
Episodes (52)
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Ep 1
Paul Krugman on Why Jobs Come First
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Ep 2
Fighting the Filibuster
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Ep 3
What's Fueling the Modern Abortion Debate
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Ep 4
Are Drones Destroying Our Democracy
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Ep 5
Who's Widening America's Digital Divide
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Ep 6
The Fight to Keep Democracy Alive
2013-02-15•N/A
Dan Cantor, New York Working Families Party; Jonathan Soros, Friends of Democracy super PAC; the power of poetry with Martin Espada.
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Ep 7
Taming Capitalism Run Wild
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Ep 8
Fighting Creeping Creationism
2013-03-01•N/A
Anti-creationism activist Zack Kopplin; author Susan Jacoby discusses secularism.
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Ep 9
What We Can Learn From Lincoln
2013-03-08•N/A
Screenwriter Tony Kushner talks about Abraham Lincoln.
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Ep 10
Ending the Silence on Climate Change
2013-03-15•N/A
Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
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Ep 11
What Has Capitalism Done for Us Lately?
2013-03-22•N/A
Economist Richard Wolff analyzes income equality; Sheila Bair, former chairperson of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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Ep 12
And Justice for Some
2013-03-29•N/A
Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, discusses the American justice system; an essay on the idea of justice for all.
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Ep 13
MLK's Dream of Economic Justice
2013-04-05•N/A
Historian Taylor Branch and theologian James Cone discuss Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of economic justice.
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Ep 14
Living Outside Tribal Lines
2013-04-12•N/A
Economic inequality in California; writer Sherman Alexie.
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Ep 15
A Mother Fights Toxic Trespassers
2013-04-19•N/A
Activist Sandra Steingraber discusses protecting children from toxic trespassers contaminating air, water and food.
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Ep 16
Trading Democracy for National Security
2013-04-26•N/A
Journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses the Boston Marathon bombings; political scholars Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann.
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Ep 17
The Sandy Hook Promise
2013-05-03•N/A
Francine Wheeler, whose son Ben was among the children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and singer Peter Yarrow, discuss the power of music to create change; David Wheeler talks about resolving the gun issue.
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Ep 18
How People Power Generates Change
2013-05-10•N/A
Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; Rachel Laforest, executive director of Right to the City and Madeline Janis, co-founder of Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy.
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Ep 19
The Toxic Politics of Science
2013-05-17•N/A
Public health historians David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz discuss the dangers of lead; Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics; Danielle Brian, Project on Government Oversight.
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Ep 20
Going to Jail for Justice
2013-05-24•N/A
Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, co-founder of Peaceful Uprising; columnist Gretchen Morgenson.
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Ep 21
Living Outside Tribal Lines
2013-05-31•N/A
Economic inequality in California; writer Sherman Alexie.
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Ep 22
Taming Capitalism Run Wild
2013-06-07•N/A
Economist Richard Wolff; activist Saru Jayaraman.
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Ep 23
Big Brother's Prying Eyes
2013-06-14•N/A
Professor Lawrence Lessig, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
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Ep 24
United States of ALEC: A Follow-Up
2013-06-21•N/A
ALEC -- the American Legislative Exchange Council.
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Ep 25
The Faces of America's Hungry
2013-06-28•N/A
Filmmaker Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton, director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, discuss hunger in America; journalist Greg Kaufmann.
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Ep 26
Surviving the New American Economy
2013-07-05•N/A
First profiled 22 years ago, two American families in Wisconsin struggle to keep up with the changing U.S. economy; authors Barbara Miner and Barbara Garson.
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Ep 27
Distracted From Democracy
2013-07-12•N/A
Columnist Marty Kaplan discusses economic inequality in the U.S.; historian Gary May.
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Ep 28
A New Case for Gun Control
2013-07-19•N/A
Tom Diaz discusses gun control; Baldemar Velásquez fights for the rights of farmworkers.
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Ep 29
John Lewis Marches On
2013-07-26•N/A
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) discusses his leadership role during the civil-rights movement of the 1960s.
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Ep 30
The Faces of America's Hungry
2013-08-02•N/A
Director Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton, director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, discuss hunger, food insecurity and poverty in America.
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Ep 31
Taming Capitalism Run Wild
2013-08-09•N/A
Economist Richard Wolff; activist Saru Jayaraman.
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Ep 32
How People Power Generates Change
2013-08-16•N/A
Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; Rachel LaForest, executive director of Right to the City; Madeline Janis, co-founder of Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy.
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Ep 33
America's Gilded Capital
2013-08-23•N/A
Journalist and author Mark Leibovich discusses his views on Washington, D.C.
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Ep 34
John Lewis Marches On
2013-08-30•N/A
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) discusses the 1963 march for civil rights.
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Ep 35
What Are We Doing in Syria?
2013-09-06•N/A
Correspondent Deborah Amos, National Public Radio; historian Andrew Bacevich; guest host Phil Donahue.
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Ep 36
The Collision of Sports and Politics
2013-09-13•N/A
Davie Zirin, sports editor of The Nation.
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Ep 37
Robert Reich on Inequality for All
2013-09-20•N/A
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich discusses the movie "Inequality for All," which examines income disparity in America.
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Ep 38
Saving the Earth From Ourselves
2013-09-27•N/A
Kumi Naidoo, international executive director of Greenpeace.
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Ep 39
Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet
2013-10-04•N/A
Writer Wendell Berry discusses the environment.
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Ep 40
Citizens United: The Sequel
2013-10-11•N/A
Yale Law School professor Heather Gerken discusses McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission; historian Joyce Appleby.
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Ep 41
The Debt Ceiling Is a Nuclear Bomb the US Has Aimed at Itself
2013-10-18•N/A
British journalist Martin Wolf discusses the debt ceiling debate and its potential impact on the global economy; MIT professor Sherry Turkle.
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Ep 42
Progressives Pick Up the Pieces
2013-10-25•N/A
Financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson; historian Peter Dreier.
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Ep 43
The Top Secret Trade Deal You Need to Know About
2013-11-01•N/A
Yves Smith, the Naked Capitalism blog; Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research; a preview of "Unmanned: America's Drone Wars."
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Ep 44
How Dollarocracy Is Destroying America
2013-11-08•N/A
John Nichols, The Nation; professor Robert McChesney.
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Ep 45
The Path of Positive Resistance
2013-11-15•N/A
Dr. Jill Stein, co-founder of the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities; Dr. Margaret Flowers, Physicians for a National Health Program.
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Ep 46
Zombie Politics and Casino Capitalism
2013-11-22•N/A
Author Henry Giroux; remembering novelist Doris Lessing; the documentary "Birth of the Living Dead."
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Ep 47
Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet
2013-11-29•N/A
Author and environmental activist Wendell Berry; short documentary "Dance of the Honey Bee."
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Ep 48
Behind Washington's Closed Doors
2013-12-06•N/A
Mark Leibovich, The New York Times Magazine, discusses Washington's powerbrokers.
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Ep 49
Gunfighter Nation
2013-12-13•N/A
Historian Richard Slotkin talks about guns and violence in America.
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Ep 50
Incarceration Nation
2013-12-20•N/A
Civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander.
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Ep 51
The Pope, Poverty, and Poetry
2013-12-27•N/A
Historian Thomas Cahill discusses Pope Francis and the relevance of the church in the 21st century.
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Ep 52
State of Conflict: North Carolina
2014-01-03•N/A
The battle of American politics rages on in North Carolina.