It’s probably the #1 American public health story of the decade – how tens of thousands of  White, middle-class Americans got addicted to opiate prescription pain killers and then illicit Mexican black tar heroin.  Sam Quinones told the story in his book DREAMLAND…he’s our guest today on HERE AND THERE.

Keeping democracy alive can be a difficult business.  Brookings Institution scholar Ted Piccone knows this better than most.  He wrote a new book about 5 key democracies on the rise, and by the time it was published the democratic characteristics of 2 of them were falling.  What happened in Brazil and Turkey?

It looked like it was going to be the biggest 4th Amendment fight in years, over whether the Constitution protected privacy against the determination of the FBI to force Apple to hack into the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone.  Then the FBI announced it found another way. Cyberwar expert Shane Harris of TheDailyBeast.com on Apple vs the FBI.

Countries in Europe have tried everything from fences and walls to temporary and more permanent refugee camps to stop the migration of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and Afghanistan to Europe.  Demetrios Papademetriou of the Migration Policy Institute on the crisis that is twisting Europe and testing the world.

The Federal Monitor guiding the reform of the Albuquerque Police Department asked for a new policy on dealing with civil disturbances.  He suggested the 140 page plan of the Metro PD in Washington, DC.  The Albuquerque PD turned in a page and a half.  Jeff Proctor of NMindepth.com on more reasons Monitor James Ginger is displeased.

What happens politically when the self-declared party of the left gives up on the working class?  It’s the same thing that happens when you remove one leg of a triangulation: collapse.  Thomas Frank, author of LISTEN, LIBERAL on the self-mutilation of the Democratic Party, the Bern and the Donald.

Today on HERE AND THERE,  It's called an "investigatory stop."  It's when police pull over a driver not because he or she has broken a traffic law, but because they want to investigate further.  It happens so disproportionately to minority drivers, Chuck Epp and his University of Kansas colleagues found, it feels and hurts and divides society like racial profiling.

New Mexicans like to jokingly call their state, the land of the flea and the home of the plague.  Richard Hamburg of the Trust for America’s Health on slowing federal investment in infectious diseases could affect containing plague HERE in NM and keeping Ebola THERE in West Africa.

The age of coal is coming to an end.  Big Companies like Peabody and Arch are going bankrupt, mines are closing down and miners are looking for new jobs.  The Federal Government has a program to help.  Maria Gallucci of the International Business Times looked at how the program is working in Ohio.

Poor Yemen, since Saudi Arabia and its allies started a war to restore their puppet President, 6000 people, at least half of them civilians have been killed, and the puppet is no closer to restoration. Now, there's talk of a cease-fire and a second try at a peace conference.  What are its chances?  Journalist and Yemen expert Adam Baron takes a look at the war, and the hopes for peace.