Roosevelt Institution Fellow, Mike Konczal, explains why trade agreements are not about trade. Why today’s generation of trade agreements are about corporate deregulation. Why trade agreements favors tobacco interests over public health. Why the TPP is even worse. Why we can’t combat global warmi...

The Nation Institute’s Esther Kaplen explains how local hospitals are being taken over by national hospital chains and how this is undermining public health and safety, how corporations are taking over the non profit sector in healthcare delivery in rural America, is there a civil and legal push ...

Ari Berman, author of Herding Donkey’s, on SCOTUS v. Affordable Care Act: the votes of the Justices, the impact on reputation of the Court, mobilization of the Right and implications for Medicaid.  Also, voter suppression, the Voting Rights Act and the DOJ.  And joining us with a Friday movie pic...

350.org environmental activist Bill McKibben talks Tim DeChristopher, Key Stone XL pipeline and calls out Fossil Fuel industry for taking massive federal subsidies.  Dave Zirin on powerful political voice of athletes, suicide rates of retired NFL players and more.  In the better half, Romney and ...

Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley kicks off the show talking banking reform and good process government.   Friday favorite Cliff Schecter from Libertas, LLC shares the line up.  Gaius Publius from AMERICAblog, discusses pushing Progressive ideals forward,  Joe Sudbay from AMERICAblog speaks on marria...

Mike Sacks, Huffington Post Supreme Court correspondent, on oral arguments addressing controversial Arizona immigration law SB1070.  Also, Katrina vanden Heuvel fromThe Nation,  discusses relentless attacks on women’s rights.  “Rupert Murdoch” calls in, Pennsylvania as petri dish for fracking ind...

Sam in Vegas for Mass Torts.  Ari Berman, the Nation & Herding Donkeys, on Federal Judiciary; political leaning of SCOTUS; impact of next Presidential election and Obama indifference toward record Federal Bench vacancies.  Plus, attorney James Kauffman on details of Jobs Bill.  Cliff stops by...

Ari Berman from the Nation on how the GOP is adeptly maneuvering Congressional and state legislative maps to their benefit, wresting control of voting districts away from Democrats, resegregating the South.  In the better half, Catholic bishops continue their stink over contraception coverage, Sa...

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