KPFA - Against the Grain

Progressive Talk

Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.

Episodes

Fund Drive Special: The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition

Fund Drive Special: Erasing the History of Racism

Fund Drive Special: Gabor Mate on Capitalism and Health

Fund Drive Special: Howard Zinn on His Life and Times

Fund Drive Special: Sex and Strength

The Long Struggle Against Equality

When 911 Calls Go Wrong

New York City and Health Justice

All Consuming

When the State Kills by Lethal Injection

Why Do Rural Poor People Support the GOP?

Unlikely World Makers

The Black Labor Movement

Queen of the Muckrakers

Big Tech’s Worldview

Is Legalization Enough?

U.S. Capitalism, Empire, and Anti-Asian Violence

Beckert on Global Capitalism

Immigrant Detention and the “Worst of the Worst”

Ancient Trees and Fossil Capitalism