Political Gold with Josh Silver: Trump says the U.S. press should be more like China's—does anyone care? Also, the midterms elections will be nailbiters.

9/25/26, Co-Host Josh Silver Max Page & UMass Prof of Economics and Public Policy, Michael Ash, discuss the new Fed Reserve findings on the wealth, more accurately, lack of wealth, of most families in Massachusetts and how to make our state more equitable. Live and we mean aLIVE in the studio, Agua de Moringa, a band from Rio de Janeiro, performing at Bombyx on Sunday and on our show today. These musicians, playing the bandolim, clarinet, 6-string guitar, 7-string guitar, cavaquinho and pandeiro, with an out-of -this- world vocalist, are amazing. Political Gold with Josh Silver: Trump says the U.S. press should be more like China's—does anyone care? Also, the midterms elections will be nailbiters. Professor of Peace and World Security Studies Michael Klare on Artificial Intelligence and its potential to initiate a nuclear world. Professor Klare haz just returned from a conference on this topic at the Arms Control Association in Washinton D.C., where he is a Senior Visiting Fellow. ArtBeat. Donnabelle Casis' guest is Jason Montgomery of 50 Arrow Gallery, who speaks about the upcoming Gaon Soloists concerts and the screening of White Nine, the film about the group of disabled activists whose organizing lead to the founding of Stavros. Their conversation touches on art, disability history, independent living, and Stavros' work today.