Brian Burghart

KCRW is joining other public radio stations up and down the state to mark the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.

The former Congress member talks to Robert Scheer about his life and the dramatic events surrounding his political rise, as told in his new book “The Division of Light and Power.”

Josh Barro talks with panelists Rachel Bovard, Elizabeth Bruenig

John Kiriakou, a CIA torture whistleblower, offers expert insight into Israel’s most recent attacks on the Palestinian territories on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence”

In California, the “big lie” that fueled the January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection — that Trump actually won the November election — continues to fester.

The cost of living surged 5% last month, according to the Department of Labor. That’s the highest inflation rate we’ve seen in more than a decade.

Isaac Bryan is the founding director of the UCLA Black Policy Project and a big proponent of Measure J, which funds alternatives to incarceration.

More than half of all American adults have been vaccinated, according to the Biden administration, and life is seemingly speeding back to normal.

Joe Mathews says that focusing on the state budget, when it appears in good shape, obscures California’s systemic failures.