On today’s show, David T. Courtwright, author of The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business and presidential professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of North Florida, joins us. On today’s show: Mike Pence observes men in cages at Southern border. David T. Courtwright, author of The Age of Addiction: How […]

Johann Hari the author of  Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs explains why the world owes Colombia and Mexico an apology. Why stigma and punishing addicts creates violence and instability. How drug prohibition has created stunning violence in the drug business. Will the next UN drug summit actually listen to […]

Journalist Matt Taibbi explains what drove him to write his new book The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, how Wall gets away with criminality, how the poor are treated in today’s criminal justice system, the systemic abuse of the poor, statistic based policing policies and Stop and Frisk, the story of Andrew […]