KPFA - Against the Grain

Progressive Talk

Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.

Episodes

Counting Care Work

Organizing to Win

Criminalizing Dissent

Oil and Global Capitalism

Marion Nestle on Food Choices and Food Politics

Trump and the Powers of the U.S. Presidency

Against Climate Doomism

Fund Drive Special: Unlikely World Makers

Fund Drive Special: Unmasking the Far Right

Against the Grain – July 22, 2026

Strength and Sex

Americans: Unequal and Sick

The Mass Revolts of the 2010s

Rolling Stone and the Limits of the Counterculture

Against the Grain – July 13, 2026

America’s Drug Binge

In Search of Shade

What Movies Have Wrought

Thinking Beyond Prisons

U.S. Empire and Sexual Morality