Interview with Wanda Bertram, communications strategist with the Prison Policy Initiative, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has been ramping up raids, detentions and deportations across the country throughout the summer and now into the fall. The White House border czar Tom Homan said late last winter that if communities cooperated by allowing ICE access to individuals being held in local and county jails, he would pull back on community raids by armed and masked ICE agents that sowed chaos and death in Minneapolis and other cities.

But new analysis from The Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley and UCLA, finds that this hasn’t happened. In fact states which denied ICE access to their local jails have lower rates of immigrant arrests, while states that collaborated with ICE saw more immigration arrests. The researchers concluded that the Trump regime’s mass deportation project falters in places that resist.

Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Wanda Bertram, communications strategist with the Prison Policy Initiative, which analyzed the data. Here she summarizes their report which found that states and cities that block ICE access to jails decrease the number of arrests and deportations.

Interview with Heather Digby Parton, Salon columnist and writes Digby’s Hullabaloo blog, conducted by Scott Harris.

Heather Parton talks about her recent article, “The Dark Reasons Behind All the Richard Nixon Worship: MAGA needs to maintain its grip on the GOP after Donald Trump — and the 37th president is key.” The column outlines Trump supporters’ current effort to rehabilitate Nixon, along with unsupported charges that he was unjustly forced to resign in 1973 by the “deep state.”

Interview with Michael Zweig, emeritus professor of economics, founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and author, conducted by Scott Harris.

Professor Zweig talks about the 2026 midterm election debate about “socialism,” recent primary victories by Democratic Socialists of America candidates, and a growing number of Americans’ declining confidence in attaining the “American Dream.” Zweig is the author of Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism.

Interview with Ari Paul, New York City-based journalist and lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, conducted by Scott Harris.

Ari Paul discusses his recent FAIR.org column, “CNN Cleared to Join CBS Under Trumpian Paramount Ownership,” and issues related to the growing concentration of U.S. media ownership in the hands of Trump-friendly oligarchs.

Interview with Alexander Main, director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., conducted by Scott Harris.

Alexander Main assesses Brazil’s recent first-round presidential election where right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro received 2.25 million more votes than incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Main described the major issues debated, prospects for the final election round, and the Trump regime’s attempt to influence the outcome.

The 3rd episode of "Live Boldly with host Rev Sara Smith," features a conversation with John F. Stafstrom Jr., a prominent attorney and long-time partner at the law firm Pullman & Comley, LLC. and Julie Walsh Deputy Director with the Triangle Community Center in Norwalk, CT, centered on National Coming Out Day 2026 and the gay experience.

Rev. Sara Smith is Senior Minister of the United Congregational Church of Bridgeport, President/CEO and Founder nOURish BRIDGEPORT, Inc., and Sacred Heart University’s Protestant chaplain.

"Live Boldly" is broadcast on the 2nd Saturday of each month at 7:00 am on Listener Supported Community Radio, WPKN, 89.5 FM, WPKN.org.

Interview with Kimberly Scott, executive director of the Georgia Women's Action for New Directions Education Fund, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.

A rally outside New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Manhattan office opposed her support for building new nuclear power plants in the state to address surging demand from AI data centers and other energy-hungry projects. One of the rally speakers was Kimberly Scott, executive director of Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions Education Fund. Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus was there and spoke with Scott, who describes Georgia as ground zero for recent nuclear power development with all its attendant harms, and what her group is doing to help utility ratepayers cope.

Interview with Tom Smith, New Haven Advocate co-editor, conducted by Scott Harris.

Tom Smith, who served as an associate writer and columnist with the Advocate from 1987, talks about the recent relaunch of the New Haven Advocate as a quarterly alternative newspaper more than 50 years after the publication’s first printing, featuring news, commentary and humor. Smith, along with Colleen Van Tassell, and writer and illustrator John Guillemette, serve as the revived newspaper’s editors.