Sam hosts Dr. Paul Farmer to discuss his new book, Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History, and how colonialism’s legacy damages our ability to fight infectious disease. Sam and Dr. Farmer discuss the history of epidemics in the global south and how the coronavirus pandemic response in America has shown the west’s […]

Smart Floridians want to secede because of the climate crisis, Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo enforce obscene Ebola quarantine policies, was the Cuomo Christie press conference the worst thing ever? Nurse quarantined in New Jersey in violation of her human rights, another school shooting, what’s at stake in the 2014 election and how the 2014 […]

Chris Christie is sick of hearing about the minimum wage, he is lying and disgusting, a new video explains the “problems with Sam Seder”, proving that Sam is Jewish, Progressives United Political Director Josh Orton explains why Scott Walker might get upset in Wisconsin, Republican leader says that some Wisconsin voters will vote against Scott […]

Huffington Post Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim explains the story of Gary Webb the reporter who broke the CIA/Contra Cocaine dealing story,  John Kerry’s role in exposing drug running, how the CIA loosened rules on reporting drug running, how the CIA created the Contras, Freeway Rick Ross and the Crack explosion, the mainstream media and […]

Citizen Radio co-hosts and co-authors of Newsfail  Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny explain what inspired their book, why Allison quit the Nation, diversity and progressive media, who Jamie and Allison read, the problems with Jon Stewart and the Daily Show, debating Stephen Colbert, why MSNBC is losing viewers, the future of online news, supporting values instead of teams, the […]

Political strategist Cliff Schecter remembers Sam’s role in Spin City, Fox News anchor says we can’t trust Africans to get treatment fro Ebola because they go to “witch doctors”, why the mid term elections matter, the implications of a Republican controlled Senate, the Senate race in South Dakota, Harry Reid and Tom Daschle feud, how […]

The largest day of airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, why the White House is waving its own rules on civilian casualties, the death toll in Iraq and Syria, who is profiting from the new Middle East war, Iraqi Army drops ammo and food for ISIS fighters by mistake, new stunning Secret Service failures, Laura Ingraham […]

Cliff Schecter explains the outbreak of Ebola, the policy failures of the United States in public health and infrastructure, why neo-liberalism is endangering our public health, Congress fails to act on the humanitarian crisis at the border, the Republicans attack on child refugees, why Republicans are pushing impeachment and Democrats can take advantage of them […]