KPFA - Letters and Politics
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A Church Occupation by the English Collective of Prostitutes & A History of Railroad Labor Disputes and Government Intervention
59 mins; December 05, 2022
Remembering Hale Zukas: Disability Rights Icon. Then, The Abolitionist’s Journal
59 mins; December 01, 2022
The Rise & Fall of The Wobblies: America’s Most Radical Union
59 mins; November 30, 2022
Nathan Robinson on The Grotesquery of the American Political System
59 mins; November 29, 2022
Anarchists & Communists In Asia’s Anti-Colonialist Movements
59 mins; November 28, 2022
A Counter Narrative of Native American History
59 mins; November 24, 2022
Josephine Baker: Anti-Fascist Spy
59 mins; November 23, 2022
Adam Hochschild: WWI, The Red Scare and The Threat to Democracy
59 mins; November 22, 2022
Nancy Pelosi’s Meteoric Rise from SF Politics & An Homage to KPFA’s Iconic Monologist Jennifer Stone
59 mins; November 21, 2022
Letters and Politics – November 17, 2022
59 mins; November 17, 2022
From the Tobacco Industry to Climate Climate Change to Social Media: A Modern History of Disinformation. Then, Conversations with Birds
59 mins; November 16, 2022
Harriet Tubman vs. Andrew Jackson: The History and Future of the Twenty Dollar Bill and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
59 mins; November 14, 2022
A Civil Rights Warrior of the 1960s: The Legacy of Colia Lafayette Clark
59 mins; November 10, 2022
How The Midterm Will Effect Congress & Florida Goes Deep Red
59 mins; November 09, 2022
Talking About Election Integrity & Young Voters
59 mins; November 08, 2022
How to Dismantle a Republic: The Fall of the Weimar Republic
59 mins; November 07, 2022
Nomi Prins: How The Financial Markets Abandoned The Economy
59 mins; November 03, 2022
The 1994 Midterm Election & The Rise of Partisan Warfare
59 mins; November 02, 2022
The 1934 Midterm Election’s Transformative Influence on the New Deal Landscape
59 mins; November 01, 2022
Brazil: Militarism, the Far-Right, and the Return of the Left with Lula
59 mins; October 31, 2022
A History of Disability and Design
59 mins; October 27, 2022
Left Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Richard Becker
59 mins; October 26, 2022
Legal Murder: A Legacy of Jim Crow
59 mins; October 25, 2022
A Preview of the 2022 Midterm Elections with John Nichols
59 mins; October 24, 2022
Left Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Ukrainian Opposition Leader Zakhar Popovych
59 mins; October 20, 2022
Left Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel
59 mins; October 19, 2022
The Murder of Regina Martina Perez
59 mins; October 18, 2022
Ukraine and the U.S. Military Budget & Peniel Joseph on Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
59 mins; October 17, 2022
A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
59 mins; October 12, 2022
A History of Nuclear War with Peter Kuznick
59 mins; October 11, 2022
Kai Bird on Robert Oppenheimer & Tactical Nuclear Weapons
59 mins; October 10, 2022
KPFA Special – Bart Ehrman on Early Christian Texts & The Making of Hell
59 mins; October 06, 2022
KPFA Special – The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company
59 mins; October 05, 2022
KPFA Special – A Brief History of U.S. Imperialism with Noam Chomsky
59 mins; October 04, 2022
KPFA Special – A History of Democratic Socialism in Europe and the US
59 mins; October 03, 2022
KPFA Special: Reza Aslan on Howard Baskerville & The Persian Revolution of 1906
59 mins; September 29, 2022
KPFA Special: The Inspiring Life of Henry David Thoreau
59 mins; September 28, 2022
KPFA Special: We The Elites: The Making of the US Constitution
59 mins; September 27, 2022
KPFA Special: Adam Hochschild: WWI, The Red Scare and The Threat to Democracy
59 mins; September 26, 2022
KPFA Special: Yanis Varoufakis on Inflation and the Economic Imbalances of the World
59 mins; September 22, 2022
KPFA Special: Josephine Baker: Anti-Fascist Spy
59 mins; September 21, 2022
KPFA Special: Chris Hedges on The Greatest Evil is War
59 mins; September 20, 2022
The Firebombing of Tokyo and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
59 mins; September 19, 2022
The Eviction of an Encampment
59 mins; September 15, 2022
The Radical History of Asian Americans
59 mins; September 14, 2022
Before We Were Trans: A 3,500 Year History
15 mins; September 13, 2022
The 2 Sides of Atticus Finch
59 mins; September 12, 2022
Combating Anti-Asian Hate & A Conversation on Originalism
59 mins; September 08, 2022
Dipo Faloyin on The Diversity of Africa
59 mins; September 07, 2022
A History of Blindness: From Homer to Hellen Keller to Ray Charles
59 mins; September 06, 2022
An Insurrectionist History of US Labor
59 mins; September 05, 2022
Heterodoxy: The Secret Club that Sparked the Feminist Movement
59 mins; September 01, 2022
The Life and Times of Mikhail Gorbachev
59 mins; August 31, 2022
An Anatomy of a Marine Die-off in the SF Bay & At Home on an Unruly Planet
59 mins; August 30, 2022
The Diversity of Perception in the Animal Kingdom and How Humans Force Creatures Into an Alien World
59 mins; August 29, 2022
Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss
59 mins; August 25, 2022
ACT UP NY: A History 1987-1993
59 mins; August 24, 2022
Jim Thorpe: From Boarding School to Champion
59 mins; August 23, 2022
Karl Marx’s Final Years
59 mins; August 22, 2022
Robin D. G. Kelley: A History of Black Radicalism
59 mins; August 18, 2022
Understanding QAnon and the Conspiracy Theory of Everything
59 mins; August 17, 2022
The Future of Liz Cheney, the GOP, and the Wyoming Primaries
24 mins; August 16, 2022
Putin: A Biography
59 mins; August 15, 2022
Marx & Shakespeare In Love: How Shakespeare Influenced Marx & What Marxism Says About Shakespeare
59 mins; August 11, 2022
The Life and Times of Walter F. White & The Inflation Reduction Act
59 mins; August 10, 2022
The Unprecedented FBI Search Warrant on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
59 mins; August 09, 2022
The Real King George III
59 mins; August 08, 2022
An Update on People’s Park & A History of Taiwan and China
59 mins; August 04, 2022
The Assassination of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Guantanamo, and the Failure of the War on Terror
59 mins; August 03, 2022
Luis Francia: The Politics and History of the Philippines
59 mins; August 02, 2022
Craig McNamara: A Heavy Place To Be…My Father A War Criminal
59 mins; August 01, 2022
KPFA Special – Africa and the Making of the Modern World
59 mins; July 28, 2022
Fund Drive Special: Recreating Nature & Saving the Planet at Home
59 mins; July 27, 2022
Fund Drive Special: The Vagina: A History
59 mins; July 26, 2022
KPFA Special – Gerald Horne: A History of Counter-Revolutions
59 mins; July 25, 2022
Fund Drive Special: Vijay Prashad on Ho Chi Minh
59 mins; July 21, 2022
Fund Drive Special: Vijay Prashad on Learning from Movements in History for Socialism
59 mins; July 20, 2022
Fund Drive Special: How The Anti-Abortion Movement Radicalized The GOP
59 mins; July 19, 2022
19th-Century Eugenics Movement and its Relation to Immigration in America
59 mins; July 18, 2022
The B.A.5 Omicron Variant & The Rise of Monkeypox
59 mins; July 14, 2022
People’s Park History and Struggle
59 mins; July 13, 2022
Yanis Varoufakis: Today’s Economic Crisis Is Rooted In History
59 mins; July 11, 2022
An Era of Rebellion: Urban Uprisings 1964-1972
59 mins; July 07, 2022
Letters and Politics – July 4, 2022
59 mins; July 04, 2022
Ho Chi Minh
59 mins; June 30, 2022
Vijay Prashad: History Is A Series Of Experiments (Part 1)
59 mins; June 29, 2022
The Founders Kept Abortion Legal: A History of Abortion in America
59 mins; June 27, 2022
Homophobia and the Red Scare
59 mins; June 23, 2022
The Meaning of Juneteenth and the Black Experience in Texas
59 mins; June 20, 2022
The Politics and Process of the January 6th Investigation
49 mins; June 15, 2022
A History of The Stonewall Riots
59 mins; June 14, 2022
Operation Condor: A History of a Dirty War in Latin America
59 mins; June 09, 2022
A Preview of the January 6 Hearings & “80 Years Later” A Film on Japanese American Racial Inheritance
59 mins; June 08, 2022
Let’s Agree To Disagree
59 mins; June 07, 2022
The Left & War: A Critical History
59 mins; June 06, 2022
The Politics, Money, and the Media Mythology Behind SFDA Chesa Boudin Recall
59 mins; June 02, 2022
A History of the First War for Vietnam
59 mins; June 01, 2022
Pandemic Profiteers: How the Rich Got Richer
59 mins; May 31, 2022
When President Theodore Roosevelt took on the biggest corporate interest of the day
59 mins; May 30, 2022
The Connections of the Gun Manufacturing, Colonialism, and Industrialization
59 mins; May 26, 2022