Author Thomas Frank reflects on the end of the Bill O’Reilly era. The development of O’Reilly’s persona. The renewed Sanders and Clinton battle. The bizarre anti Sanders bias of some of the Democratic elite. The Democratic elites failed belief in big data. Why Elizabeth Warren needs to run for Pr...

Thomas Frank author of The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism, explains the main takeaways from Thomas Piketty’s book, what Piketty gets right and wrong, why the debate on inequality is over, the importance of the Estate Tax? Mad Men and the “conqu...

Sarah Jaffe, explained the origins of the fast food workers strike in New York City, the impossibility of living off of fast food wages and low paying jobs become middle class jobs through organizing. Also Sam took apart a plutocrat Donahue Peeples on Up With Chris last winter and he gave an incr...

Thomas Frank explained why the mainstream Democratic Party rejects populism, the succes of the rights toxic social populism and how our economic debates are no longer empirical. Sam and Thomas reminisced about Rick Santelli’s rant at the Chicago Stock Exchange that helped launched the Tea Party a...

Author of What’s the Matter with Kansas Thomas Frank revisits the conservative state of Kansas where the wealthy are excused from income tax and the tea party agenda is in full swing.  Also, Ted Alexandro reports from OccupyCITI.  In the better half, a Libertarian debate, your calls and IMs.

Author Thomas Frank on the crisis of accountability plaguing our nation.  How the elite handle crisis management, the corrupting force of money and the complete collapse of professional ideals.   His Huffington Post article “Too Smart to Fail: Notes on an Age of Folly”.  In the better half, Truth...

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