Interview with Stanley Heller, administrator of the New Haven, CT -based group Promoting Enduring Peace and host of the TV newsmagazine “The Struggle," conducted by Scott Harris.

Stanley Heller talks about the global campaign to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the prominent Palestinian pediatrician and director of North Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been imprisoned by Israel without charge or trial since Dec. 27, 2024. Reports indicate Dr Safiya is suffering deteriorating health without adequate medical attention, where eyewitnesses say his condition is life threatening, unless he’s freed very soon.

Interview with J. Patrick Coolican, editor-in-chief of Minnesota Reformer, conducted by Scott Harris.

J. Patrick Coolican addresses both the worry and complacency among many Democrats regarding Trump’s clear plan to intervene and manipulate the outcome of the November midterm election. He discusses his recent article, “The Blueprint for Fighting Trump’s Attempt to Sabotage the Election, Drawn up in Minnesota,” about Doran Schrantz ‘s 14-page Democratic party internal memo titled, “Act Free to Be Free: A State and Local Pro-Democracy Framework.”

Interview with Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize–winning former New York Times foreign correspondent, conducted by Scott Harris.

Chris Hedges discusses his recent commentary titled, “Trump’s Phantom Enemies,” which asserts the Trump regime is linking Cuba with domestic, communist subversion and is laying the groundwork for McCarthyite blacklisting and criminalizing of all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent.

Hedges was bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for 15 years and author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a National Book Critics Circle finalist, and A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.

Interview with William LeoGrande, professor of government, dean emeritus of the School of Public Affairs at American University Washington, D.C., conducted by Melinda Tuhus.

Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Professor LeoGrande about the history of U.S.–Cuba relations and the dire conditions faced by the Cuban people during this Trump regime engineered humanitarian crisis.

Interview with Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy and chairman of American studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, conducted by Scott Harris.

Professor Stanley discusses his work at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Yale University's response to Education Secretary Linda McMahon's letter to U.S. universities and colleges asking their leaders to publicly commit to a series of institutional changes, many of which are in line with the Trump administration’s higher education, and political agenda. He also assesses the Trump regime's threat to interfere with, and manipulate the outcome of the 2026 midterm election.

Interview with Annelle Sheline, research fellow with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.

Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Annelle Sheline, who resigned from the State Department in March 2024 in protest over President Biden’s unconditional support for Israel’s military operations in Gaza. She now serves as a research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Here she explains the danger of integrating the U.S. and Israeli military budgets would present and the likelihood of its approval by Congress as part of the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act.

Interview with Khury Petersen-Smith, Michael Ratner Middle East fellow and the co-director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Scott Harris.

Khury Petersen-Smith talks about the new IPS report, “Forging a Democracy that Works for All: Countering the Power of Billionaires, Corporations, and the Pentagon,” which proposes a detailed progressive blueprint to expand democracy by targeting the outsized influence of billionaires, corporations, and the military.

Interview with Amanda Hollowell, chief of campaigns with Color of Change, conducted by Scott Harris.

Amanda Hollowell discusses her group’s campaign opposing congressional approval for $10 billion to implement key sections of President Trump’s “Save America Act,” designed to make it harder for millions of Americans to vote, primarily targeting communities of color. Although the House approved the $10 billion which is part of a $95 billion reconciliation package, the measure must first be approved by the U.S. Senate in order to be implemented.