Is the profit motive killing journalism?

The use of the death penalty has been a source of much debate in recent years, is it time for America to abolish capital punishment and join the rest of the world? Mike Farrell, actor, human rights advocate and president of Death Penalty Focus joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about the legacy of the death penalty and why putting the barbaric practice to rest will be a good step for our democracy!

The GOP Tax Scam resulted in a small but noticeable increase in paychecks for some workers but what many do not realize is that it is already building the structure to lower wages. Will the working class wake up in time to stop it or toil like dogs under tight wages, deregulation and policies that send jobs overseas?

Why do conservatives still believe that sexual preference, who we are attracted to is a choice, could it be that more than a margin of the people on the right who hate LGBT people are making their own choices as well?

General Motors admits what we all know, after receiving a massive tax cut, the auto maker is laying off thousands of American employees and closing it's plants. Wasn't this tax cut passed on the rationalization of trickle down theory?

Is the extinction of the human race the final domino to fall in a chain of extinctions and species die offs that may have always started? What can we do to save the planet before the domino ends all life on earth?

Donald Trump blamed Senator Sherrod Brown the closing of a General Motors plant after the president's own policies caused massive layoffs and instigated a trade war. Brown fought back challenging his political career in working the working class against Trump's faux populism. Which politician represents the interests of the working class to you and who will be able to keep the working class employed?

A new bill expanding the availability of medicare's low drug prices to every American is being introduced by Senator Jeff Merkley. Can this bill stop the greedy drug companies and let patients and would be patients get the care they need?

Do to Saudi Arabia's intervention in Yemen, over 85,000 children have already starved to death. Senator Bernie Sanders, along with Barbra Lee, and others are fighting to stop U.S. involvement in that genocide. "We cannot let them determine U.S. Military priority" Sanders tells Thom Hartmann and the audience that weapons contractors, pathological liars like Donald Trump, and the Saudi Royal family cannot led U.S. military policy.

What would it take for you to betray your country? Money, power?
For Donald Trump, all it took was a hotel in Moscow. Thom Hartmann discusses that the implications of Michael Cohen pleading guilty to lying to congress revealing the price on Donald Trump's patriotism.

What policies must democrats adopt not just to win in 2020 but to not be destroyed?

What policies are needed from Democrats as we head into the 2020 presidential fight? Van tells the Thom Hartmann and the Thom Hartmann audience that the most needed policy for African Americans, is tackling police violence against African Americans. Can democrats stop police violence legislatively in the run up to the 2020 election?

54 percent of voters reminded America why Mississippi is Dead last on Healthcare, Income, Highschool graduates and more. and these voters did this by voting for an openly racist right wing republican. Why is it that states that vote red, are the states that do the utter worst in these metrics? What does this say about rural America?

Donald Trump's border may be neglected to it's initial roll as a chant to fire up his base as the new Democratic Party controlled house is holding strong against Donald Trump's plans to build a wall.

Is Paul Manafort's Plea Deal falling apart a sign that special prosecutor Robert Mueller caught Donald Trump and Paul Manafort in a lie?