The AlterNet Radio Hour

This week, we speak with TNR's Alec Macgillis about the declining fortunes of the NRA.

Then Oliver Willis joins us to consider whether we'll ever reach "Peack Wingnut."

Finally, we speak with Heather "Digby" Parton about progressive ennui.

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This week, we speak with Jacobin Magazine founder Bhaskar Sunkara about his thought-provoking "Letter to the Nation from a Young Radical."

Then we're joined by Meredith Clark, web producer for UP with Steve Kornacki and Melissa Harris-Perry, about Obama's foreign policy speech.

Finally, we talk "gates" with Angry Black Lady Imani Gandy.

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This week on the AlterNet Radio Hour, Joshua Holland talks about Jason Collins' coming out with Dave Zirin, The Nation's 'radical sports writer.'

Then we're joined by Lee Fang, to discuss his new, must-read book, The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right.

Finally, Erik Loomis of Lawyers, Guns and Money talks to us about deadly workplaces, and the perverse rationale for their existence.

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This week, Anat Shenker-Osorio explains how a highly influential paper that's supported the drive for austerity turns out to have been deeply flawed.

Then Claudia Muñoz, a young undocumented immigrant, tells us about why she got herself detained by ICE.

Finally, Phan Nguyen fills us in on a victory for BDS supporters in a landmark legal case in Britain.

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This week on the AlterNet Radio Hour, Salon's Irin Carmon discusses the Kermit Gosnell trial -- and the anti-choice movement's reaction.

Then we're joined by Alex Main of the Center for Economic and Policy Research from Caracas to get us up to speed on last week's Venezuelan election.

Finally, Steve Rosenfeld talks to us about media coverage of Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon.

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This week, we speak with Nicole Woo from the Center for Economic and Policy Research about President Obama's decision to include "chained CPI" in his budget proposal.

Then we're joined by Guardian columnist Michael Cohen to bicker about the politics of it.

Finally, Daniel Aldrich, a Purdue political scientist on leave at the University of Tokyo, gets us up to speed on Japanese politics two years after the Fukushima Daichi nuclear disaster.

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This week, we speak to Ian Millhiser from the Center for American Progress about conservatives' confusion about the Constitution they claim to revere.

Then Oliver Willis joins us to recap the week's right-wing media freakouts.

Finally Khadija Britton explains Big Pharma's latest rip-off.

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This week on the AlterNet Radio Hour, James Galbraith, an economist at the University of Texas, helps us understand what's going on in Cyprus, and the Eurozone.

Then we speak with Chris Geidner of Buzzflash on Prop 8, and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The Supreme Court heard challenges to both this week.

Finally, we speak with Steven Mufson, energy reporter for the Washington Post, about the Keystone XL project and his new book, Keystone XL: Down the Line.

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This week on the AlterNet Radio Hour, syndicated columnist Tina Dupuy talks to Joshua Holland about efforts to rebrand the GOP after Republicans' fourth popular vote loss in the past five presidential elections.

Then we're joined by Raed Jarrar, who was on the receiving end of the American "shock and awe" attack on Baghdad. Jarrar explains why he won't be returning to Iraq as he had hoped to ten years ago.

Finally, we speak with Isaiah Poole, a fellow at Campaign for America's Future, about the Ryan Roadmap and the Congressional Progressive Caucus' "Back to Work" budget -- two starkly different visions for the country's future.

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We have a terrific show this week -- it's kind of a theme show!

First up is Mijin Cha, a sernior analyst at Demos, discussing a recent report titled, "Stacked Deck:  How the Dominance of Politics by the Affluent and Business Undermines Economic Mobility in America." (Our own Joshua Holland also wrote about it over on the front page.)

Then we speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston about his latest book, The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind.

Finally, we're joined by Jonathan Caverley, a former sumbariner and now an assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University, about his fascinating new study (PDF), which suggests that rising inequality may make democracies meaner, more militaristic and less likely to pursue diplomatic solutions to international conflicts.

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