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Joshua Holland is joined by Elie Mystal, The Nation's justice correspondent, to talk about this week's confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. And then we get caught up on some good news about an important green energy initiative in New York by Jessica Azulay from Alliance for a Green Economy.

Joshua Holland is joined Have You Heard co-host Jennifer Berkshire for news about how a New Hampshire astroturf campaign against "critical race theory" fell flat. And then we speak with Jim Kessler about a new analysis which shows that the much-discussed spike in murders over the past couple of years has been more pronounced in GOP-leaning states

Joshua Holland is joined by Brian Grodsky to talk about the potential pitfalls inherent in the most punishing sanctions regime the world has ever pursued in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And then we welcome Jessica Mason Pieklo to take a bird's eye view of an alarming trend of red-state lawmakers pursuing an increasingly fascistic legislative agenda.

Joshua Holland welcomes Global Dispatches host Mark Leon Goldberg to talk about how Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Then we are joined by Muhlenberg College historian Jacqueline Antonovich who recently unearthed the largely forgotten history of the Ku Klux Klan's deep involvement with public healthcare in the 1920s.

Joshua Holland is joined by Heather Hurlburt, director of New America's New Models of Policy Change project, to talk about what caused Russia to invade Ukraine, what the consequences might be and how the shallow foreign policy discourse in the US does a poor job of informing Americans about the complex world in which we live.

Molly Minta tells host Joshua Holland about what a young conservative in one of America’s reddest states discovered when she actually looked into what Critical Race Theory is really about. And then economic writer Noah Berlatsky joins us to separate inflation fact from inflation fiction.

Ryan Grim, The Intercept's DC bureau chief, joins Joshua Holland to talk about the parallels between the police slaying of Amir Locke in Minnesota last week and the killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville two years ago. Then we talk to Grid Misinformation Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk about the far-right truckers laying siege to Ottawa.

Joshua Holland is joined by Eric Umansky, deputy managing editor at ProPublica. In 2019, Eric stumbled across a story when his family witnessed an incident in which some Black children were abused by the NYPD. Eric has followed the complaints that ensued for over two years, and he shares with us what he learned about police impunity in the process.

Joshua Holland is joined by Greg Sargent of the Washington Post to put the slew of vague, sloppily written gag orders that Republicans are passing across the country in order to whitewash history into a larger context.  And then Vice Senior Writer Tess Owen gives us insights from a massive leak of internal texts from the neofascist youth group Patriot Front.

Joshua Holland is joined by Marquette University political scientist Julia Azari to talk about the unique challenges Joe Biden has faced in the first year of his presidency. Then Lee Drutman explains why America's system of governance is poorly equipped to support a healthy, multiethnic democracy.