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Under Trump 2.0, we adults are taught to fear The Other, we must become a monolinguistic culture: English over all. But during this week of Jewish high holy days, we ask what is this ancient language of Yiddish? It is The post Justice and Peace: What Teaching Yiddish Literature to Kids Offers appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

More and more women are steering great philanthropies. In the current Chronicle of Philanthropy, Christine Ahn is co-author of this article: To Fight Growing Militarism, Philanthpy Should Embrace a Feminist Playbook. The subtitle is  Around the world, feminist activists have The post Feminism and Philanthropy: Powerful Combination appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

In her new book titled Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas co-author Betsy Leondar-Wright, through remarkable research, found Trumpists are not all racist and sexist The post We Thought We Knew Racism and Sexism appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Now with the nomination of not just a woman, but a woman of color,  they feel even more threatened. Today’s right encourages and seeks to use men’s anger in the culture war, even though those very policies actually harm working The post Hawley And the Right: Terrified About Their Manhood appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

We assume our picture of romance and marriage has always been there, but according to our guest author and professor Sabrina Strings, it was invented in the 12th century as a myth about Sir Lancelot. Marriage was about power, domination, The post White Male Supremacists Fear and Hate it But “Romance” and Nuclear Families Aren’t the Only Option appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Today, more than ever, politics is theater. On today’s big stage we see Biden as an old weakened man, and then we have Trump with blood on his face, standing strong, defiant, fist in the air. On today’s show national The post After The Shooting of July 13, Is it Over? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

They wanted to stop abortions, instead there were more after the Dobbs decision than before. One the first segment, Mother Jones magazine writer Julianne McShane tells how women are maintaining their reproductive rights despite the attacks. And on the second The post AntiChoice: In A Hole, Keeps Digging appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

They claim loudly they’re protecting freedom and innocent children, but the truth is the right is oppressing both. On this show psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou, co-author of Gender Without Identity, argues there is not one true and immutable authentic identity with The post Gender Identity: Is it Fixed or Changeable? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

The intent is humiliation, eating away at one’s humanity. How can that make one a better person? Former figure skater Keri Blakinger’s new book Corrections In Ink tells the story from the inside and asks:  does locking up groups of The post “As if We Were Trash.” One Woman’s Prison Memoir appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

 You may have heard the story: King Cnut sat on the seashore and tried to command the tide not to touch his feet, yet the sea ignored him. Such may be the case with the right wing’s war against unmarried The post The Right’s Latest Target: Unmarried Women appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

We value the right to control our bodies. But is there really reproductive fairness and justice if those who want to be a parent face unchosen infertility and are denied access and face social stigma?  The new book is called The post Real Democracy and Infertility appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

At the World Cup and other global sporting events, all kinds of workers are exploited. And under the guise of rescue and saving souls involved in the sex trade, evangelical, business interests, politicians, and police make out quite well. Harm The post Profitable Panic: Busting Sex Workers at Qatar World Cup appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

It’s almost time for the start of schools. Of course all parents want to protect their children from inappropriate material. But when “parental rights” mean teachers are forbidden from mentioning homosexuality or racism because that means teachers are “grooming” kids The post As Schools Open Again: The Moms for Liberty Nightmare appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Do liberal women feel that their culture is superior? Among women who feel liberated, what is it about the sight of Muslim women in traditional hijabs that so bothers many? In her new book Unruly Women; Race, Neocolonialism, and the The post Feminist Prejudice Against Women in Hijabs? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

The attack on traditional rights is at the vanguard of the culture war, reproductive rights are the floor not the ceiling. Religious nationalists cherry pick what they mean by liberty. We can wish  Samuel Alito was an outlier but he’s The post The Real Intent of Alito’s Assault on Privacy appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

As with many success stories, an impoverished, unknown yet powerful woman made it happen. In his new book, The First Kennedys, The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty author Neal Thompson tells us about the Ireland they fled and the The post How The Kennedys Came to Be Dynasty 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.

Unless it’s a spectacle, we don’t see it on screens. But as our guest author Andrea Press spells out in her new co-authored book Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism, everyday sexism is just accepted. The Me Too movement originated in The post How TV, Movies, and Social Media Maintain Invisible Sexism appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Precapitalist indigenous cultures have a lot to offer us today for a better, greener future. And socialism is not how its pictured. Neglected by the Great Men study of history, Rosa Luxemburg, a 4′ 11″ disabled young woman from what’s The post The Prescience And Vision of Rosa Luxemburg. Who? 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.

Anything but monolithic, the newly victorious Taliban have internal divisions and are desperately seeking stability. Many confuse the Taliban with Al Qaeda and even ISIS, but the truth is ISIS was the Taliban’s enemy, and the country of Afghanistan is The post Now They Must Govern: Prospects for the Taliban appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

When VP Kamala Harris went to Central America, Honduras was not on the list of stops. She has reason to not want to appear with their right wing president. He is supported by the powerful global extractive industries, but there’s The post Berta Caceres Trial Will Test Biden’s Central America Policy appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

There are signs of serious splits emerging in the very conservative Southern Baptist Convention, which  is the largest Protestant denomination in America. Fifteen thousand of them just completed their annual gathering to elect a new president. The least hard liner The post Split Among Right Wing Evangelicals appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Women in the military know they are more likely to be attacked by men of their own company than by an enemy. It’s been a long tradition that reports of sexual abuse are crushed. Commanders protecting their own reputation takes The post Sexual Assault in the Military: Foxes Guarding the Henhouse appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

When Roe v Wade was decided in 1973, many thought the matter was settled. Nearly 50 years later, the new Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could overturn that landmark decision. On this show abortion law historian professor The post Supreme Court Case Threatens Roe, But It’s Not Over appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

The monuments to Confederate leaders are all about altering the realities of history to empower and enforce old mythic beliefs. They are there on courthouse lawns to remind black southerners of their place. One this show, Southern historian Karen Cox The post No Common Ground for Confederate Monuments appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Even if it never makes it on TV, progressive action does make a difference. There’s a place for all activists, forcing hidden problems and opportunities to the fore. Our guest Dinah Yessne has a new book called Politically Defined. There’s The post Unknown Activist: Challenges, Successes, and Rewards appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Pounding on windows, yelling Stop the Count; the tactics of physical intimidation (led by the president’s men) succeeded in crushing democracy in the US election of 2000. On part one, our guest historian Robert Toplin tells the story where fear The post Democracy Lost to Powerful Men in 2000, but Women Saved it in 1937 appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

What is this powerful hold the Pentagon has over our “civilian” government? Since Clinton’s presidency both parties have felt a need to look tough on defense; Biden and Trump competed for military support. That may be changing as America sees The post Demilitarizing Our Democracy appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

When one thinks of people in poverty, what judgements come up? Did you know that the vast majority are working often two or three jobs? When you go to a bank or a mortgage, do they ask you how much The post Broke In America: Policies Not People Are To Blame appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

From its birth in one block in New York City to more than a thousand town squares, the conversation began ten years ago. It was the first social media driven movement and as Heather McKee Hurwitz writes in her new The post Occupy Wall St. 2011 Was Just The Start appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

With his gleeful displays of cruelty, is it possible that Donald Trump performed the service of waking us all up to cruelty commonly in national and corporate policy?  In his new book, Cruelty or Humanity: Challenges, Opportunities, and Responsibilities Australian The post The Beginning of the End for National Cruelty? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Former presidential candidate best selling author Marianne Williamson talks about why Trumpism arose, and what opportunities the Democratic Party now has. Will Biden be yet another neoliberal or will he listen to the very real causes of chronic despair which The post We Beat Trump, Now the Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Reagan kicked it off: the emotional manipulation of the word “freedom” obscures political realities. On this show, recorded the day after the vote, guest Ken Nanus analyses the data and concludes that, unlike actual conservatives, anything standing in the way The post The Day After: The War on Democracy Itself appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

It’s all about bragging. Trump said his “deal” between the UAE and Israel would create a half million new jobs. The true number is less than a tenth of that. On this show Pentagon arms expert William Hartung explains how The post Trump Floods the Mid-East with US Weapons appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

There’s a brand new Central Park monument of feminist leaders Stanton, Anthony, and Sojourner Truth. It was a hundred years ago that the 19th Amendment became law: women won the right to vote. But what kind of compromises did the The post Racism in the Women’s Suffrage Movement appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

She is exactly what Trumpists hate: a strong woman who is both black and Indian. Both groups were the subjects of white male dominance and control. American slavery and British rule over India both had their peak at the same The post Black and Indian, Kamala Harris: A New Mandate? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

We all know that, thanks to Trump giving them a green light, Erdogan’s Turkish military is now aggressively slaughtering the stateless Kurdish people. Kurdish women warriors were exceptionally effective in their fight against our common enemy ISIS. Yet Trump abandoned The post The Kurds are a Nation; Why Don’t They Have a State? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

All too often, schools function as a pipeline to prison for troubled kids. Kicking out troublemakers, punishing for bad attitudes leaves kids feeling they are disposable. Authoritarian models too often make schools feel like locations for punishment, when they can The post The Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Could Trump get something right? Retired US Army officer and prolific writer of military policy analysis Danny Sjursen compares how the brass In Washington sees Afghanistan versus the  empirical knowledge from people on the ground. The commanders see Afghanistan as The post Trump and the ‘Gated Communities’ of Afghanistan appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

What do the new anti-choice laws and the old Fugitive Slave Laws have in common? They both strengthen the power of the state and white male rule over people deemed less-than. In the 1850s, northerners who thought slavery was not The post New Anti-Abortion and Old Fugitive Slave Laws appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Like a pebble tossed in a pond, the cultural and political ripples from the pioneering WBCN continue. Launched in March 1968 with Cream’s “I Feel Free,” it became a national phenomenon. With the release of the long anticipated documentary “WBCN The post WBCN And The American Revolution appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

It’s a uniquely powerful new tool: undermining peoples psychological ability to know and accept reality. In his new book: State of Confusion; Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind, nationally renowned clinical psychologist and author Bryant Welch answers The post How Trumpism Liberates Americans from Complex Realities appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

You are hardly alone. Millions of Americans have been going though PESD since November 2016: Post Election Stress Disorder. It’s been a banner business time for psychotherapists. Some wake up with what they call a morning fright. Others have found The post Beating Stress and Anxiety in the Time of Trump appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

America’s prisons are where we warehouse and punish bad people. But how much injustice behind the walls and razor wire is acceptable? Is using inmates as slaves OK? Is it a good idea to maintain a system that reinforces people’s The post The Prison Strike: You’re Not Supposed to Know About It appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.