BARBARA EHRENREICH, journalist, activist, and author of more than 20 books, died September 1st at 81. In her bestseller NICKEL AND DIMED, she explored the lives of low wage workers. Here’s my 2005 conversation with Barbara, in which we talk about her followup BAIT AND SWITCH, in which she examined the lives of white-collar unemployed. Learn more at barbaraehrenreich.com. In the second half you’ll hear my 2009 conversation with one of Latin America’s most beloved literary figures, EDUARDO GALEANO, who passed away in 2015. His many books include THE OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA and MIRRORS: STORIES OF ALMOST EVERYONE.
MARCIA COYLE on THE ROBERTS COURT (2013) - What shoiuld we expect with Roberts the new swing vote?
ROBERT JAY LIFTON-LOSING REALITY-Trump, Fox, & Online BS v Pandemic & George Floyd’s death
CONNIE RICE-Decades fighting to change the LAPD-POWER CONCEDES NOTHING
MOVEMENT VOTER PROJECT-Funding the grassroots wins elections + makes change-ELIZABETH FERNANDEZ
ERICA CHENOWETH-Protest - What Really Works Best - Violence or Non-Violence?
GEORGE PACKER, We Are Living in a Failed State
ASTRA TAYLOR, What is Democracy? Is it alive and well?
Inspiring ideas for troubling times-1) Fritjof Capra on Systems Thinking, 2) Stuart Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred
CHARLOTTE ALTER - THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR - Millennials in office. Will a new generation change America?
What stories got us here? Conversation w/ JEREMY LENT, THE PATTERNING INSTINCT (2018)
ROBERT WRIGHT-Why are Americans divided as they confront a pandemic?
ROBERT WRIGHT-Evolution of God-How God’s personality changed with ancient politics
MARY O’HARA-The Shame Game-The narrative that tells people poverty is their own fault
ROBERT REICH-Once the pandemic is over and Trump is defeated, the system will still be broken.Who rigged it and how do we fix it?
BRANKO MILANOVIC-Capitalism Rules the World-How do we shrink inequality?
Podcast - DON INGBER-Learning from Nature -> Biotech Breakthroughs at Harvard’s Wyss Institute
Robert Greenwald - SUPPRESSED: The Fight to Vote - new documentary
DAVID FARIS High Time for the Dems to Fight Dirty (2018)
Nick Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn-TIGHTROPE-Americans in Despair Reaching for Hope
STEPHAN SCHWARTZ-8 LAWS OF CHANGE: How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Jim & Bill (It‘s Another Day)
HauntingLive
Dr. Paul’s Worldviews
The Ben Shapiro Show
Morning Wire