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Just as it is with inflation, some immigration is good for the economy. It strengthens the economy and helps rural America. But as with inflation, immigration has to be kept under control. On this show Washington Monthly politics editor Bill The post Immigration Was Played Dishonestly. The Truth is It’s Like Inflation appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Though it is finally a federal holiday, a lot of people still don’t really know about Juneteenth. It was the day in 1865 when formerly enslaved people learned of the Emancipation Proclamation. But what kind of freedom was it then The post Juneteenth and the Persistent Economic Racial Divide appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

If you have cared about equality in education in recent decades, you know of the work of America’s foremost advocate for public schools Jonathan Kozol. In schools named after Martin Luther King Jr, he sees a new punitive autocratic pedagogic The post The Irony of Racism in Decrepit MLK Urban Schools appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

In the Scopes Trial of 1925, William Jennings Bryan spoke against teaching evolution, saying “I have all the information I need to live and die by.” Today’s intense fight against teaching Critical Race Theory is more of the same. To The post Critical Race Theory: Scopes Trial Redux? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

In his new book The Bodies Keep Coming, author Dr. Brian Williams offers Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal. As doctors know, treating the underlying causes of disease require addressing the whole body’s The post Racism Built Into America’s Medical System appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

We all know there are powers determined to destroy democracy. The ubiquity of hand held video cameras has the unique power to disrupt the narrative of power. On this show author Phil Allen talks about his new book The Prophetic The post The Cellphone Camera: The Power of Truth That Can’t Be Stopped appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

The new book is Imagining the Heartland; White Supremacy and the American Midwest and it’s about the powerful roots of today’s angry violence against The Others. On this show anthropologist authors Britt Halvorson and Joshua Reno look at the use The post White Supremacy And A Place You’ve Never Been appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

The comfort of colonial powers relied on them not seeing the damage to exploited nations. So it is with mining and milling the uranium for nuclear power. Victims then as now are people without power, indigenous populations which are health The post Nuclear Power is Racist, Sexist, and Ageist: You Gotta Listen appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

America’s suburbs came into being as a way to keep white school kids at the top. But what’s happening with Asian-Americans in upscale places like the sample “Woodcrest” High School? Asian American kids are catapulting to the top. Should teachers The post Suburban High Schools Race At the Top; Between White and Asian Kids appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Rather than just keeping one’s head down and staying safe, addressing that which is uncomfortable can bring new insight and a more complete sense of being. The often rigid structure of colleges is not enough, mentoring: listening, respecting is a The post Sister Resisters appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

One might think it was purely an honor, but it can be brutal. Especially for women. Sexism may generally be more subtle now, but not always. In this discussion of her new book, Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the The post Shortlisted for Supreme Court: Like Police Interrogation appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

In walling out Palestinians, the State of Israel has walled in themselves. Former Zionist Israeli Defense Forces paratrooper Sylvain Cypel speaks to us from Paris about his evolution.  As a Jewish Frenchman, he says how that country’s experience with Algeria The post The State of Israel vs The Jews appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

A consumers republic was born at the end of the second world war. And though it was genuinely intended to be a tide lifting all boats, it has increased economic inequality and created isolation where public space once was central. The post Why Americans Buy So Much Stuff. appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Everyone who supported him projected what they wanted to see on him in 2008. In his new book He Was Our Man In  Washington, A History of the Obama Years, author Owen Symes reveals such little known facts as Obama’s The post What Was the Obama Presidency Really? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

When she came onto the civil rights stage, the men assumed she’d sing, not speak. But Fannie Lou Hamer was a force. As author Kate Clifford Larson tells the amazing story in her new book Walk With Me, she stood The post For Inspiration Today: Fannie Lou Hamer In the Early 60s appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

While there are major challenges, there is much to celebrate. We are the only country with the same form of government since our founding in 1787. But in light of Trumpism, religious nationalists, and January 6th, how strong is our The post Fourth of July 2021: Are We Keeping a Republic? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Michael Winship writes: “Despite Joe Biden and Kamala Harris being in the White House, we remain in existential peril.” A big step toward tyranny is Senator Joe Manchin who announced he will not support an end to the filibuster which The post Manchin: Ego Rules Over Patriotism appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

The world sees the “flare up” but not the ongoing banal policies that are at cause. The State of Israel is copying the successful “settling” of the American west, so what options for resistance are open to Palestinians being evicted, The post People Refusing to be Erased appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.