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Katie Halper
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Host, Katie Halper Show and Freelance Writer, WBAI-FM (New York, NY)
New York
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Biography
Katie Halper is a comic, writer, blogger, satirist and filmmaker based in New York and the host of The Katie Halper Show on WBAI. Katie graduated from The Dalton School (where she teaches history) and Wesleyan University (where she learned that labels are for jars). A director of Living Liberally and co-founder/performer in Laughing Liberally, Katie has performed at Town Hall, Symphony Space, The Culture Project, DC Comedy Festival, all five Netroots Nations and The Nation Magazine Cruise, where she made Howard Dean laugh! and has appeared with Lizz Winstead, Markos Moulitsas, The Yes Men, Cynthia Nixon and Jim Hightower. Her writing or videos have appeared in the New York Times, Comedy Central, The Nation, Gawker, Nerve, Jezebel, the Huffington Post and Alternet, and Katie has been featured in/on New York magazine, the Los Angeles Times, In These Times, Gawker, Jezebel, MSNBC, Air America, GritTV, the Alan Colmes Show, Sirius radio (which hung up on her once) and National Review, which called Katie “cute and somewhat brainy.”
art, health, photojournalism theatre,Finance, world affairs real estate, Q & A, national affairs music, history
Content
By Katie Halper| Useful Idiots@ Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:04:42Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. MONDAY MAY 5 in NYCPalestine: the Moral Issue of Our Time with Gabor Maté and Chris Hedges Tickets here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/palestine-the-moral-issue-of-our-time-with-gabor-mate-and-chris-hedges-tickets-1316539207209?aff=oddtdtcreatorUseful Idiots is an audience-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber
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By Aaron Mate Verified, Katie Halper| Useful Idiots@ In what looked like the beginning of a new recession last week, the markets plummeted in response to Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs across the globe. Even Trump’s richest friends, who have been proven in the past to control Trump’s policy (see his first-term tax cut), couldn’t change Trump’s mind. But then the market kept tanking, and tanking, and tanking, all while billionaires like Musk and Bill Ackman and Mark Cuban bad-mouthed Trump on Twitter
Company Info
WBAI-FM (New York, NY)
New York, United States