On today’s show, host Esty Dinur is joined by Ojibwe elder, Great Grandmother Mary Lyons, who recaps what happened at the United Nations Climate Conference of Parties (COP 30) in Belém, Brazil last month. The gathering of world leaders and representative

In the news this week, the Presidents birthday was added to the list of free entry days at the National Parks, meanwhile Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth were removed from the list. On todays show, host Allen Ruff is joined by activist and sch

On todays show, host Ali Muldrow speaks with Dionne Koller about her new book, More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport. As a former athlete who signed her kids up for youth sports, Koller says she wrote the book to make

On todays show, host Dana Pellebon is joined by Dane County Human Services Director, John Schlueter, to help listeners understand the breadth of the largest department in our county. Schlueter is a long-time Madison resident whose service to the communi

On todays show, host Douglas Haynes takes an inside look at innovative local efforts to teach young people through urban agriculture. Our guest is Brian Emerson of Rooted, a local nonprofit developing community connections through agriculture and food a

On todays show, were broadcasting host Esty Dinurs conversation with Kamau Franklin, recorded at the Socialism 2025 Conference. They discuss organizing against the militarized law enforcement training center called Cop City in Atlanta, the assault o

On todays show, host Allen Ruff is joined by Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst at the independent nongovernmental National Security Archive. He discusses the historic 1975 expose of the CIA, Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, a report

Wisconsin has the dubious distinction of having higher than national averages for youth incarceration and Black youth are ten times more likely to be incarcerated than their white peers. On todays show, host Dana Pellebon is joined by Nell Bernstein, au

In this prerecorded conversation from late July 2025, host Esty Dinur follows up with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon who visited Madison last summer to report on his work in hospitals in Gaza. In this show, he speaks in more detail about Israels ta

Host Allen Ruff opens todays program with a quotation from Mark Twain: Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful forannually, not