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Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us—and make us see—island nations in a warming world.Low-lying islands are least responsible for global warming, but they are suffering the brunt o…

Have you ever wondered about the correct pronunciation of a word you use all the time. Are there words that you think you’re hearing people mispronounce or misuse all the time? In this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI, Kathryn and Ross Petras, authors of their New York Times bestseller “You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide …

David Gessner the Bestselling author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism asks what kind of planet his daughter will inherit in this coast-to-coast guide to navigating climate crisis.The world is burning and the seas are rising. How do we navigate this new age of extremes? In A Traveler's Guide to the E…

In the Collaborator Ian Buruma gives an account of three near-mythic figures—a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur—who may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule, or true heroes, or something in between. All three figures have been vilified and mythologized, out of a never-ending need, Ian Buruma ar…

Join us today when award-winning journalist and Regular Contributor Bob Hennelly shares his passion for bringing real news. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, he has always had a keen interest in the roles of immigration, local politics, business, labor unions, real estate ownership, and environmental protection in the evolution of the United States.For…

In The Watchdog, Steve Drummond draws the reader into the fast-paced story of how Harry Truman, still a newcomer to Washington politics, cobbled together a bipartisan team of men and women that took on powerful corporate entities and the Pentagon, placing Truman in the national spotlight and paving his path to the White House.Join us for the story …

If a scientist’s goal is to deliver content and expertise to the people who need it, then other stakeholder groups―the media, the government, industry―need to be considered as partners to collaborate with in order to solve problems. Written by established scientist Christopher Reddy, who has been on the front lines of several environmental crisis e…

Join us when government policy expert Don Kettl examines the hidden crisis brought on by the end of Title 42A professor emeritus and former dean in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, shares his perspectivesand why isn’t more being done to help the people streaming across the border? The answers lie in the end of the public h…

Join us when government policy expert Donald Kettl examines the hidden crisis brought on by the end of Title 42A professor emeritus and former dean in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, shares his perspectivesand why isn’t more being done to help the people streaming across the border? The answers lie in the end of the publi…

In Plunder, Brendan Ballou explains how private equity has reshaped American business by raising prices, reducing quality, cutting jobs, and shifting resources from productive to unproductive parts of the economy. Ballou vividly illustrates how many private equity firms buy up retailers, medical practices, prison services, nursing-home chains, and …

White Power and American Neoliberal Culture speaks to the urgency of the present moment by uncovering and examining the ideologies that led us here. This book argues that white extremist worldviews—and the violence they provoke—have converged with a radical economic and social agenda to shape daily life in the United States, especially by enshrinin…

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is an award-winning musicologist, music historian, composer, and pianist whose prescient theoretical and critical interventions have bridged Black cultural studies and musicology. Representing twenty-five years of commentary and scholarship, these essays document Ramsey’s search to understand America's Black musical past and…

As early as 1947, Black parents in rural South Carolina began seeking equal educational opportunities for their children. After two unsuccessful lawsuits, these families directly challenged legally mandated segregation in public schools with a third lawsuit in 1950, which was eventually decided in Brown v. Board of Education.Wanda Little Fenimore e…

Chemist, artist, and industrial hygienist, Monona Rossol was born into a theatrical family and worked as a professional entertainer from age 3 to 17. Currently, she is the president of Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing health and safety services to the arts.Monona is also is the Health and Sa…

When Investigative Journalist Bob Hennelly stops by the show, he unpacks a myriads of topics not mentioned in mainstream media. For example, despite decades of progress in worker safety since the creation of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1970, there's troubling evidence of deadly backsliding particularly for the natio…

Last week NYC tenants and landlords pleaded their case to the Rent Guidelines Board in a five-hour meeting — with one side asking for a rent freeze and the other for an increase at a scale the city has not seen in years. Tenant leaders testified that high rents and utility costs are already forcing New Yorkers out of their homes, and that any rent …

Andrew Boyd, a United States author, humorist, and veteran of creative campaigns for social change brings together eight of today's leading climate thinkers. From activist Tim DeChristopher to collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht, grassroots strategist Adrienne Maree brown, eco-philosopher Joana Macy, and Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer ― aski…

From the start, the War on Drugs targeted Black, Brown, and Indigenous Americans already disadvantaged by a system stacked against them. Even now, as white Americans who largely escaped the fire capitalize on the legalization movement and a booming cannabis industry, their less fortunate peers continue to suffer the consequences of the systemic rac…

Regular contributor Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in the Old Colony Housing Project in South Boston, a neighborhood that held the highest concentration of white poverty in the United States. After losing four of his eleven siblings and seeing his generation decimated by poverty, crime, addiction, and incarceration, he wandered beyond the entren…

(4-19-2023)Today on Leonard Lopate at Large gardening expert Pete Muroski, founder of Native Landscapes in Pawling, NY shares tips on getting ready for Spring.Pete is a talented landscape designer with a particular affinity toward using material that is indigenous to the specific environment.If you’re in need of tip for your kitchen garden, or outd…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn’s rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what’s the last thing you’d see before getting spaghettified? While traveling in person to most of these amazing worlds may not be possible—yet—the would-be space travele…

(4-14-2023) Just as racism is embedded in the legal system, so is misogyny—even after the law proclaims gender equality and criminally punishes violence against women.In After Misogyny, Julie C. Suk shows that misogyny lies not in animus but in the overempowerment of men and the overentitlement of society to women's unpaid labor and undervalued con…

With meticulous detective work, Timothy Egan shines a light on one of the most sinister chapters in American history—how a viciously racist movement, led by a murderous conman, rose to power in the early twentieth century. The Roaring Twenties was the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confede…

A composer, sound artist, performer, and innovator whose goal over the past four decades has been to bring experimental sound and music to a wider audience. And, through avenues including concert performances and ad jingles, city-wide events and film soundtracks, museum sound installations and hospital sound environments, his work has in fact been …

Award-winning, print and broadcast journalist Robert "Bob" Hennelly joins us for a discussion on national and local politics, business, and labor unions. Bob Hennelly of Stuck Nation has a passion for bringing real news to his audience in a balanced and detailed way.Bob hosts a weekly radio talk show, "What's Going On - Labor Monday," on WBAI-Pacif…

What should we do about the police? We’re swimming in proposals for reform, but most do not tackle the aggressive culture of the profession, which prioritizes locking up bad guys at any cost, loyalty to other cops, and not taking flak from anyone on the street.Far from improving public safety, this culture, in fact, poses a danger to citizens and c…

When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to “close ranks” and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Seeking both intellectual clarity and personal atonement, for more than two decades Du Bois attemp…

Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it’s also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has sustained life for billions of people.In the The Devil’s Element, Dan Egan shares his investigative research of this vital crop nutrient which is caus…

Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, he offers up-close accounts of the cases he has fought, embedding them within a larger landscape of innocence claims and robust research on what we know about the causes of wrongful convictions.Putting readers at the def…

When the Helsinki Accords were signed on August 1, 1975, the likelihood they would have a profound and lasting impact on the world were very small. The thirty-five signatories were the nations of Europe, the United States and Canada were formally known as the Conference of Security and Cooperation in Europe. The Final Act of CSCE contained detailed…

Now that we are in Spring, home improvement season has begun. Join us as Alving and Larry Ubell of Accurate Building Inspectors discuss everything from cooling to upgrades.As regular listeners know, there are few construction questions that Ubells of Accurate Building Inspectors don’t know how to answer. In this installment of Leonard Lopate at Lar…

Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, an…

In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, setting off the greatest human displacement in Europe since WWII. All Else Failed is Dana Sachs’s eyewitness account of the successes—and failures—of the volunteer relief network that emerged to meet the enormous n…

Great Kingdoms of Africa explore the great precolonial kingdoms of Africa that have been marginalized throughout history. Great Kingdoms of Africa aims to decenter European colonialism and slavery as the major themes of African history and instead explore the kingdoms, dynasties, and city-states that have shaped cultures across the African continen…

Written by former tech CEO Ronald Gruner, We The Presidents is a different presidential history. Rather than a single presidency, Gruner focuses on a century of presidencies from Warren G. Harding to Donald J. Trump and how their presidencies have contributed to what America is today. Join on Leonard Lopate at Large Gruner describes the historical …

The Socially Relevant Film Festival New York is a film festival that focuses on socially relevant film content, and human interest stories that raise awareness to social problems and offer positive solutions through the powerful medium of cinema.SR believes that through raised awareness, expanded knowledge about diverse cultures, and the human cond…

When our favorite award-winning investigative reporter and broadcast journalist, Robert "Bob" Hennelly stops by the show, he shares information on public policy, homeland security to the economy, environmental contamination to corruption, and occupational safety to homelessness.Born in Paterson, New Jersey, he has always had a keen interest in the …

When America became a nation, a woman had no legal existence beyond her husband. If he abused her, she couldn’t leave without abandoning her children. Abigail Adams tried to change this, reminding her husband John to “remember the ladies” when he wrote the Constitution. He simply laughed―and women have been fighting for their rights ever since.Fear…

The encyclopedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a sense of absolute wisdom on its reader. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock. Adults cleared their shelves in the belief that everything that was explai…

Injustice, Inc. exposes the ways in which the justice systems exploit America's history of racial and economic inequality to generate revenue on a massive scale. With searing legal analysis, Daniel L. Hatcher uncovers how courts, prosecutors, police, probation departments, and detention facilities are abandoning ethics to churn vulnerable children …

Join us when brother and sister writing team Kathryn and Ross Petras join us for a refreshing conversation around the use of words. Have you ever wondered about the correct pronunciation of a word you use all the time. This is your chance to call-in and share words or phrases that mispronounce or misuse all the time.This duo authors of many word-or…

Join us when environmental law expert Lowell E. Baier reveals how over centuries the federal government slowly preempted the states’ authority over managing their resident wildlife. In doing so, he educates elected officials, wildlife students, and environmentalists in the precedents that led to the current state of wildlife management, and how a c…

Actual Malice tells a story of New York Times v. Sullivan, the dramatic case that grew out of segregationists’ attempts to quash reporting on the civil rights movement. In its landmark 1964 decision, the Supreme Court held that a public official must prove “actual malice” or reckless disregard of the truth to win a libel lawsuit, providing critical…

Based on ten years of work with immigrant children as young as six years old in Arizona and California― and featuring an analysis of three hundred drawings, theater performances, and family interviews―Silvia Rodriguez Vega provides accounts of children’s challenges with deportation and family separation during the Obama and Trump administrations. W…

Black and Queer on Campus offers an inside look at what life is like for LGBTQ college students on campuses across the United States. Michael P. Jeffries shows that Black and queer college students often struggle to find safe spaces and a sense of belonging when they arrive on campus at both predominantly white institutions and historically black c…

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large gardening expert Pete Muroski, founder of Native Landscapes in Pawling, NY shares tips on getting ready for Spring. According to Pete now is the time to get out into this beautiful winter weather and start pruning, splitting, transplanting, mulching, planting. Call in and join the conversation when Pete examines our…

According to Arthur Turrell the most important energy-making process in the universe takes place inside stars. The ability to duplicate that process in a lab, once thought impossible, may now be closer than we think. In The Star Builders, award-winning young plasma physicist Arthur Turrell examines how teams of scientists around the world are being…

From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America.Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald's have long symbolized capitalism's villainous effects on our nation's most vulnera…

Cobalt Red is an exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dy…

According to University of California, Los Angeles, law professor Joanna Schwartz, in recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought much-needed attention to the pervasiveness of police misconduct. Yet it remains nearly impossible to hold police accountable for abuses of power—the decisions o…