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In Deep with Angie Coiro: Interviews
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In Deep with Angie Coiro - Newsmaker Interviews,
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The Voting Hour
Show #271 | Guests: Gilda Daniels and Myrna Peréz | Show Summary: Angie’s guests tackle the many obstacles to our most precious freedom: access to the ballot box. Donald Trump has convinced many voters not to trust the Post Office with their ballot, and overseen destruction of mailing systems....
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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy
Show #270 | Guests: Prof. William Howell and Prof. Terry Moe | Show Summary: Donald Trump, elected in a populist uprising, has eschewed the normal conventions of politics. But the idea of what’s “normal” needs to be examined in its own light. For example – “normally”, laws are drafted in Congress...
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Robert Reich on Democacry in America
Show #269 | Guest: Robert Reich | Show Summary: What if the Left/Right divide were more distraction than destruction? Economist and academic Robert Reich says the real threat is the wealth divide. Runaway economic injustice can spell the end of democracy, while we’re busy hating each other over...
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Belief in Conspiracies: The Effect on Democracy
Show #268 | Guests: Dr. Joseph Pierre, Dr. Nancy Rosenblum | Show Summary: Q-anon; the Bill Gates vaccine plot; 911 truthers: this week's In Deep is an escorted dive into the murky world of conspiracies. What mental processes lead to belief in Q-Anon, or chemtrails, or vaccines as a corporate…
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Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump – by Dan Partland
Show #267 | Guest: Dan Partland, director and producer | Show Summary: The American people divide into three groups. One group is certain there’s something deeply wrong and deeply dangerous with Donald Trump. A second group is concerned but unsure. The third group of our citizens cannot be...
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Susan Fowler – Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber
Show #266 | Guest: Susan Fowler | Show Summary: Susan Fowler was born determined. From a life of childhood poverty she pushed her way to an Ivy League school. She swam upstream against misogynist Silicon Valley culture to land jobs in line with her energy and intellect. Then she blew it all wide...
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Conor Dougherty – Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Show #265 | Guest: Conor Dougherty | Show Summary: Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong....
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Diane Ravitch: Slaying Goliath - The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools
Show #264 | Guest: Diane Ravitch | Show Summary: Privatized schools were sold to the American public as a cut above— an avenue to the best education, drawing from under-performing public schools that doomed children to lower standards. At the same time, says education authority Diane Ravitch,...
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Kelly MacGonigal: The Joy of Movement
Show #263 | Guest: Kelly MacGonigal | Show Summary: What if the key to feeling vividly alive and energetic in your body is closer than you think? No matter what your past experience with exercise has been—from finding it a chore to falling in love with a favorite activity—it is possible to find...
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David Talbot: Between Heaven and Hell, the Story of my Stroke
Show #262 | Guest: David Talbot | Show Summary: A deeply personal interview with David Talbot, bestselling author of The Devil's Chessboard, Season of the Witch, and numerous others. After Talbot suffered a debilitating stroke, the journalist and historian turned inward, and came away with…
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Steve Inskeep: Imperfect Union, Jesse and John Fremont
Show #261 | Guest: Steve Inskeep | Show Summary: With an election year upon us, we are reminded that we have been through this before. The United States in the mid-1840s, for example, was a country in the middle of a major transformation, pushing its boundaries to extend from coast to coast to...
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Tamim Ansary: The Invention of History
Show #259 | Guest: Tamim Ansary | Show Summary: Thought leader Tamim Ansary returns for a discussion of his sweeping new nonfiction work, The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000 Year History of Human Culture, Conflict and Connection. Tamim Ansary sprang into prominence with Destiny Disrupted: A...
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Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein: College Behind Bars
Show #258 | Guests: Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein | Show Summary: Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein examine the transformative power of education through the eyes of a dozen incarcerated men and women trying to earn college degrees, in their groundbreaking film College Behind Bars: Documenting The...
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Charles Postel: Inequality, An American Dilemma
Show #257 | Guest: Charles Postel | Show Summary: Charles Postel's new book, Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896, compares and analyses today's wealth and power disparities in light of their origins in the Gilded Age of a century ago. Charles Postel, Professor of History at San Francisco…
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Cyrus Grace Dunham: A Year Without A Name
Show #256 | Guest: Cyrus Grace Dunham | Show Summary: For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Their life was a series of imitations–lovable little girl, daughter, sister, young gay woman–until their profound sense of alienation became…
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Lawrence Lanahan: The Quest To Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide
Show #255 | Guest: Lawrence Lanahan | Show Summary: The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide is an eye-opening account of how a city creates its black, white, rich, and poor spaces, and suggests these problems are not intractable. Lawrence Lanahan has…
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Richard Conn: How (and Why) to Raise Your Little Angels Without Religion
Show #254 | Guest: Richard A. Conn, Jr. | Show Summary: The Earthbound Parent: How (and Why) to Raise Your Little Angels Without Religion is a meditation on how to encourage children to discover the world and their place in it for themselves. Richard A. Conn, Jr. is an international lawyer and...
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Mental Health Author Kelechi Ubozoh's New Book: We've Been Too Patient
Show #253 | Guest: Kelechi Ubozoh | Show Summary: Mental health advocate Kelechi Ubozoh discusses her new book We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health--Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model.
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Riane Eisler: Nurturing Our Humanity
Show #252 | Guest:Riane Eisler | Show Summary: Riane Eisler is the acclaimed author of The Chalice and The Blade, an investigation into the cultural roots of social systems and gender roles. Her new book, Nurturing our Humanity, lays out a new understanding of human possibilities, showing how we...
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Haben Girma: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard
Show #251 | Guest: Haben Girma | Show Summary: Haben Girma, daughter of refugees and the first Deafblind woman to graduate from Harvard Law, has been honored for her activist work by President Obama, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Raised by two Eritrean refugee...
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Mark Schapiro: Seeds of Resistance; the fight to save our food supply
Show #250 | Guest: Mark Schapiro | Show Summary: Angie sits down with researcher and journalist Mark Schapiro to explore his new book, Seeds of Resistance, an expose of the high-stakes battle underway for control of the world’s seeds.
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Richard A. Clarke – The Fifth Domain: Defending US Cyberspace
Show #249 | Guest: Richard A. Clarke | Show Summary: Cyberwar—or cyber-anything, has always carried a whiff of science fiction about it. But it's not fiction, it's certainly not entertainment, and, terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke warns us— multiple cyberwars are underway already. The...
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Ron Purser: McMindfulness
Show #248 | Guest: Professor Ronald Purser | Show Summary: Angie sits down for a fascinating hour with Ron Purser, Professor of Management at San Francisco State University, to discuss his new book McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became The New Capitalist Spirituality. The booming popularity of…
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Dr. Louise Aronson on Elderhood
Show #247 | Guest: Dr. Louise Aronson | Show Summary: Elderhood: old age. Many of us can expect to live more years as “elders” than in either childhood or adulthood, a span of up to 40 years, yet that era of our lives has long been treated as more a symptom and burden—elderhood outright ignored…
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Shannon Watts: Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America
Show #246 | Guest: Shannon Watts | Show Summary: The “NRA’s Worst Nightmare” is an army of moms led by former stay-at-home mother of five Shannon Watts from Indiana, who ignited a grassroots advocacy movement against gun violence which now touches every single one of the 50 states. Moms Demand...
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The War For Kindness: Building Empathy In A Fractured World
Show #245 | Guest: Jamil Zaki | Show Summary: Empathy is in short supply. Isolation and tribalism are rampant. We struggle to understand people who aren’t like us, but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago. In his groundbreaking new…
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Wildlife in the City and Suburbs
Show #244 | Guests: Laura Hawkins, Camilla Fox | Show Summary: Laura Hawkins is the executive director of the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley. Camilla H. Fox is the founder and executive director of Project Coyote, a national organization that promotes compassionate conservation and coexistence...
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Jenny Odell - How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Show #243 | Guest: Jenny Odell | Show Summary: Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Her work involves acts of close observation, whether it's birdwatching, collecting screen shots, or trying to parse bizarre forms of e-commerce. Her new book is How…
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Tony Horwitz on Frederick Law Olmsted: Spying on the South, An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Show #242 | Guest: Tony Horwitz | Show Summary: It has been twenty years since Tony Horwitz's bestselling Confederates in the Attic brought America's modern North-South divide into the light, inviting readers on a trek through Civil War country. Now Horwitz retraces the footsteps of a New York...
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The Future of Masculinity
Show #241 | Guests: Dr. Joseph Marshall, Dr. Judy Chu | Show Summary: What's the best a man can be? And how has that ideal changed over time? What accounts for the rising profile of ugly, even violent misogyny, and how does the American village work to grow healthy men in its shadow? In Deep…
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Harriet Tubman: The Tubman Command, from writer Elizabeth Cobbs
Show #240 | Guest: Elizabeth Cobbs | Show Summary: History writers have a choice: relaying a story bound by fact and record to produce a non-fiction account, or bring the people and times alive with a narrative arc. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Cobbs has succeeded in both. Her best-selling…
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Roz Chast and Patricia Marx
Show #239 | Guests: Roz Chast and Patricia Marx | Show Summary: Novelist, New Yorker and TV comedy writer Patricia Marx and memoirist and New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast are close friends and collaborators. They range far and wide in this conversation with Angie, ostensibly about their new book…
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All About Cannabis, with David Downs and Danielle Ramo
Show #238 | Guests: David Downs, Dr. Danielle Ramo | Show Summary: Join Angie and guests David Downs, Editor-in-Chief of Leafly.com and co-author of Marijuana Harvest, and Dr. Danielle Ramo, director of research operations at Hopelab, and adjunct faculty in psychiatry at UC San Francisco.
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Abortion Matters; the road ahead: with guests Monica McLemore and Amy Everett
Show #237 | Guests: Amy Everitt, Monica McLemore | Show Summary: Perhaps the central political and rights issue of our time, the matter of abortion continues to ignite passions and protest throughout the country. n Angie sits down with two experts on the subject, Amy Everitt, vice president for...
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Eddie Muller: The Czar of Noir
Show #236 | Guest: Eddie Muller | Show Summary: Join Angie for an enjoyable discussion of Hollywood, Femmes Fatales, and the doomed losers of Film Noir with the Czar of Noir, Eddie Muller.
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Makana: Guitarist-Activist on the Arms Race
Show #235 | Guest: Makana | Show Summary: Slack Key Guitarist Makana: The Soft Spoken Activist. Makana returns to In Deep for an update on his unique career mix of political activism and music. The resurgent arms race between superpowers is on the agenda, along with live performance of his newest...
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Joel R. Paul and Hadar Aviram: Investigating The President
Show #234 | Guests: Hadar Aviram, Joel R. Paul | Show Summary: How to untangle the swirl of investigations of and around President Donald J. Trump, is the subject of this fascinating hour with Professors Hadar Aviram and Joel Richard Paul, both of Hastings College of the Law.
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Jill Abramson: Merchants of Truth - News and Information in the Digital Age
Show #233 | Guest: Jill Abramson | Show Summary: One of the news media's most qualified voices examines critical information battlegrounds: old media vs. new, documented veracity vs. clickbait. Jill Abramson follows four companies—The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and VICE— over…
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H. Bruce Franklin: Good War to Forever War
Show #232 | Guest: H. Bruce Franklin | Show Summary: Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America’s victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world-wide Communist conspiracy that…
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Venture Capitalist Roger McNamee on Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Show #231 | Guest: Roger McNamee | Show Summary: The warnings are coming from inside the house. Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Roger McNamee are denizens of the same enchanted world: Silicon Valley's inner circle. And they used to all be on the same page, each playing their part growing...
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Don Reed: Stage, Screen and Beyond Stand-up
Show #230 | Guest: Don Reed | Show Summary: That Don Reed Show has just extended its run at The Marsh in Berkeley, CA. He crosses the Bay to talk to Angie about his stories, his stand-up, and even a character or two he admits is - wait for it - "too white."
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Joel Simon – The Committee To Protect Journalists
Show #229 | Guest: Joel Simon | Show Summary: America does not negotiate with terrorists—but should keep it that way? Last year there were nearly nine thousand international terrorist abductions. The US refuses to pay ransoms, holding that it would only fuel more kidnappings. Other countries…
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Wesley Yang – The Souls of Yellow Folk
Show #228 | Guest: Wesley Yang | Show Summary: From the “Tiger Mother” to take-out, Asian-American culture is so deeply entrenched in our understanding of the American fabric, we sometimes don’t know we’re talking about it when we’re talking about. Collecting a decade’s worth of essays, from his...
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John B. Judis on The Nationalist Revival
Show #227 | Guest: John B. Judis | Show Summary: Why has nationalism made a comeback? Angie sits down with John B. Judis, editor-at-large of Talking Points Memo, to bore into the history and political mechanics of this recurring phenomenon. His new book, The Nationalist Revival: Trade…
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Congresswoman Jackie Speier: Undaunted
Show #226 | Guest: Jackie Speier | Show Summary: Congresswoman Jackie Speier, national hero and survivor of the Jonestown tragedy, reflects on over 40 years of public service. As a young congressional staffer, Jackie Speier’s incredible courage became evident during the Jonestown Massacre of…
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Lara Bazelon - Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice after Wrongful Conviction
Show #225 | Guest: Lara Bazelon - Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice after Wrongful Conviction | Show Summary: As the truism goes, everyone behind bars is innocent - if you listen to them. The problem is a lot of them are. Our justice system is often unjust; people are convicted by a…
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Adam Hochschild: Lessons From A Dark Time
Show #224 | Guest: Adam Hochschild | Show Summary: Journalist and public historian Adam Hochschild shares his insight into the forces shaping our world, through a study of first-person witness accounts. His new book is Lessons From A Dark Time and Other Essays.
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Randy Shaw - Generation Priced Out
Show #223 | Guest: Randy Shaw | Show Summary: The class divide in America's big city has a companion: a generational breach. Long-time housing activist and attorney Randy Shaw says that, through policy and politics, Baby Boomers have contributed to the urban housing crisis - leaving millennials…
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Chris Taich and Dr. Ruchika Mishra: What Does A Good Death Look Like?
Show #222 | Guests: Chris Taich and Dr. Ruchika Mishra | Show Summary: Everybody dies. And we all know that - at least, intellectually. But how realistically do we approach our own ends? Statistically, it's a mixed bag. More elderly and hospitalized people have Do Not Resuscitate orders in place...
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D.D. Guttenplan – The Next Republic: The Rise of the New Radical Majority
Show #221 | Guest: D.D. Guttenplan | Show Summary: Who are the new progressive leaders emerging to lead the post-Trump return to democracy in America? National political correspondent and award-winning author D.D. Guttenplan's new book The Next Republic is an extraordinarily intense and...
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