The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow (politics)

Congressional Candidate Tim Canova on how he plans to unseat DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Starts at 3:15)

Alex Zielinski, health reporter at ThinkProgress, on what the Standford sexual assault case says about our society (Starts at 20:15)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Rebecca Vallas, Director of Policy for the Poverty to Prosperity Program at the Center for American Progress, on the many problems with Rep. Paul Ryan's poverty "plan" (Starts at 20:15)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Helaine Olen, Author of The Bills, a column about the intersection of money and life, at Slate, on how robocalls have triumphed over the do not call list. (Starts at 4:25)

Andrew O'Hehir, Staff Writer at Salon.com, on the complex issues stemming from the idea of giving animals the same rights as humans. (Starts at 20:15)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Anthony Newby, Executive Director of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, on how Minneapolis became to first city in the midwest to pass a Paid Sick Days law. (Starts at 5:00)

Holly Root-Gutteridge, postdoctoral researcher at Syracuse University in New York, where she studies wolves, conservation and large mammal biology. (Starts at 20:15)

Nancy Altman, co-founder of Social Security Works, on President Obama coming out in support of expanding Social Security benefits. (Starts at 33:07)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (Starts at 20:15)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Diann Rust-Tierney, the Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, on the recent Supreme Court case Foster v. Chatman (Starts at 3:05)

Lindsay Gibbs, Sports Reporter with Think Progress, on a new Congressional investigation into how the NFL interferes with concussion research. (20:15)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, on the newest evidence that the Trans Pacific Partnership would be a terrible deal for the 99% (Starts at 5:25)

Zeynep Tufekci, techno-sociologist and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, on Facebook's real bias - which is not against conservative news. (Starts at 20:15)

 

 

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Kymone Freeman, activist and co-owner of We Act Radio, on his work fighting displacement east of the river in Washington, DC (Starts at 20:15)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Nancy J. Altman, co-founder of Social Security Works, on Donald Trump's mixed messages on Social Security - and why he can't be trusted to protect the program. (Starts at 4:30)

Historian Kathleen J. Frydl on how big pharma's corporate greed is killing millions of Americans. (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_05-21-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Tom Crawford, Western Region Vice President for Local 13000 of the Communication Workers of America, on the Verizon Strike (Starts at 5:55)

 

Historian Johnny Smith on his new book, Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. (Starts at 20:15)

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Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:44pm EDT