Caller asks if the Supreme Court is still looking toward the Constitution in it's decision making, provoking a history lesson from Thom Hartmann going back to the 1803 Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison, the first Supreme Court case to apply judicial review, through President Andrew Johnson shrinking the court to reverse decisions in the favor of the Southern planter class through numerous cases in the 20th century.

The business of Private Prisons, Shane Bauer joins the program today to discuss his time going undercover as a Prison Guard in America's Private Prisons. uncovering the corporations that make money off human enslavement.

To defend himself from credible sexual assault allegations and prove to the Americans and the senate that he is indeed a qualified, even tempered, bipartisan and impartial judge, Donald Trump Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh screams and threatens the left and democrats in an opening statement that showed no sympathy for Dr. Ford. Will Brett Kavanaugh's performance earn him a spot on the highest Court in the land or on right wing hate radio.

In a move to avoid having an all male "boys club" question Dr.Ford about painful allegations that Donald Trump Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh attacked her, the GOP has hired a special prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to question Dr. Ford. Were the Republicans being sensitive or did they just tokenize women ?

Dr. Justin Frank, Pschoanalyst and author puts Donald Trump on Sigmund Freud's couch on the Thom Hartmann Program, what is the 45th President's major malfunction?

Will Donald Trump go to War with Iran, his remarks at the United Nations make us think so. Hear to discuss what will happen with Trump, Iran, the Iran Peace deal and more is Sina Toossi from the National Iranian American Council (NIAC)

Senator and possible Democratic Presidential hopeful Jeff Merkley joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss his plan to stop Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination in the wake of sexual assault allegations, lying to the senate and more. Will Senator Jeff Merkely be able to stop a far right court from stripping Americans of rights?

Did the Russian Hackers and Trolls Elect Donald Trump, Kathleen Hall Jamieson is here to present the case that Donald Trump could be an illegitimate president.

Have you ever wondered why people don't vote or are you one of those people who doesn't vote? Thom Hartmann speaks to guest Kyle Lierman on the myriad reasons keeping people out of the voting boths and Kyle tells our audience why voting is important, together they discuss why we as progressives need to overcome these obstructions to voting.

With the Trump administration trade wars, deregulation and tax giveaways to the morbidly rich changing our economy, it can be a confusing time to invest in the stock market. Here to make sense of everything are The Aden Sisters.

A Caller suggests that welfare and society safety net programs act as a counter revolutionary concession to keep the population complicit, if this is true what is going to happen when Republicans cut Welfare, could this lead to a political uprising that will replace corporate backed politicians with progressive democrats?

President Donald Trump spoke at the United Nations against the dangers of socialism, which he believes will lead to increased and unjustified policing, power centralized into the hands of a few people and poverty for the many.

What does Rosenstein's resignation mean to the state of our democracy? Will Donald Trump be able to thwart the Mueller investigation after Russian interference was proven to be one a key reason he sits in the white house?

Although Progressive Democrats are cautioned against going too hard against the Morbidly Rich, one Democrat was able to get elected multiple times by doing that, Franklin Roosevelt, Can Democrats openly call for higher taxes on the wealthy and get elected?

The Hostile Racism and Sexism Of Donald Trump Define a Decades Long Constitutional Crisis