Show #271 | Guests: Gilda Daniels and Myrna Peréz | Show Summary: Angie’s guests tackle the many obstacles to our most precious freedom: access to the ballot box. Donald Trump has convinced many voters not to trust the Post Office with their ballot, and overseen destruction of mailing systems. Gerrymandering is the norm across the country. And a rising number of poor districts and neighborhoods of color report hours-long voting lines. Angie's guests: Gilda Daniels is the author of Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America; she's a former Deputy Chief in the U.S. Dept. of Justice Civil Rights Division, Voting Section. She served in both the Clinton and Bush administrations and is currently a professor of law at the University of Baltimore Law School. Myrna Peréz heads the Voting Rights and Elections Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. She has testified before Congress and several state legislatures on a variety of voting rights related issues. She is a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School and has also served as an adjunct professor of clinical law at NYU School of Law.

The Voting Hour

Show #270 | Guests: Prof. William Howell and Prof. Terry Moe | Show Summary: Donald Trump, elected in a populist uprising, has eschewed the normal conventions of politics. But the idea of what’s “normal” needs to be examined in its own light. For example – “normally”, laws are drafted in Congress and sent to the President for signature. What if that were a two-way street? What if the President could propose legislation for Congress to approve?  William Howell is the Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago; he’s the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the university’s Harris School of Public Policy.  Terry Moe is at Stanford University, where he’s the Wm Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.  Together they’ve created an audacious proposal: what if we looked at the reality of “normal” politics – deadlocked, partisan, vulnerable to the worst of populist instincts – and literally rejiggered the Constitution to fix it? Their book is Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy.

Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

Robert Reich

Show #269 | Guest: Robert Reich | Show Summary: What if the Left/Right divide were more distraction than destruction? Economist and academic Robert Reich says the real threat is the wealth divide. Runaway economic injustice can spell the end of democracy, while we’re busy hating each other over social divides. We talk about his latest book, and the Netflix documentary Saving Capitalism.  Robert Reich has immersed himself in the US economy for decades. He served in the administrations of three presidents: Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. He was on Barack Obama’s transition team of advisors. He’s a prolific book author, beginning in 1982 with Minding America’s Business. His latest was released earlier this year: The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It.  Reich is the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. He co-founded the American Prospect, where he serves as chairman.

Robert Reich on Democacry in America

Show #268 | Guests: Dr. Joseph Pierre, Dr. Nancy Rosenblum | Show Summary: Q-anon; the Bill Gates vaccine plot; 911 truthers: this week's In Deep is an escorted dive into the murky world of conspiracies. What mental processes lead to belief in Q-Anon, or chemtrails, or vaccines as a corporate plot? With more conspiracies gaining ground – what’s the effect on democracy? Joseph Pierre is with the UCLA School of Medicine; Harvard’s Nancy Rosenblum is the co-author of A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy. They’ll walk us through understanding, coping with, and compensating for conspiracy theorists in America.

Belief in Conspiracies: The Effect on Democracy

Donald Trump

Dan Partland

Show #267 | Guest: Dan Partland, director and producer | Show Summary: The American people divide into three groups. One group is certain there’s something deeply wrong and deeply dangerous with Donald Trump. A second group is concerned but unsure. The third group of our citizens cannot be persuaded that he’s a danger to our lives and country. This hour won’t do much for that last group. But for groups one and two, a new documentary will be of deep interest: Unfit: the Psychology of Donald Trump. Angie talks with the show's director and producer, Dan Partland.  Dan is a Multi-Emmy winner of documentary and non-fiction TV, whose work includes series such as A&amp;E’s Intervention, The Sixties on CNN, and American Race with Charles Barkley for TNT. Dan's work also includes landmark films of the independent cinema such as the feature documentary A Perfect Candidate along with Sundance winners Welcome to The Doll House and The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack.

Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump – by Dan Partland

Susan Fowler

Show #266 | Guest: Susan Fowler | Show Summary: Susan Fowler was born determined. From a life of childhood poverty she pushed her way to an Ivy League school.     She swam upstream against misogynist Silicon Valley culture to land jobs in line with her energy and intellect. Then she blew it all wide open with a blog post in 2017, detailing the day-to-day sexism she'd had to confront as an engineer at Uber. That viral post, coupled with #MeToo, transformed both her own life and the halls of misogynist power.     Fowler has capitalized on the phenomenon to advocate for equality, support, and fairness in Silicon Valley. She's worked for labor reforms, including a push to eliminate arbitration agreements.     The New York Times cited Fowler’s "unique brand of courage, clarity of mind, and moral purpose" in hiring her as its technology opinion editor.  Susan Fowler sat down with Angie Coiro do discuss her new book, Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber.

Show #266 | Guest: Susan Fowler | Show Summary: Susan Fowler was born determined. From a life of childhood poverty she pushed her way to an Ivy League school.      She swam upstream against misogynist Silicon Valley culture to land jobs in line with her energy and intellect. Then she blew it all wide open with a blog post in 2017, detailing the day-to-day sexism she'd had to confront as an engineer at Uber. That viral post, coupled with #MeToo, transformed both her own life and the halls of misogynist power.      Fowler has capitalized on the phenomenon to advocate for equality, support, and fairness in Silicon Valley. She's worked for labor reforms, including a push to eliminate arbitration agreements.      The New York Times cited Fowler’s "unique brand of courage, clarity of mind, and moral purpose" in hiring her as its technology opinion editor. Susan Fowler sat down with Angie Coiro do discuss her new book, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/585732/whistleblower-by-susan-fowler/9780525560128/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber</a>.

Susan Fowler – Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber

Conor Dougherty

Show #265 | Guest: Conor Dougherty | Show Summary: Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale.     Angie sits down with New York Times economics reporter Conor Dougherty to discuss his new book, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America, a penetrating look into the crisis of housing in America.

Show #265 | Guest: Conor Dougherty | Show Summary: Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale.      Angie sits down with New York Times economics reporter <a href="https://conordougherty.com/index.php/bio/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conor Dougherty</a> to discuss his new book, <a href="https://conordougherty.com/index.php/bio/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America</a>, a penetrating look into the crisis of housing in America.

Conor Dougherty – Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

Diane Ravitch

Show #264 | Guest: Diane Ravitch | Show Summary: Privatized schools were sold to the American public as a cut above— an avenue to the best education, drawing from under-performing public schools that doomed children to lower standards. At the same time, says education authority Diane Ravitch, Common Core was touted as the best route to at least basic educational success for all young students.     Both, Ravitch says, have failed spectacularly. Privatization has turned schools into profit machines less concerned with student success than the bottom line. Public schools have been gutted in their wake. And Common Core has caused tremendous problems for students and teachers.     Diane Ravitch served in education posts under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Her latest book, Slaying Goliath, takes on what she calls the "Disrupters," intent on promoting the privatization of our struggling education system. Unafraid of naming names, she cites the Koch brothers, the DeVos family, the Waltons (Walmart), Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and many others, on the right and the left, as well as corporations, foundations, etc. sacrificing the public in favor of profit.

Show #264 | Guest: Diane Ravitch | Show Summary: Privatized schools were sold to the American public as a cut above— an avenue to the best education, drawing from under-performing public schools that doomed children to lower standards. At the same time, says education authority <a href="http://dianeravitch.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Diane Ravitch</a>, Common Core was touted as the best route to at least basic educational success for all young students.      Both, Ravitch says, have failed spectacularly. Privatization has turned schools into profit machines less concerned with student success than the bottom line. Public schools have been gutted in their wake. And Common Core has caused tremendous problems for students and teachers.      Diane Ravitch served in education posts under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Her latest book, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598327/slaying-goliath-by-diane-ravitch/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Slaying Goliath</a>, takes on what she calls the "Disrupters," intent on promoting the privatization of our struggling education system. Unafraid of naming names, she cites the Koch brothers, the DeVos family, the Waltons (Walmart), Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and many others, on the right and the left, as well as corporations, foundations, etc. sacrificing the public in favor of profit.

Diane Ravitch: Slaying Goliath - The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools

Kelly MacGonigal

Show #263 | Guest: Kelly MacGonigal | Show Summary: What if the key to feeling vividly alive and energetic in your body is closer than you think? No matter what your past experience with exercise has been—from finding it a chore to falling in love with a favorite activity—it is possible to find happiness and meaning through movement. Acclaimed Stanford research psychologist Kelly McGonigal, who once offered readers a transformative new approach to stress, now looks beyond the gym and around the world to find the secrets of joy in movement. To Tanzania, where one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes in the world live; to a Julliard dance class for Parkinson’s sufferers; to London, where volunteers combine fitness with community service. Her new book The Joy of Movement draws on neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, and anthropology to illustrate the link between well-being and movement.

Show #263 | Guest: Kelly MacGonigal | Show Summary: What if the key to feeling vividly alive and energetic in your body is closer than you think? No matter what your past experience with exercise has been—from finding it a chore to falling in love with a favorite activity—it is possible to find happiness and meaning through movement. Acclaimed Stanford research psychologist <a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/kelly-m-mcgonigal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kelly McGonigal</a>, who once offered readers a transformative new approach to stress, now looks beyond the gym and around the world to find the secrets of joy in movement. To Tanzania, where one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes in the world live; to a Julliard dance class for Parkinson’s sufferers; to London, where volunteers combine fitness with community service. Her new book <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564895/the-joy-of-movement-by-kelly-mcgonigal-phd/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Joy of Movement</a> draws on neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, and anthropology to illustrate the link between well-being and movement.

Kelly MacGonigal: The Joy of Movement

David Talbot

Show #262 | Guest: David Talbot | Show Summary: A deeply personal interview with David Talbot, bestselling author of The Devil's Chessboard, Season of the Witch, and numerous others. After Talbot suffered a debilitating stroke, the journalist and historian turned inward, and came away with shifting priorities and a touching, honest, and suprisingly uplifting examination of mortality.Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke

Show #262 | Guest: David Talbot | Show Summary: A deeply personal interview with David Talbot, bestselling author of The Devil's Chessboard, Season of the Witch, and numerous others. After Talbot suffered a debilitating stroke, the journalist and historian turned inward, and came away with shifting priorities and a touching, honest, and suprisingly uplifting examination of mortality.<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/between-heaven-and-hell-david-talbot/1131502060#/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke</a>

David Talbot: Between Heaven and Hell, the Story of my Stroke

In Deep withAngie Coiro is an independently produced, weekly interviewprogram. Hosted by award-winning Bay Area journalist Angie Coiro, In Deep is acloser look at news and issues of the week, particularly the important storiesthat fall through the cracks of major media coverage. Featuring lively,thought-provoking interviews with newsmakers, politicians, and behind-the-scenesnotables, each show illuminates the issues and forces shaping the nationalnarrative.

In Deep has a similar format to Fresh Air, but I find that Angie Coiro asks questions that Terry Gross might not.  Angie is willing to challenge her guests and makes the discussion very engaging.  

The show also often has a live audience, and their input makes the show lively.

Better than Fresh Air

Angie is a great interviewer and has interesting guests.  I hope she does more podcasts soon.

Where can I hear more of this?

In Deep with Angie Coiro is an independently produced, weekly interview program. Hosted by award-winning Bay Area journalist Angie Coiro, In Deep is a closer look at news and issues of the week, particularly the important stories that fall through the cracks of major media coverage. Featuring lively, thought-provoking interviews with newsmakers, politicians, and behind-the-scenes notables, each show illuminates the issues and forces shaping the national narrative.

In Deep with Angie Coiro: Interviews

Wesley Yang

Show #228 | Guest: Wesley Yang | Show Summary: From the “Tiger Mother” to take-out, Asian-American culture is so deeply entrenched in our understanding of the American fabric, we sometimes don’t know we’re talking about it when we’re talking about.     Collecting a decade’s worth of essays, from his award-winning analysis of the Virginia Tech murderer to his cult classic looks at mandarin zombies, pickup artists, and immigrant strivers, Wesley Yang’s highly anticipated new book, The Souls of Yellow Folk is a watershed of engaging and provocative new perspectives on what it truly means to have and hold an American Dream.

Show #228 | Guest: Wesley Yang | Show Summary: From the “Tiger Mother” to take-out, Asian-American culture is so deeply entrenched in our understanding of the American fabric, we sometimes don’t know we’re talking about it when we’re talking about.      Collecting a decade’s worth of essays, from his award-winning analysis of the Virginia Tech murderer to his cult classic looks at mandarin zombies, pickup artists, and immigrant strivers, <a href="https://twitter.com/wesyang" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wesley Yang’s</a> highly anticipated new book, <a href="https://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-24174-7/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Souls of Yellow Folk</a> is a watershed of engaging and provocative new perspectives on what it truly means to have and hold an American Dream.

Wesley Yang – The Souls of Yellow Folk

Megan Devine

Show #200 | Guest: Megan Devine | Show Summary: This discussion with grief expert Megan Devine is just a revelation. She has both a professional and deeply personal take on the topic. She was a counseling therapist, and some of her clients were dealing with grief. She worked with them as she was taught in her formal education. Then she was hit with her own earthshaking loss. Her healthy, athletic partner was swept away by a flooded river and drowned. Megan was dropped into a world where nothing she’d learned about coping and recovery had any bearing at all.     Her book It’s Okay That You’re Not Okay taps not just her own life but the experiences and lessons shared by her clients and website visitors. Don’t expect a somber hour, though. Megan’s got a contagious sense of humor, a key element to her life as it continues to evolve.

Show #200 | Guest: Megan Devine | Show Summary: This discussion with grief expert Megan Devine is just a revelation. She has both a professional and deeply personal take on the topic. She was a counseling therapist, and some of her clients were dealing with grief. She worked with them as she was taught in her formal education. Then she was hit with her own earthshaking loss. Her healthy, athletic partner was swept away by a flooded river and drowned. Megan was dropped into a world where nothing she’d learned about coping and recovery had any bearing at all.      Her book It’s Okay That You’re Not Okay taps not just her own life but the experiences and lessons shared by her clients and website visitors. Don’t expect a somber hour, though. Megan’s got a contagious sense of humor, a key element to her life as it continues to evolve.

Megan Devine: It’s Ok That You’re Not OK

Edith Sheffer

Show #213 | Guest: Dr. Edith Sheffer | Show Summary: Hans Asperger, for whom Asperger syndrome was named, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities. Prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer’s new book, Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna, exposes that Asperger was not only involved in the racial policies of Hitler’s Third Reich, he was complicit in the murder of children.     Dr. Sheffer is a historian of Germany and central Europe, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her prize-winning book Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain challenges the moral myth of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War’s central symbol — revealing how the Iron Curtain was not simply imposed by Communism, but emerged from the everyday actions of ordinary people.

Show #213 | Guest: Dr. Edith Sheffer | Show Summary: Hans Asperger, for whom Asperger syndrome was named, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities. Prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer’s new book, Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna, exposes that Asperger was not only involved in the racial policies of Hitler’s Third Reich, he was complicit in the murder of children.      Dr. Sheffer is a historian of Germany and central Europe, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her prize-winning book Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain challenges the moral myth of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War’s central symbol — revealing how the Iron Curtain was not simply imposed by Communism, but emerged from the everyday actions of ordinary people.

Edith Sheffer - Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

Soraya Chemaly

Show #219 | Guest: Soraya Chemaly | Show Summary: Show #219 | October 20, 2018 | Women get told to smile - a lot. Research shows that a neutral expression is perceived on a man's face as neutral, but as angry or negative on a woman. And all kinds of ugly words are reserved for woman who show anger.     Where others see female anger as something to fear or reject, Soraya Chemaly sees strength, even opportunity. With the Women's Media Center Speech Project, and as organizer of the Safety and Free Speech Coalition, she's pushed for wider exposure of women's voices, and worked to curb online abuse. Now, she's encouraging women to embrace their rightful anger. In her new book Rage Becomes Her, Chemaly links patriarchy and misogyny to the traditional repression of women's full range of emotion. She goes beyond simple rejection of "Smile, honey!" to an embrace of anger as a personally and politically transformative tool.     Soraya Chemaly joins Angie Coiro in a provocative conversation about a downright dangerous idea.

Show #219 | Guest: Soraya Chemaly | Show Summary: Show #219 | October 20, 2018 | Women get told to smile - a lot. Research shows that a neutral expression is perceived on a man's face as neutral, but as angry or negative on a woman. And all kinds of ugly words are reserved for woman who show anger.      Where others see female anger as something to fear or reject, <a href="https://www.womensmediacenter.com/profile/soraya-chemaly" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Soraya Chemaly</a> sees strength, even opportunity. With the Women's Media Center Speech Project, and as organizer of the Safety and Free Speech Coalition, she's pushed for wider exposure of women's voices, and worked to curb online abuse. Now, she's encouraging women to embrace their rightful anger. In her new book <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Rage-Becomes-Her/Soraya-Chemaly/9781501189555" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rage Becomes Her</a>, Chemaly links patriarchy and misogyny to the traditional repression of women's full range of emotion. She goes beyond simple rejection of "Smile, honey!" to an embrace of anger as a personally and politically transformative tool.      Soraya Chemaly joins Angie Coiro in a provocative conversation about a downright dangerous idea.

Soraya Chemaly – Rage Becomes Her: Transformative Anger

Randy Shaw

Show #223 | Guest: Randy Shaw  | Show Summary: The class divide in America's big city has a companion: a generational breach. Long-time housing activist and attorney Randy Shaw says that, through policy and politics, Baby Boomers have contributed to the urban housing crisis - leaving millennials out in the cold.     Shaw traveled the country, visiting housing stakeholders in a dozen urban centers. He spoke with renters, homeowners, builders, politicians. His new book, Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, combines these interviews with policy critique and details on plans that work getting housing built. And he questions some long-standing conventional wisdom - for example, the inevitability of gentrification.

Show #223 | Guest: Randy Shaw | Show Summary: The class divide in America's big city has a companion: a generational breach. Long-time housing activist and attorney Randy Shaw says that, through policy and politics, Baby Boomers have contributed to the urban housing crisis - leaving millennials out in the cold.      Shaw traveled the country, visiting housing stakeholders in a dozen urban centers. He spoke with renters, homeowners, builders, politicians. His new book, Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, combines these interviews with policy critique and details on plans that work getting housing built. And he questions some long-standing conventional wisdom - for example, the inevitability of gentrification.

Randy Shaw - Generation Priced Out

Haben Girma

Show #251 | Guest: Haben Girma | Show Summary: Haben Girma, daughter of refugees and the first Deafblind woman to graduate from Harvard Law, has been honored for her activist work by President Obama, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Raised by two Eritrean refugee parents who survived a 30-year war, Haben learned to value courage and community early. In her lifetime so far, she has traveled the globe, mastered non-visual techniques for navigating both salsa and the electric saw, climbed an iceberg and faced a bull, and attained the prestigious degree that helps her advocate for increased access and equity for disabled persons. She does this all, joyfully, using innovations that allow her to move readily through abled spaces as a deaf and blind woman.      Angie sits down with Haben to discuss her brilliant new book Haben: The Deafblind Women Who Conquered Harvard Law.

Show #251 | Guest: Haben Girma | Show Summary: <a href="https://habengirma.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Haben Girma</a>, daughter of refugees and the first Deafblind woman to graduate from Harvard Law, has been honored for her activist work by President Obama, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Raised by two Eritrean refugee parents who survived a 30-year war, Haben learned to value courage and community early. In her lifetime so far, she has traveled the globe, mastered non-visual techniques for navigating both salsa and the electric saw, climbed an iceberg and faced a bull, and attained the prestigious degree that helps her advocate for increased access and equity for disabled persons. She does this all, joyfully, using innovations that allow her to move readily through abled spaces as a deaf and blind woman.       Angie sits down with Haben to discuss her brilliant new book <a href="https://bookpage.com/reviews/24224-haben-girma-haben-deafblind-woman-who-conquered-harvard-law-i-class-fa-fa-star-i-biography-memoir " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Haben: The Deafblind Women Who Conquered Harvard Law</a>.

Haben Girma: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard

Lara Bazelon

Show #225 | Guest: Lara Bazelon - Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice after Wrongful Conviction | Show Summary: As the truism goes, everyone behind bars is innocent - if you listen to them. The problem is a lot of them are. Our justice system is often unjust; people are convicted by a system mired in racism, classism, and systemic faults. Lara Bazelon is a law professor, author, and contributing writer for Slate. Her op-eds and essays have also been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Politico, among other media outlets.  Her book, Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction, was recently published by Beacon Press. Her article, Innocence Deniers: Prosecutors who have refused to admit wrongful convictions was published last January in Slate.

Show #225 | Guest: Lara Bazelon - Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice after Wrongful Conviction | Show Summary: As the truism goes, everyone behind bars is innocent - if you listen to them. The problem is a lot of them are. Our justice system is often unjust; people are convicted by a system mired in racism, classism, and systemic faults. <a href="https://larabazelon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lara Bazelon</a> is a law professor, author, and contributing writer for Slate. Her op-eds and essays have also been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Politico, among other media outlets. Her book, <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780807029176" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction</a>, was recently published by Beacon Press. Her article, <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/innocence-deniers-prosecutors-who-have-refused-to-admit-wrongful-convictions.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Innocence Deniers: Prosecutors who have refused to admit wrongful convictions</a> was published last January in Slate.

Lara Bazelon - Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice after Wrongful Conviction

Jessica Jackley

Show #93, Hour 1 | Guests: Jessica Jackley, writer, activist. | Show Summary: Author Jessica Jackley discusses her new book Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least.

Clay Water Brick: Jessica Jackley 

Roger McNamee

Show #231 | Guest: Roger McNamee | Show Summary: The warnings are coming from inside the house. Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Roger McNamee are denizens of the same enchanted world: Silicon Valley's inner circle. And they used to all be on the same page, each playing their part growing Facebook into an internet phenomenon— until it hit unprecedented reach and influence. Then they weren't on the same page any more. McNamee was an early and enthusiastic adopter of Facebook, as both a musician and an investor. But he grew disenchanted as he watched the negatives pile up: privacy issues. Screen addiction. Disinformation and political manipulation. Even spying. Digging into the technology and psychology involved, he grew more alarmed at "business models that drive companies to maximize attention at all costs".     Now Roger McNamee has teamed with others from the tech world to challenge our new normal - to persuade us that internet titans Facebook and Google present an urgent existential threat to users and society. His new book Zucked makes a persuasive case.

Show #231 | Guest: Roger McNamee | Show Summary: The warnings are coming from inside the house. Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and <a href="http://www.elevation.com/EP_IT.asp?id=102" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roger McNamee</a> are denizens of the same enchanted world: Silicon Valley's inner circle. And they used to all be on the same page, each playing their part growing Facebook into an internet phenomenon— until it hit unprecedented reach and influence. Then they weren't on the same page any more. McNamee was an early and enthusiastic adopter of Facebook, as both a musician and an investor. But he grew disenchanted as he watched the negatives pile up: privacy issues. Screen addiction. Disinformation and political manipulation. Even spying. Digging into the technology and psychology involved, he grew more alarmed at "business models that drive companies to maximize attention at all costs".     Now Roger McNamee has teamed with others from the tech world to challenge our new normal - to persuade us that internet titans Facebook and Google present an urgent existential threat to users and society. His new book <a href="http://www.zuckedbook.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zucked</a> makes a persuasive case.

Venture Capitalist Roger McNamee on Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

Show #245 | Guest: Jamil Zaki | Show Summary: Empathy is in short supply. Isolation and tribalism are rampant. We struggle to understand people who aren’t like us, but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago. In his groundbreaking new book, The War For Kindness, Jamil Zaki shares cutting-edge research, including experiments from his own lab, showing that empathy is not a fixed trait—something we’re born with or not—but rather a skill that can be strengthened through effort.

Show #245 | Guest: Jamil Zaki | Show Summary: Empathy is in short supply. Isolation and tribalism are rampant. We struggle to understand people who aren’t like us, but find it easy to hate them. Studies show that we are less caring than we were even thirty years ago. In his groundbreaking new book, <a href="https://www.warforkindness.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The War For Kindness</a>, Jamil Zaki shares cutting-edge research, including experiments from his own lab, showing that empathy is not a fixed trait—something we’re born with or not—but rather a skill that can be strengthened through effort.

The War For Kindness: Building Empathy In A Fractured World

Ron Purser

Show #248 | Guest: Professor Ronald Purser | Show Summary: Angie sits down for a fascinating hour with Ron Purser, Professor of Management at San Francisco State University, to discuss his new book McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became The New Capitalist Spirituality.     The booming popularity of the mindfulness movement has also turned it into a lucrative cottage industry. Business savvy consultants pushing mindfulness training promise that it will improve work efficiency, reduce absenteeism, and enhance the “soft skills” that are crucial to career success. Some even assert that mindfulness training can act as a “disruptive technology,” reforming even the most dysfunctional companies into kinder, more compassionate and sustainable organizations. So far, however, no empirical studies have been published that support these claims.

Show #248 | Guest: Professor Ronald Purser | Show Summary: Angie sits down for a fascinating hour with Ron Purser, Professor of Management at San Francisco State University, to discuss his new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/McMindfulness-Mindfulness-Became-Capitalist-Spirituality/dp/191224831X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became The New Capitalist Spirituality</a>.      The booming popularity of the mindfulness movement has also turned it into a lucrative cottage industry. Business savvy consultants pushing mindfulness training promise that it will improve work efficiency, reduce absenteeism, and enhance the “soft skills” that are crucial to career success. Some even assert that mindfulness training can act as a “disruptive technology,” reforming even the most dysfunctional companies into kinder, more compassionate and sustainable organizations. So far, however, no empirical studies have been published that support these claims.

Ron Purser: McMindfulness

Mary Robinson

Show #217| Guest:Mary Robinson | Show Summary: Holding the arm of her first grandchild, something occurred to Mary Robinson. Before his fiftieth birthday, nine billion people would share the planet with him. What kind of planet would it be?     In an instant, the faceless, shadowy menace of climate change became real. One of the most important voices on the International stage, Mary Robinson -- the former president of Ireland and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights -- bound herself to a single mission: to leave her grandson the best possible world.     Her work has been transformative. She founded the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice. She served in two capacities as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change. She continues today to be one of the most dynamic climate activists in the world. From Mongolia to East Biloxi, Robinson’s work has touched lives the world over, reifying the countless local and international efforts for green, sustainable energy and combatting the tangled, nefarious web of hazards to our planet's future.     Mary Robinson sits down with Angie Coiro for a special hour of In Deep.

Show #217| Guest:Mary Robinson | Show Summary: Holding the arm of her first grandchild, something occurred to Mary Robinson. Before his fiftieth birthday, nine billion people would share the planet with him. What kind of planet would it be?      In an instant, the faceless, shadowy menace of climate change became real. One of the most important voices on the International stage, Mary Robinson -- the former president of Ireland and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights -- bound herself to a single mission: to leave her grandson the best possible world.      Her work has been transformative. She founded the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice. She served in two capacities as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change. She continues today to be one of the most dynamic climate activists in the world. From Mongolia to East Biloxi, Robinson’s work has touched lives the world over, reifying the countless local and international efforts for green, sustainable energy and combatting the tangled, nefarious web of hazards to our planet's future.      Mary Robinson sits down with Angie Coiro for a special hour of In Deep.

Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland: Toward A Sustainable Planet

Eliza Griswold

Show #220 | Guest: Eliza Griswold | Show Summary: Fracking, poverty, and justice delayed and denied. Journalist Eliza Griswold discusses her new book, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.

Show #220 | Guest: Eliza Griswold | Show Summary: Fracking, poverty, and justice delayed and denied. Journalist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Griswold" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eliza Griswold</a> discusses her new book, <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374103118" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America</a>.

Eliza Griswold - Amity and Prosperity: Fracking Comes To Town

Shannon Watts

Show #246 | Guest: Shannon Watts | Show Summary: The “NRA’s Worst Nightmare” is an army of moms led by former stay-at-home mother of five Shannon Watts from Indiana, who ignited a grassroots advocacy movement against gun violence which now touches every single one of the 50 states.     Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America began as Watt’s project after the tragic news of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting broke. With her youngest in elementary, Watts felt compelled to act, but quickly realized that the epidemic of gun violence which wrought tragedy on so many families was primarily being legislated by large groups of men. Looking for the voice of other women protecting their families, she found nothing—so she started something profound.     Can 80 million moms make a difference? From blocking legislative hallways with strollers and electing gun-sense candidates, to getting “open-carry” out of Starbucks and running for office themselves, the large-scale impact of Moms Demand Action suggests that they can.       In her new book Fight Like a Mother, Watts shares exactly how to have that kind of impact for our future, even if you have no previous experience advocating for a cause. Watts’ story of taking back public policy from the gun lobby is one that began with sudden initiation and continues to yield powerful change. We are all just one good reason away from fighting for what we believe in.     Watts had five.

Show #246 | Guest: Shannon Watts | Show Summary: The “NRA’s Worst Nightmare” is an army of moms led by former stay-at-home mother of five Shannon Watts from Indiana, who ignited a grassroots advocacy movement against gun violence which now touches every single one of the 50 states.      Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America began as Watt’s project after the tragic news of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting broke. With her youngest in elementary, Watts felt compelled to act, but quickly realized that the epidemic of gun violence which wrought tragedy on so many families was primarily being legislated by large groups of men. Looking for the voice of other women protecting their families, she found nothing—so she started something profound.      Can 80 million moms make a difference? From blocking legislative hallways with strollers and electing gun-sense candidates, to getting “open-carry” out of Starbucks and running for office themselves, the large-scale impact of Moms Demand Action suggests that they can.       In her new book <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062892560/fight-like-a-mother/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fight Like a Mother</a>, Watts shares exactly how to have that kind of impact for our future, even if you have no previous experience advocating for a cause. Watts’ story of taking back public policy from the gun lobby is one that began with sudden initiation and continues to yield powerful change. We are all just one good reason away from fighting for what we believe in.      Watts had five.

Shannon Watts: Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America

Sally Kohn

Show #201 | Guest: Sally Kohn | Show Summary: Admit it: in this new world of bilious political warfare, you’ve said at least one thing you regret. Incivility is catching.     Long-time political commentator Sally Kohn found herself doing the same thing. She stopped to wonder: where does civic ugliness come from – and what does it cost? When we’re all emotionally invested in our points of view, can it be stemmed?     She took on a worldwide trek to find out. She’s talked to scientists and researches, terrorists, trolls, and hate groups. She has success stories of people who walked away from hate. From all those avenues, she derives workable steps to getting ahead of the damage incivility can wreak.     Sally Kohn is a familiar face from Fox and CNN. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, New York Magazine, USA Today, and Time. She also works as a communications consultant and was previously a campaign strategist for the Center for Community Change, a fellow at the Ford Foundation, and a strategic advisor to the Social Justice Infrastructure Funders, as well as a fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian task Force Policy Institute.

Show #201 | Guest: Sally Kohn | Show Summary: Admit it: in this new world of bilious political warfare, you’ve said at least one thing you regret. Incivility is catching.      Long-time political commentator Sally Kohn found herself doing the same thing. She stopped to wonder: where does civic ugliness come from – and what does it cost? When we’re all emotionally invested in our points of view, can it be stemmed?      She took on a worldwide trek to find out. She’s talked to scientists and researches, terrorists, trolls, and hate groups. She has success stories of people who walked away from hate. From all those avenues, she derives workable steps to getting ahead of the damage incivility can wreak.      Sally Kohn is a familiar face from Fox and CNN. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, New York Magazine, USA Today, and Time. She also works as a communications consultant and was previously a campaign strategist for the Center for Community Change, a fellow at the Ford Foundation, and a strategic advisor to the Social Justice Infrastructure Funders, as well as a fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian task Force Policy Institute.

Sally Kohn: The Opposite of Hate

Richard A. Clarke

Show #249 | Guest: Richard A. Clarke | Show Summary:  Cyberwar—or cyber-anything, has always carried a whiff of science fiction about it. But it's not fiction, it's certainly not entertainment, and, terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke warns us— multiple cyberwars are underway already. The battlefronts range from simple identity theft to the disruption of nuclear programs and medical care. The Pentagon even has a word for this new front line: the fifth domain. That's where ongoing skirmishes for our security as individuals and as citizens are being fought.      Richard A. Clarke has long experience in American security matters. He's served as a key advisor on intelligence and counterterrorism to three US presidents. In 1998 President Bill Clinton appointed him as the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counterterrorism for the U.S. National Security Council. His latest book, The Fifth Domain: Defending our Country, Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats, calls on that long experience to tackle one of the most pivotal battlegrounds in modern security.

Show #249 | Guest: Richard A. Clarke | Show Summary: Cyberwar—or cyber-anything, has always carried a whiff of science fiction about it. But it's not fiction, it's certainly not entertainment, and, terrorism expert <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Clarke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard A. Clarke</a> warns us— multiple cyberwars are underway already. The battlefronts range from simple identity theft to the disruption of nuclear programs and medical care. The Pentagon even has a word for this new front line: the fifth domain. That's where ongoing skirmishes for our security as individuals and as citizens are being fought.       Richard A. Clarke has long experience in American security matters. He's served as a key advisor on intelligence and counterterrorism to three US presidents. In 1998 President Bill Clinton appointed him as the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counterterrorism for the U.S. National Security Council. His latest book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Domain-Defending-Companies-Ourselves/dp/052556196X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Fifth Domain: Defending our Country, Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats</a>, calls on that long experience to tackle one of the most pivotal battlegrounds in modern security.

Richard A. Clarke – The Fifth Domain: Defending US Cyberspace

Adam Hochschild

Show #224 | Guest: Adam Hochschild | Show Summary: Journalist and public historian Adam Hochschild shares his insight into the forces shaping our world, through a study of first-person witness accounts. His new book is Lessons From A Dark Time and Other Essays.

Show #224 | Guest: Adam Hochschild | Show Summary: Journalist and public historian <a href="https://journalism.berkeley.edu/person/adam_hochschild/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Adam Hochschild</a> shares his insight into the forces shaping our world, through a study of first-person witness accounts. His new book is <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520297241/lessons-from-a-dark-time-and-other-essays" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lessons From A Dark Time and Other Essays</a>.

Adam Hochschild: Lessons From A Dark Time

Show #158 | Guest: Author, podcaster, and activist Ashton Applewhite sits down with Angie to raise a little hell about entrenched ageism in our society. | Show Summary: When Madonna accepted her Woman of the Year award at the Billboard Women in Music 2016 in December, she used the pulpit to decry ageism in the entertainment world. "People say that I'm so controversial," she said "but I think the most controversial thing that I've done is to stick around" in a business where "to age is a sin." Age discrimination is a reality well beyond media and music. Silicon Valley is regularly accused of discarding its most experienced workers in favor of a younger, less expensive workforce. The concept of the elderly having hard-earned wisdom to share has all but disappeared from modern America.In This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, Applewhite traces her own journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. The book explains the roots of ageism in history and in our own age and how it divides and debases; examines how ageist myths and stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function; describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like; and concludes with a rousing call to action.

Show #158 | Guest: Author, podcaster, and activist Ashton Applewhite sits down with Angie to raise a little hell about entrenched ageism in our society. | Show Summary: When Madonna accepted her Woman of the Year award at the Billboard Women in Music 2016 in December, she used the pulpit to decry ageism in the entertainment world. "People say that I'm so controversial," she said "but I think the most controversial thing that I've done is to stick around" in a business where "to age is a sin." Age discrimination is a reality well beyond media and music. Silicon Valley is regularly accused of discarding its most experienced workers in favor of a younger, less expensive workforce. The concept of the elderly having hard-earned wisdom to share has all but disappeared from modern America. In This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, Applewhite traces her own journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. The book explains the roots of ageism in history and in our own age and how it divides and debases; examines how ageist myths and stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function; describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like; and concludes with a rousing call to action.

This Chair Rocks, A Manifesto Against Ageism

Don Reed

Show #230 | Guest: Don Reed | Show Summary: That Don Reed Show has just extended its run at The Marsh in Berkeley, CA. He crosses the Bay to talk to Angie about his stories, his stand-up, and even a character or two he admits is - wait for it - "too white."

Show #230 | Guest: Don Reed | Show Summary: <a href="https://themarsh.org/that_don_reed_show/don-reed-6/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">That Don Reed Show</a> has just extended its run at The Marsh in Berkeley, CA. He crosses the Bay to talk to Angie about his stories, his stand-up, and even a character or two he admits is - wait for it - "too white."

Don Reed: Stage, Screen and Beyond Stand-up

Joel Simon

Show #229 | Guest: Joel Simon | Show Summary: America does not negotiate with terrorists—but should keep it that way? Last year there were nearly nine thousand international terrorist abductions. The US refuses to pay ransoms, holding that it would only fuel more kidnappings. Other countries pay-up to free their citizens taken hostage. Statistics tell the grim result: according to

Joel Simon – The Committee To Protect Journalists

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