Jan Shambaugh, director of the Hamilton Project and senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, joins us to talk about why some counties are championing income equality – and about what struggling countries can do to catch up.
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Joe William Trotter, Jr., director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University, joins us to trace the history of black employment, which he writes about in “Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.”
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Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford joins us to explain why we need to approach fiber with an increased urgency or risk falling behind other developed nations. Her new book is called “Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution – And Why America Might Miss It.”
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Reporter Paul Kiel joins us to discuss how the IRS has been withering away before our eyes for nearly a decade, which he writes about with Jesse Eisinger in their ProPublica article “How the IRS was Gutted.”
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Howard Berkes contributed to a joint Frontline-NPR investigation about how government regulators responded to toxic mine dust and joins us to share stories about miners dying from dirty lungs.
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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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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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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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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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Columbia professor Tim Wu joins us to talk about the link between concentrated industrial influence and concentrated wealth.
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Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein joins us to talk about how maximizing shareholder profits widened the wealth gap.
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Sarah Smarsh joins us to talk about how Americans judge people based on their wealth.
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