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WMC Live
November 16, 2025 | Laura Bates | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #487: Not Knowing When We've Lost or Won. (Original Airdate 11/16/2025)

Robin analyzes off-year elections, and welcomes back Laura Bates, who discusses AI as well as her just-out book, The New Age Of Sexism.

WMC News & Features
November 14, 2025 | Niamh Ní Hoireabhaird | Girls, Politics
New Report Calls for End to Child Marriage in US

While the United States has pledged to eliminate forced and child marriage by the year 2030, there are still 34 states where child marriage is still permitted.

WMC Live
November 09, 2025 | Irina Tsukerman | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #486: Across Species. (Original Airdate 11/9/2025)

Robin talks cybersecurity with special guest Irina Tsukerman, and shares an astonishing scientific anomaly.

WMC News & Features
November 07, 2025 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, LGBTQIA, Politics
Trump’s Second Term Escalates Assault on Transgender Youth

The attacks are coming from all three branches of the federal government as well as state legislatures.

WMC Live
November 02, 2025 | Shazia Z. Rafi | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #485: Elegy for The White House. (Original Airdate 11/2/2025)

Robin mourns the destruction of the East Wing by Trump. Special Guest Shazia Rafi plots an alternative "states' rights" campaign to save democracy.

WMC Live
October 25, 2025 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #484: Baboons and The Golden Rule. (Original Airdate 10/26/2025)
Robin reports on the second “No Kings” protests across the US, and discusses remarkable primates with special guest and primate scientist Dr. Shirley Strum, author of Echoes Of Our Origins: Baboons, Humans, and Nature.
WMC Live
October 12, 2025 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #483: Disinformation Blues. (Original Airdate 10/12/2025)
Robin re-analyzes Ancient Greece and the (feminist?!) Myceneans. Special Guest: Cécile Simmons, an online misogyny expert and author of CTRL HATE DELETE: The New Anti-Feminist Backlash and How We Fight It.
WMC Live
October 05, 2025 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #482: Practical Ways to Save the Planet. (Original Airdate 10/5/2025)
Robin talks with special guest Dr. Heidi Sevestre. Also, Heartening Words.
WMC News & Features
October 02, 2025 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Politics
“107 Days” Documents Kamala Harris’ Glass Cliff

Harris’ memoir of the 2024 election shows how unfree she was both as vice president and as Democratic presidential nominee.

WMC Live
September 28, 2025 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #481: Costly Speech. (Original Airdate 9/28/2025)
Robin discusses The US Court System and the First Amendment with New York State Supreme Court Justice (Ret.) Emily Jane Goodman.
WMC Live
September 21, 2025 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #480: Porn, Purity, & the First Amendment. (Original Airdate 9/21/2025)
Robin on how pornography defined US morality. Guest: Judith Giesberg, author of Sex and the Civil War.
WMC Live
September 14, 2025 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #479: Why We Speak. (Original Airdate 9/14/2025)
Robin's summer sum-up. Guest: Evolutionary biologist Madeleine Beekman on her book, The Origin of Language, positing childcare (!) is why we speak.
WMC News & Features
August 29, 2025 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, Politics
Trump Administration Moves to Ban Abortion Care for Veterans

A proposed rule change would bar Veterans Administration health care providers from offering abortion counseling and referrals.

WMC News & Features
August 05, 2025 | Susan Buttenwieser | Immigration, International, Politics
Trump Administration’s Latest Target: Women Seeking Asylum

A recent decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals will make things more difficult for women making claims of gender-based persecution.

WMC News & Features
July 17, 2025 | Lisa Danetz | Politics
The SAVE Act Is Part of Broader Effort to Limit Voting

The measure, passed by the U.S. House, would have made it harder for women, elderly, young, and many other groups of citizens to register to vote.

WMC Live
June 29, 2025 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #478: Getting to Work. (Original Airdate 6/29/2025)
Robin dissects procrastination, and discusses poetry and writing with her special guest, the writer Sandra Cisneros.
WMC News & Features
June 23, 2025 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, Politics
Three Years After Dobbs, Assessing the Damage and the Way Forward

June 24 marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Three years on, as legislatures in some states impose severe restrictions, advocates and providers are fighting to keep abortion accessible.

WMC Live
June 22, 2025 | Gail Dines | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #477: Pornland. (Original Airdate 6/22/2025)
Robin revisits the feminist campaign against violent pornography and finds new and harrowing statistics—yet new and hopeful developments. Guest: Dr. Gail Dines of Culture Reframed and author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.
WMC Live
June 15, 2025 | Kathy Spillar | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #476: Insurrectionists. (Original Airdate 6/15/2025)
Robin discusses Ms. Magazine with her special guest, Executive Editor Kathy Spillar: the magazine's reporting, tactics, strategy, and inspiration in these dark times. Robin reflects on what "Insurrectionist" really means.
WMC News & Features
June 13, 2025 | Susan Buttenwieser | Health, Politics
Update: Despite Abortion Rights Law in Missouri, Providers Are Still Unable to Offer Care

In November, Missouri voters passed a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights. But anti-abortion lawmakers have been working ever since to find a way to ban abortion once again.

WMC Live
June 01, 2025 | Krishanti Vignarajah | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #475: Seeking Global Refuge. (Original Airdate 6/1/2025)

Robin reports the realities of the lives endured by women and children refugees and migrants with her guest, Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge—herself an immigrant.

WMC Live
May 25, 2025 | Margot Wallström | Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #474: Neither Fear Nor Favor. (Original Airdate 5/25/2025)
Robin revisits the Biden presidency in light of new revelations. Special Guest: feminist Margot Wallström, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden.
WMC News & Features
May 19, 2025 | Stacy Bannerman | Gender-based violence, Politics, Violence against women
Advocates Bring Action Against Pentagon for Service-Related Domestic Violence

Victims of military domestic violence are filing claims against the Pentagon for damage, injury, and death.

WMC Live
May 18, 2025 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #473: Ice, Loss, and Hope. (Original Airdate 5/18/2025)
Robin's conversations explore the great Arctic ice with climatologist Twila Moon, a eulogy for Cecile Richards—and Bourbon Pecan Pie.
WMC Live
May 04, 2025 Politics, Robin Morgan
WMC Live #472: Old Age Is Not For Sissies. (Original Airdate 5/4/2025)
Robin takes on a newfound constituency—the aging population. Guest Judy Karofsky talks about her powerful new book, "DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice," describing her care for her mother.
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