The world is a crazy place and the battle for our attention has never been more fierce. (1) In 2009’s RAPT: Attention and the Focused Life, WINIFRED GALLAGHER argues that the quality of your life largely depends on what you choose to pay attention to and how you choose to do it. Worth paying attention to. (2) Former Ohio Congressman TIM RYAN - lost 2022 Senate race to Hillbilly Elegy author, election denier J.D.Vance - urges the practice of meditation in A MINDFUL NATION: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit.
Episode 583: SARA DAVIDSON, THE DECEMBER PROJECT - Conversations with Zalman Shachter-Shalomi on the meaning & mystery of life and death
Episode 582: Taxpayers fund drug research. Corporations reap obscene profits from “our” discoveries. ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK, OWNING THE SUN:A People's History of Monopoly Medicine
Episode 581: Who wants a new Constitutional Convention? Sen. RUSS FEINGOLD & PETER PRINDIVILLE-Constitution in Jeopardy
Episode 580: Election Reflections with ROB JOHNSON-Not as bad as feared, not as good as desperately needed
Episode 579: As we await final counts and interpret results-ASTRA TAYLOR (2020) Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
Episode 578: DAVID DALEY, author RATFU_ _ED and UNRIGGED on voter suppression and our upcoming mid-terms
Episode 577: How do Republicans plan to keep you from voting? - Investigative journalist GREG PALAST (2020)
Episode 576: DAVID CORN, The Stakes of the MidTerms:- AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS: How The Republican Party Went Crazy
Episode 575: We need to be able to work together on climate JOANNA CHIU, CHINA UNBOUND: A New World Disorder.
Episode 574: As DeSantis & Abbott pull cruel political stunts-GREG GRANDIN (2019), THE END OF THE MYTH: From the Frontier to the Border Wall
Episode 573: Is STEVE LOPEZ of the LATimes really thinking about retirement? - INDEPENDENCE DAY
Episode 572: Climate Week: California’s Clean Energy Jobs Plan - Economist ROBERT POLLIN & Union leader DAVE CAMPBELL
Episode 571: Is the press finally up to the climate emergency? MARK HERTSGAARD-COVERING CLIMATE NOW
Episode 570: (1) BARBARA EHRENREICH (2005), Nickel & Dimed; Bait & Switch; (2) EDUARDO GALEANO (2009), The Open Veins of Latin America; Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone.
Episode 569: Is the nightmare finally over? GARY GERSTLE, THE RISE & FALL OF THE NEOLIBERAL ORDER
Episode 568: Back to School-RAFE ESQUITH (2013) REAL TALK FOR REAL TEACHERS
Episode 567: American Heroes-1) HOWARD ZINN (2005), 2) GEORGE McGOVERN (2005) - both born 100 years ago this summer
Episode 566: How do we resist Minority Rule? STEVEN HILL, DemocracySOS - 10 STEPS TO REPAIR DEMOCRACY
Episode 565: Two Black Giants-1) BILL RUSSELL (2010), 2) CORNEL WEST (2009)
Episode 564: Can we count on the Dems? MICHAEL KAZIN, WHAT IT TOOK TO WIN: A History of the Democratic Party
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