Dr. Laurence Steinberg, Temple University/Age Of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence, joins Thom Hartmann. We all know the stereotype: the unemployed millennial living at home with his parents, more interested in taking Instagram photos than getting a real job - does this match up with reality? What does Dr Steinberg’s research about young people these days tell us about the very concept of adolescence? What about the concept of adulthood?

On Tuesday - former Vice President Dick Cheney hosted a pep rally for GOP leadership on Capitol Hill - urging them to take a hard line on fighting ISIS militants. What does it say about our democracy that a war criminal like Cheney is still taken seriously by so many people?

Horace Cooper - National Center for Public Policy Research & Andrew Kloster, The Heritage Foundation join Thom Hartmann. Switzerland is considering giving Edward Snowden asylum - if he shares more information on the NSA and America's intelligence community. But isn't time to let Edward Snowden come home to the US - and get a hero's welcome for revealing the truth behind America's out-of-control intelligence operations?

John Wellington Ennis, Pay 2 Play, joins Thom Hartmann. Director John Ennis looks upon our Monopoly-inspired system of government, and identifies how money in politics is the obstacle to any meaningful change. Studying the outlandish Coingate scandal in Ohio, Ennis grasps that the primary function of pay-to-play politics is to repay the donor with public money—way more money than donors put in.

Thom discusses the ISIS threat and previews Obama’s primetime speech with National Security Analyst Ryan Mauro and Radio Host Ari Rabin-Havt. Tonight’s “Lone Liberal Rumble” talks Rep. Kingston’s candid words about undermining the President, whether Snowden will go to Switzerland in exchange for testifying against the NSA and how a Georgia Republican thinks it’s too easy to vote in his state. In tonight’s “Daily Take” Thom wonders why Republicans are listening to warmonger Dick Cheney.

Thom discusses today’s citizens united debate in Congress with Journalist and Activist Jeff Clements and Washington corruption with John Ennis, Director of the new film “Pay 2 Play.” Tonight’s “Lone Liberal Rumble” discusses Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s plan to expand Medicaid in Virginia, what Obama and Congress will do about ISIS and how the unemployment rate under Obama is lower than it was under Reagan. In tonight's “Daily Take” Thom discusses how CEO’s stock options are hurting workers.

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Michel Gelobter PhD, Cooler, Inc. joins Thom Hartmann

David Laska, New York Republican State Committee joins Thom Hartmann

Sharon Levin, National Women's Law Center (NWLC) joins Thom Hartmann

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Paul Stamets, Fungi Perfecti / Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

Paul Stamets, Fungi Perfecti / Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

Thom discusses the Senate bill that could overturn the Citizens United decision with Common Causes’ Stephen Spaulding, how some Republicans are embracing over-the-counter birth control with the National Women's Law Center’s Sharon Levin and how a Big Mac would NOT be $12 if the minimum wage was raised to a living wage. In tonight's “Daily Take” Thom looks at the racial bias among our nation’s police.

Tonight’s “Big Picture Rumble” discusses the DOJ probe into the Ferguson PD, the GOP’s latest move in their war on voting and the ruling that BP was “grossly negligent” in Gulf oil disaster. In tonight's “Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks mushrooms with Mycologist Paul Stamets, author of the book “Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World.”