Yikes! Charles Sauer of the Market Institute returns to debate time on the proper size and function of corporations, is there a merger or an industry big enough that libertarians would fear it having the power over their lives that they claim government does?

In Germany the electric companies are paying people to take their energy but that can't happen here... because

So why are libertarians trying to change the proud tradition of Americans fighting against the dismantling corporate monopolies!

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Which of these programs will help the most people? A universal basic income, or a federal jobs guarantee? Or could we use some combination of both?

If you think this is hyperbolic, they did it before and one could argue that they are doing it right now!

We hope you had a great holiday this year, but while you were enjoying food with your family, catching up on reading or netflix, the Trump administration was busy at work looking to sneak by some of their goals while we were busy resting.

Broken clocks are right twice a day so when Donald Trump said that his ratings on the news networks would keep him in office for four more years... Was was one of those times?

The Gini Coefficient is a tool to measure inequality in a society, at a certain point of inequality, revolution happens! The Gini Coefficient says it's time for an American Political Revolution.

Thom tells us the story of Wounded Knee on it's anniversary, what really happened over 126 years ago.

Trump is bringing us nothing but chaos, his governance style is chaos, Steve Bannon wants to dismantle the administrative state, and all the alphabet agencies are being run by people opposed to their very mission, this has to be anarchy right?

The Donald Trump presidency has illustrated so many of the problems in our systems, his latest surprise governance was to use the GOP tax plan to encourage the private prison lobby! Is this the behavior we want to encourage?

Dr. Richard Wolff joins us, explaining that all the logic, all the math points to a when, not an if, the economy will crash

Thom takes your calls!
With all the Republican talk of "state's rights" one caller has to wonder if they are lifting this straight from the confederacy?
They do know the south lost right?

When you stripe the ideas and policy from their party affiliation it turns out that most Americans agree with progressive ideas. You would think a democracy would like laws popular with the majority of it's population?