LISTEN to this show online HERE — SUBSCRIBE to iTunes podcast HERE Maybe you heard the news: Mitt beat Newt in the Florida primary last night. But both have big problems as challengers to Obama; BETSY REED says, “It’s astonishing that a party with nearly limitless financial resources has such paltry human resources.” Betsy is [...]
LISTEN to this show online HERE — SUBSCRIBE to iTunes podcast HERE GAIL COLLINS, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, talks about Obama, Gingrich, and Mitt Romney, who went on a family vacation to Canada with the family dog strapped to the roof of the car — and also about William Henry Harrison, subject [...]
Today we have street art, but we don’t have people fighting in the streets about art. In 1966, the anti-war Artists’ Tower of Protest on Sunset Strip provoked nightly battles for three months, as pro-war young men attacked the tower, and artists organized a defense squad. Now it has been re-created as part of Pacific [...]
LISTEN to this show online HERE — SUBSCRIBE to iTunes podcast HERE What Mitt Romney learned from his father, the liberal Republican star George Romney: RICK PERLSTEIN analyzes how the son was scarred for life by his father’s defeat in 1968. Rick now writes for Rolling Stone; he’s the author of the classics Nixonland and [...]
LISTEN to this show online HERE — SUBSCRIBE to iTunes podcast HERE Ten Years of Gitmo: Today is the tenth anniversary of the Bush administration establishing Guantanamo Bay as a prison free from the legal protections provided by the Constitution, a place where torture and illegality were routine. DAVID COLE says the injustice practiced there [...]
The United Farm Workers was once a mighty force on the California landscape, with 50,000 members at the end of the 1970s; today the membership is around 6,000. What happened? And to what extent was the UFW responsible for its own demise? Frank Bardacke has been thinking about that for a long time. . . . [...]
LISTEN to this show online HERE — SUBSCRIBE to iTunes podcast HERE Today/Wed 4-5pm on KPFK 90.7FM: In the Iowa caucus voting last night, 3/4 of Republicans didn’t want Mitt Romney, even though he’s their inevitable candidate –weak and uninspiring, in an election the GOP could otherwise win. JOHN NICHOLS explains what happened — he’s Washington [...]