United Kingdom's Astronomer Professor Lord Martin Rees has some ideas and views on pandemics, nuclear defense and more. What is the largest threat facing humanity that we are not talking about? Professor Lord lets us know.

-- Thom vs Charles - Bring Back the Top 90% Tax Bracket

When things happen in peoples lives that cause anxiety, instead of calling it a disorder and giving them drugs, we need to help them fix what's going on in their life that gives them anxiety.

Ben Jealous weighs in on why the DOJ is crucial to police misconduct, federal police reforms, civil rights violations, and hate crimes. Ben Jealous says, "We must re-imagine public safety."

Rep Mark Pocan talks about Sen. Ron Johnson being an embarrassment to Wisconsin, and who will win against him in the next election.

When Will America End "Slave Patrol" Policing? America must have a conversation on the history, purpose and practice of policing?

A new study found the greater the intake of red and processed meat, the worse heart function. The research was presented at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2021, an online scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Given all the issues with red meat on your health and it's impact on the environment - why don't Americans cut back?

Greg Palast says, “Accident”?! He is calling the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe a corporate homicide and the BP cover-up was aided by Bush State Department.

This bizarre theory holds that vaccinated people are now GMO fake people. Anti-vaxxers are saying, "Only vaccinated people will marry each other while non vaccinated will also get married." One Redditor wrote earlier this year. "[It] will split the human race into a fake race. The Vaccinated Race."

Some Republicans are trying to rewrite the history of January 6th, and conceal the planning and conspiracy that led to it. If they succeed, the next attack on our republic will be worse than the last - and might end the American Experiment.

Prosecution and defence are summing up and the evidence is about to be passed to the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial.

The America First movement tries to rise again & it doesn’t take a dog to figure out what that whistle means. America must learn the lessons of its past. If we fail to, as the old saying goes, we shall be doomed to repeat our most terrible mistakes.

It’s time to re-capture John F. Kennedy‘s idealism and actually make America a “city on the hill” we can be proud of and others will once again want to emulate. We start by ending our epidemic of gun violence and calling out the GOP for what they have chosen to become: a death cult committed to violence, bigotry, and the destruction of our planet.

The January 6th invasion was a YUGE trauma. Ignoring it won't make authoritarianism stop or go away.

Two callers to the show today. One who’s heart is aching with all the violence in America and the other asks Thom, what gives us hope with all the violence.