 2023
Mary Wollstonecraft, The French Revolution and the Tyranny of Men
Apr 20, 2023
How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon
Apr 19, 2023
J. Edgar Hoover: From Progressive Icon To Villain
Apr 18, 2023
Is The Government Unconstitutionally Targeting Trump and His Supporters?
Apr 17, 2023
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Lost Book: The Great War and the Black Experience
Apr 13, 2023
The History of the NRA
Apr 12, 2023
Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory. Then, Raj Patel on The Ants & the Grasshopper Film
Apr 11, 2023
The Mexican Revolution and The Migrants Who Sparked it
Apr 10, 2023
The Century Long PR Campaign Linking Capitalism to Democracy
Apr 06, 2023
Trump Indictment: Legal Aspects. Then, The American Catholic Bishops and The Far Right
Apr 05, 2023
Democracy Came From Class Struggle: A Story of Classical Athens
Apr 04, 2023
Trump Indictment: Potential Political Consequences
Apr 03, 2023
The Case of Julian Assange
Mar 30, 2023
A Slow Moving Civil War with Jeff Sharlet
Mar 29, 2023
Pegasus: A Spyware that Threatens Privacy and Democracy. Then, The Implications of Indicting a Former President
Mar 28, 2023
Letters and Politics – March 8, 2023
Mar 27, 2023
On the Biblical Apocalypse: From the Christian Zionism to Waco Texas
Mar 27, 2023
The Trump Campaign’s Collusion With Israel. Then, The Movement and the “MADMAN”
Mar 23, 2023
Phillis Wheatley – A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
Mar 22, 2023
A History of China, Russia, and U.S. the Relations
Mar 21, 2023
20th Anniversary of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq. Then, Debunking the Conservative Arguments of the Right.
Mar 20, 2023
John Nichols on The Silicon Valley Bank collapse and the Banking Deregulation Laws
Mar 16, 2023
The Twitter Files: Excerpts from the Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
Mar 15, 2023
The Twitter Files: Excerpts from the Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
Mar 15, 2023
Richard Wolff on The Meaning of the Collapse of SVB and Signature Banks. Then, Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press
Mar 14, 2023
How Congress Works: Function and Dysfunction
Mar 13, 2023
KPFA Special – The Odyssey, Why it Matters Today
Mar 09, 2023
The Vagina: A History
Mar 08, 2023
V (formerly Eve Ensler) on Writing, Memory, and the Power of an Apology
Mar 07, 2023
KPFA Special – Homage to Judy Heumann; Disability Rights Pioneer
Mar 06, 2023
KPFA Special – Zapatista Stories for Dreaming Another World
Mar 02, 2023
KPFA Fund Drive Special – How Black Women Shaped the Communist Party in America
Mar 01, 2023
KPFA Special – Robin D.G. Kelley: A History of Black Radicalism
Feb 28, 2023
KPFA Special – The Media Coverage of the War in Ukraine
Feb 27, 2023
Fund Drive Special – The Untold History of American Labor
Feb 23, 2023
Fund Drive Special – Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Feb 22, 2023
KPFA Special- Códice Maya de Mexico, the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas
Feb 21, 2023
Henrietta Wood & The Case for Reparations
Feb 20, 2023
Alain Locke & and the Harlem Renaissance
Feb 16, 2023
Hope & Terror In The Time of Reconstruction
Feb 15, 2023
Palo Alto: A History of California, Innovation & Exploitation
Feb 14, 2023
Northern Syria, Rojava & The Earthquake
Feb 13, 2023
Debriefing Biden’s Second State of the Union Address
Feb 08, 2023
A History of Policing & The Challenges of Reform
Feb 07, 2023
Mussolini’s Daughter & The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism
Feb 06, 2023
Finding the Disappeared Children of the War in El Salvador & The History Behind Black History Month
Feb 02, 2023
From King Leopold II To Big Teach: The Plundering of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day Slavery
Feb 01, 2023
David Harvey on Karl Marx’s Grundrisse
Jan 31, 2023
German Rearmament & The History of Policing Powers
Jan 30, 2023
Our Wandering Minds: A History of what Early Christian Monks Learned about Distraction 
Jan 26, 2023
How The US-Mexican Drug War Inflamed The Violence & Increased Profits
Jan 25, 2023
The Answer to the Debt-Ceiling Standoff & Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Jan 24, 2023
George Kennan: The Architect of the Cold War Who Opposed the War
Jan 23, 2023
A History of Africatown
Jan 19, 2023
How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon
Jan 18, 2023
Putin: A Biography
Jan 17, 2023
Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
Jan 16, 2023
Hannah Arendt’s and Today’s Relevance of Lying in Politics
Jan 12, 2023
The Pacifists & The Good War
Jan 11, 2023
Censorship and Big Tech & Indigenous Justice in Early America
Jan 10, 2023
J. Edgar Hoover: From Progressive Icon To Villain
Jan 09, 2023
Letters and Politics – January 5, 2023
Jan 05, 2023
The History of The Speaker and Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations
Jan 04, 2023
Electing A Speaker
Jan 03, 2023
The Neanderthal: Love, Art & Culture (Re-broadcast)
Jan 02, 2023
Uncovering A Thousand Racially Motivated Murders 1930-1954
Dec 29, 2022
The Diversity of Perception in the Animal Kingdom and How Humans Force Creatures Into an Alien World
Dec 28, 2022
Heterodoxy: The Secret Club That Sparked The Feminist Movement
Dec 27, 2022
How the Islamic Empires Saved the Classical World
Dec 26, 2022
The Triumph of Christianity
Dec 22, 2022
Early Christian Texts & The Making of Hell
Dec 21, 2022
Milman Parry: The Man Who Killed Homer
Dec 20, 2022
January 6th Committee Holds Final Public Meeting Hour #1
Dec 19, 2022
KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part 4)
Dec 15, 2022
KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part 3)
Dec 14, 2022
KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part 2)
Dec 13, 2022
KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part 1)
Dec 12, 2022
KPFA Special – Whales: From its Ancient Past to its Uncertain Future
Dec 08, 2022
Zapatista Stories
Dec 07, 2022
KPFA Special – David Henry Thoreau: the Man Who Lived in Season
Dec 06, 2022
A Church Occupation by the English Collective of Prostitutes & A History of Railroad Labor Disputes and Government Intervention
Dec 05, 2022
Remembering Hale Zukas: Disability Rights Icon. Then, The Abolitionist’s Journal
Dec 01, 2022
The Rise & Fall of The Wobblies: America’s Most Radical Union
Nov 30, 2022
Nathan Robinson on The Grotesquery of the American Political System
Nov 29, 2022
Anarchists & Communists In Asia’s Anti-Colonialist Movements
Nov 28, 2022
A Counter Narrative of Native American History
Nov 24, 2022
Josephine Baker: Anti-Fascist Spy
Nov 23, 2022
Adam Hochschild: WWI, The Red Scare and The Threat to Democracy
Nov 22, 2022
Nancy Pelosi’s Meteoric Rise from SF Politics & An Homage to KPFA’s Iconic Monologist Jennifer Stone
Nov 21, 2022
The End of an Era: Nancy Pelosi’s Legacy
Nov 17, 2022
From the Tobacco Industry to Climate Climate Change to Social Media: A Modern History of Disinformation. Then, Conversations with Birds
Nov 16, 2022
Harriet Tubman vs. Andrew Jackson: The History and Future of the Twenty Dollar Bill and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
Nov 14, 2022
A Civil Rights Warrior of the 1960s: The Legacy of Colia Lafayette Clark
Nov 10, 2022
How The Midterm Will Effect Congress & Florida Goes Deep Red
Nov 09, 2022
Talking About Election Integrity & Young Voters
Nov 08, 2022
How to Dismantle a Republic: The Fall of the Weimar Republic
Nov 07, 2022
Nomi Prins: How The Financial Markets Abandoned The Economy
Nov 03, 2022
The 1994 Midterm Election & The Rise of Partisan Warfare
Nov 02, 2022
The 1934 Midterm Election’s Transformative Influence on the New Deal Landscape
Nov 01, 2022
Brazil: Militarism, the Far-Right, and the Return of the Left with Lula
Oct 31, 2022
A History of Disability and Design
Oct 27, 2022
Left Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Richard Becker
Oct 26, 2022
Legal Murder: A Legacy of Jim Crow
Oct 25, 2022
A Preview of the 2022 Midterm Elections with John Nichols
Oct 24, 2022
Left Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Ukrainian Opposition Leader Zakhar Popovych
Oct 20, 2022
Left Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel
Oct 19, 2022
The Murder of Regina Martina Perez
Oct 18, 2022
Ukraine and the U.S. Military Budget & Peniel Joseph on Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
Oct 17, 2022
A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 12, 2022
A History of Nuclear War with Peter Kuznick
Oct 11, 2022
Kai Bird on Robert Oppenheimer & Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Oct 10, 2022
KPFA Special – Bart Ehrman on Early Christian Texts & The Making of Hell
Oct 06, 2022
KPFA Special – The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company
Oct 05, 2022
KPFA Special – A Brief History of U.S. Imperialism with Noam Chomsky
Oct 04, 2022
KPFA Special – A History of Democratic Socialism in Europe and the US
Oct 03, 2022
KPFA Special: Reza Aslan on Howard Baskerville & The Persian Revolution of 1906
Sep 29, 2022
KPFA Special: The Inspiring Life of Henry David Thoreau
Sep 28, 2022
KPFA Special: We The Elites: The Making of the US Constitution
Sep 27, 2022
KPFA Special: Adam Hochschild: WWI, The Red Scare and The Threat to Democracy
Sep 26, 2022
KPFA Special: Yanis Varoufakis on Inflation and the Economic Imbalances of the World
Sep 22, 2022
KPFA Special: Josephine Baker: Anti-Fascist Spy
Sep 21, 2022
KPFA Special: Chris Hedges on The Greatest Evil is War
Sep 20, 2022
The Firebombing of Tokyo and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
Sep 19, 2022
The Eviction of an Encampment
Sep 15, 2022
The Radical History of Asian Americans
Sep 14, 2022
Before We Were Trans: A 3,500 Year History
Sep 13, 2022
The 2 Sides of Atticus Finch
Sep 12, 2022
Combating Anti-Asian Hate & A Conversation on Originalism
Sep 08, 2022
Dipo Faloyin on The Diversity of Africa
Sep 07, 2022
A History of Blindness: From Homer to Hellen Keller to Ray Charles
Sep 06, 2022
An Insurrectionist History of US Labor
Sep 05, 2022
Heterodoxy: The Secret Club that Sparked the Feminist Movement
Sep 01, 2022
The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev
Aug 31, 2022
An Anatomy of a Marine Die-off in the SF Bay & At Home on an Unruly Planet
Aug 30, 2022
The Diversity of Perception in the Animal Kingdom and How Humans Force Creatures Into an Alien World
Aug 29, 2022
Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss
Aug 25, 2022
ACT UP NY: A History 1987-1993
Aug 24, 2022
Jim Thorpe: From Boarding School to Champion
Aug 23, 2022
Karl Marx’s Final Years
Aug 22, 2022
Robin D. G. Kelley: A History of Black Radicalism
Aug 18, 2022
Understanding QAnon and the Conspiracy Theory of Everything
Aug 17, 2022
The Future of Liz Cheney, the GOP, and the Wyoming Primaries
Aug 16, 2022
Putin: A Biography
Aug 15, 2022
Marx & Shakespeare In Love: How Shakespeare Influenced Marx & What Marxism Says About Shakespeare
Aug 11, 2022
The Life and Times of Walter F. White & The Inflation Reduction Act
Aug 10, 2022
The Unprecedented FBI Search Warrant on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Aug 09, 2022
The Real King George III
Aug 08, 2022
An Update on People’s Park & A History of Taiwan and China
Aug 04, 2022
The Assassination of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Guantanamo, and the Failure of the War on Terror
Aug 03, 2022
Luis Francia: The Politics and History of the Philippines
Aug 02, 2022
Craig McNamara: A Heavy Place To Be…My Father A War Criminal
Aug 01, 2022
KPFA Special – Africa and the Making of the Modern World
Jul 28, 2022
Fund Drive Special: Recreating Nature & Saving the Planet at Home
Jul 27, 2022
Fund Drive Special: The Vagina: A History
Jul 26, 2022
KPFA Special – Gerald Horne: A History of Counter-Revolutions
Jul 25, 2022
Fund Drive Special: Vijay Prashad on Ho Chi Minh
Jul 21, 2022
Fund Drive Special: Vijay Prashad on Learning from Movements in History for Socialism
Jul 20, 2022
Fund Drive Special: How The Anti-Abortion Movement Radicalized The GOP
Jul 19, 2022
19th-Century Eugenics Movement and its Relation to Immigration in America
Jul 18, 2022
The B.A.5 Omicron Variant & The Rise of Monkeypox
Jul 14, 2022
People’s Park History and Struggle
Jul 13, 2022
Yanis Varoufakis: Today’s Economic Crisis Is Rooted In History
Jul 11, 2022
An Era of Rebellion: Urban Uprisings 1964-1972
Jul 07, 2022
Letters and Politics – July 4, 2022
Jul 04, 2022
Ho Chi Minh
Jun 30, 2022
Vijay Prashad: History Is A Series Of Experiments (Part 1)
Jun 29, 2022
The Founders Kept Abortion Legal: A History of Abortion in America
Jun 27, 2022
Homophobia and the Red Scare
Jun 23, 2022
The Meaning of Juneteenth and the Black Experience in Texas
Jun 20, 2022
The Politics and Process of the January 6th Investigation
Jun 15, 2022
A History of The Stonewall Riots
Jun 14, 2022
Operation Condor: A History of a Dirty War in Latin America
Jun 09, 2022
A Preview of the January 6 Hearings & “80 Years Later” A Film on Japanese American Racial Inheritance
Jun 08, 2022
Let’s Agree To Disagree
Jun 07, 2022
The Left & War: A Critical History
Jun 06, 2022
The Politics, Money, and the Media Mythology Behind SFDA Chesa Boudin Recall
Jun 02, 2022
A History of the First War for Vietnam
Jun 01, 2022
Pandemic Profiteers: How the Rich Got Richer
May 31, 2022
When President Theodore Roosevelt took on the biggest corporate interest of the day
May 30, 2022
The Connections of the Gun Manufacturing, Colonialism, and Industrialization
May 26, 2022
A History of the 2nd Amendment, Gun Control, & the Rise of the NRA
May 25, 2022
The Roots of American Conservatism: Robert Welch & the John Birch Society
May 24, 2022
John C. Calhoun: Defender of Racial Slavery & White Democracy
May 23, 2022
Letters and Politics – May 19, 2022
May 19, 2022
Martin Niemöller: The Pastor Who Defied the Nazis
May 18, 2022
The Great Replacement Theory
May 17, 2022
The East India Company
May 16, 2022
Letters and Politics – May 12, 2022
May 12, 2022
Richard Wolff On Everything You Need to Know About Inflation
May 11, 2022
Early Christian Texts & The Making of Hell
May 10, 2022
Letters and Politics – May 9, 2022
May 09, 2022
Underground Clinics Before & After Roe
May 05, 2022
Woman: A History of an Idea
May 04, 2022
Letters and Politics – May 3, 2022
May 03, 2022
Letters and Politics – May 2, 2022
May 02, 2022
The Brothers Who Forged A Pan Indian Confederation To Fight US Expansion
Apr 28, 2022
The Complex Lives of Roe v. Wade
Apr 27, 2022
The Neanderthal: Love, Art & Culture (Re-broadcast)
Apr 25, 2022
Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance & The French Presidential Elections
Apr 21, 2022
A History of Free Speech: From Antiquity to the Internet
Apr 20, 2022
The Battle that Ended a Civil War and Made the Roman Empire
Apr 19, 2022
The Political Economy of Climate Change
Apr 18, 2022
On Autism
Apr 14, 2022
The Ideas That Begin Underground
Apr 13, 2022
The Cryptocurrency Craze with Laura Shin
Apr 12, 2022
Constance Baker Motley: Civil Rights Queen
Apr 11, 2022
The Vagina: A History
Apr 07, 2022
What Is A War Crime? & How We Remember Wars
Apr 06, 2022
The Meaning of Tyranny
Apr 05, 2022
Michael Lewis on Baseball, Financial Capitalism & The Failure of Government
Apr 04, 2022
Anarchists & Communists In Asia’s Anti-Colonialist Movements
Mar 31, 2022
The Origins of Globalization Including the Creation of Kievan Rus’
Mar 30, 2022
Marx & Shakespeare In Love: How Shakespeare Influenced Marx & What Marxism Says About Shakespeare
Mar 29, 2022
The Money and Guns Behind The War
Mar 28, 2022
The Politics Behind Confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson & Sentencing Child Pornographers
Mar 24, 2022
Richard Wolff on a New Era of Financial Warfare
Mar 21, 2022
Anti-War Activist Medea Benjamin with Another View of the War
Mar 17, 2022
A Leftist Critique on the Anti-War Left Concerning Ukraine
Mar 16, 2022
Another View on the War in Ukraine with Gerald Horne
Mar 15, 2022
Two Views on YouTube Banning RT America
Mar 14, 2022
Financial Warfare in a Neoliberal World
Mar 10, 2022
The Corporate Origins of Colonialism
Mar 09, 2022
KPFA Special -Vijay Prashad: Another View on the War In Ukraine
Mar 08, 2022
KPFA Special – Ukrainian Marxist Fighting For Her Home
Mar 07, 2022
KPFA Special – A Recent History of Russia, Ukraine, and the West
Mar 03, 2022
KPFA Special – A History of the Spanish Civil War, the Rise of Fascism in Spain, and the Infighting Among the Left
Mar 02, 2022
KPFA Special – Stalin: from Revolutionary to Authoritarian
Mar 01, 2022
KPFA Special – Kievan Rus To The Fall of The Soviet Union: A History of Ukraine
Feb 28, 2022
KPFA Special – The Historical Meaning of The Current Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Feb 24, 2022
KPFA Special – After The Revolution: Leon Trotsky
Feb 23, 2022
KPFA Special – Neil Faulkner on A People’s History of the Russian Revolution
Feb 22, 2022
Fannie Lou Hamer: A Life
Feb 17, 2022
A History of Terrorism
Feb 16, 2022
The U.S. Media Coverage of the Ukraine-Russia Crisis & The Creation of the U.S. Constitution
Feb 15, 2022
Cedric Robinson and the Black Radical Tradition
Feb 14, 2022
Hunter S. Thompson: from New Journalist to Gonzo Journalism
Feb 10, 2022
Gerald Horne on the Militant Origins of Black History Month
Feb 09, 2022
Chris Hedges on James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
Feb 08, 2022
The Roots of American Conservatism: Robert Welch & the John Birch Society
Feb 07, 2022
The Buddhist and The Christian: When Thich Nhat Hanh Met Martin Luther King Jr.
Feb 03, 2022
Katrina Vanden Heuvel on the Ukrainian/Russia/NATO Crisis
Feb 02, 2022
Project Censored’s State of the Free Press
Feb 01, 2022
Omicron: Subvariant BA.2 & CORBEVAX
Jan 31, 2022
Russia-Ukraine, NATO and the U.S. & The Politics of Justice Breyer’s Retirement
Jan 27, 2022
The Anglo-Saxons & The Making of England
Jan 26, 2022
The Neanderthal: Love, Art & Culture
Jan 25, 2022
Omicron: What We Know and Don’t Know
Jan 24, 2022
A Deep History of Ukraine
Jan 20, 2022
Tenskwatawa & Tecumseh: The Brothers Who Almost Stopped American Expansion
Jan 19, 2022
Voting Rights and The Political Propaganda War
Jan 18, 2022
On MLK Day: Colia Lafayette Clark, Civil Rights activist of the 1960s
Jan 17, 2022
Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption
Jan 13, 2022
The Strange and Interesting History of Quarantine
Jan 12, 2022
ACT UP NY: A History 1987-1993
Jan 11, 2022
The History of the Filibuster
Jan 10, 2022
The One-Year Anniversary of the January 6 Riot & A History of The Silk Road
Jan 06, 2022
Edward Said: A Life
Jan 05, 2022
John C. Calhoun: Defender of Racial Slavery & White Democracy
Jan 04, 2022
Letters and Politics – January 3, 2022
Jan 03, 2022
The 7 Day Week: A History
Dec 30, 2021
The Politics Behind the Wounded Knee Massacre
Dec 29, 2021
The Real King George III
Dec 28, 2021
The Legacy of Desmond Tutu & South African Apartheid
Dec 27, 2021
How Disease Shaped the Modern World [Rebroadcast]
Dec 23, 2021
Build Back Better Update & The Future of Climate Change Policy
Dec 22, 2021
A History of US Imperialism & Expansion
Dec 21, 2021
The Death of Build Back Better & Struggle In The Democratic Party
Dec 20, 2021
KPFA Special: The Odyssey, Why It Still Matters Today
Dec 16, 2021
KPFA Special: The Politics of Jesus During the Roman Occupation of Palestine
Dec 15, 2021
KPFA Special: Demystifying Inflation with Richard Wolff
Dec 14, 2021
KPFA Special: Slavery in California By Any Other Name: A History of the Indigenous People of California
Dec 13, 2021
KPFA Special: The Legacy of Henrietta Wood and her Case for Reparations
Dec 09, 2021
KPFA Special: Ariel Dorfman on The Coming Apocalypse
Dec 08, 2021
KPFA Special: The Other Side of George Orwell with Rebecca Solnit
Dec 07, 2021
The Structure of Violence in America
Dec 06, 2021
The Women Behind Roe: Norma McCorvey and Her Daughter
Dec 02, 2021
Roe v. Wade and the Mississippi Abortion Case
Dec 01, 2021
The Pandemic & the Omicron Variant
Nov 30, 2021
A Bloody History of Coal Mining in America
Nov 29, 2021
Dispossession: The Indian Removal Act of 1830
Nov 25, 2021
Witness and Resistance to a Brutal Civil War in El Salvador
Nov 24, 2021
The Making of a Haitian Revolutionary: From Toussaint Breda to Toussaint L’Ouverture
Nov 23, 2021
Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Nov 22, 2021
Oscar Wilde: A Life
Nov 18, 2021
The High Profile Murder Trials in Wisconsin and Georgia & The Fight for Freedom of Enslaved Women
Nov 17, 2021
The Supply Chain Before Covid-19 & The Current Inflation
Nov 16, 2021
The Ocean in a Warming World
Nov 15, 2021
Fannie Lou Hamer: A Life
Nov 11, 2021
The New Killer Drugs: Fentanyl & Synthetic Meth
Nov 10, 2021
The Trivia Challenge of the Political Landscape
Nov 08, 2021
Tax the Rich! & The Build Back Better Plan
Nov 04, 2021
The Banda Islands Genocide, Western Imperialism and the Root of Our Ecological Crisis
Nov 03, 2021
Africa and the Making of the Modern World
Nov 02, 2021
Previewing the COP 26 Meeting
Nov 01, 2021
The Chinese Los Angeles Massacre of 1871
Oct 27, 2021
How Humans Shaped the World In 50,000 Years
Oct 26, 2021
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
Oct 25, 2021
A History of Democratic Socialism In America with Gary Dorrien
Oct 21, 2021
On The Coming Apocalypse with Ariel Dorfman
Oct 20, 2021
George Orwell & His Roses
Oct 19, 2021
The Legacy of Colin Powell & A Field Guide to White Supremacy
Oct 18, 2021
Zachary D Carter on Keynes’ Open Letter to FDR and the Struggle to Pass The Build Back Better Plan
Oct 14, 2021
How Disease Shaped the Modern World
Oct 13, 2021
Former Top DOJ Officials Threatened to Resign En Masse During Last Weeks of Trump Presidency
Oct 12, 2021
Slavery in California By Any Other Name: A History of the Indigenous People of California
Oct 11, 2021
KPFA Special – A Biographical Life of Socrates
Oct 07, 2021
KPFA Special – The Map of Knowledge
Oct 06, 2021
KPFA Special – The Birth of Christianity and the Destruction of the Classical World
Oct 05, 2021
KPFA Special – Nature’s Best Hope
Oct 04, 2021
KPFA Special – 5,000 Year History of Debt
Sep 30, 2021
KPFA Special – The History of Money
Sep 29, 2021
KPFA Special – Cyrus the Great and the Persian Empire
Sep 28, 2021
KPFA Special – The Odyssey, Why it Matters Today
Sep 27, 2021
KPFA Special – The Epic of Gilgamesh
Sep 23, 2021
KPFA Special -A Deep History of the Earliest States
Sep 22, 2021
KPFA Special- Dave Zirin: The Kaepernick Effect
Sep 21, 2021
How Occupy Wall St. Shaped a Generation
Sep 20, 2021
Adam Tooze on How Covid has Shook the Worlds Economy
Sep 16, 2021
CA Recall Election and the Future of Democratic Control & The Rise and Fall of Soul City
Sep 15, 2021
Matt Taibbi on Drug Dealing, The Media, and the Politics of Division
Sep 14, 2021
A History of Settler Colonialism
Sep 13, 2021
Deepa Kumar on Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire
Sep 09, 2021
Death Threats Were Daily: Human Rights Attorney Arsalan Iftikhar Reflects On 9/11
Sep 08, 2021
A Conversation On the Constitution with Leading Legal Scholar Akhil Reed Amar
Sep 07, 2021
The Gods Who Died: A History of the Vikings
Sep 06, 2021
Talking Reproductive Rights: The Future, the Present, and the Past
Sep 02, 2021
The Inadequacy of Biden’s Covid Response & The History of Policing Powers
Sep 01, 2021
The Afghanistan Papers & Geniuses at War
Aug 31, 2021
From the War on Terror to Afghanistan to Donald Trump
Aug 30, 2021
The Marquis de Lafayette and His Revolutions
Aug 26, 2021
Richard Wolff: State of the Economy & America In Decline
Aug 25, 2021
The Opium Wars, The Gold Rush and the Formation of Global Capitalism
Aug 24, 2021
A Brief History of Reformers & Communists in Afghanistan
Aug 23, 2021
Afghanistan In History: Then and Now
Aug 19, 2021
The Eternal Decline: From Ancient Rome to the United States
Aug 18, 2021
Rafia Zakaria: Against White Feminism
Aug 17, 2021
Afghanistan and America’s Role in a World Transformed
Aug 16, 2021
The Fate of Wildlife in a Modern World
Aug 12, 2021
Recreating Nature & Saving the Planet at Home
Aug 11, 2021
Slavery in California By Any Other Name: A History of the Indigenous People of California
Aug 10, 2021
The Infrastructure Bill & The Nature of Fires
Aug 09, 2021
ACT UP NY: A History 1987-1993
Aug 05, 2021
The Strange and Interesting History of Quarantine
Aug 04, 2021
Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Investigation & The Fight for Freedom of Enslaved Women in Revolutionary America
Aug 03, 2021
The Politics of the Eviction Moratorium and Infrastructure Bill & The Ho Chi Minh Trail
Aug 02, 2021
The Inspiring Life of Henry David Thoreau
Jul 29, 2021
U.S. History Series – The Legacy of Henry Wallace and the Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party
Jul 28, 2021
U.S. History Series – America’s 20-Year Crusade To Deport Labor Leader Harry Bridges
Jul 27, 2021
U.S. History Series – The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
Jul 26, 2021
Evolution of the U.S. Foreign Policy (Part III) – The CIA, Sidney Gottlieb, and the Search for Mind Control
Jul 22, 2021
Evolution of the U.S. Foreign Policy (Part II) – The Dulles Brothers and their Secret World War
Jul 21, 2021
Evolution of the U.S. Foreign Policy (Part I) – The Birth of the American Empire
Jul 20, 2021
The Agitators: Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright & Frances Seward
Jul 19, 2021
When the Plague Came to San Francisco
Jul 15, 2021
A History of the French Revolution
Jul 14, 2021
A History of US Empire & Expansion
Jul 13, 2021
Michio Kaku: The Quest for a Theory of Everything [Re-broadcast]
Jul 12, 2021
The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical
Jul 08, 2021
A History of the Ghost Dance Religious Movement
Jul 07, 2021
A History of Eco-Socialism
Jul 06, 2021
Thomas Jefferson Inspired by Genghis Khan [Re-broadcast]
Jul 05, 2021
How Disability Rights Activists Created a More Inclusive Society in America
Jul 01, 2021
The Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad and the Strike of 1867
Jun 30, 2021
The Origins of the Black Power Movement and the Life of Stokely Carmichael
Jun 29, 2021
Aviva Chomsky: A History of Colonialism in Central America
Jun 28, 2021
Nobuko Miyamoto: From Japanese Internment to Hollywood to Third World Liberation [Re-broadcast]
Jun 24, 2021
The Infrastructure Package & How American Journalism Works
Jun 23, 2021
America’s Role in the World: A New Approach to National Security
Jun 22, 2021
Henrietta Wood: A Legacy of Slavery and Reparations in America
Jun 21, 2021
Go South: Mexico and the Abolition of Slavery
Jun 17, 2021
Birth of the Animal Rights Movement: The Life & Times of Henry Bergh
Jun 16, 2021
Naked in the Promised Land
Jun 15, 2021
The Meaning of Juneteenth and the Black Experience in Texas
Jun 14, 2021
A History of The Stonewall Riots
Jun 10, 2021
Milman Parry: The Man Who Killed Homer
Jun 09, 2021
The Robber Barons: A History of the Railroads
Jun 08, 2021
The Second Amendment: How Slave Supporting Politicians Got Their Right to Quell Slave Revolts
Jun 07, 2021
Inflation Analysis & A Manifesto for the Liberation of Indigenous People
Jun 03, 2021
An Era of Rebellion: Urban Uprisings 1964-1972
Jun 02, 2021
From Toussaint Breda to Toussaint L’Ouverture: The Making of a Haitian Revolutionary
Jun 01, 2021
The History of the Filibuster
May 31, 2021
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
May 27, 2021
How Corporations Won Rights Meant for “We The People…”
May 26, 2021
The Political History of the Civil War
May 25, 2021
Thaddeus Stevens: Leader of the Radical Republicans
May 24, 2021
W.H. Brands on The Struggle for American Freedom
May 20, 2021
Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
May 19, 2021
John C. Calhoun: Defender of Racial Slavery & White Democracy
May 18, 2021
Rashid Khalidi on Palestinian History: From The Ottoman Empire to Settler Colonialism
May 17, 2021
Dispossession: The Indian Removal Act of 1830
May 13, 2021
The Shays’ Rebellion and the Creation of the U.S. Constitution
May 12, 2021
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Settler Colonialism
May 11, 2021
Why the New Deal Matters Today
May 10, 2021
A History of the Fight for Universal Health Care
May 06, 2021
The Gods Who Died: A History of the Vikings
May 05, 2021
David Harvey: A History of Neoliberalism and the Current Economic Crisis
May 04, 2021
A History of Indian Land, Occupation and Colonialism in America
May 03, 2021
Aviva Chomsky on Central America’s Forgotten History
Apr 29, 2021
Afghanistan: From the British Empire to the Soviet Union Occupations to the U.S. War on Terror
Apr 28, 2021
The Political Economy of Boxing
Apr 27, 2021
The Biden Infrastructure Bill & The Fight for Housing
Apr 26, 2021
Gun Control Policies & The Current Landscape of Covid-19
Apr 22, 2021
The Conviction of Derek Chauvin & The Tactics Used by Amazon to Defeat Union Organizing
Apr 21, 2021
How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
Apr 20, 2021
Edward Said: A Life
Apr 19, 2021
The New Deal’s Public Works Vs. Neo-liberalism’s Infrastructure
Apr 15, 2021
Reflecting on Biden’s First 100 Days
Apr 14, 2021
The Derek Chauvin Trial, Racism & The Law
Apr 13, 2021
Michio Kaku: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Apr 12, 2021
The Power of Adrianne Rich
Apr 08, 2021
Greg Grandin: A History of US Empire & Expansion
Apr 07, 2021
John C. Calhoun: Defender of Racial Slavery & White Democracy
Apr 06, 2021
Border Outsourcing and the Rise of Racist Nationalism & A History of the White Power Movement 
Apr 05, 2021
The Agitators: Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright & Frances Seward
Apr 01, 2021
Dispossession: The Indian Removal Act of 1830
Mar 31, 2021
Nobuko Miyamoto: From Japanese Internment to Hollywood to Third World Liberation
Mar 30, 2021
David Harvey on a History of Neoliberalism and the Current Economic Crisis
Mar 29, 2021
A History of the American Gun Industry
Mar 25, 2021
The Return of Mass Shootings in America & Funeral Diva
Mar 24, 2021
Access to the Ballot Box & Immigration at the Border
Mar 23, 2021
The Depiction of Asian Women in Film and Theater
Mar 22, 2021
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Anti-Asian Crime, Colonialism, & his Latest Fiction, The Committed
Mar 18, 2021
Go South: Mexico and the Abolition of Slavery
Mar 17, 2021
Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Mar 16, 2021
Medea Benjamin on Biden’s Foreign Policy & The Right to Organize  
Mar 15, 2021
Thaddeus Stevens: Leader of the Radical Republicans
Mar 11, 2021
The History of the Filibuster
Mar 10, 2021
The Rise & Fall of Soul City & Robert Kuttner on the Stimulus Bill
Mar 09, 2021
Wollstonecraft and Shelley: The Mother-Daughter Feminist Duo of the Nineteen Century
Mar 08, 2021
The Ideas that Shaped the Divisive Politics in Twentieth Century America
Mar 04, 2021
The Senate & The Politics of the Economic Recovery Act
Mar 03, 2021
How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
Mar 02, 2021
Biden’s Air Strike in Syria and the Imperial Presidency
Mar 01, 2021
The New Deal: A Modern History
Feb 25, 2021
The Burden of Student Loans in America & the Debt Cancellation
Feb 24, 2021
Inside the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump
Feb 23, 2021
The Future of Nature
Feb 22, 2021
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly: Ben Fletcher -Fund Drive Special
Feb 18, 2021
The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical – Fund Drive Special
Feb 17, 2021
Global Migration and the Militarization of the Borders -Fund Drive Special
Feb 16, 2021
The First Impeachment of a President
Feb 15, 2021
Impeachment and Holding Leaders Accountable
Feb 08, 2021
Gerald Horne on the Political Economy of Boxing and Slavery
Feb 04, 2021
The Mistrust of Institutions: Internet, Corporations, and the Government
Feb 03, 2021
The Military Coup in Myanmar & The Rights and Safety of the Rohingya
Feb 02, 2021
The Coronavirus Variants and The Vaccine: A Race Between Team Covid and Team Human
Feb 01, 2021
Joseph Stiglitz on the Future of the U.S. and the Global Economy & Biden’s Actions on Climate Change
Jan 28, 2021
Militarization and Neo-Liberalism for Latin America Under the Biden Plan
Jan 27, 2021
The Filibuster and the History of Congressional Rules and Procedural Warfare in The Senate
Jan 26, 2021
The Central American Exodus & The Immigration Policies Under the New Biden Administration
Jan 25, 2021
The Economic Challenges Ahead for the New Biden Administration
Jan 21, 2021
A History of Violent Mobs Overthrowing Democratically Elected Governments in America
Jan 19, 2021
Malcolm & Martin: Rivals and Allies
Jan 18, 2021
The Far Right Mob at The Capitol & The Future of National Security
Jan 14, 2021
Letters and Politics Special: House Impeachment Proceedings Live
Jan 13, 2021
Impeaching Trump a 2nd Time & How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold
Jan 12, 2021
Holding Trump Accountable for Capitol Riots & The Role of Social Media in Speech Moderation
Jan 11, 2021
The Capitol Hill Putsch
Jan 07, 2021
Broadcast of the Joint Session of Congress to Count Electoral Ballots
Jan 06, 2021
The Georgia Senate Runoff & What’s Ahead for the New Congress
Jan 05, 2021
Trump Pressures Georgia & the GOP’s New Election Challenge
Jan 04, 2021
The Life of Pauli Murray
Dec 31, 2020
History of the Black Women’s Rights Movement [Rebroadcast]
Dec 30, 2020
An Insurrectionist History of US Labor
Dec 29, 2020
The History of the Texas Rangers [Rebroadcast]
Dec 28, 2020
The Life of Henry David Thoreau
Dec 24, 2020
When Washington (Almost) Went Socialist: Seattle’s General Strike of 1919 [Rebroadcast]
Dec 23, 2020
When T.R. Took On the Monopolies [Rebroadcast]
Dec 22, 2020
How to Dismantle a Republic: The Fall of the Weimar Republic
Dec 21, 2020
Money, Democracy, and the Keynesian Economy
Dec 17, 2020
The Failure of Capitalism in a Pandemic
Dec 16, 2020
The Power of Adrienne Rich
Dec 15, 2020
The Electoral College: How Does it Work and How the Trump Campaign is Trying to Manipulate it
Dec 14, 2020
How the Alphabet Ordered Our World
Dec 10, 2020
Contrasting the Foreclosure Crisis From the Obama Era and the Looming Eviction Crisis Facing a New Biden Presidency
Dec 09, 2020
A Hundred Years of Right Wing Authoritarianism From Mussolini to Trump
Dec 08, 2020
Updates on the Second Stimulus Package & Challenges on Immigration Under a Biden Presidency
Dec 07, 2020
Covid Vaccine Differences and Reaching Herd Immunity
Dec 03, 2020
How Pandemics Have Shaped The Law
Dec 02, 2020
Obstacles to US-Iranian Peace & The Biden’s Foreign Policy Picks
Dec 01, 2020
COVID-19, Wealth Inequality and Biden’s Economic Team
Nov 30, 2020
The Fall of the Aztec Empire
Nov 26, 2020
A Counter Narrative of Native American History
Nov 25, 2020
Migration, Environmental Disruption, and Survival of Life
Nov 24, 2020
Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss
Nov 23, 2020
The Suppression of Speech in WWI & Economic Challenges for A Biden Presidency
Nov 19, 2020
The Failure of the War on Terrorism
Nov 18, 2020
The Electoral College and Its Challenges & The Radical Republicans
Nov 16, 2020
Propaganda & The Election
Nov 12, 2020
The Legal Challenges to the Election & The Electoral College and Slavery
Nov 11, 2020
In Conversation with Vijay Prashad
Nov 10, 2020
What History Tells Us About the Election
Nov 09, 2020
A Historian & Journalist on the Election
Nov 05, 2020
Analyzing the Election
Nov 04, 2020
Surprise, Surprise: The 1948 Election & The Social Movements Behind It
Nov 03, 2020
A History of Election Crises
Nov 02, 2020
The Warren Court & The Transformation of Rights
Oct 29, 2020
Talking to a Political Scientist Before the Election
Oct 28, 2020
2020’s Record Level of Campaign Finance Dollars & Donald Trump v. The US
Oct 27, 2020
The 2020 General Election and What Comes Next Next
Oct 26, 2020
The Origins of Originalism & Its Corruption
Oct 22, 2020
The Electoral College: How It Works, Its History & Possible Outcomes
Oct 21, 2020
The State of the Economy & The Bolivian Elections
Oct 20, 2020
Alienation in an Ancient Christian World
Oct 19, 2020
Theodore Roosevelt and the Battle to Transform Capitalism in America
Oct 15, 2020
A Chronology of the Republican Party
Oct 08, 2020
Pandemic: Tracking Contagion
Oct 07, 2020
Constitutional Fault Lines in Uncertain Times
Oct 06, 2020
The Election of 1876
Oct 05, 2020
Voting Controversies: What Could Go Right, What Could Go Wrong
Oct 01, 2020
David Cay Johnston on Trump’s Taxes and the Debate
Sep 30, 2020