The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show

Host Joe Uris asks, "Why is the electric company trying to stop solar power in Oregon?" He also looks back at the history of Labor Day. And he does his best to raise operating funds for KBOO Community Radio! Read more

Negotiations over the Trans-Pacifc Partnership have stalled, at least for the time being. With Labor Day just past, It's a good time to dig into why TPP is bad for labor, bad for small business, and bad for everyone except the 1 percent. Abe and Joe take your calls. Read more

As money has steadily corroded the machinery of American government, it has also rendered the two major political parties philosophically incoherent, with little discernable ideology beyond servicing the needs of their donors. One side may rumble about the environment or ge... Read more

The Northwest is ablaze. The Western U.S. and Canada are in their fourth year of drought. The 10 hottest years on record have all happened since 1998. Can we stop arguing about climate change already? Abe and Joe take your calls. Read more

Joe Uris hosts a discussion of the value of nonviolence and whether the strategy of violent confrontation is valuable. Read more

The Turkish government recently took the opportunity presented by its U.S.-backed air war against the Islamic State to bomb positions held by its old enemy, the Kurds. Abe and Joe take up a conversation begun this spring about the fate of the Kurds, who straddle four states... Read more

Last week, something extraordinary happened in Portland. Ordinary people put their bodies between a major oil company and its target, the oil beneath the Arctic Ocean. Abe and Joe take your calls and lead a discussion about global warming and the current and future state of... Read more

OK, well, we had decided not to get into this yet because the freaking election is still 16 months away. But there's just so much crazy. It's comedy gold. The Republican field of presidential candidates -- 20 strong and counting -- is a rogue's gallery of free-market fundam... Read more

Thanks to the honorable Senators from GM, Ford, Toyota, Daimler, Honda, and BMW, if you're an American auto executive, it's not actually a crime to knowingly sell a defective car. Despite, y'know, any unpleasantness that might result. Abe and Joe look into the business of g... Read more

There are two economic myths that persist in conservative circles, no matter how often objective reality proves them wrong. The first is the claim that everyone does better when the rich are taxed less; the second is that there is an epidemic of laziness out there, and that... Read more