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Episode 166: With the Iowa caucuses just a few days away, I thought this would be a good time to devote the entire episode to progressive candidates who I’ve been talking to over the course of a number of weeks, with many more to come throughout the year. Today, you’ll hear from three women candidates—two are running for Congress—Morgan Harper in Ohio and Kathy Ellis in Missouri—and one, Paige Kre...

TRNN confronted the head of the country's only prescription affordability board about his past ties to a lobbying firm that represented a major pharmaceutical company. It's part of our ongoing coverage of the nation's overpriced and ineffective healthcare industry.

Featured Stories --Progressives Want to Beat Corporate Dems, Not Just Trump -- Jaisal Noor, Jennifer Epps Addison, Maurice Mitchell --American College of Physicians Prescribes Single Payer Healthcare -- Greg Wilpert & Dr. Robert McLean --Exclusive: Body Cam Shows Cop Planting Gun on Innocent Man -- Taya Graham & Stephen Janis --200,000 Canadian Teachers Strike to Defend Public Education

Featured Stories --Progressives Want to Beat Corporate Dems, Not Just Trump -- Jaisal Noor, Jennifer Epps Addison, Maurice Mitchell --American College of Physicians Prescribes Single Payer Healthcare -- Greg Wilpert & Dr. Robert McLean --Exclusive: Body Cam Shows Cop Planting Gun on Innocent Man -- Taya Graham & Stephen Janis --200,000 Canadian Teachers Strike to Defend Public Education

Ralph talks to historian, Christopher Shaw, about his book "Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic." And global trade expert, Lori Wallach, tells us about the pros and cons of the new NAFTA, the USMCA. Plus, former Fed Governor, Sarah Bloom Raskin, stops by again to talk about what the Fed can do to fight the climate crisis.

Featured Stories -- Impeachment Trial Won’t Be Impartial and Won’t Convict Trump -- Marc Steiner & Marjorie Cohn -- Brazil’s Right-Wing Bolsonaro Regime Attacks Leading Critic Glenn Greenwald -- Greg Wilpert & Brian Mier -- Climate Change Will Alter Sports Forever -- Marc Steiner & Dave Zirin

Episode 165: “Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people.” Those two sentences lead off Oxfam’s annual look at inequality. This year, Oxfam looks at unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis. I speak with Paul O’Brien, Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at Oxfam America about the in-d...

Episode 165: “Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people.” Those two sentences lead off Oxfam’s annual look at inequality. This year, Oxfam looks at unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis. I speak with Paul O’Brien, Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at Oxfam America about the in-d...

Featured Stories --Climate Activists Sound Alarm on Mediterranean Natural Gas Pipelines --‘Our House Is Still on Fire,’ Warns Greta Thunberg at Davos --The Barber and the Rev --Bipartisan NAFTA 2.0 Is Still Fatally Flawed --Phase One of US-China Trade Deal Is Mostly Symbolic

Featured Stories --Climate Activists Sound Alarm on Mediterranean Natural Gas Pipelines --‘Our House Is Still on Fire,’ Warns Greta Thunberg at Davos --The Barber and the Rev --Bipartisan NAFTA 2.0 Is Still Fatally Flawed --Phase One of US-China Trade Deal Is Mostly Symbolic

Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are practically the only major politicians supporting a wealth tax to reduce inequality and fund government programs, even though polling shows nearly two-thirds of Americans support it.

The draft might be gone, but not everyone volunteers for the same reasons. Inconsistent access to education, healthcare, or housing means marginalized communities are systemically pushed into military service to gain those benefits--especially poor students.

We spoke to Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin after Thursday's War Powers resolution vote. Whose interests are driving the narrative around conflict with Iran?

Two Iraq war veterans explain why Congress has failed to stop the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and say the United States needs to learn from its imperialist history if anything is going to change.

Shawan Jabarin of the Al-Haq human rights organization discusses the International Criminal Court decision to prepare a lawsuit against the state of Israel regarding war crimes committed against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities are already panicking.

019 presented a complicated and mixed legacy for Latin America. Right-wing governments continued to make electoral in-roads, but popular uprisings against neoliberalism also left their mark on the region, says TRNN's Greg Wilpert.

Ralph gets the real story about the efficacy of autonomous vehicles from auto safety expert Joan Claybrook. And Harvey Wasserman joins us to talk about nuclear power, voting machine fraud, and his new history book “The People’s Spiral of American History: From Deganawidah to Solartopia

Episode 162: As the New Year beckons, there’s good news and bad news on wages. The good news is something I’ve been able to talk about for the past few years at the end of each year—come January 1st, a whole lot of people are going to see their paychecks increase because of some state and local minimum wage hikes that go into effect. Which shows why movements matter—in this case, the Fight for 15....

Episode 161: Shut your damn mouth or be deported. That’s basically the upshot of what happened to Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma, who wanted to tell the truth about the collapse of the under-construction Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans but, two days after he was hurt in the disaster, Joel found himself dragged off by ICE into detention and, then, deported back to Honduras after living in New Orleans for...

Episode 160: I love the bosses who wring their hands when workers try to unionize, the ones who say, “don’t you love us? Aren’t we good to you”? That isn’t the point. Everyone needs a union so workers together don’t ever have to rely on just good feelings from employers. Which is what I talk about with Cameron Coleman, a bakery worker at Grand Central Bakery who is a key organizer in a unionizing...

Featured Stories: --Great Employment Numbers: 44% of Fully Employed Make $18,000 a Year or Less --Trump Declared War on the Poor--And the Poor Are Fighting Back --Rep. Tlaib's Bill Targets Trumps Opportunity Zones Scam --New Climate Model Predicts Alarming Levels of Global Heating

Ralph welcomes legendary trial lawyer, Martin Garbus, who discusses his book “North of Havana: The Untold Story of Dirty Politics, Secret Diplomacy, and the Trial of the Cuban Five.” Plus Ralph answers your questions!

Episode 159: Twenty years ago, thousands of environmentalists, union leaders and members, and lots of other progressive forces swept through the streets of Seattle to confront the global corporate beast known as the World Trade Organization, the WTO. They were met by the Seattle police force, buttressed by all sorts of other police and security operations, who tear gassed, pepper sprayed, assaulte...

Featured Stories: --Capitalism's Failures Ignited Worldwide Protests --How Public Officials Milk the Healthcare System for Private Gain --How Israel/Palestine Became a Central Issue in US Politics --Dismantling the System That Created Trump

Contaminated water in America is not confined to Flint, Michigan. Ralph welcomes Seth M. Siegel, author of “Troubled Water: What’s Wrong With What We Drink,” who not only outlines the problem with our most precious resource, but tells us what we can do to fix it.