Sam and Emma host professor Mark Robert Rank to discuss his new book Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty on realities of American poverty and what has to be done to reduce suffering in 21st century America. Plus, the MR community says goodbye to Jamie. On today’s show: Fox News says Covid relief bill is too […]

Sam hosts Vanessa Williamson (@V_Williamson), a Brookings Institute fellow, to discuss her recent piece in Dissent Magazine, “The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy,” on how the cult of the “taxpayer” functions as an effective veneer to push through racist attacks on democracy. On today’s show: Cori Bush says House should impeach Trump, a white supremacist president, […]

Activist Sarah Slamen whose amazing testimony and forced removal from a hearing at the  Texas State Legislature won national attention. Author, biologist, environmental activist, and mother Sandra Steingraber explains why she went to jail for her environmental activism and Alabama small businessman John Mullins who called out Congressman Mike Rogers on Austerity destroying the economy. And keep the […]

Economist and co-author author of the new book The Benefits of Full Employment: When Markets Work for People, Dean Baker explains what full employment means, why demand problems drive the modern economic crisis, economic myths feeding unemployment, all the many benefits of full employment, why government is pursuing anti employment policies, generational debt myths, what needs to […]

The Cheney sisters fight over Liz’s opposition to marriage equality, astroturf Fix the Debt austerity organization caught plagiarizing, why Fix the Debt would raise student interest rates, Washington Post publishes absurd Social Security editorial, poverty spikes among elderly women, how the long term jobless are not getting hired and Sheldon Adelson makes the “moral” case […]

Professor Mark Blyth, explained the three big reasons austerity is a problem, the impact of global trade on austerity policies, the history of the idea of austerity, why the United States is in a stuttering recovery and the Europeans have created self created depression by practicing austerity, why growth is the answer to debt and […]

Nick Trioano co-founder of The Can Kicks Back, made the deficit hysteria case, but couldn’t explain why we need cuts, Sam explained why cost savings in Medicare should come from efficiency, debated Social Security cuts, debunked life expectancy statistics, Trioano sold the “Confidence Fairy” hard and Sam wanted to know what “shared sacrifice” meant. On […]

Chris Hayes, explained why the Brennan hearings focused so heavily on institutional jockeying, the policy consensus on targeted killing, the subjective reasoning behind the targeted killing program, how and when could the “War on Terror” end? The importance of defining peace time counter terrorism and the austerity caucus have lost some of their power but […]

Yale Professor Jacob Hacker explained his new project “Prosperity Economics”, why obsessing over the deficit right now is putting the cart before the horse, how low interest rates mean now is an excellent time to invest in infrastructure, eduction and human capital. Why debt hysteria holds us back and how it is based on a […]

Happy Monday all! Today we have Ari Berman (@ariberman) of The Nation (@thenation) joining us to talk austerity class. Ari Berman’s article: http://www.thenation.com/article/164073/how-austerity-class-rules-washington Don’t forget! The Podcast Awards voting ends this week and you can vote ONCE PER DAY. Vote for us in both People’s Choice and Politics/News categories at http://PodcastAwards.com!