Attitude with Arnie Arnesen

Dec 11 2024 100 ep. 56 mins 8

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Recovering politician Arnie Arnesen's daily pubic affairs interview show from WNHN Radio in Concord, New Hampshire and the Pacifica Radio Network. Arnie hosts progressive voices from politics, journalism, industry, and academia. She talks electric cars with Barry Woods, she talks Texas with Scott Braddock, she talks Congress with Rho Khanna, she talks gun culture, she talks limericks, she talks campaigns ...

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Episode 615: Arnie Arnesen Attitude December 11 2024

Dec 11 2024 56 mins

Part 1:We talk with Duncan Watson, author.We discuss the problem the problems in recycling and disposing of trash. Duncan has been working as a specialist in disposal for many years, and is an advocate for reducing consumption in order to reduce the waste stream as much as possible. He is an advocate of AMRFs, (Advanced Materials Recovery Facilities), which does not requires as muc

Episode 614: Arnie Arnesen Attitude December 10 2024

Dec 10 2024 55 mins

Part 1:We talk with Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer for Slate.comWe discuss the question: Is the law for suckers now?What are the rules now? Who verifies that the rules are being followed? The main stream media is in thrall to the big money supporters of Trump. Local media has been hollowed out, and information is being manipulated. Can voters make decisions for themselves, given

Episode 613: Arnie Arnesen Attitude December 9 2024

Dec 09 2024 56 mins

This is a group discussion with multiple topics.- What should be done to restore community among voters, despite their political differences.-Mr. Biden, as President, "time to do the crime."-There has been a loss of faith in the institutions of our society and government. What can be done to restore that faith?WNHNFM.ORG productionMusic: David Rovics, "Time to Act", for Will

Episode 612: Arnie Arnesen Attitude December 6 2024

Dec 06 2024 58 mins

Part 1:We talk with Chris Tomlinson, of the Houston Chronicle.We discuss how Texas Republicans are attacking free speech in colleges and universities in Texas. Many faculty members in Texas and Florida are looking to leave, and go to other institutions. There is a fear of free thinking among Republicans. What does this foretell for the future?Part 2:We talk with Bill Curry and Aaro

Episode 611: Arnie Arnesen Attitude December 5 2024

Dec 05 2024 55 mins

Part 1:We talk with Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent at The Nation.We discuss the government agencies that Trump is staffing. Heer characterizes them as anti-populist, with fealty to the rich. We discuss Trump's view of the world as a gangster's view, and the government to be a government of gangsters. Trump's relationship to NATO and to other countries is one of a kind of

Episode 610: Arnie Arnesen Attitude December 4 2024

Dec 04 2024 58 mins

Part 1:We talk with Michal Tomasky, Editor of the New Republic.We discuss the corrupted DOJ under Trump. How will he expand and abuse his power? Project 2025 will underlie all his actions. We can expect him to take credit for any positive results from Biden's policies.Part 2:We talk with David Dayen, Executive Editor of The American Prospect.We discuss what should be the next steps

Episode 609: Arnie Arnesen Attitude December 3 2024

Dec 03 2024 56 mins

Part 1:We talk with Prof. Beth Gazley, of Indiana University, Bloomington. She studies US nonprofit management and civil society policy.We discuss a new law that allows the government (esp. the Treasury Dept) to classify activist organizations as "domestic terrorists" and thereby deny them 501C3 status. This classification method is vague, and can allow political harassment of many

Episode 608: Arnie Arnesen Attitude December 2 2024

Dec 02 2024 56 mins

Part 1:We talk with Ismar Volic, Professor of Mathematics at Wellesley College.We discuss how politics are broken due to the original design by the Founders, because the structure is no longer appropriate. Voting, in particular, should be structured differently, since the population has changed. From and agrarian society, the US is now in an industrialized society, with different p

Episode 607: Arnie Arnesen Attitude November 28 2024

Nov 29 2024 56 mins

This is a repeat of a previous broadcast.Part 1:We talk with Eileen Applebaum, of Temple University, and others, about health care in the US.She focuses on the structural determinants of health and longevity due to the social policies in the US.Part 2:We talk with Elizabeth Rosenthal, of KFF Health.We discuss why many "nonprofit" hospitals are rolling in money. WNHNFM.ORG&nbs

Episode 606: Arnie Arnesen November 30 2024

Nov 29 2024 56 mins

This is a repeat of a previously aired show.Part 1:Our Guest is Karin Vasby Anderson., Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. We discuss how Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump have taken on the role of "strict father" and how are turning into the "creepy uncle".Part 2:We talk with Sophy Bjork-James, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt