The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow (politics)

Katy Waldman, Slate's words correspondent, on how Donald Trump uses language 

Kathleen Frydl, historian and the author of "The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973".

Direct download: TZH_11-12-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Alex Lawson - Executive Director of Social Security Works and co-owner and co-founder of We Act Radio, the only independent radio station in Washington, DC.

Direct download: TZH_11-12-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

George Goehl, co-executive director of People's Action and People's Action Institute, on the 2016 election and the future of organizing. 

Dean Baker, founding co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, on his new book Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer

Direct download: TZH_11-05-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Paul Armentano, Deputy Director of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, discusses the many marijuana legalization referendums on the ballot this year. 

Mark Ames, founding editor of the eXile, gives his take on the recent stories linking Trump to Vladimir Putin.

 

Direct download: TZH_11-05-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Bridget Bowman, senior reporter at Roll Call, on Sen. Harry Reid's takedown of FBI Director Comey.

Direct download: TZH_11-05-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

 Ian Millhiser, Editor of ThinkProgress Justice, responds to Donald Trump's claims that he may not accept the outcome of the election.

Alex Zaitchik, author of "The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump's America", on how he thinks Trump's supporters will respond if their standard bearer loses the election.

Direct download: TZH_10-22-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Ryan Grim, Washing bureau chief for the Huffington Post, on his recent profile of FOX News host Shepard Smith

Michael Hiltzik of the LA Times on why JP Morgan's CEO, Jamie Dimon, still has his job. 

Direct download: TZH_10-22-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Nancy Altman, founding co-director of Social Security Works, on the third Presidential debate and next year's minuscule Social Security cost of living increase. 

Direct download: TZH_10-22-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Tahir Amin, cofounder and director of the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK), a US-based nonprofit group of scientists and lawyers working globally to change the patent system and get people lifesaving medicines.

John B. Judis on his new book, The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics

Direct download: TZH_10-15-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Sarah Jaffe on her new book, Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt

Maya Schenwar on her new book, "Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better."

Direct download: TZH_10-15-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) on the letter he and several colleagues recently wrote to President Obama, urging him to take executive action to lower drug prices. 

 

Direct download: TZH_10-15-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour is on a break this week, so we've compiled some of the best content from recent weeks:

"Dee," a prisoner in the Carolina area, speaks out about the prison worker strike going on right now and what the oppressed workers are demanding.

And Garry South, the "Carville of California," tells us about Yes on Prop 61, a ballot measure in California to help stem the tide of rising drug costs. 

 

Direct download: TZH_10-08-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour is on a break this week, so we've compiled some of our best content from recent weeks:

Bob DeMars, former college football player, previews his new documentary "The Business of Amateurs" about the dark side of college sports.

Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses his new book on the Euro and how it may be a doomed currency. 

Direct download: TZH_10-08-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour is on a break this week, so we've compiled some of our best content from recent weeks:

Ryan Cooper of The Week on why, despite what some "very serious people" in DC claim, our nation's retirement income crisis is very real (starts at 4:50)

Alex Zaitchik on his new book "The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump's America" (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_10-08-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

David Dayen - Contributing writer to Salon.com and The Intercept, and a weekly columnist at The Fiscal Times.

Karl Frisch - Executive Director of Allied Progress

Direct download: TZH_10-01-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Kaylie Hanson Long - National Communications Director for NARAL Pro-Choice America (3:25)

Jennifer Reid - Advocacy and Research Officer, MSF Access Campaign (20:15)

Direct download: TZH_10-01-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Jasmine Jefferson, Legislative Director of Social Security Works (starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_10-01-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Ryan Cooper of The Week on why, desire what some "very serious people" in DC claim, our nation's retirement income crisis is very real (starts at 4:50)

Alex Zaitchik on his new book "The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump's America" (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_09-03-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Chico Harlan of the Washington Post on the Obama administration's 1 billion dollar deal with Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest prison company, to build a massive detention facility for women and children seeking asylum. (Starts at 3:00)

Matt Nelson, Executive Director of Presente.org, on the Department of Justice's move to cut ties with private prisons - and why the Department of Homeland Security needs to follow DOJ's lead  (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_09-03-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Joel Silberman of Democracy Partners on why he believes that the real goal of Trump's campaign is to build a new media empire - one even more right-wing and bigoted than FOX News (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_09-03-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at Media Matters for America, on Trump's new campaign manager and his bigoted website

Jasmine Jefferson, Legislative Director at Social Security Works

Direct download: TZH_08-20-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Libby Watson, staff writer at the Sunlight Foundation.


Steve LeVine, Washington Correspondent for Quartz. He writes about the intersection of energy, technology and geopolitics.

Direct download: TZH_08-20-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Annette Gaudino, HCV Project Co-Director at Treatment Action Group

Direct download: TZH_08-20-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour is on a break this week. For your enjoyment, we've put together an episode of our best interviews from our trips to Netroots Nation and the Democratic Convention this summer.

Direct download: TZH_08-13-16_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

John Upton, Senior Science Writer at Climate Central

M Adams, Co-executive director of Freedom, Inc. and a member of the Vision4blacklives leadership team

Direct download: TZH_08-06-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Sam Seder, host of The Majority Report

Annette Gaudino, HCV Project Co-Director at Treatment Action Group

Direct download: TZH_08-06-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Liz Kennedy, Director of Democracy and Government Reform at Center for American Progress

Direct download: TZH_08-06-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour team continued our road trip this week and recorded live from the Democratic National Convention. We interviewed delegates, politicians, Bowzer from "Sha Na Na" (now a pro-Social Security activists) and more!

Direct download: TZH_07-30-16_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Part 2 of our Netroots Nation 2016 extravaganza, including interviews with Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, and Rep. Mark Takano.

Direct download: TZH_07-23-16_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

This week, The Zero Hour went on the road to Netroots Nation! We've compiled some of our best interviews from the annual progressive conference in this episode: Jamala Rogers, David Dayen, Carolyn Fiddler, Terrence Martin, Rebecca Cokley, and Jaime Raskin.

Direct download: TZH_07-16-16_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Dr. Sanjeev Sriram on his recently-relaunched show "Dr. America," which focuses on health justice (starts at 4:40)

Caroline O'Donovan, senior technology reporter for BuzzFeed News, on what Uber really pays their drivers (starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_07-09-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Joel Silberman on the upcoming Netroots Nation conference (starts at 4:05)

Alex Zaitchik on his new book "The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump's America" (starts at 20:15)

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Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at Media Matters for America (Starts at 20:15)

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

Jason Dick, deputy editor of CQ Roll Call, on the Congressional Baseball Game (starts at 5:05)

Monique Morrissey of the Economic Policy Institute on this year's Social Security trustees report (starts at 20:15)

 

Direct download: TZH_06-25-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
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Ryan Cooper, national correspondent at TheWeek.com, on the big problems with the "No Fly No Buy" bill being pushed by Congressional Democrats (starts at 5:40)


Jenya Cassidy director of the California Work & Family Coalition, on her experience attending the (very business oriented) White House State of Women Summit (starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_06-25-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

David Daley, author of the newly-released book "Ratf***ed: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy." (Starts at 20:15)

 

Direct download: TZH_06-25-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Jamie Raskin, MD State Senator who recently won a tightly-contested and very expensive primary in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District to replace Chris Van Hollen.

Jeff Faux, Distinguished Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, on why Brexit would hit the UK economy much harder than its promoters expect.

Direct download: TZH_06-18-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Cyd Zeigler, co-founder of Outsports.com, the world's leading gay-sports publication, and author of Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports.

Steven Hill, Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation and author of the new book Expand Social Security Now!

Direct download: TZH_06-18-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Michelangelo Signorile, Editor-at-large of Huffington Post Gay Voices.

Direct download: TZH_06-18-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Pete Tucker, independent local DC reporter, on the corruption of DC councilmember Jack Evans - and the double standards that have allowed him to get away with it for decades (starts at 4:45)

Dave Cooper, Senior economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute & Deputy Director of EARN, the Economic Analysis and Research Network, on DC's recent decision to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2020. (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_06-11-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

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)

Direct download: TZH_06-11-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
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)

Direct download: TZH_06-11-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
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)

Direct download: TZH_06-04-04_H3_Podcast.mp3
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)

Direct download: TZH_06-04-04_H2_Podcast.mp3
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Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_06-04-04_H1_Podcast.mp3
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)

Direct download: TZH_05-28-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
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)

 

 

Direct download: TZH_05-28-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
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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)

Direct download: TZH_05-28-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
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)

Direct download: TZH_05-21-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:44pm EDT

Young voter Samantha Silverman on how her recent experiences in Nevada soured her on the Democratic Party. (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_05-21-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:42pm EDT

Michael Hiltzik, Pulitzer Prize-winning LA Times columnist, on why Charles P. Blahous III should not be renominated as a Social Security Public Trustee. (Starts at 3:25)

Jenn Stanley, producer and host of the new storytelling podcast Choice/Less which delivers personal stories about reproductive injustice, and the laws that put people in choice-less situations. (Starts at 20:15)

 

Direct download: TZH_05-14-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

David Dayen, author of the new book Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud (starts at 6:21)

Direct download: TZH_05-14-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

May Boeve - Executive Director of 350.org, an international climate change campaign on Break Free, a two-week global wave of action to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_05-14-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Lisa Esposito, Patient Advice reporter at U.S. News & World Report, on the countless ways poverty affects people's health. (Starts at 11:35)

Paul Loeb, founder of the national nonpartisan Campus Election Engagement Project, on why youth voter turnout is at a record low - and what can be done to change that. (Starts at 20:15)

 

Direct download: TZH_05-07-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Litigation reporter Alison Frankel on the dark art of corporate secrecy in court (starts at 3:20)

Huffington Post reporter Daniel Marans on Puerto Rico's debt crisis (starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_05-07-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Sarah Spain - SportsCenter Reporter for ESPN on her new video with Julie DiCaro, #MoreThanMean, which features the nasty, bigoted things men say to women reporters on social media. (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_05-07-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Helen Davis Chaitman on her new book, JP Madoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook

Lynn Parramore, contributing editor at AlterNet, on why she believes the wealthiest 0.01%, not the 1%, are the real problem. (20:15)

Direct download: TZH_04-30-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Ari Rabin-Havt, host of The Agenda, on his recently-released book, “Lies Incorporated: The World of Post Truth Politics" (Starts at 5:05)

Lisa Graves, Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy, on CMD’s recent expose which revealed how a top GOP polling firm worked with the Chamber of Commerce to help defeat initiatives like raising the minimum wage.(Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_04-30-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Wendell Potter on the new book he coauthored, Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It (starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_04-30-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour is on a break this week, please enjoy some of our best content of the last few months:

Economist Monique Morrissey on the failings of 401(k)s (Starts at 5:07)


Historian Rick Perlstein on why some Democrats have given up on big ideas.(Starts at 20:16)

Direct download: TZH_04-16-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour is on a break this week, please enjoy some of our best content of the last few months:

The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim on the Hollywood executives who are terrified of offending Donald Trump (Starts at 3:35)

Rashad Robinson of Color of Change on how corporate influence corrupts the Congressional Black Caucus PAC (Starts at 20:13)

Direct download: TZH_04-16-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour is on a break this week, please enjoy some of our best content of the last few months:

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky on the fight to expand Social Security benefits. 

Nancy Altman, co-founder of Social Security Works, debunks Wall Street's latest lies about Social Security. (Starts at 20:15)

 

Direct download: TZH_04-16-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Congressman Mark Takano (D-CA 41) (Starts at 6:20)

Elliot Mincberg - Senior Fellow and Interim Senior Counsel at People for the American Way

Direct download: TZH_04-09-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Nancy J. Altman - co-director of Social Security Works and co-chair of the Strengthen Social Security coalition (starts at 4:25)

James McBride - author of the new book Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown (starts at 20:15)

 

Direct download: TZH_04-09-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Zach Carter- Senior Political Economy Reporter at the Huffington Post (starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_04-09-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Nick Baumann, senior enterprise editor at Huffington Post, on the massive corporate bribery scandal he recently helped expose (starts at 4:15)

Bryce Covert, the Economic Policy Editor for ThinkProgress, on why one of the best ways to fight inequality would be to strengthen the estate tax (starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_04-02-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Thomas Frank on his new book Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? (Starts at 3:55)

Michelangelo Signorile is Editor-at-large of Huffington Post Gay Voices, on how the Human Rights Campaign is helping the GOP keep the Senate (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_04-02-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Lynn Rhinehart, Co-General Counsel of the AFL-CIO, on labor's recent Supreme Court victory (starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_04-02-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Dean Baker - American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, on the truth about the Trans Pacific Partnership. (Starts at 2:20)

 

Ethan Miller - Activist with If Not Now, A movement to end the American Jewish community's support for the occupation and gain freedom and dignity for all Israelis and Palestinians, on protesting Trump and AIPAC. (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_03-26-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Phil Angelides - former Treasurer for the state of California, on the last chance to hold Wall Street accountable for the financial crisis. (Starts at 3:05)

John Nichols - National affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine, on his new book People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy. (Starts at 20:15)

 

 

Direct download: TZH_03-26-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Jim Arkedis - Fellow at Truman National Security Project. President of Arkedis Strategies. (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_03-26-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Ally Boguhn - Political and Campaigns Editor at RH Reality Check. (Starts at 6:50)

Arthur Delaney- Senior Reporter, Huffington Post. (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_03-19-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Kathleen J. Frydl - historian studying US state power, policies, and the institutions that shape American life (starts at 3:25)

 

Eric Boehlert - Senior fellow at Media Matters for America (starts at 20:15)

 

 

Direct download: TZH_03-19-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Todd Ruger, legal affairs staff writer for CQ News (starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_03-19-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

T. Greg Douchette - Durham North Carolina criminal defense and small business attorney whose Twitter rant with a new perspective on the reality of police bad behavior went viral this week. (Starts at 6:05)

Dawn Porter, Director and producer of the new documentary Trapped, which focuses on the hundreds of regulations that were passed in recent years, restricting access to abortion in America. (Starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_03-12-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Tracey Ross, Associate Director of the Poverty to Prosperity Program at American Progress (starts at 20:15)

Direct download: TZH_03-12-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Rick Perlstein, author of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

Monique Morrissey, economist with the Economic Policy Institute.

Direct download: TZH_03-05-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Ryan Grim, author and the Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post.

Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of ColorOfChange.

Direct download: TZH_03-05-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Jessica Mason Pieklo - Vice President, Law and the Courts, RH Reality Check and a writer and adjunct law professor in Boulder, Colorado.

Direct download: TZH_03-05-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Helaine Olen, author of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

Direct download: TZH_02-27-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Marshall Steinbaum, Research Economist at the Center for Equitable Growth

Jim Fusillifounder and editor of ReNewMusic.net

Direct download: TZH_02-27-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Ian Millhiser, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Editor of ThinkProgress Justice

Direct download: TZH_02-27-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Laila E. Leigh, Esq., Legal Services Manager of Break the Cycle, a national non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire and support young people to build healthy relationships and a culture without abuse.

 

Mike Lofgren, author of The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government, an insider’s account of who really runs Washington regardless of which party is in power.

Direct download: TZH_02-20-16_H3_Podcast0A.mp3
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Jack Jenkins, Senior Religion Reporter for ThinkProgress

Nick Nyhart, President and CEO of Every Voice Center

Direct download: TZH_02-20-16_H2_Podcast0A.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Dahlia Lithwick - Supreme Court expert and senior editor at Slate.

Direct download: TZH_02-20-16_H1_Podcast0A.mp3
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The Zero Hour broadcast live from New Hampshire in the hours leading up to the primary, interviewing advocates and activists on all sides. In this episode of the podcast, we've compiled the best of these interviews.

Direct download: TZH_02-13-16_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 12:16pm EDT

Nancy Altman - Co-director of Social Security Works and co-chair of the Strengthen Social Security coalition and campaign.

Steve Phillips - author of Brown is the New White. .

Direct download: TZH_02-06-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Dr. Maya Rockeymoore - founder, President and CEO of Global Policy Solutions (GPS) and GlobalPolicy.tv.

 

Chris Bell - Director, producer, and writer. His latest film is Prescription Thugs. 

Direct download: TZH_02-06-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Kate Ackley - reporter and editor for Roll Call, focused on the lobbying job market

Direct download: TZH_02-06-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Marc Schindler, Executive Director of the Justice Policy Institute, on President Obama banning the use of solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prison.

Zoë Carpenter, The Nation’s associate Washington editor, on Planned Parenthood's victory in court.

Direct download: TZH_01-30-15_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Dina Maron, Health and medicine editor at Scientific American, on the rise of the Zika Virus.

 

Journalist David Dayen on what "liberal" attacks on Bernie Sanders are really about.

Direct download: TZH_01-30-15_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works

Direct download: TZH_01-30-15_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Obery Hendricks - author of The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic and The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted. 

Kathleen Frydl - political historian and author of The GI Bill and The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973.

Direct download: TZH_01-23-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Jess Levin - Communications Director of Making Change at Walmart

Kim Stanley Robinson - American novelist, widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction.

Direct download: TZH_01-23-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Linda Tirado, author of Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America.

Bryce Covert, Economic Policy Editor for ThinkProgress.

Direct download: TZH_01-16-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Teresa Ghilarducci, labor economist and nationally-recognized expert in retirement security.

Ben Wikler, Washington Director of MoveOn.org,

Direct download: TZH_01-16-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL9)

 

Direct download: TZH_01-16-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Eoin Dubsky of SumOfUs on the campaign to stop Apple from rendering all of their existing earbuds obsolete and creating massive amounts of waste.

Anne Case, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University, on the study she coauthored, Rising Morbidity and Mortality in midlife among non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century

Direct download: TZH_01-09-15_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

David Neiwert, senior editor of Crooks and Liars and contributing writer for Southern Poverty Law Center, on the Oregon standoff.

Andre L. Smith is an associate professor of law at Widener Law School, on his book Essays on the Relationship Between Tax Law and Racial Economic Justice: Black Tax.  

 

Direct download: TZH_01-09-15_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT