The Seattle Seahawks made a costly decision in last night's Super Bowl - one that cost them a championship. But in the long run - Pete Carroll's flub won't be nearly as costly to the rest of America as the NFL itself.

The Good! Croatia! The small European nation is doing something totally radical and progressive to help boost its economy. Tune in and find out just what they are doing...

Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future / The Zero Hour joins Thom. The people of Ireland showed up in force this weekend - protesting that nation's newly proposed austerity measures. After seeing what austerity did to Greece - why would Irish lawmakers want anything to do with it?

Around 50 rural hospitals have closed nationwide - leaving millions of Americans without easy access to potentially life-saving healthcare. What's behind this string of shutdowns - and what can Republicans do to keep our hospitals open? Joining Thom for more on all of this is Mayor Adam O'Neal - Republican Mayor of Bellhaven, North Carolina.

In tonight’s show, Thom talks about the water protests in Ireland and calls for more austerity in Europe with Richard Eskow, Senior Fellow at Campaign for America’s Future and host of radio show, The Zero Hour.

Thom's guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is one of America's most influential thinkers on muliticulturalism and race - Professor Derald Wing Sue. Currently a Professor of Psychology and Education at the Teacher's College at Columbia University - Professor Sue has been at the forefront of some the most forward-thinking scholarship on race relations in America. His book "Microaggressions in Everyday Life" is now considered a classic of its kind - and it won the inaugural UnityFirst dot com National Diversity and Inclusion Book Prize .Professor Sue is also the co-founder and first President of the Asian American Psychological Association. His new book - "Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race" - is a fascinating look into how we talk about race and racism.

Shelby Emmett, Attorney / Project 21 & George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom & Neil Sroka, Democracy for America all join Thom Hartmann. So Bernie Sanders took to the Senate Floor yesterday and summed up pretty well how Reaganomics had destroyed our economy...So - isn't time for Republicans to repudiate Reaganomics? It's abundantly clear that 35 years of Reaganomics has destroyed the middle-class...Can't we admit it's been a complete failure? Take a look...

Shelby Emmett, Attorney / Project 21 & George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom & Neil Sroka, Democracy for America all join Thom Hartmann. Mitt has called it quits. Earlier today - two-time Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney held a conference call - and told his supporters that he will not make a third run at the presidency. Romney reportedly said that it’s, “best to give other leaders in the party the opportunity” to become the Republican presidential nominee. This announcement comes just a few weeks after Romney first floated the idea of running again - which threw a wrench in the 2016 Republican nominee field. In the past few weeks - Romney had reportedly been working hard to gain support from his 2012 base - particularly from his donors - but apparently those efforts didn’t go so well. More importantly - Romney didn't have the hard-right billionaires who bankroll elections behind him. In today’s Republican Party - you have to have the likes of the Koch Brothers and Shelly Adelson behind you 100% if you want to have any chance of winning - and Romney just didn't have that support.

Thom's guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is one of America's most influential thinkers on muliticulturalism and race - Professor Derald Wing Sue. Currently a Professor of Psychology and Education at the Teacher's College at Columbia University - Professor Sue has been at the forefront of some the most forward-thinking scholarship on race relations in America. His book "Microaggressions in Everyday Life" is now considered a classic of its kind - and it won the inaugural UnityFirst dot com National Diversity and Inclusion Book Prize .Professor Sue is also the co-founder and first President of the Asian American Psychological Association. His new book - "Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race" - is a fascinating look into how we talk about race and racism.

In tonight’s Conversations with Great Minds, Professor Derald W. Sue, author of Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race, talks with Thom about race relations in America and what needs to be done.

Wendell Potter, Center for Public Integrity/Center for Media and Democracy joins Thom Hartmann. Indiana Governor Mike Pence has agreed to expand Medicaid as long as that means the banksters get to skim a few million of the top. Will other Republican governors follow in his footsteps?

Billionaires are bankrolling the right-wing spin machine in this country - and they're throwing working-class Americans out in the cold at the same time.

David Laska, New York State Republican Party debates Thom. Turn on Fox So-Called News and chances are you'll hear a conservative lawmaker freaking out about the national debt. But shouldn't they be focusing on the deficits that really matter? Republicans are always up in arms over the federal deficit. Why aren't they also outraged over our crumbling infrastructure - lack of job creation - soaring costs of education and destructive trade policies?

John Rumpler, Environment America talks about how Scotland has indefinitely banned fracking. Will other countries follow in its footsteps?

America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio talks to Thom. Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer is a student of Frank Luntz and a veteran Republican operative. So how did he become the Israeli ambassador to the United States?