ChatChat - Claudia Cragg
211 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsFeature interviews from journalist and broadcaster, Claudia Cragg
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"Slow Money" and Woody Tasch
September 08, 2016 16:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB's Claudia Cragg speaks here with 's about the first ever 'Decelerator' they are hosting in Boulder next month. He and the organization suggest fixing the economy from the ground up, starting with food. He argues that if you believe your health, that the economy’s health and the environment’s health would all be significantly improved if there were a million new small and mid-sized organic farms in the United States, then the time to make a start is right now.
Steve Silberman, Neurotribes
August 16, 2016 22:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBA groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism? A lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. WIRED reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autis...
A Cure for Medicare? Dr Andy Lazris has one
August 08, 2016 16:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBs Claudia Cragg speaks here with Andy Lazris, MD ( ). He is the author of 'Curing Medicare' () and is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not a disease to be cured; it is a life stage to be lived. Lazris argues that aggressive treatments cannot change that f...
Jordan Fisher Smith on Engineering Eden
August 02, 2016 16:00 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBKGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here with Jordan Fisher Smith () a park ranger for decades who speaks to KGNU in good time for the centenary of National Parks (Aug. 25th). Smith is a nature writer who uses the story of the grizzly death of one Harry Walker to tell the larger narrative of the futile, sometimes fatal, economic, ecological and human resource attempts to remake wilderness in the name of preserving it. Tracing a course from the founding of the national parks through the tangled 20th c...
Jacobin's Thomas Ferguson on (2016) Pol Party Competition and MONEY
July 07, 2016 22:00 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MB"[Trump's] money gave him both the means and the confidence to break the donors’ cartel that until then had eliminated all GOP candidates who didn’t begin by saluting the Bush family for starting the Iraq War, incessantly demanding cuts in Social Security and Medicare, and managing the economy into total collapse via financial deregulation. He could even mock the carried-interest tax loophole and sneer at Wall Street. ... In a conversation for 'It's The Economy' with KGNU's Claudia Crag...
"Acting Up with Tactical Performance" with Larry Bogad
July 05, 2016 16:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MBs Claudia Cragg speaks here for KGNU's "It's the Economy' with Lawrence Bogad is an author, performer and the founder of the Center For Creative Activism. He writes, performs and strategizes with mischievous artists such as the Yes Men, Billionaires for Bush and La Pocha Nostra. He is a veteran of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Laboratory, and a co-founder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel . His produced plays have covered topics such as the Haymarket Square Riot, the FBI’s COINTELPRO...
David Dayen on "Chain of Title: Wall St's Great Foreclosure Debacle"
May 27, 2016 16:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBKGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here with David Dayen (@ddayen), a contributing writer to Salon and a weekly columnist for the Fiscal Times. Dayen also writes for publications including the New Republic, the American Prospect, The Guardian, Vice, The Intercept, and the Huffington Post. Under discussion here is Dayen's new book, Chain of Title (The New Press). "Chain of title" refers to documents showing that a mortgage was transferred properly from owner to owner, so the final bank can prove it a...
Scott Atkinson's Flint Anthology
May 26, 2016 20:00 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBKGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here with Scott Atkinson - Twitter, @scottythescribe - a freelance writer based in Flint, Michigan, and a regular contributor to Belt Magazine. He has written about Flint for the New York Times and other publications and spent several years as a reporter at the Flint Journal/\. Happy Anyway delves into the lives and stories within the city — what it was like to be a child on the east side; how it feels to be a parent today, without clean water; who is able to tru...
Monique Morris on Black Girls and 'Pushout[
May 25, 2016 16:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MB@KGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here with (Dr.) Monique Morris - @MoniqueWMorris - co-Founder of National Black Women's Justice Institute (NBWJI). Author of#BlackStats, #TooBeautifulForWords and#PUSHOUT. In this interview, Dr. Morris relates the experiences of black girls across the United States who, she argues, have misunderstood and intricate lives. She believes many are often highly judged - by teachers, administrators, and the justice system - and degraded by the very institutions charged w...
The New York Times' Dan Barry on 'Boys In The Bunkhouse'
May 19, 2016 16:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBWith this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry - Twitter @DanBarryNYT - tells KGNU's Claudia Cragg the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability. It is also the tale of the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives. In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disability and all from Texas, lived...
Theresa Brown, RN, for National Nurses Week on her book 'The Shift'
May 11, 2016 12:30 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MB@KGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here for #NursesWeek with Theresa Brown, RN. Twitter: @TheresaBrown Her book, The Shift, is as eye-opening as it is riveting. Brown is a practicing nurse and New York Times columnist and she invites readers to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital’s cancer ward. Theresa Brown is also a PhD in English Literature and, before she took up nursing, was a former professor at Tuft's University. In ...