WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast

Interview with Dr. Lynn Goldman, professor of Environmental & Occupational Health at George Washington University, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Dr. Lynn Goldman, professor of environmental and occupational health at George Washington University, a pediatrician, and former assistant administrator for toxic substances at the Environmental Protection Age...

Interview with Shayna, a critical care nurse, anti-imperialist organizer and spokesperson for organizers of this past Saturday’s Ed Sheeran demonstration, conducted by Scott Harris.   Shayna, a critical care nurse, anti-imperialist organizer and spokesperson for organizers of this past Saturday’s pro-Palestinian demonstration, discusses how hundreds gathered outside of Philadelphia’s Lincoln Finan...

Interview with Miranda Bogen, director and chief technologist, of the Center for Democracy & Technology’s AI Governance Lab, conducted by Scott Harris. Miranda Bogen talks about the important work her group has been doing to educate the public on the dangers of unregulated artificial intelligence, while calling for new AI regulatory legislation at both the U.S. federal level and internationall...

Excerpt of interview with Dr. Bandy Lee, a forensic and social psychiatrist, co-founder and president of the World Mental Health Coalition, and editor of the best-selling book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, conducted by Scott Harris, Richard Hill and Ruth Anne Baumgartner on WPKN Radio's Resistance Roundtable program - originally aired on September 17, 2026. Dr. Bandy X. Lee, whose latest bo...

Interview with Sarah Kendzior, a journalist, anthropologist, researcher, and former co-host of the popular podcast Gaslit Nation, conducted by Scott Harris. Here Sarah Kendzior discusses her views on the Trump regime’s looming threat to subvert the outcome of the midterm election by a multi-pronged set of seditious tactics. She also comments on the enormous challenge of reconstructing our broken n...

The Resistance Roundtable features:    Dr. Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist who has studied and written on the pathology of Donald Trump, discusses the ever-increasing danger posed by the sociopath-in-chief.  Clare Evento, a Waterbury, CT-based activist, talks about the Oct. 17 No Kings events planned for southeastern CT. Panel: Ruthanne Baumgartner, Scott Harris and Richard Hill

The Organic Farm Stand lineup: Hot Topics -- Diane Lauricella Small Farms Update -- Steve Munno, Massaro Farm Honey Bee Update -- Vincent Kaye Oyster Farming in CT -- special guest, Sean Riley of the New England Oyster Farm Hosts: Richard Hill and Diane Lauricella

Interview with Wanda Culp, an activist with Tongass Women for Forests and Tongass regional coordinator for Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), conducted by Melinda Tuhus. Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Wanda Culp, a Tlinglit woman from the Tongass forest in southeast Alaska, who has fought against corporate clearcutting near her home, since the 1980s with a group called...

 Interview with Dulce Guzmán, executive director at Alianza Americas, conducted by Scott Harris. Dulce Guzmán discusses her group’s work focusing public attention on the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees from more than a dozen countries who have had their TPS status revoked by the Trump administration—and the uncertainty that nationals from El Salvador who reside in the U.S. are now livi...

Interview with Katya Schwenk, an investigative journalist covering private interests and corporate power at The Lever, conducted by Scott Harris. Katya Schwenk talks about her article co-written with Luke Goldstein, titled, “How A Hedge Fund Billionaire Became The Democrats’ New Kingmaker,” about Stephen Mandel, who’s bankrolling a new political apparatus built to “redefine” the Democratic party.

Interview with Lori Wallach, director of the Rethink Trade program at American Economic Liberties Project, and senior advisor to the Citizens Trade Campaign, conducted by Scott Harris. Lori Wallach discusses the causes and consequences of the trade war initiated by Donald Trump after bilateral trade negotiations collapsed, leading the U.S. to impose 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canad...

Interview with Elizabeth Miller, project director, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows and Stephanie Savell, co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute, conducted by Scott Harris. Elizabeth Miller discusses the important work her group has been doing since the 9/11 terrorist attack, advocating nonviolent options and actions in the pursuit of justice....

The 2nd episode of "Live Boldly with Rev Sara Smith," features a lively conversation with two women who have broken down many barriers in the world of women's college athletics/sports.  Jessica E. Mannetti is the head coach of Fairfield, CT's Sacred Heart University women's basketball team, and Pam London, head coach of Sacred Heart University softball team who's entering her 38th season with Sacr...

Interviews at the Sept. 2 Danbury community protest and march recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus. On Wednesday Sept. 2, more than a 1,000 people from across Connecticut marched to support immigrants in Danbury, the epicenter of ICE raids the last week of August in which least 64 city residents were abducted.  Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus was at the march and talked to several protesters ab...

Interview with Charlotte Dennett, author of Follow the Pipelines Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil, conducted by Scott Harris. Charlotte Dennett discusses what’s really behind Trump’s six months of war in Iran, the role of Big Oil in fomenting endless wars in the Middle East and U.S. designs on oil and other natural resources in Venezuela, Ukrai...

Interview with Tabitha Sookdeo, executive director of the youth-led organization, Connecticut Students for a Dream, conducted by Scott Harris. Tabitha Sookdeo talks about the recent ICE raids in Danbury, CT over the past week where at least 62 individuals were abducted by ICE agents, leading to a major protest march and rally as well as community organizing to resist the Trump regime’s violent and...

Interview with Steve Ellner, associate managing editor of Latin American Perspectives, conducted by Scott Harris. Steve Ellner discusses his views on the recently announced oil deal between the Trump administration and Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez. He focuses on the local response to the agreement by the people of Venezuela, political activists on the right and left and an examinat...

Interview with Lawrence B. Wilkerson, retired U.S. Army colonel, conducted by Scott Harris. Col. Wilkerson discusses his views on growing public concern about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s unprecedented purge of top military leadership and political interference in officer promotions, as well as charges of mismanagement and incompetence in the U.S. war on Iran. Wilkerson served a 31-year career...

Interview with Nick Parker-Smith, Starbucks barista and member of Starbucks Workers United, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Nick Parker-Smith, a barista who’s worked at several Starbucks locations in Missouri for three years.  Here he discusses the current situation for Starbucks workers and the goal of the nationwide boycott.

Interview with Linda Pentz Gunter, author, founder and executive director of Beyond Nuclear, conducted by Scott Harris. Linda Gunter discusses her work advocating for a phaseout of nuclear power and to educate the public about the links between nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons. Gunter will be speaking about her book at the Unitarian Church in Hamden, CT on Friday, Sept. 11. Gunter is e...

Interview with Carolina Bortolleto, a spokesperson for the group Danbury Unites for Immigrants, conducted by Scott Harris. Carolina Bortolleto talks about the recent ICE raids in Danbury over the past week where at least 62 individuals were abducted by ICE agents, and a march and rally being organized in response, that will take place in Danbury this Wednesday, Sept. 2, 5 p.m. at the city’s Librar...

Interview with Justin Glawe, an independent journalist and editor of the American Doom newsletter, conducted by Scott Harris. Justin Glawe discusses his recent Zeteo columns in their ‘Start The Steal’ series, covering the many actions Trump and his regime have launched to interfere with and manipulate the outcome of this November’s midterm election.

Interview with Steve Woolford, a resource counselor with Quaker House in Fayetteville, North Carolina and the GI Rights Hotline, conducted by Scott Harris. Steve Woolford talks about assisting service members who are seeking confidential advice on how to apply for conscientious objector status, and the troubling issues these men and women are confronting in their deployment in the U.S. war on Iran...

Interview with Mazin Qumsiyeh, professor and volunteer director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University, conducted by Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus. Melinda Tuhus spoke with professor Qumsiyeh, who lives in the occupied West Bank town of Beit Sahour, a suburb of the city of Bethlehem, where settler violence recently flared. Here he makes clear that...

Interview with Dustin Wahl, executive director of Fix Our House, conducted by Scott Harris. Dustin Wahl talks about his group’s education and advocacy campaign promoting proportional representation in the U.S. House of Representatives, "as an urgently-needed reform to pull politics out of its doom loop of polarization and dysfunction, sideline the anti-democratic forces threatening our democracy a...