The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show

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Host Joe Uris interviews French-American film director Penny Allen about the recent attacks on Paris and reaction to them. Penny is a former Portlander, whose first feature Property, made in Portland, was a prize-winner at the first Sundance festival in 1978.  In 2008, s... Read more

Middle-aged white dudes are dying young -- or, at least some of them are. The reason, apparently, is despair, and the problem seems to be concentrated mostly in the Old Confederacy. Why is this? Is this what happens when you feel your privilege ebbing away? Abe and Joe e... Read more

This Wednesday, the Portland City Council will vote on whether to oppose all future large-scale fossil fuel projects in the city. If the ban passes, it would be the most aggressive municipal fossil fuel policy in the natiion, and would mean no pipelines, no LNG terminals... Read more

If there's a unifying characteristic in American discourse, it's denial -- about global warming, about the state of middle class life, about the sustainability of global capitalism itself. Abe and Joe tour the many ways in which Americans -- particularly the conservative... Read more

The fall of the Soviet Union put an end -- at least for a time -- of the notion of Russia as the great enemy of the United States, the totalitarian antithesis of democracy (and, perhaps more importantly in the eyes of some, of capitalism). Under the dictatorial rule of V... Read more

Katrina van Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine, joins Abe and Joe in studio for a wide-ranging discussion. Read more

279 days have gone past in 2015. There have been 296 mass shootings in America during that same period, of which the tragedy at Umpqua Community College isn't even the most recent. It would seem that America has made its position on gun violence quite clear: It's the pri... Read more

There can't be an affordable housing problem in Portland, right? Just look at all the new high-density development going on everywhere! Leah Greenwood and Jes Larson join Abe and Joe in studio to discuss keeping Portland affordable for Portlanders of all stripes. Read more

A curious convergence is taking place at the moment. Pope Francis -- the most progressive Pope in recent memory -- is visiting the U.S. just as Congress is considering eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood. Coincidence? Perhaps. But it's a great opportunity to talk ... Read more