The Katie Halper Show takes a (hopefully) humorous look at the news, politics, pop culture, and the arts through news segments and conversations with writers, journalists, activists, artists and political comedians. Katie Halper, co-host Gabe Pacheco and engineer Reggie Johnson chat it up and bring you segments like "Excuse You," "Right Wing Erotica," "Family Values,"  and “The Sixty-Second Rant."

Born and raised on the mean streets of New York City’s Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comedian, writer, filmmaker and history teacher based in New York. 

A co-founder and member of the comedy ensemble Laughing Liberally, Katie has performed at Town Hall, Symphony Space, The Culture Project, D.C. Comedy Festival,  and The Nation Magazine Cruise. Katie's writing and videos have appeared in Salon, The New York Times, Comedy Central, The Nation Magazine, Jezebel,  Guernica, Alternet, Raw Story, Feministing and more. Katie appears regularly on HuffPost Live as well as MSNBC, RT, the Alan Colmes Show, Sirius radio (which hung up on her once).  The National Review calls comedian Katie “cute and somewhat brainy.”

Katie co-produced Tim Robbins’s film Embedded, (Venice Film Festival, Sundance Channel); Estela Bravo’s Free to Fly (Havana Film Festival, LA Latino Film Festival); was outreach director for The Take, the Naomi Klein/Avi Lewis documentary about Argentine workers (Toronto & Venice Film Festivals, Film Forum); co-directed New Yorkers Remember the Spanish Civil War, a video for Museum of the City of NY exhibit.

Katie went to Florida in 2008 with Judy Blume and Letty Cottin Pogrebin to tell Jews to vote for Obama and wrote the viral online videos Women for McCain, Jews for McCain and Gays for McCain. 

Katie’s latest project is her award-winning film, COMMIE CAMP, a documentary about Camp Kinderland, the summer camp the Right loves to hate.

Katie went to the Dalton School, where she has taught history, and Wesleyan University, where she learned that "labels are for jars."


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This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with artist, writer, and VICE contributor Molly Crabapple, whose work deals with subcultures, politics, and rebellion. Molly discusses how she uses her sketchpad as a lock pick to the larger world, from sneaking into Manhattan at the age of 14, to illustrating the trials at Guantanamo Bay. 

Here is Molly's work on VICE: http://www.vice.com/author/Molly-Crabapple

Sketching Rebellion with Molly Crabapple: VICE Podcast 023

From the Occupy Wall Street movement to the economic crisis in Greece, artist Molly Crabapple has never shied away from politically charged stories. Now, she's lending her artistic talents to a project commemorating the more than 100,000 Syrians who have died in during the past three years of conflict. The idea, she says, is to remember these people as individuals, not statistics.

Why artist Molly Crabapple decided to sketch Syria's dead

In a probing and personal conversation, Reza Aslan opens a refreshing window on religion in the world and Islam in particular. It’s a longer view of history and humanity than news cycles invite — certainly when it comes to the Arab Spring, or to ISIS. His life is a kind of prism on the fluid story of religion in this century. But in a globalized world, we all have a personal stake in how this story unfolds.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/reza-aslan-on-islams-reformation/7039

Reza Aslan — Islam's Unique Contributions to Democracy

On the second episode of The Katie Halper Show, historian Claire Potter joins us live in studio to talk about the Confederate Flag, how we talk about history and when racism and heritage are the same thing. She'll probably surprise you with her recommendations for reliable sources. I play an interview with one of the major organizers of Take Down The Flag SC, Mariangeles Borghini. We also bring you a Trump update or "Trumpdate," and how one Mexican artist responded to his claim that Mexico is sending over a bunch of rapists. Spoiler alert: it involves candy, a stick, and bashing. And we debut our how-full-of-it-are-you-eter. 

Ep 2: Historian Claire Potter debunks the Confederate Flag debate

The debut episode of The Katie Halper Show looks at Donald Trump, his "great relationship with the blacks," and the song he should have played when he announced his presidency. Then Rebecca Carroll and Syreeta McFadden discuss  the "transracial mishegas" that is Rachel Dolezal story, and Ava Farkas, the executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Housing talks about what she got arrested and placed in string handcuffs over. Also in the studio are Gabe Pacheco and Reggie Johnson. 

Ep 1: "Transracial Mishegas" Rebecca Carroll & Syreeta McFadden on Rachel Dolezal

On Episode 3 of the Katie Halper show, we talk to Jelani Cobb of the New Yorker about the sliding scale definition of racism, which makes it so easy for people to claim they're not racist.  Pablo Benson Silva talks about the Puerto Rican debt crisis, Giovanni Zelko and Andrew Kirell talk about Islamophobia. And Gabe Pacheco and I talk about our night with Jimmy "The Rent is too damn High" McMillan. Plus, Gabe has a thing for blue-eyed gorillas and Katie floats a brown-eyes-only guest policy. 

Ep 3: Jelani Cobb & Jimmy "The Rent is Too Damn High" McMillan

On episode 4 of The Kate Halper Show, Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight talks to us about a study which finds that Black Americans are almost eight times as likely as white Americans to be victims of homicide. Comedians Ted Alexandro and Desiree Burch talk about politics and humor, and Chris Cobb discusses how he encouraged New York City to recognize site of a former slave market on Wall Street and mark it with a plaque. And speaking of terrible, greedy, rich white men, we give you a Trumpdate. Did you know that there is a Donald Trump State Park? Well, we at The  Katie Halper Show are renaming it. We have some great candidates. And they're Mexican. 

Ep 4: Nate Silver, Ted Alexandro, Desiree Burch, NYC's Slave Market

On episode 5 of The Katie Halper Show, political comedian Justin Williams goes through the headlines of the week, Ali Gharib talks about Iran and his infiltration of alcoholic terror-cells, Meredith Clark shares her Wisconsinite and journalistic insights into Scott Walker, And Fernando Sosa the Mexican-born and raised artist explains what inspire him to create the Donald Trump The Butt Plug as well as other butt plugs and inaction figures. 

Ep 5. The Donald Trump Butt Plug, Meredith Clark, Ali Gharib, Justin  Williams

Poem #26 in my 2016 National Poetry Month project ARTSPEAK! Plant. Grow. Eat. This poem inspired by "Madame Monet and her Son" by Auguste Renoir. Read the poem and others in the series at http://irenelatham.blogspot.com/2016/04/artspeak-2016-poem-26-sunday-afternoon.html.

ARTSPEAK! 2016: "Sunday Afternoon" a poem Irene Latham

Donald Trump is giving new meaning to “bully pulpit,” ratcheting his irrational campaign rhetoric to new and dangerous lows. In North Carolina Tuesday, he said: “Hillary wants to abolish—essentially, abolish—the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick—if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is.” Trump’s suggestion that his supporters could assassinate Hillary Clinton or the judges she might appoint provoked outrage, not only nationally, but around the globe. His virulent, demagogic language did not alienate everyone, though; as more and more Republicans denounce Trump, he still enjoys fervid support from some personalities at Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel and the National Rifle Association. This unholy trinity of Trump, Fox and the NRA could easily provoke political violence during this campaign season. ||| Listen to Amy Goodman’s podcast, which is recorded in conjunction with her weekly column published here: democracynow.org/blog. Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist, syndicated columnist, author, and the host of Democracy Now!, an independent, global daily news hour. She is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the “alternative Nobel Prize” for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.”

Donald Trump’s Implied Assassination Threat, Fox News and the NRA

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Ten years ago this week, on December 30, 2006, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed. Hussein was toppled soon after the U.S. invasion began in 2003. We continue our conversation with former CIA analyst John Nixon, author of the new book, "Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein."

CIA Interrogator Reveals Saddam Hussein Predicted Rise of ISIS & U.S. Failure in Iraq

What Do The Words Mean Though

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Journalist Max Blumenthal talks to us about the #Russiagate hysteria and why he's more hopeless than he's ever been about the world. We talk about hot dog vending and how on earth people are managing to "f*** up the resistance to Trump"?

Max Blumenthal on #Russiagate & "How do you f*** up the resistance to Trump?"

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