How Disease Shaped the Modern World

Guest: Angela C. Sutton is an Assistant research professor at Vanderbilt University, where she has taught Seapower in History, the Golden Age of Piracy, and Comparative Slavery. She is the author of Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution. The post The Pirates That Halted The Slave Trade appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. Understanding Secretary Mayorkas’ Impeachment Guest: Frank O. Bowman III is a law professor, legal historian, and former federal and state prosecutor.  He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, currently he is a Visiting Scholar at Colorado College. His most recent book is High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump.  His latest article is Immigration Is Not an “Invasion” under the Constitution.   Part II. The Dangerous Dynamic Between Israel and Iran Guest:  Stephen Zunes is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies.  He is the author of “Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism”, and the co-author of  “Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution.” He is currently serving as 2024 Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Research Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The post Understanding Secretary Mayorkas’ Impeachment. Then, The Dangerous Dynamic Between Israel and Iran   appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change; The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future; and her latest, H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z. The post Climate Change From A to Z with Elizabeth Kolbert appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:  Philip Maldari is a host and producer at KPFA Radio, currently he is the host of the Sunday Morning show.   The post Special – KPFA’s 75th Anniversary appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jason De León is a professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies and director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles.  He is also the executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a research, arts, and education collective that seeks to raise awareness about migration issues globally while also assisting families of missing migrants to reunite with their loved ones.  He is the author of the award-winning book The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail, and his latest, Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.     The post The Lives of Smugglers (Coyotes) appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. Inflation and the Economy Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at The New School University in New York.  Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national television and radio program Economic Update  that airs on KPFA.    Part II. Haiti’s Disaster Capitalism Guest: Jake Johnston is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and the author of Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti.   Photo by Engin Akyurt on Unsplash The post Inflation and the Economy with Richard Wolff. Then, Haiti’s Disaster Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), her work focuses on the Middle East, U.S. militarism, and UN issues.  She serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace.  She is the author of several books including “Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War on Terror,” “Challenging Empire,” and her latest, “Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer.”     The post U.S. Unconditional Support to Israel and the Imminent Assault on Rafah appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.”  His Latest piece in the Nation is: More Than Half a Million Democratic Voters Have Told Biden: Save Gaza! The campaign to use “uncommitted” primary votes to send a message to Biden has won two dozen delegates, and it keeps growing.   Photo (C): Matt Hrkac on Wikimedia Commons The post Congress, the Military Budget, and the Uncommitted Vote Campaign to Demand Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University. He is the author of many books including Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic. His latest, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune. The post The Sullivanians: Psychoanalysis, Marxism, & A Commune To Break The Traditional Family appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Daniel Ziblatt is a Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the co-author of How Democracies Die, and most lately, Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point, also co-authored with Steven Levitsky.   The post American Democracy and the Tyranny of the Minority appeared first on KPFA.