
Episodes List

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
Air Date: 2013-02-15
Dan Cantor, New York Working Families Party; Jonathan Soros, Friends of Democracy super PAC; the power of poetry with Martin Espada.

Ep.7 Taming Capitalism Run Wild
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Ep.8 Fighting Creeping Creationism
Air Date: 2013-03-01
Anti-creationism activist Zack Kopplin; author Susan Jacoby discusses secularism.

Ep.9 What We Can Learn From Lincoln
Air Date: 2013-03-08
Screenwriter Tony Kushner talks about Abraham Lincoln.

Ep.10 Ending the Silence on Climate Change
Air Date: 2013-03-15
Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.

Ep.11 What Has Capitalism Done for Us Lately?
Air Date: 2013-03-22
Economist Richard Wolff analyzes income equality; Sheila Bair, former chairperson of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Ep.12 And Justice for Some
Air Date: 2013-03-29
Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, discusses the American justice system; an essay on the idea of justice for all.

Ep.13 MLK's Dream of Economic Justice
Air Date: 2013-04-05
Historian Taylor Branch and theologian James Cone discuss Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of economic justice.

Ep.14 Living Outside Tribal Lines
Air Date: 2013-04-12
Economic inequality in California; writer Sherman Alexie.

Ep.15 A Mother Fights Toxic Trespassers
Air Date: 2013-04-19
Activist Sandra Steingraber discusses protecting children from toxic trespassers contaminating air, water and food.

Ep.16 Trading Democracy for National Security
Air Date: 2013-04-26
Journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses the Boston Marathon bombings; political scholars Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann.

Ep.17 The Sandy Hook Promise
Air Date: 2013-05-03
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.

Ep.18 How People Power Generates Change
Air Date: 2013-05-10
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.

Ep.19 The Toxic Politics of Science
Air Date: 2013-05-17
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.

Ep.20 Going to Jail for Justice
Air Date: 2013-05-24
Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, co-founder of Peaceful Uprising; columnist Gretchen Morgenson.

Ep.21 Living Outside Tribal Lines
Air Date: 2013-05-31
Economic inequality in California; writer Sherman Alexie.

Ep.22 Taming Capitalism Run Wild
Air Date: 2013-06-07
Economist Richard Wolff; activist Saru Jayaraman.

Ep.23 Big Brother's Prying Eyes
Air Date: 2013-06-14
Professor Lawrence Lessig, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

Ep.24 United States of ALEC: A Follow-Up
Air Date: 2013-06-21
ALEC -- the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Ep.25 The Faces of America's Hungry
Air Date: 2013-06-28
Filmmaker Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton, director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, discuss hunger in America; journalist Greg Kaufmann.

Ep.26 Surviving the New American Economy
Air Date: 2013-07-05
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.

Ep.27 Distracted From Democracy
Air Date: 2013-07-12
Columnist Marty Kaplan discusses economic inequality in the U.S.; historian Gary May.

Ep.28 A New Case for Gun Control
Air Date: 2013-07-19
Tom Diaz discusses gun control; Baldemar Velásquez fights for the rights of farmworkers.

Ep.29 John Lewis Marches On
Air Date: 2013-07-26
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) discusses his leadership role during the civil-rights movement of the 1960s.

Ep.30 The Faces of America's Hungry
Air Date: 2013-08-02
Director Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton, director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, discuss hunger, food insecurity and poverty in America.

Ep.31 Taming Capitalism Run Wild
Air Date: 2013-08-09
Economist Richard Wolff; activist Saru Jayaraman.

Ep.32 How People Power Generates Change
Air Date: 2013-08-16
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.

Ep.33 America's Gilded Capital
Air Date: 2013-08-23
Journalist and author Mark Leibovich discusses his views on Washington, D.C.

Ep.34 John Lewis Marches On
Air Date: 2013-08-30
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) discusses the 1963 march for civil rights.

Ep.35 What Are We Doing in Syria?
Air Date: 2013-09-06
Correspondent Deborah Amos, National Public Radio; historian Andrew Bacevich; guest host Phil Donahue.

Ep.36 The Collision of Sports and Politics
Air Date: 2013-09-13
Davie Zirin, sports editor of The Nation.

Ep.37 Robert Reich on Inequality for All
Air Date: 2013-09-20
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich discusses the movie "Inequality for All," which examines income disparity in America.

Ep.38 Saving the Earth From Ourselves
Air Date: 2013-09-27
Kumi Naidoo, international executive director of Greenpeace.

Ep.39 Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet
Air Date: 2013-10-04
Writer Wendell Berry discusses the environment.

Ep.40 Citizens United: The Sequel
Air Date: 2013-10-11
Yale Law School professor Heather Gerken discusses McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission; historian Joyce Appleby.

Ep.41 The Debt Ceiling Is a Nuclear Bomb the US Has Aimed at Itself
Air Date: 2013-10-18
British journalist Martin Wolf discusses the debt ceiling debate and its potential impact on the global economy; MIT professor Sherry Turkle.

Ep.42 Progressives Pick Up the Pieces
Air Date: 2013-10-25
Financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson; historian Peter Dreier.

Ep.43 The Top Secret Trade Deal You Need to Know About
Air Date: 2013-11-01
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."

Ep.44 How Dollarocracy Is Destroying America
Air Date: 2013-11-08
John Nichols, The Nation; professor Robert McChesney.

Ep.45 The Path of Positive Resistance
Air Date: 2013-11-15
Dr. Jill Stein, co-founder of the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities; Dr. Margaret Flowers, Physicians for a National Health Program.

Ep.46 Zombie Politics and Casino Capitalism
Air Date: 2013-11-22
Author Henry Giroux; remembering novelist Doris Lessing; the documentary "Birth of the Living Dead."

Ep.47 Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet
Air Date: 2013-11-29
Author and environmental activist Wendell Berry; short documentary "Dance of the Honey Bee."

Ep.48 Behind Washington's Closed Doors
Air Date: 2013-12-06
Mark Leibovich, The New York Times Magazine, discusses Washington's powerbrokers.

Ep.49 Gunfighter Nation
Air Date: 2013-12-13
Historian Richard Slotkin talks about guns and violence in America.

Ep.50 Incarceration Nation
Air Date: 2013-12-20
Civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander.

Ep.51 The Pope, Poverty, and Poetry
Air Date: 2013-12-27
Historian Thomas Cahill discusses Pope Francis and the relevance of the church in the 21st century.

Ep.52 State of Conflict: North Carolina
Air Date: 2014-01-03
The battle of American politics rages on in North Carolina.