please join me in welcoming alyssa and barbara ehrenreich. [applause] >> hello, i am barbara and i thought i'd start by introducing her little bit more. but sort of how i came to know her. i started as a than economic rem project which is this. there's more room for people up here. >> before she can along come i have to tell you we were floundering in many ways but i take a lot of the blame. i am not able to manage or figure out, you know, projects. i just like articles and essays and things like that. the idea was to be would raise money so that we could pay low income people, journalists generally coming and there is no shortage of the low-income journalists. so, because nobody else is paying us anymore. i don't know if i should mention the atlantic. >> there's been a 50% contraction in the news room soo that is a lot of jobs that are lost so we are seeing a lot of people. but also people who will turn in the 2,000 or 3,000 piece to some well-known online site and see wsaywe can pay $75 for that. that's impossible if you worked fowere tofor

. >> up next on booktv's "after words," barbara ehrenreich explores the science how the body ages. she center viewed by "new york times" science writer, barbara angier. "after words" is a show about interviewing nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> i'm here with barbara ehrenreich her new book, quote naturall causes," her straightforward what she started being in life a scientist. she studied science at rockefeller university. got her doctorate there, then became a noted activist and social justice warrior of the type but in this case i think it is really a wonderful change of pace going into the science in a way that perhaps has not been done before. looking at a lot of things we're concerned about now with the wellness movement, how much you can do with it, how much you can do with your body, how much control we actually have over ourbl health. so why don't you start by explaining the title, quote natural causes." >> sure. the publisher makes up the title. i had another title in my mind was old enough to die. they realized that is not a fifth you could give to your moth

and barbara ehrenreich on friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. what book tv on prime time on c-span2. >> sunday night on q&a freelance journalist on his washington post magazine article locked and loaded for the lord on the sons of the late in their church in new zealand, pennsylvania. >> what is going on at century church up in pennsylvania? it is a co- mingling of a lot of undercurrents in the country of religion, politics and guns and to a degree we have not seen before. it is still a small church and there's no question about that. sean is a worldwide following with the maybe 200 people and 500,000 or 2000 worldwide and in these days to follow a church on youtube or on the cast every week. but it is that commingling of passion and in america and what does it say about us as a culture and is this any precursor of what we might see -- when you get the genie out of the bottle of mixing mixing guns and religion in any society it's been problematic. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q and a. >> is part of our 50 capital store and wi

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michelle obama on her upcoming memoir "becoming" and on friday at 8:00 p.m., "afterwards" with barbara ehrenreich with her book "natural causes." killing ourselves to live longer. watch book tv in primetime on -span 2. >> at the white house briefing sarah sanders took questions from reporters on a number of issues including the president's meetings with potential nominees to replace supreme court justice anthony kennedy and reports that north korea was still working on its nuclear program. his is about 20 minutes. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> this morning the department of justice and the federal bureau of investigation's joint terrorism task force announced the arrest of an ohio man for providing material support to al qaeda. on sunday the suspect explained to an undercover f.b.i. agent that he was planning to conduct an attack in cleveland on independence day and a future terrorist attack in philadelphia. president trump commends the work of the d.o.j. and f.b.i. for helping stop this would-be attacker. to continue the ongoing and important work of denuclearization on the korean pen

and barbara ehrenreich with her book "dying: killing ourselves to live longer." watch us on prime time on cspan 2. >>> american history tv is in prime time this week starting at 8:00 eastern. philadelphia discusses how protests over the vietnam war impacted the city. tuesday, a symposium on world war i and cities. wednesday, a discussion on the declaration of independence and how it's been interpreted and applied in u.s. history. thursday, former white house photographers talk about the reagan, bush, clinton and obama administrations. and on friday, programs on the life and legacy of robert f. kennedy with a ceremony from arlington national cemetary acknowledging the 50th anniversary of his assassination. watch american history tv in prime time on c-span3. >>> now on american history tv, from a symposium titled "1968 philly and the world," a discussion on the role of sports and athletes and the social change and civil rights issues of 1968. we'll hear about how collegiate and professional athletes use their platforms to advocate for equal treatment for all, espec

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obama on her upcoming memoir, "becoming" and on friday at 8:00 p.m., afterwords with barba barbara ehrenreich. watch book tv in primetime on c-span2. >>> american history tv is in primetime this week. starting tonight at 8:00 eastern. historians discuss philadelphia in 1968, looking at how protests over the vietnam war impacted the city. tuesday, a symposium on world war i and future u.s. leaders, including a talk on quite eisenhower's stateside training of world war i troops and his extensive work with troops. wednesday, a discussion on the declaration of independence and how it's been interpreted and applied in u.s. history. thursday, former white house photographers talk about the reagan, bush, clinton, and obama administrations. and on friday, programs on the life and legacy of robert f. kennedy with a ceremony from arlington national cemetery acknowledging the 50th anniversary of his assassination. watch american history tv in primetime on c-span3. >>> as part of our 50 capitals tour and with the help of gci cable, the c-span bus visited alaska with a anchorage, the final stop on the tou

they would feel the door and apply heat up to 2300 degrees ehrenreich.t was hot enough to burn off in purity's and melt the gold down into liquid form. when the gold was molten, they would open the door, tip it forward and pour the liquid gold into brick mold like this. brick, 58 pounds. when the brakes were cooled, they would put it on the table and do cleanup. almost unbelievably to us today, the fb company would take each individual 58 pound brick of alaskan gold, rapid in brown paper, put a stamp on it and mail it to the mint in san francisco. >> thanks, george, for a wonderful explanation. i want to point out in the spring to get an early jump on the season, they had their own ice saw. it cut the pond ice into big chunks, haul it out, send another crew up on the davidson ditch, dynamite the waterway to bring the spring melt into get an early jump on the season. extending the mining season, a , toal season from 100 days well over 200 days, the company became the principal employer in the fairbanks district. by doing this, for over 40 years, the dredg