James Kilgore, Center for African Studies-University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)/Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time/Truthout, joins Thom. The nation's first-ever national prison strike has now entered its third week. So why isn't anyone in the mainstream media talking about it?

John Fugelsang, Dream On/Tell Me Everything-SiriusXM Insight/Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour joins Thom. More than 200 years ago - a young French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville traveled across the US and was amazed by the vibrant, educated, and well-informed society he saw. What would he say if he took his journey today?

As the nation's largest ever prison strike enters its third week - activists are demanding an end to another controversial practice: the use of private, for-profit detention centers to hold undocumented immigrants. On Wednesday - a coalition of groups - including Color Of Change - delivered testimonies and 200,000 individual petitions to the Department of Homeland Security calling on it to end the practice once and for all. Some activists even confronted DHS secretary Jeh Johnson and asked him to sign a petition given to him by a Guatemalan woman who's 20-year-old son has been held in a for-profit detention center for the past 15 months. Joining me now for more on yesterday's action is Scott Roberts - Senior Campaign Director for Criminal Justice at Color of Change.

Thom discusses the media’s obsession with the Miss Universe story that came out of Monday’s debate with political commentator and comedian John Fugelsang, the latest on the nationwide prison strike with University of Illinois’ James Kilgore, the DEA’s questionable use of informants with The District Sentinel’s Sam Sacks, and in tonight’s Daily Take Thom discusses how Reaganomics is to blame for today’s train crash in H

Jeff Clements, American Promise/Free Speech For People/Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It, joins Thom. According to Nielsen - 84 million people watched Monday's showdown in Long Island - the most since 1980 when 80 million people watched Ronald Reagan take on Jimmy Carter. Just for comparison - 67 million people watched the first debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney - so Monday's numbers really were a big deal. Which only makes it all the more frustrating that neither Hillary Clinton - Donald Trump - or moderate Lester Holt bothered to mention the single most important issue facing the American people today: the corruption of our political system by big money. We heard a lot about Trump's temperment and a Miss Universe contest from 20 years ago - but nothing about Citizens United.

Salmonella outbreaks from contaminated eggs affect 80,000 people every year here in the US. In the UK - though - they barely exist. Why is that?

Charles Sauer, The Market Institute & Danielle Blevins, Freelance Reporter & Alex Pfeiffer, The Daily Caller all join Thom. Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson wants you to think his party represents a real alternative to our broken political system. But is a party that wants to privatize all education really the solution to America's problems?

Tonight’s Rumble discusses how the U.S. may not reach its Paris climate agreement pledge, Republicans in the Senate finally passing funding to fight the Zika virus, and Congress’ overriding of Obama’s veto of the 9/11 victims bill. Thom discusses the efforts to repeal Citizens United with American Promise’s Jeff Clements and in tonight’s Daily Take Thom details how Reaganomics is to blame for Salmonella in America.

In our hyper-capitalist, neo-liberal world, belief in the superiority of private property and the free market verges on the religious. In the case of the Republican Party - it borders on the fundamentalist. But as powerful as the idea of the free market might be - especially here in the United States - the truth is that it's not the only way or organizing our society There is a real alternative to the endless commodification of resources and accumulation of wealth. It’s called The Commons - and my guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is one of the world's foremost experts on it. Joining me now is David Bollier - Activist -Co-Founder of the Commons Strategies Group - and author numerous books - including "Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons."

In our hyper-capitalist, neo-liberal world, belief in the superiority of private property and the free market verges on the religious. In the case of the Republican Party - it borders on the fundamentalist. But as powerful as the idea of the free market might be - especially here in the United States - the truth is that it's not the only way or organizing our society There is a real alternative to the endless commodification of resources and accumulation of wealth. It’s called The Commons - and my guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is one of the world's foremost experts on it. Joining me now is David Bollier - Activist -Co-Founder of the Commons Strategies Group - and author numerous books - including "Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons."

Angela Morabito, StandUnited.org & Ben Wikler, MoveOn.org & Bryan Pruitt, RedState all join Thom. Hillary Clinton clearly came out as the more composed and better informed candidate - but will that resonate in the Rust Belt?

Angela Morabito, StandUnited.org & Ben Wikler, MoveOn.org & Bryan Pruitt, RedState all join Thom. After 2016s first presidential debate - both candidates have declared themselves the winner. Hillary Clinton clearly came out as the more composed and better informed candidate - but will that resonate in the Rust Belt?

Tonight’s Politics Panel talks last night’s first Presidential Debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and in tonight’s Conversations with Great Minds Thom discusses the importance of our nation’s commons with the Commons Strategies Group’s David Bollier, author of “Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons.”

Our media is failing to do the most fundamental job of a media in a democracy.

Cassady Sharp-Craighill, Greenpeace USA joins Thom. For tonight's Green Report .....We head to Long Island - the site of tonight's presidential debate - and where the mainstream media's climate literacy will quite literally go on trial. Even though it's arguably the single most important issue facing human civilization - global warming has been almost completely absent from this presidential campaign