More than 5 million have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and rape and violence against women are so common that it’s been called femicide–genocide against women. What can we here in the U.S. do about it? Joining us live to discuss are Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day and the activist behind [...]

Live today: Is Congress going to “opt-out” of real health care reform, or is the so-called opt-out provision a worthy compromise for progressives who’ve already compromised just to get to discussion of a public option? We’ll have Adam Thompson of the Progressive States Network, Paul Waldman from The American Prospect, and Representative Raul Grijalva, Co-Chair [...]

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.

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

Van Jones — a man with a long record of community organizing around jobs, jails and the environment and the author of a best-selling book “The Green Collar Economy,” and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.

August was a dark month, so to speak, for advocates of healthcare reform—public option or single payer. Where were the activists? And what’s the message?

Marshall Ganz, a long time organizer and lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government,Maggie Mahar, the author of Money Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Healthcare Costs So Much, and Nina Agrawal, Director of Community Outreach for National Physicians Alliance in NY on what needs to be

In an explosive report published yesterday on the Nation website, investigative reporter JEREMY SCAHILL reveals that Blackwater founder Erik Prince has been implicated in murder, viewed himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims from the globe, and that the company smuggled weapons into Iraq. Will he face charges?

One of the proposals to pay for healthcare reform was to impose an income tax surcharge on families earning more than $350,000. Under pressure from congress, that number has now gone up to $1,000,000 for families and $500,000 for individuals. But does it stand a chance against the conservatives’ anti-tax fantasy?

Bank of America workers have leveled damning accusations against their employer, claiming that the Bank pressures its employees to burden consumers with debt and enroll in high fee programs. The SEIU’s Stephen Lerner, Former BoA employee Chris Feener, and Max Fraad Wold on the bank’s unsavory practices.