The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow

Tom Crawford, Western Region Vice President for Local 13000 of the Communication Workers of America, on the Verizon Strike (Starts at 5:55)

Historian Johnny Smith on his new book, Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. (Starts at 20:15)

Young voter Samantha Silverman on how her recent experiences in Nevada soured her on the Democratic Party. (Starts at 20:15)

Michael Hiltzik, Pulitzer Prize-winning LA Times columnist, on why Charles P. Blahous III should not be renominated as a Social Security Public Trustee. (Starts at 3:25)

Jenn Stanley, producer and host of the new storytelling podcast Choice/Less which delivers personal stories about reproductive injustice, and the laws that put people in choice-less situations. (Starts at 20:15)

David Dayen, author of the new book Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud (starts at 6:21)

May Boeve - Executive Director of 350.org, an international climate change campaign on Break Free, a two-week global wave of action to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground (Starts at 20:15)

Litigation reporter Alison Frankel on the dark art of corporate secrecy in court (starts at 3:20)

Huffington Post reporter Daniel Marans on Puerto Rico's debt crisis (starts at 20:15)

Sarah Spain - SportsCenter Reporter for ESPN on her new video with Julie DiCaro, #MoreThanMean, which features the nasty, bigoted things men say to women reporters on social media. (Starts at 20:15)

Lisa Esposito, Patient Advice reporter at U.S. News & World Report, on the countless ways poverty affects people's health. (Starts at 11:35)

Paul Loeb, founder of the national nonpartisan Campus Election Engagement Project, on why youth voter turnout is at a record low - and what can be done to change that. (Starts at 20:15)

Helen Davis Chaitman on her new book, JP Madoff: The

Lynn Parramore, contributing editor at AlterNet, on why she

Ari Rabin-Havt, host of The Agenda, on his recently-released

Lisa Graves, Executive Director of the Center for Media and