This week's episode features a discussion about technology, democracy and the public sphere with Ali Velshi, the MSNBC Anchor of the show named after him and an NBC Correspondent; Karen Kornbluh, director of the German Marshall Fund’s Digital Innovation Democracy Initiative; and Emily Bell, Founding Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. Plus, we talk about news at the intersection of technology and policy with Bryan Jones and Romi Geller.