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Tackling the Issues that Divide Us
Lawrence Pintak is the host of American Fault/lines (www.AmericanFaultlines.com), a ten-part series of post-inauguration programs focusing on issues that divide American society and divide America from the world. The series airs Sundays on FM News 101 KXL Portland, OR and is available online. Pintak is an award-winning former CBS News Middle East correspondent, founding dean of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University (2009-2016), Senior Non-Resident Fellow at The Atlantic Council, and contributor to ForeignPolicy.com. Read his articles at www.pintak.com. His books include Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam & the War of Ideas; Islam for Journalists (and Everyone Else); The New Arab Journalist; and Seeds of Hate: How America's Flawed Middle East Policy Ignited the Jihad. He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. Twitter @Lpintak.
Pres. Trump may have made nice with Saudi Arabia, but Muslims in America still feel under siege. We speak with a leading U.S. imam, an expert on Muslim American public opinion, the former head of counter-terrorism for the LAPD, and a Muslim activist.
This week, we ask the question, "Who Needs Immigrants?" It turns out we all do. We talk with experts on the impact of immigrants on the agriculture industry in the Pacific NW and the high-tech sector.
How culpable is the media for the political fragmentation of the nation? We explore that with the former presidents of CBS News and CNN, Andrew Heyward and Jonathan Klein; Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Civic Media Lab; and Tucker Doherty, Politico data reporter.
We look at the role of the West coast "Blue states" in confronting the Trump administration with Anthony Rendon, Speaker of the California Assembly, and Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
We’re broadcasting from Qatar this weekend: If Trump thought healthcare was complicated, wait until he tries to bring peace to the Middle East.
Our guests include syndicated columnist Rami Khouri, Mehran Kamrava of Georgetown University-Qatar, and al-Jazeera Syria correspondent Zeina Khodr.
President Trump. A lot of people are still horrified by those two words. This week marks 100 days in office for the Trump Administration. The avalanche of executive orders and random tweets coming out of the White House has kept an awful lot of people busy. We’ll take a look at how well the checks & balances are holding up, and how well the opposition movement is doing. Guests include Gonzalo Martinez de Vedia of the opposition group Indivisible, Doug Honig of the ACLU, author and lawyer Steven Harper, Javier Corrales of Amherst College, and David Stoesz and Molly Watkins of the Seattle branch of the Resistance Salon movement.
Airdate: KXL Portland, April 23, 3 p.m.