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🎙️Today's guest, Marc Becker, says that Trump is “turning the screws” on Cuba via more blockades on petroleum and more sanctions on select members of the Cuban government.
Listen to his conversation with host Esty Dinur here: www.wortfm.org/the-crisis-i...
🎙️Dr. Mary Fariba Afsari is a child of Iranian immigrants, a working mother, and the founder of a mobile health clinic, bringing reproductive healthcare to rural patients in the Pacific Northwest. She joins host Dana Pellebon to discuss her new memoir.
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/one-mobile-c...
🎙️Host @alimuldrow.bsky.social speaks with Courtney Ann LaFaive about her new biography, Follow the Signs: Searching for Linda Goodman, America's Forgotten Astrology Queen, and how she found a language for compatibility and consent through astrology.
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/decoding-the...
Today Professor Nicholas Powers joins Ali Muldrow in a conversation about his new book, Black Psychedelic Revolution.
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-line-bet...
🎙️Hosts Bert Zipperer and Pete Hardin of The Milkweed break down cheese consumption trends, chat about the history of the dairy industry in Wisconsin, and hear from two local dairy farmers, Jan Shepel and Adam Faust.
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/honoring-dai...
🎙️What do the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the UFC have in common? Donald Trump. On today's show, @normstoc.bsky.social chats with sports writers @edgeofsports.bsky.social and Adam Szetela about the links between authoritarianism and sports culture.
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/blood-sports...
🎙️Esty Dinur celebrates Juneteenth, “America’s second Independence Day,” with Dr. Timothy Golden. They talk about the symbolic importance of this federal holiday and how the US still struggles to make freedom meaningful for Black people.
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/celebrate-ju...
Today host Douglas Haynes is joined by Kris Tazelaa of Second Harvest Food Bank, and Melissa Bublitz professor of human ecology at UW Madison to talk about nutrition security, partnering with local farmers, Foodshare benefits and more.
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/we-need-nutr...
🎙️Author @annlarson.bsky.social wants to bust the myth that so-called “low-skilled” workers deserve low pay. In fact, she wants to ditch the idea of "unskilled labor" altogether. Her new book gives a peak into life of a supermarket cashier.
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/theres-no-su...
🎙️Guest host Yuri Rashkin is in conversation with journalists @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social and @jjsmart.bsky.social as well as politician @levparnas.bsky.social about Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine and the status of support for Ukraine in the US.
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/a-kaleidosco...
Yuri Rashkin is in conversation with Zarina Zabrisky, Jason Jay Smart, and Lev Parnas to talk about Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine.
Today Professor Nicholas Powers joins Ali Muldrow in a conversation about his new book, Black Psychedelic Revolution.
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Hosts Bert Zipperer and Pete Hardin break down cheese consumption trends, the history of the dairy industry in Wisconsin, and hear from two local dairy farmers, Jan Shepel and Adam Faust.
