After the meltdown, what next? We continue our discussion by featuring David Harvey and Alexander Cockburn on reinventing the neoliberal social order. At CUNY not long ago, these two independent thinkers sat down with Laura to discuss possibilities for real, radical change, and we have a special look at that for you.

How much control does the President really have, anyway? Americans voted for change and are getting frustrated with the lack of it, but our guests have both written about the powerful forces holding the status quo in place.

One week before Election Day, the special election to fill a vacant House seat in New York’s North Country is heating up. It's a three-way split, pitting a Republican, a Democrat, and a Conservative against one another. It's close.

Not only is Walmart the country's largest employer but it has the largest number of employees who receive Medicaid, food stamps and public assistance. Today the NYT reports that bi-partisan support is growing for tax credits for businesses that create new jobs. But what kind of jobs? Walmart jobs or jobs that pay real wages?

Nelson Lichtenstein, Pat O'Neill, Mark Moore, and Matt Ryan on Walmart's brave new world of business and its impact on working people.

Followed by an interview with Bethany Moreton, author of To Serve God and Walmart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise.

There’s more turmoil in the news business today than perhaps at any other time in recent history. Newspapers are sinking, old models are failing, and public trust in news media in general is declining. Yet the mainstream media are holding onto every last bit of power they have and that often means dismissing or marginalizing independent journalists, shying away from asking the questions that matter, and trading credibility for access.

World leaders from Hu Jintao to Barack Obama have pledged to take action on global climate change. But there seems to be little faith that an agreement of substance will be reached in Copenhagen later this year. So what are the politics of global climate change? And what's at stake? Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya on the UN deliberations and what can be expected at the climate summit

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, ROBERT JOHNSON, and BARRETT SHERIDAN on whether the worst is over. And if it is, what's to prevent another economic storm from happening again?