Intercept co-founder, journalist and author of the new book The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program, Jeremy Schaill explains the leaks delivered to the Intercept that reveal the Obama Administration’s global assassination program. How the Obama Administrati...

Greg Grandin, a professor of history at NYU and author of Kissinger’s Shadow explains the global scale of Henry Kissinger’s crimes (9:20).

MSNBC reporter and co-author of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg explains where the Notorious RBG meme came from. Why Justice Ginsburg has always been a trailblazer. Overcoming sexism and anti-semitism in the law. How Justice Ginsburg’s progressive politics were developed ...

More proof of the Lead theory of crime reduction.

M&M Look at  what caused the Sydney Siege? Religion or mental illness? The amazing Australian #illridewithyou movement, Uber’s horrible response to the Sydney Siege. Also Dick Cheney lies on torture and why we needed a truth and reconciliation commission on torture and the rights bizarre new ...

Foreign Policy journalist Ali Gharib explains why President Obama might be planning a drone war in Iraq, Obama’s secret wars, the failures of Bush and Obama’s foreign policies, why no one is addressing the roots of terrorism and what happens next in Iraq.

Cliff Schecter explains why Dick Cheney needs to be in prison for war crimes now, why Dick Cheney was right about Iraq in 1994, why Dick Cheney is even worse than other war promoters,Cheney’s failures as CEO of Halliburton, the Cheney criminal enterprise, Governor Scott Walker accused of engaging...

Professor and Informed Comment Juan Cole explains India’s election results, the controversial history of India’s next Prime Minister Narendra Modi, why the Congress Party lost, the politics of the Hindu far right, the fusion of religious nationalism and free market policies, what led to Turkey’s ...

Nation contributing writer and author of  the new ebook When Hollywood Turned Left: The Election Campaign That Changed Politics in Films Forever, Greg Mitchell explains the historic importance of Upton Sinclair’s leftist candidacy for Governor in California, Hollywood’s reactionary past, how Holl...

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...

Jim Bruce the writer/director of the new documentary Money For Nothing explains how the FED was created, why the FED plays such a large role in so many different parts of our economy, how the Alan Greenspan myth was created, how our economy has been distorted by the financial sector, the role of ...

The New Republic’s John Judis, explained what it was like opposing the invasion of Iraq in 2003, why military and intelligence experts opposed the war, the dangers of a non-transparent intelligence apparatus, has the press learned any lessons from Iraq? and Judis reflected on whether Republicans ...

Glenn Greenwald was on the program today, talking about his new article the “Normalization of Extremism.” Glenn and Sam talked about how policies once thought to be well outside of the mainstream such as torture and kill lists have become normalized in today’s politics and how some of our worst c...