Jake Sullivan, former national security adviser for Vice President Joe Biden, joins us to make the case that American exceptionalism is alive and well, which he writes about for The Atlantic.
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The High Cost Of Misdemeanors
UC-Irvine law professor Alexandra Natapoff talks about her new book, “Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal.”
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How We’re Still Funding The Civil War
Brian Palmer of the Investigative Fund joins guest host John McCaa to talk about the millions of dollars tax payers spend each year to conserve memorials to the Confederacy.
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Want To Kill The Middle Class? Try Tariffs
Matthew Rooney, managing director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative, makes the case that excessive tariffs raise prices, kill jobs and inhibit innovation.
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Bring Back The Trust-Busters
Columbia professor Tim Wu joins us to talk about the link between concentrated industrial influence and concentrated wealth.
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Greed is Not Good – Here’s Why
Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein joins us to talk about how maximizing shareholder profits widened the wealth gap.
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The Forgotten Poverty Of Rural Whites
Sarah Smarsh joins us to talk about how Americans judge people based on their wealth.
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How Trump Is Winning At Foreign Policy
Political scientist Randall Schweller joins us to explain how the president’s foreign policy strategy has bolstered the nation.
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Forget The Planet – The Economics Of Fracking May Not Work
Bethany McLean joins us to discuss how new extraction techniques like fracking have promised huge future gains for the industry, and whether those anticipated returns are based on reality.
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Forever A Temp
Sarah Kessler joins us to talk about how the gig economy is transforming the places people live, the hours they work and their ability to plan their lives.
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The Fifty Year Path To The Gig Economy
Louis Hyman joins us to talk about how decisions made by business leaders as early as the 1950s actually laid the foundation for the gig economy today.
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For-Profit Colleges: Cost More And Worth Less?
Tressie McMillan Cottom joins us to talk about why for-profit colleges often contribute to economic inequality.
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