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How safe and effective are the drugs we take? Why do Americans pay more for prescription drugs than people in other high-income countries? Jerry Avorn, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, explains why ineffective, dangerous and overpriced drugs make it through the FDA approval process in his new book Rethinking Medications. Tune in on Friday […]

This Wednesday at 9am on the Peace & Justice Report, Tom will talk to Betsy Leondar-Wright, co-author of Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Her book is a study of how red and blue white people disagree, and offers a better method of making judgement calls.

On Friday April 11th, 2025 at 6:30pm I’ll be interviewing Alan Weisman. In his new book Hope Dies Last Weisman documents how people from all over the world are coping with our ecological predicament. The stories range from rewatering the marsh that might have been the Biblical garden of Eden to kelp farming, fusion reactors […]

This Wednesday on the 9am Peace & Justice Report we’ll talk about Canada. Our guest will be Colin Robertson, a former Canadian diplomat, and Vice President and Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

Locking people away for long periods of time seems like a tough but effective way to deal with crime but multiple studies have shown that states with draconian sentences have the same amount of crime as states with more lenient laws. Imprisoning just one person costs tens of thousands of dollars per year and there’s […]

This Wednesday morning we’ll first talk to Florida Studio Theatre actress Rachel Moulton about the play The Cancellation of Lauren Fein. Then we’ll learn about Servas, which offers free homestays all over the world.

In the late 1970’s and early 80’s the New Deal era where the government regulated businesses and protected citizens from the excesses of capitalism was overturned by Neoliberalism the idea that the market, left to its own devices, would produce an optimal economic system. Neoliberalism was wildly successful at producing billionaires. Their incredible wealth, disproportionate […]

WSLR BOARD MEETING – FEBRUARY 24, 2025 5:15 PM  Location: Hybrid Meeting at WSLR Music Library Meeting Space ZOOM LINK:   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81836401983?pwd=DQgcsP8Z9VHcIYlKQN2beZ0ob4NkXD.1 Meeting ID: 818 3640 1983 Passcode: 854530 One tap mobile +13052241968,,81836401983#,,,,*854530# US Mission Statement: WSLR + Fogartyville is a center for creative expression and community engagement that amplifies the voices of our diverse […]

This Wednesday, February 19, at 9am, we’ll talk to Sasha Abramsky, author of Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far Right Takeover of Small Town America. We’ll also talk to Carol Lerner of Support Our Schools!

In his book Should We Go Extinct Todd May takes an objective look at what we add to the community of life on the planet and what we destroy. This isn’t a call to end humanity as much as it’s a call to be better humans and citizens of Earth. You can hear the program […]