🎙️Emily Widra of the @prisonpolicy.org and James Morgan of MOSES Madison talk about the inequities of the carceral system and how Medicaid cuts will reduce access to life-saving healthcare for incarcerated people in rural areas. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/when-rural-h...

🎙️Host @alimuldrow.bsky.social speaks with poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney about her loving, tender, and hilarious new collection, Joy Is My Middle Name. They talk about new and better reasons to cry, service work, and yesterday's election results. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/crying-for-j...

🎙️Dana Pellebon celebrates the magic of theater with Dr. Erica Halverson who has dedicated her career to studying how people learn in and through the arts. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/a-whoopensoc...

🎙️ The UW-Platteville campus at Baraboo is the 13th UW school to close since 2023. Rep. Karen DeSanto and Neil Kraus discuss how shrinking educational opportunities are hurting rural and first-gen students across the state. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/uw-system-be...

🎙️Palestinian writer and human rights activist, Ahmed Abu Artema, joins us from exile to talk about the genocide in Gaza, the ceasefire, and the hardships in Gaza prior to October 7. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/we-are-here-...

🎙️Latin American expert, @rodrigoac7.bsky.social discusses the context for the US air strikes on small vessels in the Caribbean and off the Pacific coast of Columbia. He calls this yet another instance of the US engaging in regime change. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-long-his...

🎙️There are more trans candidates running for office than ever @josierosec.bsky.social tells host @dinaninaxo.bsky.social. They talk about the courage of trans leaders and the chaos the Trump administration is sowing. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/trans-leader...

🎙️In the last week of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we discuss the role that UNIDOS plays in breaking barriers for Latinx survivors of domestic violence in Dane County through direct services and community education.  Listen here: www.wortfm.org/local-non-pr...

🎙️ Reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org discusses her investigations into ICE sweeps and the growing number of US citizens who are being violently detained by federal immigration agents. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/ice-raids-te...

🎙️Inspired by our guest, @robintransition.bsky.social author of How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World, listeners share their visions of the future. What are yours? Listen here: www.wortfm.org/running-joyf...

🎙️Israeli forces have violated the terms of the ceasefire at least 80 times, killing dozens of Palestinians, since the ceasefire was announced on October 10. On the show, Middle East expert Mouin Rabbani weighs in on the ceasefire and what might come next. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/dont-mistake...

🎙️A new book by @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social and Dr. Decoteau Irby looks at the outcomes of equity initiatives in public schools. They join us to discuss how educators can do equity work at a time of increased attacks on DEI and education more generally. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/standing-up-...

🎙️ Dana Pellebon speaks with Dr. Robyn Koslowitz about how the experience of parenting can be an opportunity to heal from trauma, break from patterns of perfectionism or disassociation, and build stronger relationships with your kids. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/your-trauma-...

🎙️Though there are millions of caregivers in the US, the nation faces a crisis in caregiving that includes a shortage of paid workers to meet the growing need and unpaid caregivers are feeling burned out, say today's roundtable guests. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/finding-resp...

Today, Host Esty Dinur speaks with cultural anthropologist and professor @uehling.bsky.social about her book Decolonizing Ukraine: the Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-struggle...

Today @annalekasmiller.bsky.social joined Allen Ruff to talk about the impact of immigration policies on couples and families and her book Love Across Borders. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/anna-lekas-m...

Co-founders of @autonomynews.co @susanrinkunas.com and @garnethenderson.com join Ali Mudrow for a wide-ranging conversation about the changing landscape of abortion across the world. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/founders-of-...

Today we were joined by two guests, Dexter Patterson @wiscobirder.bsky.social and Scott Spoolman who discussed the books they will present at the Wisconsin Book Festival: Birds of the Great Lakes, and Wisconsin State Parks. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/wisconsin-au...

🎙️Today we flip the script, and host Esty Dinur takes the guest seat to be interviewed about her time on the air, love of radio, and her vast catalog of shows with guests like Judi Bari, Richard Powers, Gary Webb, Noam Chomsky, and many more! Listen here: www.wortfm.org/honoring-30-...

🎙️Award winning historian, Greg Grandin, talks about his new book, America, América: A New History of the New World and how the US came to understand itself as a nation in relation to the rest of the Western Hemisphere, not just to Europe. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/how-latin-am...

🎙️We're entering week two of the government shut down and ICE is violently raiding neighborhoods in Chicago. To make sense of these pages straight out of the Project 2025 playbook, @alimuldrow.bsky.social is joined by @thelisagraves.bsky.social. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/project-2025...

🎙️@annielauriegaylor.bsky.social of @ffrf.org.web.brid.gy says that more folks than ever identify as non-religious, but that hasn't stopped Christian nationalists from eroding the separation of state and church by putting the 10 Commandments in schools. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/theres-no-tr...

🎙️Today we feature community-based climate solutions with Jess Stahl of @grist.org, and Deneine Christa Powell of the Urban Sustainability Directors Network. Powell says that sustainability isn't a luxury, but a necessary part of life. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/sustainabili...

🎙️The global drug trade is at home in the US military, says journalist Seth Harp who joins us on the show today to talk about his new book, The Fort Bragg Cartel, out now from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/drug-traffic...

🎙️Hypocrisy is the main theme of today’s show; from Supreme Court rulings about racial profiling, affirmative action, and court injunctions, @tasullivan21.bsky.social who writes for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social sees a troubling trend emerging.  Listen here: www.wortfm.org/sliding-from...

🎙️Madison poet laureate Steven Espada Dawson and Madison youth poet laureate Octavia Ikard discuss how art responds to and drives political life, the idea of selfishness and self-expression, and how formal poetry can bring order to chaos. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/local-poet-l...

🎙️Mosaic artist Laurel True is coming back to Madison to work on an installation at the new Bartillion Men’s Shelter. She took feedback from community members, staff, and over 40 men's shelter clients in designing the project. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/creative-pla...

🎙️Climate scientist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social there’s no conflict between getting the facts right and having feelings about them. Her new book, Human Nature, tells the stories of humans taking action to protect the world around them. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/facts-and-fe...

🎙️A proposed bill getting bipartisan support in Wisconsin would require state agencies to follow the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. Our guest today, Raz Segal, says the definition is vague and harmful. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/defining-ant...

🎙️We're arriving at the "death rattle of democracy" says today's guest, @girouxh.bsky.social. Giroux reflects on political violence, neoliberal fascism, and the weaknesses of the corporate media in the US and offers advice for resistance. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/were-living-...

🎙 Amari Johnson found contemporary resonances of maroonage in the Algiers parish of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He tells host Dana Pellebon about how the Black Star Cafe sought education for liberation. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-maroon-t...

Today we are joined by Missy Jeanne and Ben Smith, two of the creators of GLEAM, the annual outdoor evening exhibit at Olbrich Gardens. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/gleam-art-ex...

🎙️Dr. Sagashus T. Levingston is a scholar and author who wants to change the narrative around economic shame and Black motherhood. She tells @alimuldrow.bsky.social about "infamous mothers," orgasms, home ownership, and so much more! Listen here: www.wortfm.org/mothering-do...

🎙️ As Madison and Dane County prepare their upcoming budgets, the issue of how to address housing is front and center, especially for Dairy Drive. Alder Davy Mayer and Supervisor Heidi Wegleitner weigh in on what could be the future of the community. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-future-o...

🎙️Higher education excellence is not catering to the wealthy but meeting the needs of the average student, says @glastris.bsky.social. He's the editor of @washingtonmonthly.com which just put out its 2025 college rankings. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/a-successful...

🎙️Political violence is front and center in the news and today’s conversation. In this 2-part show, @staceyabrams.com discusses the state of autocracy in the US and @thantmyintu.bsky.social reflects on the life of his grandfather, the peacemaker U Thant. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/stacey-abram...

🎙In the US, Albert Einstein isn’t well known for his views on socialism. But in 1949, he wrote an essay for the inaugural issue of the Monthly Review called “Why Socialism.” John Bellamy Foster joins us to discuss Einstein and his legacy as a socialist. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-smartest...

🎙️ Journalist @hco96.bsky.social tells @alimuldrow.bsky.social about the intrepid Argentinian grandmothers who took great risk to find their missing daughters and grandchildren in the face of the brutal dictatorship that covered it up. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/the-indomita...

🎙️Today we celebrate the joy of reading with Rowan Childs of the Madison Reading Project. She tells host Dana Pellebon that we have to not only teach kids how to read but how to love reading. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/getting-joyf...

🎙️Andrea Debbink is the latest Naturalist in Residence at @madisonlibrary.bsky.social. She talks about her love of black walnut trees and Starkweather Creek, recommends children’s nature books, and advises listeners on how to get to know your local birds. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/do-you-know-...

🎙Norma Wong advises listeners do small things to create a better world and not fixate on fighting everything that you are ideologically opposed to. She draws from her new book, When No Thing Works, from @natlanticbooks.bsky.social. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/collective-a...

🎙️Journalist and scholar Oswaldo Zavala speaks with @davaloss.bsky.social about the myth of drug cartels, the US’s military occupation of Mexico, and his study of the Latin American author, Roberto Bolaño. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/how-the-drug...

🎙️Steven Olikara says that music is a good metaphor for how to engage in the political sphere. He says we should be like jazz musicians because they’re expert listeners, skilled improvisers, and actively engaged in call and response. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/reinventing-...

A little peek behind the curtain of what I do as a radio talk show producer for @apublicaffair.bsky.social . Check it out: www.wortfm.org/producers-di...

🎙️Wisconsin has a constitutional obligation to public education, but more and more state money is being funneled into voucher schools says @hdbwi.bsky.social of the @wiscednetwork.bsky.social. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/public-educa...

🎙️On Labor Day we uplift the work of immigrant farm workers who grow the nation's food but often face hunger themselves. We're joined by Alba Velasques of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council and Darin Von Ruden of the Wisconsin Farmers Union. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/immigrants-a...

🎙️ Tune in this week to hear @hdbwi.bsky.social and @davaloss.bsky.social and shows on labor, education, the border, and more. We're live every weekday from 12-1pm CT at 89.9FM and wortfm.org. And we take calls! If you have a question or comment, we want to hear from you: 608-256-2001.

🎙️Listeners kept the phones ringing today during our open line show. Host Esty Dinur heard from callers concerned about vaccines and public health as well as the political health of the democratic party. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/open-line-wi...

🎙️Migrant communities and labor organizing are intrinsically connected says @malcriada.bsky.social. She draws a line from anti-immigrant movements of the 1920s to the present in her recent writing for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social and @inthesetimes.com. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/repatriation...

⭐️ WORT is proud to announce that Dana Pellebon is the newest host on A Public Affair. ⭐️ Dana is the Executive Director of RCC Sexual Violence Resource Center, serves on numerous non-profit boards, and is active in Madison's theater scene. Hear Dana every Tuesday from 12-1pm. 📸 MOD Media Productions