Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon In 1939, more than 3 million Jews lived in Poland, making up one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in Europe. When WWII ended, 90% of them had been ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris 1) Matt Gardner, Senior Fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, discusses recent news stories re: IRS tax information revealing that billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris 1) Philip Weiss, Senior Editor of Mondoweiss.net, an independent website devoted to informing readers about developments in Israel/Palestine and related US foreign policy, discusses US media coverage of Israel’s new ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon Carey Gillam’s last book was Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science. It was an exposé of how Monsanto had captured federal agencies ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher On the next Digging in the Dirt, Kevin Gallagher will rebroadcast a speech originally presented by The Ecologist and Resurgence.com. The speaker is George Monbiot, a long-time ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris 1) Sarah Kendzior, author of “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America,” and cohost of Gaslit Nation, a weekly podcast, talks about her ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon For the math-challenged, the idea of doing math without numbers is attractive. But isn’t that like writing without words? Not at all, at least according to author Milo Beckman. ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris 1) Jehad Abusalim, Education and Policy Associate with the American Friends Service Committee’s Palestine Activism Program, discusses the violence and loss of life in Gaza and Israel/Palestine, the international community ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris 1) Josh Ruebner, Adjunct Lecturer of Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown University and author of “Shattered Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace,” examines the current violence and loss ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher Monday, May 17th at 5 pm Digging in the Dirt host Kevin Gallagher interviews author David Pogue about his new book, “How to Prepare for Climate Change: ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We spend most of the hour talking with Tyson Yunkaporta about his groundbreaking book, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World. Then a clip from our 2018 ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris 1) Amy Hanauer Executive Director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) discusses her group’s assessment of President Biden’s proposals to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans and ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris 1) William Rivers Pitt, senior editor and lead columnist with Truthout.org, talks about the important issues raised in his recent article, "Biden’s Speech Pointed to a Possible End to Reagan’s ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher Kevin Gallagher's guest on Digging in the Dirt is J. Todd Fernandez, executive director of the organization Climate Crisis Policy and the newly formed Earth Bill Network, ...

Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Eliot Peper about his Cli-Fi novel, Veil. It’s about what happens when a tech CEO decides to geo-engineer the climate—in secret. Then, we catch up ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris 1) Luke Savage a staff writer at Jacobin Magazine and a contributor to Current Affairs, The Atlantic, The Guardian, New Statesman and others, talks about his recent article, “Democrats Can’t ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris 1) Dr. Yohuru Williams, Distinguished University Chair Professor and the Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas examines the crisis in U.S. policing, reflecting ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin GallagherKevin Gallagher’s guest this week on Digging in the Dirt is Frank Mortimer “The bee man.” Frank has written a new book entitled “BEE PEOPLE and the bugs they ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris Marge Baker, People for the American Way’s Executive Vice President for Policy and Program, talks about the critical battle against proposed GOP voter suppression bills across the U.S., and the ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with novelist Anna North about her acclaimed new novel, Outlawed. It’s about an alternate reality 1890s Hole in the Wall Gang—this one, run as a feminist collective. ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher Kevin Gallagher's guests today on Digging in the Dirt are the new executive director of Bridgeport's The Green Village Initiative Ellie Angerame and GVI'S Youth Leadership program ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris Lynn Parramore, Senior Research Analyst, Institute for New Economic Thinking, talks about her important recent article, “Meet the New Koch Brothers — the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Todd Miller is a journalist who has written on border and immigration issues for The New York Times, Al Jazeera America, ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon Elizabeth Kolbert talks about her new book Under A White Sky: The Nature of the Future. Then, wildlife photographer extraordinaire Ian Shive goes to the volcanic Aleutian Islands of ...

Afternoon Jazz with Lisa Sahulka Lisa Sahulka speaks with Attilio, a musician, composer and music collector from Barcelona, sharing his special collection of detective noir soundtracks thoughout the show. Tuesday, March 23 at 1:00 ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Po Murray, Chairwoman of Newtown Action Alliance and Newtown Action Alliance Foundation, talks about her group's response to the mass shooting ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with Dr. Micah Johnson and Dr. Abdul El Sayed about their book, “Medicare For All: A Citizen’s Guide.” NEWSFLASH! Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell will reintroduce ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Ben Anderson, Director of Health Policy at the Children’s Defense Fund will assess the importance of Congressional passage of the American ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen’s executive vice president talks about the recent House passage of the “For The People Act,” H.R. 1 ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher Kevin Gallagher’s guest is Kim Stanley Robinson, New York Times best-selling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards. Author of more than 20 books, ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with Jenny Offill about her acclaimed cli-fi novel, “Weather.” Then, Ben Ehrenreich tells us about “Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time.” Monday, March ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Loretta J. Ross, activist and Visiting Associate Professor of the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College, discusses her recent article, ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher Kevin’s guests on Digging in the Dirt at 5 pm are the CEO of Chabaso wholesale bakers Charlie Negaro Jr. and Communications Director of CHABASO Reed Immer. ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin GallagherKevin’s guest will be the great Latin jazz big band leader Bobby Sanabria. The professor will be on WPKN to talk with Kevin about the career and legacy of ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with Rebecca Sacks about her powerful debut novel, “City of a Thousand Gates.” It’s about the intersecting stories of the peoples of Israel and Palestine, and how ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Greg Palast, known for his investigative reports for Democracy Now, The Guardian and Consortium News — and his bestsellers including “The ...

Tidings from Hazel Kahan This month my guest on Tidings is noted Jungian analyst and scholar Dr. George Elder. He answers the question: how does Jungian-oriented psychology analyse the terms “apocalypse” and “pandemic” to ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher Kevin Gallagher’s guest is Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, who has come back for another visit to DITD to talk about ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: US 350.org Communications Director Thanu Yakupitiyage discusses his group’s response to President Joe Biden’s recently announced initiatives to address climate change, ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with Paul Pitcoff about his memoir, “Cold War Secrets.” It’s about growing up in left-wing circles in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s with a ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher My guest this week on Digging in the Dirt is Doug Tallamy, a professor of entomology and wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware and a NY ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, MALDEF, discusses his group’s response to ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund. She’ll examine the Jan. 6th terrorist attack on ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca RheannonWe spend the hour talking with Hugh Raffles about his new book, “The Book Of Unconformities: Speculations On Lost Time.” It’s part natural history, part memoir, part meditation on the relationships ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with veterinary behaviorist Meghan Herron, editor of “Decoding Your Cat: The Ultimate Experts Explain Common Cat Behaviors And Reveal How To Prevent Or Change Unwanted Ones.” It’s ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and author of five books including “How Fascism Works: The ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with Rabbi Michael Lerner about his book “Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World.” Then we look deeper into how to build solidarity ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School discuss her recent New Yorker article, “Trump’s ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Julio Lopez, the Center for Popular Democracy’s Co-Director for Community Dignity Campaigns, discusses CPD’s view of the COVID relief package of ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We spend the hour talking with Tamara Payne about her late father Les Payne’s acclaimed biography of Malcolm X, “The Dead Are Arising.” It just won the National Book ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon Victoria Bond, author of the middle-grade reader novel “Zora And Me: The Summoner” and Irene Butter, author of the memoir, “Shores Beyond Shores.” Monday, December 21 at 10:00 PM ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Zachary Roth, a fellow and former editorial director of the Brennan Center for Justice at Columbia University, and author of “The ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Kate Elder, senior vaccines policy advisor with Doctors Without Borders Access Campaign and Michelle Mahon, a Registered Nurse and the National Nurses ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of Italian and History at New York University and author, “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,” talks about her ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with Jess Walter about his novel “The Cold Millions.” It’s about the first Gilded Age with striking parallels to the Gilded Age 2.0 we’re living in right ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher My guest on this Digging in the Dirt is the Executive Director of the Real Organic Project, Dave Chapman. We will be talking about The 2021 Virtual ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Mark Green is a former New York City Public Advocate. former director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, and president of Air ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We spend the hour talking with Elisa Gabbert about her terrific collection of essays, “The Unreality of Memory.” It’s a contemplation of life in the pre-apocalypse, with profound and ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Caroline Fredrickson is the former President of the American Constitution Society, Distinguished Visitor from Practice at Georgetown Law School and Senior ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with Les Leopold about his Uncle Walter’s remarkable diary of life as Jew in Nazi Germany, “Defiant German, Defiant Jew: A Holocaust Memoir from Inside the Third ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Paul Street, an independent progressive policy researcher, award-winning journalist and historian. Street, author of the recently published book, “Hollow Resistance: Obama, ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with translator Stephen Snyder about his translation of Yoko Ozawa’s acclaimed novel “The Memory Police.” It’s an allegory for our age. Then we hear from Marian Lindberg ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Vijay Prashad, executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, is an Indian historian and journalist who is the author of thirty ...

First Voices Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse Mark K. Tilsen is an Oglala Lakota poet and educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. At Standing Rock Mark stepped into the role of a direct action ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Sylvia Albert, Director of the Voting and Elections program at Common Cause discusses the work she and a national coalition of ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Ben Clements, Board Chair of Free Speech For People and attorney, discusses the lawsuit his group has filed on behalf of ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with psychologist Katherine Kinzler about her book “How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do — And What It Says About You.” Then, we ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Lisa Graves, founder, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief at True North Research, talks about her recent article, “Dark Money for Supreme Court ...

First Voices Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse Debra Utacia Krol, a citizen of the Xolon Salinan Tribe and an Indigenous affairs reporter at the Arizona Republic will discuss her article “Living with Fire.” Co-Host Anne ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Steven Gardiner, Assistant Research Director with Political Research Associates talks about the recently uncovered militia plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher Kevin Gallagher’s guest Ryland Engelhart Executive Director Kiss the Ground. Monday, October 5 at 5:00 PM. Writer’s Voice: with Francesca Rheannon Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Adele Stan, Director of People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch project, talks about Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn White ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Arisha Hatch, Vice President of Color Of Change talks about her group’s response to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s decision not ...

First Voices Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse Roberto Rodriguez, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Mexican American Studies Department at the University of Arizona. He is author of “Our Sacred Maiz is our Mother: ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher Kevin Gallagher’s guest is Jon Stokes of the web site Theprepared.com who will be talking about emergency preparedness and prepping checklists for everyone. The Prepared is a ...

First Voices Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse Nikki Ducheneaux is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and also Bitterroot Salish from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. She is a founder and ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Stand Up America Founder and President Sean Eldridge discusses the organizing and preparations now being made partner group Indivisible and more ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with Margot Livesy. Her new novel, “The Boy In The Field,” explores the limits of free will and how we respond to what happens to us. Then, ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Amanda Marcotte is a politics writer for Salon who covers American politics, feminism and culture. Her new book is titled, “Troll ...

Counterpoint with guest host Ebong Eudoma Monday, August 24 at 8:00 PM and in the WPKN archive. Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with Max Elbaum about the debate over whether the Left should ...

Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher Special guest Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Since 2016, she has written and hosted the national award-winning, weekly public radio ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon Is the 2020 Presidential election being rigged, like Donald Trump claims? Yes, says investigative reporter Greg Palast — it’s being rigged by Trump himself, in collusion with the GOP. ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Sarah Kendzior author of, “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America,” and co-host of Gaslit ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Kevin Martin, President of Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund, talks about the recent effort in Congress to transfer ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon Shaun King tells us about his life as a Black Lives Matter activist, what he’s learned about making change happen and how you can make change happen too. His ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We spend most of the hour with Scott Turow, talking not only about the fictional case in "The Last Trial," but also about some very real cases going on ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Dr. James G. Kahn, emeritus professor at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, at the Department of Epidemiology ...

Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Marge Baker, Executive Vice President for Policy and Program with People For the American Way assesses the testimony of Rick Bright, ...

Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon The 2020 presidential election is looming on the horizon. Many fear the outcome will be hotly disputed. And the U.S. Constitution probably won’t help us out of the mess. ...

Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon: We’re all used to narrative that’s told with words. But what about narrative that’s told through art? Book art? We talk with book artist Barry McCallion about book art ...

This week's guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div, Assistant Clinical Professor in Law and Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and author of the book, "The Dangerous ...