Richard talks with Maya Rockeymoore, President and CEO of Global Policy Solutions, a social policy consulting firm, about the environmental causes of the high rates of obesity among African-American women, and The Plan for a New Future, a proposal that would expand Social Security benefits. 

Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, came on the show to discuss what it means to both help elect Democrats and hold them accuntable for their actions, as well as what the Campaign for America's Future has in store for the Take Back the American Dream Conference on June 18-20 in Washington, DC.

Mike Konczal, financial policy whiz and author of the Rortybomb blog for the Next New Deal, talks with Richard about judging private equity on the merits, and the need for a new Glass-Steagall Act to reign in Wall Street.

Richard has an in-depth conversation with Nobel Prixe-winning economist and New York Times coumnist, Paul Krugman. Krugman says that the solutions ot our economic problems--massive fiscal and monetary stimulus--are obvious, but the political means to get us there are not. Despite all of our politicians' failures, Krugman is optimistic that the American people will demand change, and that this dark chapter too will pass.

Richard also talks about getting ejected from the Bank of America shareholders' conference in Charlotte, NC and shares some of his conversations with #Occupy protesters who joinedh im at the Bank of America convention.