Thom talks with a caller about the possibility of the Golden State creating it’s own bank, and using the money to fund projects like the high speed rail recently torpedoed by the Trump...
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Thom covers Bannon’s recent comments on the “deconstruction of the administrative state”, in other words, the mechanism that actually make government work. Clean air and water, public schools? Nope. More profits for billionaires?...
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Thom chats with Howard Epstein (British Historian, Attorney, and Author of “Guns, Trauma, and Exceptionalism: American in the Twenty First Century”) about some of the underlying reasons for America’s very unique gun violence problem, and some of the solutions we could try to solve...
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Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins joins The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss the new EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, and his history of suing the agency he’s now...
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Larry Cohen, Our Revolution/Democracy Initiative. Republicans realize the political imperative of having an “enemy,” and have settled on Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. The first such Democrat to be targeted this way is Florida Senator Ben Nelson – the subject of a brand new set of NRSC-branded Facebook ads that attack him for voting with Senator Elizabeth Warren “92 percent of the time. It’s pretty obvious what Republicans are trying to do here. They think there’s a real possibility that Elizabeth Warren could run for president in 2020, and pull a full-out populist Bernie and win the White House, and...
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