Podcast Episodes

Coffee klatch: Will Congress do anything about guns? U.S. weapons to Ukraine. Trump and upcoming Jan 6 hearings. Spelling bee. Coffee.

My informal weekly coffee with Heather Lofthouse (the executive director of Inequality Media Civic Action, and my former student), discussing the pas…

3 years, 7 months ago

Personal history: When I worked for Bobby Kennedy

I was an intern in Bobby Kennedy’s Senate office during the summer of 1967. The civil rights movement was still gaining ground, and Kennedy was crusa…

3 years, 7 months ago

Financing gunmakers

After a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida in February 2018, that left 17 people dead, JPMorgan Chase — America’s largest bank — publicly distanced i…

3 years, 7 months ago

Empathy and activism

We have been through at least two years of social trauma (if you include all the Trump years, almost six). They include a pandemic that has taken the…

3 years, 7 months ago

Guns, abortion, and the stirrings of the slumbering giant

Hello, friends. I hope you’re having a restful and safe Memorial Day.

Today, I want to ask: Can anything positive come from last week’s tragedy? Or t…

3 years, 7 months ago

Coffee klatch: talking to a 9-year-old about what happened this week, the 1994 assault weapons ban, NRA convention, Trump's loss of credibility, and Bob's positive prediction for the midterms

My informal weekly coffee with Heather Lofthouse (the executive director of Inequality Media Civic Action, and my former student), discussing this pa…

3 years, 7 months ago

Educating for the common good

I think about those 19 children who were murdered in their classroom on Tuesday, and feel the need to go back to basics — to the common good. Given t…

3 years, 7 months ago

Why unions are coming to the new economy

Yesterday, the Game Workers Alliance (a union of quality assurance workers at Activism subsidiary studio Raven Software) won their vote to form a uni…

3 years, 7 months ago

Bombardment by the billionaires

The richest person in America tweeted last week that Democrats have “become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vo…

3 years, 7 months ago

Coffee Klatch: CPAC in Budapest, Bezos and Musk, Doug Mastriano, a new progressive era, and my debut on the Simpsons

My informal weekly coffee with Heather Lofthouse (my former student and executive director of Inequality Media Civic Action), exploring the lows and …

3 years, 7 months ago