Chris Hedges, author of Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt

Will Bunch - veteran political journalist and author of The Bern Identity: A Search for Bernie Sanders and the New American Dream

Mark Weisbrot - co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research

Rep. David Cicilline - U.S. Representative for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district

Kai Newkirk - Progressive organizer and co-founder of 99 Rise

Ryan Grim - Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post and an MSNBC contributor.

Marshall Steinbaum - Research Economist at the Center for Equitable Growth

Alex Colvin - Associate Director of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution.

Shane Ryan, author of Salon article Just let the Republicans win: Maybe things need to get really bad before America wakes up.

Melinda St. Louis - International Campaigns Director with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch.

Rick Perlstein - Chicago based historian and journalist,

Terry O'Neill - president of the National Organization for Women

Eric Kingson - candidate for Congress in New York's 24th Congressional District.

Cliff Schecter - author, pundit and public relations strategist

Roger Sorkin - fellow with the Truman National Security Project and director of The Burden

Natasha Geiling - Climate reporter for ThinkProgress

The Zero Hour is off this week for Thanksgiving. Please enjoy this "Best of" content from our recent shows.

The Zero Hour is off this week for Thanksgiving. Please enjoy this "Best of" content from our recent shows.

The Zero Hour is off this week for Thanksgiving. Please enjoy this "Best of" content from our recent shows.

Crystal Emery, producer and director of Changing the Face of Medicine and author of Against All Odds: Celebrating Black Women in Medicine

Joseph Romm, physicist, climate expert, and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Joanne Cronrath Bamberger, author/editor of the Amazon #1 bestseller Love Her,Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox

Ishaan Tharoor, Foreign affairs reporter, Washington Post. 

Eric Maddox, Director of Open Roads Media, and the Founder and Executive Director of The Virtual Dinner Guest Project

Eesha Pandit - Houston-based writer, activist and freelance consultant

Allison Schrager, New York-based economist and writer. 

Shawn Zeller, senior writer for CQ Weekly.

Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace

Tina Dupuy, nationally syndicated op-ed columnist, investigative journalist, award-winning writer, stand-up comic, on-air commentator and wedge issue fan. Cultish is an investigative serial podcast about the phenomenon of cults.

Michele L. Jawando, Vice President for Legal Progress at American Progress.

Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works

Dave Jamieson,labor reporter at the Huffington Post

HOWIE KLEIN - writer, concert promoter, disc jockey, music producer, record label founder, record label executive, progressive political activist, and adjunct professor of music.

Matthew Purver, Reader in Computational Linguistics in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London.

Ryan Gallagher, award-winning Scottish journalist whose work at The Intercept is focused on government surveillance, technology, and civil liberties.

Sherry Turkle, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.

Ben Zipperer, Research Economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

Tariq Ali, London based writer and filmmaker, on the Labour Party's new leader, Jeremy Corbyn 

Rev. Jason Lydon, founder of Black and Pink

Rio Tazewell is the "Government By the People" campaign coordinator at People For the American Way

Lauren Windsor, Executive Director of American Family Voices

Rev. Jason Lydon, founder of Black and Pink

Jeffrey Madrick, author of Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research

Max Richtman, President and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

Mikey Weinstein, Founder and President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

Sherry Turkle, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.

Ben Zipperer, Research Economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

William Greider, National Affairs Correspondent, The Nation. 

Kinky Friedman, author and musician, on his first new album in 35 years, The Loneliest Man I Ever Met

Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, on her new book Understanding ISIS & the New Global War on Terror: A Primer

Elise Gould, Senior Economist and Director of Health Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute on her new report, "High Quality Child Care Is Out of Reach for Working Families"

Gabriel Zucman, Assistant Professor of economics at UC Berkeley, on The Hidden Wealth of Nations, his new book about how the 1% hide their wealth in tax havens -- and what countries must do to combat this practice.

Dave Johnson, Fellow with Campaign for America's Future on what you should know about the completed TPP deal

Matthew Purver, Reader in Computational Linguistics in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London.

Ryan Gallagher, award-winning Scottish journalist whose work at The Intercept is focused on government surveillance, technology, and civil liberties.

Alan Pyke, Deputy Economic Policy Editor for ThinkProgress.org

Alan Abramowitz, expert on national politics, polling and elections.

Joseline Peña-Melnyk - Currently represents the 21st District in Maryland’s House of Delegates, running for US Congress in the 4th District of Maryland

Karl Frisch - Founder and Executive Director of Allied Progress

Simon Goodman, author of The Orpheus Clock: The passionate, gripping, true story of one man’s single-minded quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family, their beloved art collection, and to restore their legacy.

Andrew Aghapour, Ph.D. student in the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill.  

Steven Hill, Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation and author of the forthcoming book Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Naked Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers

Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, and co-owner of We Act Radio.

John Kay, one of Britain’s leading economists and the author of Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance

Sally Steenland, Director of the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center American Progress.

Eric Maddox, Founder of The Virtual Dinner Guest Project

Christopher Hale, a co-founder of Millennial and a senior fellow at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.

William K. Black, Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, on why the Justice Department let Wall Street off the hook for the Great Recession

Climate Activist Lise Van Susteren on the climate rally planned for the Pope's visit

Tariq Ali, London based writer and filmmaker, on the Labour Party's new leader, Jeremy Corbyn

Christy Setzer of New Heights Communications on the GOP Debate

John Horgan examines if we’ll ever see another Einstein.

Keith Spencer on how Burning Man devolved into a playground for Silicon Valley libertarians.

Steph Sherer of Americans for Safe Access with the latest on the CARERS Act and expanding medical marijuana access.

Rebecca Vallas of the Center for American Progress on her testimony before a House Committee and why Social Security is important for all generations.

Eric Boehlert breaks down the Fox News attacks on Black Lives Matter.

Mike Konczal joins the show to look at how we can reverse financialization of society.

The Zero Hour is on vacation for the Labor Day holiday. We hope you enjoy this best of content from our shows this summer.

The Zero Hour is on vacation for the Labor Day holiday. We hope you enjoy this best of content from our shows this summer.

The Zero Hour is on vacation this week for Labor Day week. We hope you enjoy this best of content from our shows this summer.

Manu Saadia on the economics of Star Trek

RJ digs deep on Donald Trump’s reliance on empty vague salesmanship and raw hatred

CQ Roll Call’s Steve Komarow previews Congress’ priorities when they return from August recess

Salon's Patrick L. Smith exposes government attempts to control journalism

Journalist Helaine Olen describes how the GOP war on Social Security is really a war on women.

Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post, on the movement to draft Biden and the inevitability of the Iran deal

Mark Ames looks at the bizarre break-up between Donald Trump and campaign manager and Nixonian dirty trickster Roger Stone.

Adam Rogers examines how Google, if they were so inclined, could really impact the 2016 elections.

John Amato of Crooks and Liars looks under the tent of the GOP clown show.

Reuters journalist Alison Frankel details her special investigation of medical lenders cashing in off of desperate women.

Lynn Tramonte, Exective Director of America’s Voice, discusses a racist smear playing a huge part in the GOP primary.

Reporter David Dayen details why presidential libraries are a massive waste.

Shannon Liss-Riordan on the legal fight for the worker rights of Uber drivers.

Jeffrey Radice on his "Dockumentary" about Dock Ellis

Bill French of National Security Network discusses the waste of the F-35 program.

Nancy Altman of Social Security Works on Social Security's 80th birthday and why now is the time to expand benefits

Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou on his arrest in Ferguson one year after the death of Michael Brown.

Economist Dean Baker on what's behind China's currency valuation and shocking CEO pay in the US. 

 Elijah Wald, author of Dylan Goes Electric, looks back on the moment fifty years later.

Andrew Slack on what's next for the Harry Potter Alliance. 

Veteran journalist John Nichols on the criminal scandal surrounding GOP presidential candidate Scott Walker.

Joe Romm, founder of ClimateProgress, reacts to the president's Clean Power Plan. 

Larry Cohen, former president of Communication Workers of America, discusses support of Bernie Sanders in the labor and environment communities

Bryce Covert, economic editor at ThinkProgress, on the real impacts of raising the minimum wage.

Ari Schwartz, lead organizer for DC Jobs with Justice, on reforming unemployment insurance rules impacted by volatile worker schedules.

Cristina Lopez

Julianna Forlano

Jim Dean, chair of Democracy for America

Dave Johnson, Fellow with Campaign for America's Future

Laura Dickinson, professor at George Washington University Law

Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works

Cole Stangler, Reporter with the International Business Times

Kymone Freeman, co-owner of We Act Radio

The Zero Hour spent the weekend at Netroots Nation, where we interviewed leaders for all corners of the progressive movement, including Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA)

Maya Rockeymoore, President and CEO of the Center for Global Policy Solutions

Dale Carrico, critical theorist and rhetorician.

Aurin Squire, producer, playwright, screenwriter, and reporter

John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation

Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)

The Zero Hour is off this week for the July 4th holiday, so we are sharing some of the best content from our past shows. This episode features Canadian bioethicist George Dvorsky and Andrew Cockburn, Washington Editor for Harper's Magazine.

The Zero Hour is off this week for the July 4th holiday, so we are sharing some of the best content from our past shows. This episode features Nick Seaver, expert on the technology of algorithms and Andrew Thompson, freelance writer.

The Zero Hour is off this week for the July 4th holiday, so we are sharing some of the best content from our past shows. This episode features former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Social Security Works Co-Director Nancy Altman.

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)  

Susan Benesch, Director of the Dangerous Speech Project

Mark Ames, PandoDaily

David Neiwert, Seattle-based freelance journalist and blogger

Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research

Tracey Ross, Co-Host of TalkPoverty Radio

Robin DiAngelo, professor of multicutural education at Westfield State University and author of What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy

Daniel Barajas, Executive Director of The Young American Dreamers

David Zweig, author of Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion

Chris Hedges, author of Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt

Belhaven Mayor Adam O'Neal and civil rights activist Bob Zellner on Their March from NC to DC to Save Rural Hospitals

Stephen Miles, advocacy director for Win Without War

Lisa Maatz, Vice President of Government Relations at American Association of University Women

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

Neil Sroka, Communications Director of Democracy for America

Becky Bond, Vice President and Political Director of CREDO Action

Doug Hughes, Gyrocopter Pilot

William Davies, author of The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being

Rebecca Vallas, Director of Policy for the Poverty to Prosperity Program at American Progress

Ben Veghte, Research Director at Social Security Works

Terry O'Neil, President of the National Organization for Women

Aurin Squire, producer, playwright, screenwriter, and reporter

John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation

Charles Tendell, Consumer security advocate

Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post.

Nancy Altman, Co-Director of Social Security Works

Robert Reich, Former United States Secretary of Labor

Nick Seaver, expert on the technology of algorithms

Andrew Thompson, freelance writer

Brent Huffman, director of "Saving Mes Aynak"

Marcy Wheeler, ndependent journalist focused on national security and civil liberties

Rich Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans

Cole Stangler, Staff Writer for the International Business Times

David Pakman, Host, The David Pakman Show

Robbie Hiltonsmith, Senior Policy Analyst, Demos

Jamie Henn, Co-Founder & Communications Director, 350.org

David Dayen, Contributing Writer, Salon

John "JP" Wright, Co-Chair, Railroad Workers United

Michelle Chen, Contributing Writer, The Nation

Becky Bond, Political Director, CREDO 

Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow, Media Matters for America 

Damon Silvers, Director of Policy and Special Counsel for the AFL-CIO

Janet Tavakoli, author of "Decisions: Life and Death on Wall Street"

Matt Krogh, Director, US Oil Campaign at ForestEthics

Sam Riddle on Baltimore Water Shutdowns