🎙️On today's show, Killian Clarke discusses why some nonviolent social movement succeed and others fail. His new book is Return of Tyranny from @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/how-to-make-...

🎙️As Pam Bondi testifies about the Epstein files and survivors call for accountability on Capitol Hill, host @alimuldrow.bsky.social speaks with local child advocate Prenicia Clifton and and @gracepanetta.bsky.social of @19thnews.org about abuse prevention. Listen here www.wortfm.org/the-world-wo...

🎙️Our guest @itsapurdy.bsky.social of @chamberlainvets.bsky.social says the credibility of veterans is being laundered by the Trump administration. Instead, he works to organize vets and community leaders to make voting a joyous and safe experience. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/how-veterans...

🎙️Host Esty Dinur is joined by friend of the show, @normansolomon.bsky.social, to discuss the status of the Democratic Party and his new book, The Blue Road to Trump Hell: How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/why-we-need-...

🎙️ Friend of the program, @nicholsuprising.bsky.social of @thenation.com joins us from Minneapolis to talk about political dissent, general strikes, and invasions at home and abroad. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/on-the-groun...

🎙️PhDJ, geologist, and bird watcher @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social joins host @alimuldrow.bsky.social to talk about climate and racial justice and says, "let’s promise not to betray the future." Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-music-of...

🎙️Host Dana Pellebon speaks with SkyeGia Garcia and DaMonte January about the Everstrong program at OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center that provides resources for 17-24 year-olds who are at risk of experiencing homelessness. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/everstrong-h...

🎙️Contrary to the transactional, consumer-oriented nature of traditional education, microcolleges are place-based, immersive, and holistic. Learn more from Jacob Hundt of Thoreau College in Viroqua and Grace Greenwald. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/microcollege...

🎙️@reproutopia.bsky.social talks about right to pleasure, the mythology of feminist figures like Mary Wollstonecraft and May French Sheldon, “feminist misogyny,” family liberation, and much more from their book, Enemy Feminisms. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/refusing-evi...

🎙️Journalist @thatchriswalker.bsky.social talks about the terror that ICE is bringing to Minneapolis, the general strike called by Rep. Jaime Raskin, the resurgence of measles under RFK, and Trump’s use of the term “environmental insurrectionists.” Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-general-...

🎙️Our guests, Martha Siravo and @drsamischalk.bsky.social tell @alimuldrow.bsky.social how they maintain joy through adaptive aerial ballet and bedazzling gifts, even as we’re bombarded with tremendous tragedy around the country. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/finding-joy-...

🎙️The “whiteness mindset” pervades our culture and shapes the practice of mental health professionals, says Dr. Jonathan Lassiter. He discusses his new book, How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories with host Dana Pellebon. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/dr-jonathan-...

🎙️Judith Davidoff, Linda Falkenstein, and @deanrobbins.bsky.social share their stories about @isthmusmadison.bsky.social history and its arts and news coverage as the magazine celebrates 50 years in the community. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/reflecting-o...

🎙️Over two million Palestinians have been pushed into the “red zone” along the coast where they are living in non-winterized tents in conditions that guest Jennifer Loewenstein calls “abject misery.” Listen here: www.wortfm.org/its-still-a-...

🎙️Though Wisconsin hasn’t faced major ICE raids, Governor Evers said this week that the state is preparing for this inevitability. To talk about ICE and the larger context of anti-immigrant sentiment in the US, host Allen Ruff is joined by Armando Ibarra. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/a-land-of-im...

🎙️Trump is delivering on his campaign promise of “mass deportation now” with violent assaults on immigrant communities, most recently in our neighboring state of Minnesota. @alimuldrow.bsky.social debriefs about the last year with scholar Sara McKinnon. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/one-year-of-...

🎙️Ahead of the 53rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Dana Pellebon speaks with two representatives from Free & Just about abortion bans and abortion storytelling. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-abortion...

🎙️Turning away from the usual focus of the Moscow-Washington stalemate, McCoy looks at the regions of the world where the Cold War was actually fought. He joins host Esty Dinur to discuss his latest book and the Trump regime. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/from-the-col...

🎙️On December 14, hard-right candidate José Antonio Kast, who built his campaign on the promise of expelling migrants, was elected as Chile’s president. Journalist @malcriada.bsky.social breaks down the path to Kast's presidency. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-run-up-t...

🎙️Host @alimuldrow.bsky.social talks art, politics, and motherhood with Issis Macias, Lesley Numbers, and Emily Popp, artists with the current @artlitlab.bsky.social exhibit, Pulling Together. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/mother-artis...

🎙️Dana Pellebon speaks with long-time Madison leader Anthony Cooper Sr. of Focused Interruption, an organization that provides community violence intervention and prevention in Dane County. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/anthony-coop...

🎙️Last week the federal government reduced the number of vaccines it recommends for children. We break down those changes with Mary Hayney of the UW School of Pharmacy and Kia Kjensrud of Immunize Wisconsin. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-cdc-enda...

🎙️On Wednesday, ICE agents in Minneapolis shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. @kenklippenstein.bsky.social joins us to talk about the ways the Trump administration is justifying ICE and their violence. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-global-w...

🎙️Following the US’s abduction of Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, @szunes.bsky.social breaks down the Trump administration’s motivations for seizing the state leader and Trump’s vision for the US in the Western Hemisphere. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-monroe-d...

🎙️Cap Times food and culture editor @lindsaychristians.bsky.social tells @alimuldrow.bsky.social about the best eats of 2025, what restaurants she's looking forward to in 2026, and why she avoids takeout. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/spicy-in-the...

🎙️Today is the deadline for candidate filings in the state of Wisconsin. @stinadale.bsky.social, Enjoyiana Nururdin, and @fayeparks.bsky.social break down the races in this busy election year with host Dana Pellebon. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/local-journa...

🎙️Dee J. Hal of @floodlightnews.org breaks down their big stories about corn grown for ethanol and the shrinking ski season and describes the changing terrain of climate journalism. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/climate-jour...

🎙️DOGE's cuts to public lands are angering Montanans--a state where the right to a clean and healthful environment is enshrined in its constitution. Journalist @cassidyrandall.bsky.social unpacks what's happening in rural, conservative Montana. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-fight-fo...

🎙️It's been a lean and mean year in the agricultural industry. To break it down, Bert Zipperer speaks with dairy journalist Pete Hardin. They touch on the biggest stories from cheese prices, avian flu, soybeans, to glyphosate, and more. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/hungry-farme...

🎙️What was on your bookshelf last year? And what are you itching to read in 2026? Host Dana Pellebon recaps a year in books with Gretchen Treu of Room of One's Own Bookstore. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-power-of...

🎙️ Coming to a town near you: higher energy bills, land loss, e-waste, and deep fakes, brought to you by AI data centers. Listen to our roundtable with @mitchellpjones.bsky.social of @foodandwater.bsky.social, @midwestadvocates.bsky.social, No Data Center Deforest. www.wortfm.org/who-bears-th...

🎙️Whether you're with family, chosen family, or solo this holiday season, @alimuldrow.bsky.social and Bianca Martin have some cheer to share! And they wish us all A Little Joy, A Little Peace, and A Little Care. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/growing-our-...

🎙️Marc Becker puts the recent US attacks on Venezuela's boats allegedly trafficking drugs in the context of Venezuela’s oil economy and Latin American politics. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/oil-motivate...

🎙️Starbucks workers are on strike for better staffing, hours, and pay. To talk about their struggle, we're joined by @anniemcc.bsky.social who describes the "super-exploitation" of service and gig workers via low wages and surveillance. Listen here and tip well: www.wortfm.org/from-tips-to...

🎙️On the anniversary of the Abundant Life Christian School shooting, @alimuldrow.bsky.social speaks with Dr. David Riedman, who tracks K-12 school shootings and writes about the white supremacist online communities that groom young people for violence. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-tragic-r...

🎙️ Wisconsin and Arkansas are the only states that have not expanded healthcare coverage for new moms. We hear from Megan O’Matz of @propublica.org about her investigation into Robin Vos’s rejection of postpartum Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/one-man-stal...

🎙️What could the next 50 years of WORT look like? We talk to the next generation of radio leaders to find out: Olivia O'Callaghan and Daniel Stein from @wsum.bsky.social and Ted Hyngstrom from the @dailycardinal.bsky.social. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/college-stud...

🎙️Esty Dinur is joined by Ojibwe elder, Great Grandmother Mary Lyons, who recaps what happened at the United Nations Climate Conference of Parties (COP 30) in Belém, Brazil last month. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/indigenous-v...

🎙️Nicholas Powers says that the Trump Administration is waging attacks on Black history and culture at three levels: the economic, the cultural, and through voting rights. He joins us to talk about his article from @truthout.org. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-transfor...

🎙️@dionnekoller.bsky.social tells host @alimuldrow.bsky.social that we can get a lot more play and good feeling out of youth sports, we just have to change the culture of winning-at-all-costs and open doors to make youth sports more accessible. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/arent-youth-...

🎙️Long-time Madisonian John Schlueter is the new Director of Dane County's Department of Human Services. He joins host Dana Pellebon today to talk about the array of services this department provides and the challenges it faces. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/what-does-th...

🎙️Brian Emerson has had a 90% success rate in getting kids to eat raw okra this year. He joins us to talk about innovations in urban agriculture education, like at the Madison School Farm and Grow Academy. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/teaching-kid...

🎙️ Host Esty Dinur spoke with @kamaufranklin.bsky.social at the Socialism 2025 Conference about "Cop City," police violence, organizing to challenge Trump, and more. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/cop-city-the...

🎙️What is the role of covert agencies like the CIA in a democracy? Our guest Peter Kornbluh of the @nsarchive.bsky.social poses this question on the 50th anniversary of the "Church Committee" that exposed the CIA's assassination plots in 1975. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/exploding-se...

🎙️Though they're given euphemistic names like "Lincoln Hills," youth prisons dehumanize children, especially Black and Brown children. Journalist Nell Bernstein tells the stories of youth and their families working to end youth incarceration. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/incarcerated...

🎙️ More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists attended COP 30. Kathy Mulvey of @ucs.org and @geoffdembicki.bsky.social of @desmog.com join us to talk about the conference and the decades-long campaign by the fossil fuel industry to spread climate disinformation. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/climate-disi...

🎙️In this prerecorded conversation from July, host Esty Dinur follows up with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon who speaks in more detail about Israel’s targeting of healthcare workers. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/a-trauma-sur...

🎙️Allen Ruff is joined by our traditional Thanksgiving guest, Will Williams, to reflect on perennial issues like colonialism, militarism, and racism–issues that stretch from the Pequot Massacre to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/annual-fires...

🎙️Carlos Pérez Osorio, who sailed with the Global Sumud Flotilla as a journalist last summer, joins @davaloss.bsky.social to talk about the successes and failures of their non-violent mission to open a humanitarian corridor to Gaza by sea. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/reflections-...

🎙️When the holidays get you down, find a buddy, breathe, and get off social media, says April Kigeya. She joins host Dana Pellebon to swap tips on surviving that large family get-together while taking care of yourself. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/april-kigeya...