A Public Affair

09/04/2024

How are you feeling about the presidential election? Hear our guests' takes here:

You can not walk down the street, turn on your tv, or scroll social media without being reminded that we are in a presidential election year. In November, Former President […]

09/04/2024

ICYMI: Douglas Haynes had a wonderful conversation about the role of organized labor in high education with TAA - Graduate Worker Union of UW-Madison's Daniel Levitin and AFT-Wisconsin's Jon Shelton. Check it out here:

“I’m profoundly motivated this Labor Day,” Jon Shelton tells A Public Affair host Douglas Haynes. Shelton, Vice-President for Higher Education of the American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin, joins the program to […]

09/02/2024

Happy Labor Day! Tune in for a specially show about labor organizing in higher ed with guest Jon Shelton (AFT-Wisconsin) and Daniel Leviton (TAA-Madison).

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08/30/2024

ICYMI: Jeliel Victoria Peña De First and Nindik Celeste Velásquez discuss the state of Venezuelan democracy.

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Jeliel Peña de First speaks with Nindik Figueredo about the ongoing election crisis in Venezuela.

08/30/2024

On today's show, guest host Jeliel Victoria Peña De First speaks with
Nindik Celeste Velásquez about the ongoing election crisis in Venezuela.

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08/29/2024

ICYMI: host Allen Ruff was in conversation with social critic and educator, Henry Giroux about the reactionary trend to discipline and punish student dissent.

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Henry Giroux speaks with Allen Ruff about the reactionary trend to discipline and punish student dissent on college campuses.

08/28/2024

ICYMI: get the latest about the BRT launch with Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway.

Host Ali Muldrow is joined by Mayor Rhodes-Conway and Justin Stuehrenberg, the General Manager of Metro Transit, to talk about BRT.

08/28/2024

On today's show we're talking about the upcoming BRT launch with
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and Justin Stuehrenberg of Metro Transit.

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08/27/2024

ICYMI: Host Sara Gabler speaks with Amanda Tyler of Christians Against Christian Nationalism.

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Amanda Tyler says Christian nationalists have co-opted Christianity’s teachings and traded the message of “love thy neighbor” for political power.

08/27/2024

On today's show, Sara Gabler speaks with Amanda Tyler about white Christian nationalism.

Tune in at 12pm CT and call in 608-256-2001.

08/26/2024

ICYMI: listen to Karma Chávez chatting with Rachelle Winkle-Wagner about how Black women build community in higher education.

Karma Chávez returns to chat with education scholar Rachelle Winkle-Wagner about her new book on Black women in higher education.

08/26/2024

At noon today, guest host Karma Chávez speaks with Rachelle Winkle-Wagner about her new book The Chosen We: Black Women’s Empowerment In Higher Education.

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08/23/2024

ICYMI: guest Halah Ahmad comes on the show to talk about how Palestinian Americans are excluded from the DNC. Then the WORT news team shares their experiences on the ground with protests in Chicago.

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Halah Ahmad talks about how Palestinian-Americans were shut out of the DNC. And then the WORT news team talks about the protests at the DNC.

08/22/2024

ICYMI: Activist and author Bill Ayers joins the show to talk about the peace movement, the contradictions of electoral politics, and the liberatory power of movement building.

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Activist Bill Ayers joins the show to discuss the DNC, the power of the peace movement, and the path forward for Leftist politics.

08/21/2024

ICYMI: Fair Wisconsin's Abigail Swetz comes on the show to talk about her path to LBGTQ+ advocacy, the power of teachers, and the future of q***r activism in Wisconsin.

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Guest Abigail Swetz joins the show to talk about her new role at Fair Wisconsin and the way forward for LBGTQ+ activism in the state.

08/20/2024

ICYMI: Anthropologist Aisha Beliso-De Jesús joins guest host Jessa Nicholson-Goetz to talk about her new book "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease." She talks about the history of how police mis-categorize deaths in their custody.

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Anthropologist Aisha Beliso-De Jesús talks about her new book and the invention of "Excited Delirium Syndrome."

08/19/2024

ICYMI: Heather Swan joins host Douglas Haynes to talk about the way humans and insects interact, and stories of inter-species connection from her new book "Where the Grass Still Sings."


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UW lecturer Heather Swan on the surprising depth and profundity of our relationships with insects and the natural world.

08/16/2024

ICYMI: Esty Dinur speaks with journalist Joe Conason about grift, Trump University, and what Conason says is the moral decay of conservatism.

Listen here: https://www.wortfm.org/the-long-line-of-grifters-before-trump/

08/15/2024

ICYMI: Armando Ibarra speaks with Allen Ruff about what makes anti-immigrant narratives so appealing and how to counter these narratives.

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08/14/2024

ICYMI: On our summer roundup show we talk about things that make Madison great, from the Madison Public Market to the new BRT system and the Madison Night Mares.

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From the Madison Public Market to the new BRT system and the Madison Night Mares, Madison a beautiful place to live.

08/14/2024

Today at noon we're hosting a late summer Madison roundup. Tune into hear about the Madison Public Market, new Metro bus fare technology, and the Madison Nightmares inaugural season.

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08/13/2024

ICYMI: Abigail Leavins spoke with Nick Ramos about the new legislative maps and their impact on the primary election today.

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Nick Ramos breaks down what’s on the primary ballot and how the state's new legislative maps might impact the election.

08/12/2024

ICYMI: Alex Booker and Douglas Haynes talk all things gardening.

Douglas Haynes and Alex Booker chat about using all your senses when you garden, how to make pesto with weeds, and more.

08/12/2024

On today's show Douglas Haynes speaks with Alex Booker, naturalist in residence with Madison Public Library, about the Badger Rock Urban Farm, making pesto from weeds, using gardening for liberation, and more.

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This show is prerecorded.

08/09/2024

ICYMI: Petra Molnar talks with Esty Dinur about the the incursion of surveillance technologies into everyday life and more. Listen to the full conversation here: https://www.wortfm.org/technologies-of-border-violence-with-petra-molnar/

08/09/2024

And on today's show, Esty Dinur will be speaking with lawyer and anthropologist Petra Molnar about her new book, "The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence."

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08/09/2024

Catch Allen Ruff's conversation with Palestinian analyst Mouin Rabbani about the growing threat of conflict in the Middle East. Listen here:

Palestinian commentator and Middle East observer, Mouin Rabbani, provides context for latest events and where things might be headed.