Author: Marianne Barisonek

How prepared are you? In their book, Chris Begley and Amy Edelman provide common sense tactics to get through disasters. Listen to an interview with the authors on the Progressive Page Turner, this Monday, 6:30pm.

In his book, Jonathan Rosenblum looks at how a socialist city council member in Seattle pushed unwilling Democrats to the left.

When we think of people using magic mushrooms or LSD it’s not usually grandparents who come to mind. Join me Monday Aug. 3 at 6:30pm for an interview with Abbie Rosner about her book.

From Maine to California, Americans are protesting Trump’s immigration policies. In her book ‘Breaking ICE’, Sonali Kolhatkar talks with the people on the front lines. Listen to Marianne Barisonek’s interview with Kolhatkar this Monday, 6:30pm.

How bad will it get before meaningful action is taken on climate change?

In September of 2025 Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a national divorce arguing that Red and Blue states had so little in common it was time for them to part company. She isn’t alone. There are secession movements on both the right and the left as polarization in the country is on the rise. But […]

There is an epidemic of loneliness in the United States. Alone, we watch the country slide away from democracy and toward dictatorship. We need to band together to fight for what had already been won. Staying in it for the long run means learning how to get along with others. In his book Love in […]

What if we have it all wrong? We accept unemployment, inflation, low wages, lack of access to healthcare and education, periodic recessions, ecological collapse, food insecurity and endless wars as inevitable. The underlying belief in a market driven system is the bedrock of our economy. We’ve handed our lives and resources over to a mechanism […]