The Birth of the Modern Campaign
There is hyperbole about the critical importance of every general election. But modern methods of seeding lies and hysteriainto a campaign — the precision of it, the craft— can be traced back to a...
View ArticleMakings of Modern Conservatism
In the 1930s, America experienced the Great Depression, the New Deal, and leadership from both Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt. California, meanwhile, witnessed a serious shift in the Republican...
View ArticleLos Angeles Crushed by COVID Cases
Los Angeles County officials say COVID is "everywhere" and are urging residents to take extreme precautions. Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Timesmetro reporter focused on earthquakes and the novel...
View ArticleDesegregation By Any Means Necessary
A gun-toting Black Power advocate was made principal of a Marin County, California school during efforts to desegregate 50 years ago. As they try again, we recount his radical legacy.As the Sausalito...
View ArticleNewsom Opponents Have Gathered Enough Signatures to Trigger a Recall—Now What?
The efforts to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom have gathered the necessary signatures—over 1.6 million—to trigger an election. If the recall takes place, it will be the first gubernatorial...
View ArticleHot Trash - Snap Spotlights “Ear Hustle”
Snap Judgment presents, “Hot Trash,” a special spotlight on the Ear Hustle podcast, from PRX’s Radiotopia.Visiting a loved one in prison is both emotionally intense and constrained by countless rules —...
View ArticleCan We Finally End School Segregation?
By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of Education. WNYC’s podcast “The United States of Anxiety” chronicled...
View ArticleCan We Finally End School Segregation?
By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of Education. WNYC’s podcast “The United States of Anxiety” chronicled...
View ArticleCan We Finally End School Segregation?
By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of Education. WNYC’s podcast “The United States of Anxiety” chronicled...
View ArticleCalifornia Braces for Drought's Impact on Water Supply
Summer hasn’t even officially gotten underway yet, but dozens of cities across the country are already seeing record high temperatures for early June. And in California, officials are scrambling in...
View ArticleCalifornia Attorney General Has an Aggressive Reform Agenda
Earlier this year, President Joe Biden tapped California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. That left a critical vacancy in the role of the state's...
View ArticleLocal Politics; The Homelessness Crisis in LA; The Bill Barr Era at the DOJ;...
Coming up on today's show: Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University, host of the podcast FAQNYC, politics editor at The Grio and author of Black Ethnics (Oxford University...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen Goes Birding
Before achieving success as a novelist, Jonathan Franzen couldn’t imagine doing something just for fun. But now, he’ll spend an entire afternoon dodging puddles of manure for the pleasure of looking at...
View ArticleThe Hired G.U.N.
Sir Dyno is the Chicano Eazy-E, the king of lowrider car shows, an up-and-coming gangsta rapper straight outta Northern California. But when he gets the money to finance his next CD, he has no idea...
View ArticleSummer Friday: ACLU Debate; Prison Money; Tri-State Pizza Challenge;...
On this Summer Friday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews, including:Nadine Strossen, professor of law at New York Law School, former president of the American Civil Liberties...
View ArticleCalifornia Voters Will Decide Whether Gov. Gavin Newsom Stays or Goes
On Tuesday, California voters will decide whether Gov. Gavin Newsom will stay in office or be removed in a Republican-driven recall election. There are 46 candidates that are running to replace the...
View ArticleIt’s On: Governor Newsom vs ‘Trump Clone’ Larry Elder
It's gubernatorial recall election day in California. Tonight the most populous state in the union could go from having a Democratic governor to having a very Republican one aligned with former...
View ArticleIt's California's Recall Election Day
It's gubernatorial recall election day in California. Marisa Lagos, political correspondent at KQED and co-host of the podcast Political Breakdown, joins to talk about Gov. Newsom's chances to defeat...
View ArticleCOVID Vaccine Myth Busting; It's California Recall Election Day; New Pod on...
Coming up on today's show: Jessica Malaty Rivera, infectious disease epidemiologist and research fellow at Boston Children's Hospital, answers listeners' questions on COVID immunity, the vaccine, how...
View Article173 - Betty Reid Soskin, Celebrating the 100th Birthday of the Oldest Park...
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation's oldest serving Park Ranger, works at the Rosie the Riveter Home Front World War II National Historical Park in Richmond, CA. Her tours and talks are hot ticket items. As...
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