Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
I was looking forward to a quiet Thursday in which I could talk with Howie Klein about the travesty of ticket prices for live concerts on the day after a new Bruce Springsteen tour’s start. I’ll likely miss my first Bruce tour since 1980’s The River due to Ticketmaster’s “dynamic” and exorbitant prices. But we…
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Finding it difficult to keep all the investigations, prosecutions, special counsels and the rest of the stuff surrounding the former guy straight? Welcome to the club! Today, we connect the dots… or listen to Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net, as she connects the dots for us!
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Friday evening, just an hour or two after this show featuring a conversation with Leon Schagrin, an actual survivor of the Holocaust who was liberated at Auschwitz 78 years earlier, we saw the video of a group of police officers beat an innocent young man to death. Whether at a concentration camp in Germany under…
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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which comes on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camps. Leon Schagrin was there. He was an 18-year old man, weighing all of 80 pounds, on this day back in 1945 when the Soviet army came through and liberated the prisoners. Leon was just 12 or…
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