Jacobin contributing editor Melissa Gira Grant author of  Playing The Whore: The Work of Sex Work, the history of legal regulations of selling sex, the role of race and immigration in criminalizing sex work, does being a sex worker mean you are a victim? The range of experiences of sex work, the ...

Slate contributing writer Emily Bazelon explains Judge Richard Leon’s ruling against the NSA’s metadata collection, why the government has not been able to prove that its methods are essential for thwarting terrorists, how ordering pizza from Dominos explains the NSA’s mass over reach, the issue ...

Sam debates Libertarian Peter Schiff over the Contraception Mandate.  Plus, postmortem conversions by the Mormon Church?  And in the better half, Monsanto as poster child for why corporations aren’t good citizens in the absence of regulation. Your calls and IMs.