The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow

Ryan Cooper, national correspondent at TheWeek.com, on Paul Ryan's plan to gut Medicare

Becky Bond & Zack Exley, co-authors of the new book Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything

 

Direct download: TZH_12-31-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

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_12-31-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Investigative journalist David Dayen discusses his book Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud 

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

The Zero Hour is on a holiday break this week, so we've compiled "best of" content from our recent shows.

 

Direct download: TZH_12_24_16_H3_PODCAST.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour is on a holiday break this week so we've compiled "best of" content from our recent shows.

 

Direct download: TZH_12-24-16_H2_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

The Zero Hour is on a holiday break this week so we've compiled "best of" content from our recent shows.

 

Direct download: TZH_12-24-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

Olga Brudastova, PhD student in Civil Engineering at Columbia and an organizer with GWC-UAW Local 2110, on the fight to form grad student unions (5:40)

Marcy Wheeler, independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties, shares her thoughts on Clinton, Russia, and the CIA (20:15)

 

Direct download: TZH_12-17-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

David Dayen, author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud, on how Obama Failed to Mitigate America's Foreclosure Crisis (4:45)

Robert Fluegge, Senior researcher on the report The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940 (20:15)

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

Celinda Lake, President of Lake Research Partners, on how the 2016 election disaster happened (20:15)

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

Stephen Miles, advocacy director for Win Without War, on Trump's cabinet full of generals

David Neiwert, senior editor of Crooks and Liars, on why powerful conservatives are promoting "Pizzagate" conspiracy theories - even after they led to violence. 

Direct download: TZH_12-10-16_H3_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 3:00pm EDT

Sarah Anderson, co-editor of Inequality.org at the Institute for Policy Studies

Jon Bauman, best known as "Bowzer," formerly of Sha Na Na and co-founder of Senior Votes Count, a PAC that focuses on senior issues.

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

Greg Grey Cloud, enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe and one of the leaders of the #NoDAPL protests. 

Direct download: TZH_12-10-16_H1_Podcast.mp3
Category:Politics -- posted at: 1:00pm EDT

This hour John Feffer demonstrates that politicians like Donald Trump aren't that uncommon if you just look to Europe. And later, Yannet Lathrop, Researcher and Policy Analyst at National Employment Law Project, discusses her group's new report on the massive impact on worker pay the Fight for 15 has achieved.

Direct download: TZH_12_03_16_H3_PODCAST.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:00am EDT

This hour we're joined by Sarah Sorscher, an attorney with Public Citizen's Health Research Group, about the 21st Century Cures Act. Later, we speak with Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law School, about his new book The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads.  

Direct download: TZH_12_03_16_H2_PODCAST.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:00am EDT

We break down the news of the week, then talk to Jessica Jackson Sloan, National Director and Co-Founder of #cut50, about the need to slash in half the number of people in prison. 

Direct download: TZH_12_03_16_H1_PODCAST.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:00am EDT

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