producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins
Chloé LaCasse (the best of the attitude)
streaming live at wnhnfm.org noon & 7pm EST on the dial-94.7FM Concord NH Early On Sunday morning Nov 16 i joined c-span's Wash Journal to discuss the govt shutdown, the release of the Epstein files and the potential impact of these and other issues on the 2026 election. I am sharing it with you as my Thanksgiving show because the c-span callers cover the political landscape of America and I believe that the Q and A will give you, my audience, a chance to hear the challenges we face finding a democratic path forward...
and the last 10 minutes is a conversation with Prof Jamie Rowen of U Mass Amherst, we talk about thanks and hope and end with this:--
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”
Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark