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Featured Stories: --2nd Democratic Debate Analysis

Featured Stories: --Trump's Attack on Baltimore and Rep. Cummings Are 2020 Campaign Warning Shots --Democrats Use Trump's Tweets to Hide Neoliberal Policy Failures --How Do You Confront Prime Minister Boris Johnson? --House Anti-BDS Resolution Reveals the Power and Limits of the Israeli Lobby

Featured Stories: --Biden's Criminal Justice Plan Can't Reform the System He Helped Create --Biden's Criminal Justice Plan: Too Little Too Late? --MSNBC & CNN To Host Climate Town Halls for Candidates

Featured Stories: --Trump's Attack on Baltimore and Rep. Cummings Are 2020 Campaign Warning Shots --Democrats Use Trump's Tweets to Hide Neoliberal Policy Failures --How Do You Confront Prime Minister Boris Johnson? --House Anti-BDS Resolution Reveals the Power and Limits of the Israeli Lobby

Ralph talks with John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine, about Robert Mueller’s testimony, the imperial presidency and Ilhan Omar, and many other aspects of the current political landscape. Then we welcome aviation crash expert, Dr. Alan Diehl, who gives us his take on the situation with Boeing and the problematic 737 MAX 8.

Featured Stories: --Israel Demolishes 70 More Palestinian Apartments in East Jerusalem --Airline Caterers Authorize Strike Action, Supported by Presidential Candidates --'We believe that organizing is a key tool in obtaining justice for our students.'

Featured Stories: --Corruption, Mismanagement, and Disrespect Fuel Puerto Rico Protests --Uncertainty Looms Over Boris Johnson's Response to Iranian Seizure of British Tanker --Unpaid Caregiving Increases Risk of Poverty in Retirement --The Green New Deal is Built on Decades of Climate Justice Organizing --Philadelphia Activist: 'Oil Refinery Explosion Literally Rocked the Very Foundation of my Co...

Featured Stories: --Republicans Are Transforming Federal Courts for the Next Generation --Yemen's Houthis Maintain Upper Hand, as Peace Talks Proceed --Ecuador Takes Harmful IMF Loan, Even Though it Doesn't Need it --Progressive Churches Challenge the Hard-Line Conservative Evangelical Narrative on Immigration --Are Police Being Paid to Kill Us?

Ralph talks to progressive broadcaster, Thom Hartmann, about how to respond to a malignant narcissist, who also happens to be the President of the United States."

Featured Stories: --Trump's Iran Treaty Withdrawal and Sanctions Based on Lies, but War Could Be a Reality --Jewish Activists of 'Never Again' Action Oppose Immigrant Detention Centers --Trump's Racist Rhetoric is Deliberate - Will it Lead Us to Fascism?

Featured Stories: --Trump's Racist Tweets Fan Hatred, Defining the Coming Election --Ruthless Philippine President's High Popularity Is the Result of Failed Democracy --As Republicans Push Pro-Life Agenda, Maternal and Infant Death Rates Rise --New Studies Raise Alarms About the State of Ice in Antarctica

Featured Stories --Pharma Companies Win Case Against Drug Price Transparency --Nicki Minajs Boycott of Saudi Arabia Sets a Moral Standard for Artists --Pompeo's 'Inalienable Rights Commission' - A Conservative Christian Assault on Human Rights --Lula da Silva's Attorney: Intercept Revelations Confirm Political and Unfair Trial --House Passes Bill to Halt US Support for Yemen War, UAE Withdraws Tro...

The war in Yemen could end, if U.S. and United Arab Emirates' support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen is truly over. However, the House NDAA bill still faces a major hurdle in the Senate. If those who want US military involvement to end pressure Congress, it can be done, says CodePink's Medea Benjamin

Featured Stories --Will Dem Party Superdelegates Prevent a Progressive Nominee in 2020? --Amazon in Danger of Total Destruction Under Brazil's Right-Wing President Bolsonaro --UN Human Rights Council's Report on Venezuela is 'Unbalanced' --Climate to Top Agenda Under Finnish EU Council Presidency

Ralph welcomes two energy experts who span the far ends of the age spectrum, first 29 year old, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, one of the chief architects of the Green New Deal, and then 93 year old David Freeman, former head of the Tennessee Valley Authority. They both talk about the Green New Deal and the bright future of renewable energy.

Featured Stories --Poll: Religion in Decline in Arab Countries, Anger at the U.S Growing --The Pentagon's Carbon Boot Print --India's Rahul Gandhi Resigns, PM Modi Faces Little Opposition to Far-Right Agenda --Future Resource Wars

Featured Stories --US Violates Nuclear Non-Proliferation Obligations, Undermining Credibility With Iran and N. Korea --A World Without Ice --Facebooks Libra Currency Monetizes Identity and Threatens Privacy

Ralph welcomes mental health experts Judith Eve Lipton and David Barash to talk about what we can learn from Costa Rica, a country that has survived and thrived after giving up its military. And consumer advocates Harvey Rosenfield and Laura Antonini tell us how they are exposing how companies using “surveillance scoring,” your personal data to decide how much to charge you for their products and...

Despite Trump's affinities with authoritarian leaders such as India's Modi and Russia's Putin, he continues to destabilize the existing neoliberal consensus and now BRICS countries are taking up the neoliberal mantle, says Patrick Bond

Progressives are battling the border aid bill because its lack of accountability provisions means there would be no way to tell if the money was spent on enforcement instead of aid.

Ralph welcomes Walt McRee President of Public Banking Associates, who explains how public banks should be the future of banking. And Dr. Ken Reed joins us to discuss how the elimination of phys. ed. classes and intramural sports in schools is contributing to childhood obesity.

Featured Stories --New York Passes Nation's Most Comprehensive Clean Energy Legislation in the Nation --Trump Is Deepening the 'Economic War' Against Iran - Wilkerson --Greece Heads Towards New Election - Can Syriza Survive? --How a Baltimore Billionaire Won a Tax Cut Trump Said Would Help the Poor

Featured Stories --'Deal of a Century': A Push for the Permanent Occupation of Palestine --Are Immigration Detention Centers Concentration Camps? --Trump May Stumble Into War With Iran Over Belligerent, Incoherent Policies --The Central Park 5 and the Rise of Donald Trump

Featured Stories: --Billionaires Can Buy Sex and Not Go to Jail. Why Can't You? --Senate Deals Blow to US-Saudi/UAE Arms Deal --Billions Stolen From Black Families by Predatory Lending --Brazil's Prosecutors Buried Corruption Case Against ex-President Cardoso

Ralph welcomes Washington Post business columnist, Steven Pearlstein, who asks the question, “Can American Capitalism Survive?” And economist William Lazonick tells us how Boeing management buying back its own stock contributed to the decisions that led to the crashes of the 737 MAX 8