Sofia Martinez of KUNM and The Nation, where she wrote about the plight of the Trinty Test downwinders of the Tularosa Basin and the attempts to renew and reform the Radiation Exposures Compensation Act to include them.

Mark Ludwig, violist emeritus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and author of Our Will to Live

Mar 16th, 2022 51m 19s

Mark Ludwig, violist emeritus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and author of the new book Our Will to Live, about the remarkable musical life in the Nazi concentration camp of Terezin (Theresienstadt.)

Megan Kate Nelson, historian and author of Saving Yellowstone

Mar 15th, 2022 51m 19s

Megan Kate Nelson, historian and author of Saving Yellowstone, about the exploration of the Yellowstone Basin, its conversion into a National Park, and how this fits into the historical context of the Reconstruction era.

Catherine Rhodes, Assistant Professor of Ethnology at UNM

Mar 14th, 2022 51m 19s

Catherine Rhodes, Assistant Professor of Ethnology at UNM and co-author of the new book Migration Narratives -- talking about how 2 generations of Mexican immigrants have transformed a small city in the Mid-Atlantic states.

Pandemic crisis opportunities blown or abused

Mar 9th, 2022 51m 19s

The coronavirus crisis produced the opportunity to create miracle vaccines. So much for the good news. The bad news is, the vaccine-makers are breaking the bank over-charging the world. Just one offense cited in John Nichols's new book Coronavi

Have Putin's nuclear threats killed arms control?

Mar 8th, 2022 51m 19s

Vladimir Putin is threatening to use nuclear weapons because of "aggressive language" by opponents of his invasion of Ukraine. Sticks and stones may break his bones, but harsh words have Putin brandishing nuclear threats. He's done this before,

How the war is being reported in Ukraine and in Russia.

Mar 7th, 2022 51m 19s

A big reason the Russian invasion of Ukraine is going so slowly is that almost all Ukrainians know exactly how bad life can be under Russian domination. They know this because of family and neighborly ties, and because of Ukraine's lively news

Washington Post's national security correspondent Shane Harris

Mar 2nd, 2022 51m 20s

Something new under the sun...the American use of declassified intelligence to predict or pre-empt Russian aggression against Ukraine. The wide public release of when, where and how the Russians planned to attack didn't stop them, but it did he

The flat earth movement and other conspiracy theories

Mar 1st, 2022 51m 19s

You might think the flat earth obsession was old hat, knocked into anachronism by a world in which so many people flown around the world in planes, but has more adherents today than ever before. Kelly Weill's new book Off the Edge looks at the

The NM Legislative Session, short on bills passed, long on surprises.

Feb 28th, 2022 51m 19s

The recently-completed 30-day session of the New Mexico Legislature produced relatively few bills and more than a few surprises, but Andy Lyman of the NM Political Report and KSFR FM news says, the biggest impact may be what got in and what go

Tracking kleptocracy in the DRC (Congo)

Feb 23rd, 2022 51m 19s

Kleptocracy, crime organized by a state to benefit its leaders and his or her friends and family, is a global phenomenon, but few kleptocracies can match the series of ripoffs of the citizens of the DRC, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Jo

Beating the pandemic lockdown with organic foods, farm to customer.

Feb 22nd, 2022 51m 19s

When the lockdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic hit the supply chain for food, customers who wanted organic, home-grown vegetables in Los Angeles had a problem. Dean Kuipers of The Nation wrote about how he and his wife tried to create a

Reconciling efficiency and justice in the distribution of federal infrastructure money.

Feb 21st, 2022 51m 19s

The billions of dollars in Federal money from the bi-partisan infrastructure bill passed last November are about to be released. The 3 guiding principles seem to be -- get it out fast, use it most effectively and distribute it most equitably.

Medicaid expansion, LA says yes, MS says no --- guess who suffers

Feb 16th, 2022 51m 19s

When the Obama Administration offered incentives for states to expand their coverage of Medicaid. Both Louisiana and Mississippi were among the Republican-governed states that said no. Then Louisiana elected a Democratic governor and changed it

Steering foreign relations through Russia and China

Feb 15th, 2022 51m 19s

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin give each other figurative gold medals at the Winter Olympics and a big lump of coal to the United States and President Biden. Are their beefs legit, or just cover for dreams of ever-expanding Chinese and Russian

Exxon's legal strategy on climate change denial

Feb 14th, 2022 51m 19s

Oil spills across the world, increasing global warming is it spreads, but Chris McGreal of The Guardian and The Nation reports, ExxonMobil says legal actions against the company should stop at the Texas State Line. If you can't gaslight the leg

Here And There 9 February, 2022 Dave Lindorff

Feb 9th, 2022 51m 19s

A great untold story of nuclear espionage. Dave Lindorff of The Nation on how one brother -- America's top designer of ballistic missiles -- protected his younger sibling -- who gave the Russians huge secrets about the atomic bomb being built a

Here And There 8 February, 2022 Austin Fisher

Feb 8th, 2022 51m 19s

The MDC, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque is like most jails full of innocent people awaiting trial. Much too full, reports Austin Fisher of Source NM, for a shrinking staff of correction officers to handle. It's become somethin

Here And There 7 February, 2022 Cecilia Nowell

Feb 7th, 2022 51m 19s

A woman is jailed for littering a sidewalk. She's one of very many, She dies in detox at Albuquerque's Metropolitan Detention Center. She's one of several. Cecilia Nowell of The Nation on the policies that overfill a city/county lock-up with mo

Here And There 2 February, 2020 Matt Vasilogambros

Feb 2nd, 2022 51m 19s

If it ain't broke," the old saying goes, "don't fix it."Unless your intent isn't fixing but shattering something that works, like America's system of free and fair elections. Matt Vasilogambros of the Stateline news service says in dozens of st

Here And There 1 February, 2022 Maya Washington

Feb 1st, 2022 51m 19s

Marking the beginning of Black History Month -- Today when a substantial majority of players in pro football and basketball and in the college games are African-American, it's hard to remember when things were Jim Crow different. Maya Washingt

Here And There 31 January, 2022 Jerry Redfern and Karen Coates

Jan 31st, 2022 51m 19s

One thing most Americans seriously lack when it comes to our foreign wars is a rear-view mirror. What happens to the people and places where America has sent troops or, more particularly, dropped bombs and other ordinance? Few Americans seem t

How kleptocracy pollutes the US and the world

Jan 26th, 2022 51m 19s

London's not the only home for crooked cash. Real estate and other overpriced luxuries for launder corrupted money are also for sale in New York. Some say this is good for Gotham's economy, but Frank Vogl, who helped found Transparency Inter

Here And There 25 January, 2022 Alexander Cooley

Jan 25th, 2022 51m 19s

When there was still a Soviet Union the KGB knew London was the best location to store the fruits of corruption. Why was that? Alexander Cooley of Columbia University and Chatham House recently took part in a major study that starts from the p

Here And There 24 January, 2022 Brian Levin

Jan 24th, 2022 51m 19s

It's been a year and then some since marauders, egged on by that rotten deviled egg Donald Trump, attacked the US Capital. There have charges and arrests and investigations on the law side, but Brian Levin of Cal State San Bernardino says ha