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    Kids Under Fire In Gaza

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 26:12


    A new Al Jazeera/Reveal documentary tells the story of 20 US doctors who have witnessed a systematic pattern of Palestinian children shot by the Israeli military.

    Native tribes sue US government over deaths, abuse at boarding schools

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 52:23


    Washington Post reporter Dana Hedgpeth has extensively covered the 523 Indian boarding schools established in the US, where 3,104 students died between 1828 and 1970.

    How are you reflecting five years after the murder of George Floyd?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 52:05


    Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa discuss their Pulitzer Prize winning book, "His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice."

    Biden's aggressive prostate cancer diagnosis, testing & treatment

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 52:23


    Doctors say aggressive forms of prostate cancer are difficult to catch. How can we improve screening protocols to prevent late stage diagnoses and improve survival rates?

    How Big Soda has influenced science and policy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 52:07


    "Soda Science" takes us deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists shape research to meet industry needs.

    Trump's budget calls for deep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 26:42


    The GOP budget bill combines $1 trillion in cuts to federal health and food programs with nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts, which mostly benefit high earners.

    How the US is lobbying foreign governments for Elon Musk's Starlink

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 25:17


    After Musk's rise to power in the US government, the State Department has repeatedly lobbied a West African country into giving business to Musk's satellite company.

    Uncuffed empowers people in prison to tell their own stories

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 52:14


    Uncuffed's Greg Eskridge will discuss his work on the inside and outside. On July 23, 2024, he was released from San Quentin after serving 30 years and 25 days.

    How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 52:19


    In her new book, "Outclassed," Professor Joan Williams says if liberals want to win, they must change the class dynamics driving US politics.

    Trump strips Afghans and Venezuelans of deportation protections

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 51:42


    The same day the Trump administration welcomed a group of white South Africans to the US, they got rid of deportation protections for over 9,000 Afghan refugees.

    The environmental and health impacts of AI data centers

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 52:06


    As of early 2025, the United States had more than 5,000 data centers, according to industry reports, compared to around 1,000 just five years earlier.

    For one Texas county, arresting migrants made big money

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 23:11


    According to a New York Times investigation, Kinney County, Texas, collected some $1.7 million in bail from migrants who were deported. The money was never returned.

    Israeli airstrikes kill hundreds in Gaza as Trump visits Gulf

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 29:05


    At least 143 Palestinians have been killed in a wave of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Thursday as the death toll passes 53,000.

    The Trump cuts have already 'devastated promising cancer research'

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 52:07


    A report from Senator Bernie Sanders found that Trump officials cut $2.7B in NIH funding in the first three months of 2025, including a 31 percent cut to cancer research.

    Trump budget cuts would shut down suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 37:36


    A Trump administration budget proposal would end funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis line for LGBTQ+ youth in October. The Trevor Project says this line saves lives.

    What will it take to save California's free mental health line?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 14:23


    Without renewed funding from the state, the California Warm Line could be shut down on July 1. Since 2019, it has responded to over 500,000 calls, texts, and chats.

    Native American scholars discuss Trump's second term

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 52:01


    Native American scholars discuss how our history can help us make sense of the current political moment. What can our past tell us about what's to come?

    The US–Ukraine minerals deal & the alarming drop in bird populations

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 52:18


    We discuss the mineral agreement between the US and Ukraine, and find out why bird populations in North America are declining in regions where they were most abundant.

    The human cost of Trump's DOGE cuts & the rise of Trump's crypto firm

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 52:06


    We discuss The DOGE Impact Tracker, a new project from Capital & Main, a The New York Times investigation exposing the Trump family's expanding global crypto business.

    Trump cuts SF International Arts Festival funding midway through shows

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2025 11:11


    As the celebrated festival was underway, organizers learned that a $20,000 NEA grant would be immediately cancelled. "Trump will not stop us," said director Andrew Wood.

    Democracy Forward files 60 lawsuits against the Trump administration

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2025 40:54


    Democracy Forward has filed 60 legal actions and launched 82 investigations under the current Trump administration. They say their work is just beginning.

    What can we do to fix our broken mental health care system?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 52:09


    Dr. Nicholas Rosenlicht says the mental health care system is functioning as intended, providing profits for corporations. What will it take to change it?

    Trump's 2nd term met with greater resistance in all 50 states

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 52:10


    Activists and everyday people across the country are taking to the streets to resist Donald Trump and Elon Musk. How are they preparing for the many fights to come?

    The dire consequences of Trump's assault on NOAA

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 24:51


    We speak with Craig McLean, a former top chief scientist at NOAA, about the importance of the nation's leading science agency and the fight to save it.

    Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 27:09


    Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages, a Frontline documentary, examines how Indigenous communities in Alaska are fighting for survival in the face of climate change.

    The Trump administration's war on children and the judiciary

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 52:08


    The administration is quietly putting America's children at risk by cutting funds for investigating child abuse, providing child care, and more, according to ProPublica.

    Activists gather on May Day to build united front against Trump

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 12:10


    People from all 50 states are taking to the streets to stand up against the Trump administration's attacks on human rights, the environment, and public services.

    Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation & Makes Us Sick

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 39:54


    Murray Carpenter argues that the Coca-Cola Company has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure we don't know that Coke is one of the deadliest products in our diet.

    What have we learned 50 years after the end of the Vietnam War?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 52:04


    Historian Christian Appy argues the resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in US. history. We have all but forgotten it today.

    Whats the future of the Electric Vehicles?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 51:35


    Between Trump's threats, tariffs, and Elon Musk, how's the overall EV industry doing?

    The human costs of Trump's immigration crackdown

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 52:06


    We discuss the plight of undocumented immigrants facing deportation to El Salvador and the troubling case of a Tufts University PhD scholar in detention.

    Reflections on 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 52:05


    Vietnamese writers reflect on the end of the war and discuss "The Cleaving, Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora," a new book of conversations with over 30 writers.

    Food Revolution Summit focuses on food, health & planetary survival

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 52:04


    This year's free online Food Revolution Summit features doctors who will share the latest science on transforming the health of our communities and the planet.

    Scientists fight back against funding cuts and attacks on science

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 18:38


    Last month, more than 1,900 scientists signed a letter warning the American public of the danger of the Trump administration's attacks on science.

    Eating: The Power to Save the Ocean

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 33:15


    The documentary Eating examines how our food choices affect the ocean and offers tangible solutions for eating in a more sustainable way.

    The human cost of Russia's war in Ukraine & media coverage of tariffs

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 52:16


    In "Night Train to Odesa," Jen Stout delivers gripping accounts from the front lines of Russia's war on Ukraine. We also discuss media coverage Trump's tariff policies.

    The future of the climate crisis as Trump dismantles federal agencies

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 52:03


    We discuss the climate crisis as the Trump administration dismantles and fires people at environmental agencies like NOAA. According to reports, the EPA is next.

    Generation Care: The New Culture of Caregiving

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 52:47


    Jennifer Levin was 32 when her dad was diagnosed with a rare illness. After struggling to find resources for millennial caregivers, she started the Caregiver Collective.

    Why churches receive tax-exempt status from the IRS

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2025 52:01


    Churches receive tax-exempt status and little oversight from the IRS. What will enforcement look like with federal layoffs expected to cut up to 25% of the IRS workforce?

    Latin American Indigenous activists risk their lives to protect water

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 33:42


    The documentary Water For Life follows Indigenous activists in Latin America as they face death threats and murder to save their precious water resources.

    Trump's executive order targets state climate laws

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 18:19


    On April 8, Trump issued an executive order targeting state-level climate policies, including cap-and-trade systems, and legal actions against fossil fuel companies.

    Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 49:32


    In his book, "Red Scare," Clay Risen examines the history of the 1950s anti-Communist witch hunt and connects it to Trump and Musk's anti-DEI and intellectual purges.

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