In Deep With Angie Coiro: Interviews

Show #79 Hour 1 | Guests: Dave Johnson / OurFuture.org, Joan McCarter / Daily Kos, Josh Holland / Politics and Reality Radio | Show Summary: The US government has reopened its doors. How did the shutdown come to be? What have we learned from it? Dave Johnson (senior fellow at The Campaign for America's Future), Joan McCarter (Senior Political Writer at The Daily Kos), and Joshua Holland (host of Politics and Reality Radio and senior digital producer at BillMoyers.com) let you know.

Show #78 Hour 2 | Guests: Steve Jimenez / The Book of Matt | Show Summary: The story of Matthew Shepard being killed by bigots simply for being gay is the stuff of modern myth. What if the story was more complex than that? Steve Jimenez, author of The Book of Matt joins Angie to discuss information that he believes complicates our understanding of what happened on October 12, 1998.

Show #78 Hour 1 | Guests: Brendan Fischer / Center for Media and Democacy, Sabrina Joy Stevens | Show Summary: For decades, Americans have viewed our education system as a common good. Recently some groups have turned it into a profit center. Brendan Fischer (General Council at the Center for Media and Democracy) and Sabrina Joy Stevens (an education activist and former fourth-grade teacher) discuss this trend.

Show #77 Hour 2 | Guests: Ginger Murray / Whore! Magazine | Show Summary: Whore! Magazine editor in chief Ginger Murray sits down with Angie to talk about the definition of feminism, her experience running an artisanal magazine, and more.

Show #77 Hour 1 | Guests: Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica, Parker Higgins / EFF | Show Summary: The government may have shutdown, but that doesn't mean they've stopped spying on you. Cyrus Farivar (Senior Business Editor at Ars Technica) and Parker Higgins (Activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation) get you caught up with the latest revelations about domestic spying.

Show #76 Hour 1 | Guests: Wendy Melillo / American University | Show Summary:

Show #75 Hour 2 | Guests: Sam Daley-Harris / Reclaiming Our Democracy, and, RESULTS | Show Summary:

Show #75 Hour 1 | Guests: Gaius Publius / AmericaBlog, Blaine Rummel / In The Public Interest | Show Summary: Should your government's services line the pockets of corporate fatcats? Gaius Publius (contributing editor, AMERICAblog) and Blaine Rummel (Senior Strategist, In The Public Interest Action Fund) say no.

Show #74 Hour 2 | Guests: Richard Eskow / Huffington Post, Kevin Whelan, Morris LeGrande | Show Summary:

Show #74 Hour 1 | Guests: Sarah Jaffe / Alternet, Josh Edelson / The Nation, Bob Simpson / Daily Kos | Show Summary:

Show #73 Hour 2 | Guests: Mark Leibovich / The New York Times | Show Summary: The New York Times Magazine's Chief National Correspondent Mark Leibovich takes Angie inside the world of This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America's Gilded Capital and exposes the lifestyles of the rich and connected.

Show #73 Hour 1 | Guests: Joshua Holland / Politics and Reality Radio, Raf Rivera / writer, activist, and strategist | Show Summary: Angie is joined by Joshua Holland, host of Politics and Reality Radio and Senior Digital Producer for Moyers and Company, as well as writer, activist, and strategist Raf Rivera to sort out truth from spin in the Syria conflict. Plus, Gottalaff and her corkscrew view of the news.

Show #72 Hour 1 | Guest: Graham Rayman of The Village Voice | Show Summary: Adrian Schoolcraft blew the whistle on the NYPD. For his trouble they had him suspended and put into a mental ward. The NYPD Tapes author Graham Rayman joins Angie to talk about this and the other abuses of power that make the department like less Andy Sipowicz and more like Dudley Smith. Plus, as always, Angie's demented sidekick Buttercup joins us to share her skewed view of the news.

Show #71 Hour 2 | Guests: Jo Ellen Green Kaiser of The Media Consortium, Rachele Kanigel of San Francisco State University, David Cohn of Circa and Spot.us. | Show Summary: Angie sits down with a panel of experts to chart out the new path towards making a living from making the news. Jo Ellen Green Kaiser is executive director of The Media Consortium, Rachele Kanigel is an associate professor of journalism at SF State as well as the acting director of their Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism, and David Cohn has first-hand knowledge of new ways to fund journalism as director of news at Circa and founder of the journalistic crowd funding platform Spot.us.

Show #71 Hour 1 | Guests: ZenMagnets.com founder Shihan Qu, Walter Olson of the Cato Institute, Scott Wolfson of CPSC. | Show Summary: The Consumer Product Safety Commission's action against the maker of Buckyballs has raised questions about when safety regulations are appropriate and when they may not be. We start the hour with an interview with ZenMagnets.com founder Shihan Qu before moving into a panel with Walter Olson, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and Scott Wolfson, communications director at the CPSC. Plus, you get another dose of GottaLaff's corkscrew view of the news.

Show #45 Hour 2 | Guests: Nancy Ammerman of Boston University, Marc Owens of Caplin and Drysdale, Reverend Barry Lynn, and Dan Barker of the Freedom from Religion Foundation | Show Summary: In this hour, Boston University Professor of Sociology, Nancy Ammerman explains the difference between churches and cults. Marc Owens, partner at Caplin and Drysdale explains their tax exemption. Reverend Barry Lynn talks about Americans United's fight to revoke their exemption and Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation details other ways to make churches pay their fair share. Plus, our demented sidwkick Laffy, is back from her break and at the top of the hour once again.

Show #45 Hour 1 | Guests: Steve Early, Raymond Bravo of OUR Walmart, Harold Miller of the New York Communities for Change | Show Summary: What do Wal-Mart, Twinkies and the state of Michigan have in common? Union activist and author Steve Early is in studio this hour to join Angie in a rotating panel on union activity in the news. First, Raymond Bravo, a Walmart worker who protested on Black Friday, talks about OUR Walmart, worker intimidation and what exactly went on during the protest. Then Harold Miller of the New York Communities for Change joins by phone to explain the fast food strikes in New York and the community response. Plus, our demented sidekick Buttercup shares her corkscrew views on Sheldon Adelson's crusade against unions, ACORN's rise from the dead to steal the election, and Paul Ryan's rally violation.

Show #44 Hour 1 | Guests: Tom Philpott of Mother Jones Magazine, Paul Towers of the Pesticide Action Network, Gideon Forman of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, and Todd Paglia of Forest Ethics | Show Summary: Paul Towers Organizing and Media Director of Pesticide Action Network North America and Tom Philpott writter for Mother Jones sit down with Angie for a panel discussion on pesticides and bees. Gideon Forman Executive Director of Canadian Association of Physicans for the Environment joins Angie to discuss Ontario banning pesticides. In our Blogger Spotlight Todd Paglia Executive Director of Forest Ethics stops by to talk about greenwashing.

Show #43 Hour 1 | Guests: Jessica Yu, Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute, Anat Shenker-Osorio | Show Summary: Academy Award winning director Jessica Yu talks to Angie about her documentary "Last Call at the Oasis" and how to spread the word about water conservation without raising panic. Water specialist Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute joins Angie in studio for a discussion about the bottled water phenomenon, how prepared water treatment plants are to handle contaminants and if extreme weather can really be tied to climate change. And Anat Shenker-Osorio unpacks the language surrounding the Hostess shutdown and the way unions and laborers are linguistically portrayed.

Show #42 Hour 1 | Guests: Dave Johnson of the Campaign for America's Future, Sara Robinson of the Campaign for America's Future | Show Summary: Dave Johnson and Sara Robinson of the Campaign for America's Future join Angie this hour for a panel discussion. What is the "fiscal cliff" and should we really be afraid of falling off of it? Middle class populism may have won the election, but what can we learn about buying elections from this November? Will Obama "govern from the left" this term? And Angie's demented sidekick Buttercup asks, "What's wrong with that Republican?" as they discuss Charlie Webster and Maine's mystery black voters, the most diverse congress ever and "the angriest white guy of all" John McCain's run in with CNN.