Wednesday Talk Radio

   In her most recent article on school shootings, today's guest Laura Finley wrote: "I never thought this would be my life's work. But writing and speaking about the connections between domestic and dating violence and mass shootings has become an absurd and sickeningl... Read more

Host Paul Roland welcomes the incisive Chris Lehmann to Wednesday morning talk. Author most recently of The Money Cult, Lehmann  is editor in chief of The Baffler and the author of its Jaundiced Eyeball column. He also wrote Rich People Things and Revolt of the Masscult.... Read more

Ehrenreich has done it again! The author of "Nickel and Dimed," "Bright-Sided" and many others now offers us her fresh and unique take on the medical establishment, the "wellness industry," and our peculiar attidudes to death and dying. Her prose is as always succinct an... Read more

The supposed or  actual recent gas-bombing in Syria was the reason for the US-French-British missile attack in response. Did it happen? If so, who did carry it out? How can we know? Does our guest Idrees Ahmad (who in Dec. 2016 wrote a scathing criticism of fellow journa... Read more

This spring, three Indigenous female playwrights will present their work on Oregon’s top stages at the same time: Manahatta, by Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee) is on stage at Oregon Shakespeare Festival Mar. 28 - Oct. 27; The Thanksgiving Play, by Larissa FastHorse (Sicang... Read more

    Opening song: "Just Another Holy Man," by Floyd Red Crow Westerman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC3rfZ_1ZLA On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., host Paul Roland talks with listeners about ongoing actions and movements of res... Read more