How Humans Shaped the World In 50,000 Years

Guest: Angela Garcia is an anthropologist and writer. She is the author of the book, The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande, and her latest, The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City’s Anexos.   The post Anexos: Addiction Treatment Centers in Mexico City and Beyond appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Robert Cohen is a Professor of history and social studies at New York University.  He is the author of several books including, Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism and co-author with Sonia E. Murrow of Rethinking America’s Past: Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond.     Photo credit: Wikimedia commons The post A History of Student Movements appeared first on KPFA.

A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – May 1, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Gray Brechin has worked as a journalist and television producer and is coauthor of Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream; and Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin. The post The Creation of Cities: Wealth, Inequality and Environmental Destruction appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Asaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli American journalist.  He is a staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the author of the book, Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth.   The post The Mizrahi: From the Black Panthers to Likud appeared first on KPFA.

Guests: Michael Isikoff is an award-winning Washington investigative journalist and the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story; Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War (with David Corn); and Russian Roulette (also with David Corn).  His latest coauthored with Daniel Klaidman is Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election Daniel Klaidman is an award-winning journalist and author.  He is the author of Kill or Capture:  The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency.  He is the co-author with Michael Isikoff of Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election. The post An Investigative Look Behind Trump’s Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Steve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Dean Emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School. Previously he was president of the public policy institute New America,  in Washington, DC.  He is an editor at The Economist in London and the author of several books, including The Bin Ladens, Private Empire, Directorate S, and his latest, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq.     The post The U.S. & Iraq Before The Wars appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Hamilton Nolan is a veteran journalist who writes about labor and politics.  He is the author of the book The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor. His work can be found at HamiltonNolan.com. The post The Past, Present, and Future of the Labor Movement in America appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Dr Frank Tallis is a clinical psychologist and a writer.  He is the author of several books including his latest, Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind. The post The Life & Times of Sigmund Freud appeared first on KPFA.

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.