Listener Sponsored Community Radio
Listeners may call (608) 256-2001 and ask questions of the guests. Callers are asked to pose a question relevant to the subject at hand and refrain from calling more than once per week. You can join us on Facebook and Twitter as well!
Please contact Richelle Wilson at (608) 321-9588 or talk@wortfm.org.
In this segment of the show, we talk with Tessa Echeverria from the Eken Park Resistance, a group of neighbors opposing the siting of F-35 fighter jets in Madison, about their community gathering this weekend, which has been moved online in light of current public health recommendations. For the remainder of the live hour, we […]
How do we understand the ongoing assaults on public education at all levels? What are the forces at play and what are the implications? In this episode, Allen approaches these questions with educational theorist Michael Apple. They spend the hour discussing the state of public schools in the U.S. and the struggle for democracy in […]
This show was originally broadcast on October 23, 2019. The universal basic income (UBI) movement is gaining momentum in the United States, where cities like Stockton, California have implemented pilot programs and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang ran on a platform heavily based on principles of UBI, including the idea of giving every American a […]
In his new book, Supreme Inequality, lawyer and journalist Adam S. Cohen argues that the Supreme Court has become increasingly right-wing for the past fifty years. On today’s episode, Carousel talks to Adam about the book and the history of the Supreme Court since the Nixon administration. Adam S. Cohen is a former member of […]
With coronavirus outbreaks on the rise in the U.S., we turn our attention to COVID-19 for today’s episode. First, epidemiology researcher Robyn Gershon discusses American public health infrastructure, disaster preparedness, and the effects of the epidemic on healthcare and service-industry workers. Then, Oakland-based journalist Alexis Madrigal gives a breakdown of his round-the-clock research for The […]
For this episode, Esty is in conversation with historian Nick Estes about the tradition of Indigenous resistance through the lens of his book Our History is the Future. Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. In 2014, he […]
