"As climate vengeance strikes communities with greater frequency and horrifying intensity, citizens across the planet now bear witness to the lethal consequences of humanity’s industrialized path. Yet environmental law, society’s major instrument to impart ecological responsibility, does little to bring human actions into compliance with nature’s laws – the laws that really count. In fact, environmental regulation hastens this course of disaster...

Inequality fuels social problems like crime, homelessness, drug addiction, teen and unwanted pregnancies the only people it's good for are the Billionaires and morbidly rich, What kind of society would be good for the rest of us?

Currently states give billions of dollars to Wall Street to handle their banking and this money is then used to fuel the ever growing divide between the Rich and workers. Ending that flow of money to Wall Street will be a must if we hope to change things. Phoenix Goodman, with Public Bank LA is here to promote public banking, state banking and local banking, where the money a bank makes would be used to help it's local economy instead of funding the morbidly rich.

A caller is worried about whether Trump has inoculated America against the rise of cult politics.

Median Household wealth is falling, except of course for billionaires who are seeing six thousand percent growth on their wealth. At this level of inequality, a fulltime worker making fifteen dollars an hour would have to work for millions of years in order to get close to what billionaires make. There is nothing inevitable about the rich getting richer nor is there anything inevitable about the poor and working class getting poorer. Something must be done about it. Would a Wealth Tax be the answer to what is to be done about our Billionaire Problem?

Can technology help us mediate and can meditation help us as we get through the Trump regime or just to be more focused people? Ariel Garten, Founder of InteraXon Brain Sensing Technology joins the program to answer these questions.

Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director for thhe Center for Economic Policy & Policy Research joins the Thom Hartmann program to discuss Brazil's newest president, Jair Bolsonaro, a Fascist, pro-torture, anti- LGBT, who may be even worse than Donald Trump.

Should Parents be preparing kids for the world we live in with all of it’s flaws and hurts instead of merely trying to protect them from it, so that the children can face and succeed against the harshness of the world? How do we raise children to be capable of going after their dreams in a world full of capitalism, patriarchy and the instant gratification of screens and social media?

Regular caller Kenyetta talks about how America is moving backwards was race issues and how dangerous the situation could become.

Congressman Ro Khanna answers a caller about what white people should do to confront and ultimately take down racism and white supremacy in the United States?

Thom used the phrase "Trump Crime Family" as more than just a way to make fun of the current Republican President but as a statement of fakes. Heather Vogell of Propublica joins to talk about some of the illegal dealings of the Trump family. What does it mean that America has a criminal running the country?

Congressman Ro Khanna Joins the Thom Hartmann Program discussing the Tragedy at Tree of Life Synagogue where Donald Trump's violent rhetoric about central and south American Refugees inspired a shooter to Target the Jewish Community doing work to help refugees and migrants.

Thom speaks to a longtime listener with personal connections to the Tree of Life, where a man fueled off Donald Trump's xenophobic anti immigration rhetoric targeted the Synagogue. When will we be able to hold the republican party, Donald Trump and the right wing media accountable for spreading messages of hate and fear that fuel these kinds of tragedies

Congressman Ro Khanna on the Thom Hartmann Program discusses how we can find the ideological and systematic underpinnings of the violence we are seeing in the Trump era and how we can combat such ideologies.

In wake of the mail bombs sent to Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, George Soros, Maxine Waters and other liberal public figures, some on the media have started to call out Donald Trump and the Right for creating an environment normalizing violence, the right pushed back calling saying that "both sides" are to blame. Jefferson Smith filling in for Thom Hartmann brings on Jodi Jacobson from Rewire News to break down the fallacy that both sides are equally to blame.