The Hartmann Report

A major new study by Citigroup quantifies how much money the economy is losing due to anti-black discrimination. Economist Richard Wolff considers the real cost of racism in the United States.Plus- Why don't cops have to carry insurance?.. And are the ethno-staters persuadable or will they fall in line with Trump's fascism?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Thomas Paine referred to the vote as the beating heart of democracy. Donald Trump is trying to rip that heart out of our republic.Does Ron DeSantos want to make it legal in Florida to hit left-wing protestors with cars? Nikki Fried, the elected Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services joins Thom with the story.Plus- in confronting genocide how can we avoid becoming the genocider?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Popular Information's Judd Legum takes a deep dive with Thom looking at the QAnon cult- how many people believe this stuff, and why? Could it be another step towards American fascism?And as Trump considers adding another conservative Catholic to the Supreme Court, should we be concerned about the dominance of Catholics on the court?- Is this the work of a cult or cults within Catholicism that want to impose their views on the world?What is really at risk in our lives if a conservative court majority takes power for many years to come? And more immediately, why is Trump talking about 'judges looking at ballots'?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Anthony Fauci has warned us once again that Covid may surge again in the Fall. And yet Donald Trump said in a rally that the coronavirus, “Affects virtually nobody.“ Apparently “virtually nobody” means 200,000 dead Americans, ranging in age from the elderly to infants. The one thing he definitely appears to have noticed is that this virus most easily kills elderly Social Security voters and Black and Brown people. Is Trump's strategy a kind of genocide?And as Trump tells Minnesotans they have good genes, and praised Robert E. Lee, and as we find out government doctors are conducting mass hysterectomies and guards are raping women in Trump's border prisons-- is all of this a part of an ugly fascist policy of racism? Will we wake up before it's too late?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A hard-right Supreme Court nominee could completely alter life as we know it. Ruth Bader Ginsberg has died, and the nation mourns. While everybody is focusing on abortion, the Supreme Court, if it falls into hard-core conservative hands, could actually do massive damage to the entire spectrum of life in America. Could everything from Social Security to Medicaid to minimum wage laws be threatened?Conservatives don’t just want to take America back to the 1950s; they want to take us back to the 1920s. We all must encourage Democratic members of Congress to do everything possible to hold the line against Trump putting another radical right-winger on the Supreme Court.Alphonso David of the Human Rights Campaign joins Thom on what's at stake on the Supreme Court for LGBTQ freedoms and marriage equality. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hiding coronavirus numbers and masking the facts seems to be the Trump administration's plan in shirking responsibility for the lethal epidemic. Donald Trump's plan to use the already failed strategy of herd immunity might run into a big problem -- herd immunity doesn't really work how he thinks he does, and millions could be lost before this is over.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump works to make the oligarchs- and especially himself- rich. As the author of 'Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America", Sarah Kendior, joins Thom.. how far has Trump gone in ignoring the interests of the common American in favor of the very rich, or even of organized crime?And, Lisa Graves of True North research has been diving into the records of our pro-Trump Postmaster General. Did he steal his brother's mail in order to steal some of his brother's assets? Did donating more than half a million dollars to Trump's campaign help him get the job?Plus- Why do we keep halfway believing much of what Trump says?.. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Is Mike Pompeo planning to begin seizing Iranian ships to egg on a war to help get Trump re-elected? Dr. Trita Parsi has the story. Are Trump and Barr conspiring to foul up the election so that it can be decided according to the 12th amendment by the states where Republicans have a solid majority? Did Trump just admit as much? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump's new "herd mentality" strategy for dealing with the corona virus is beyond incompetent: its evil. Trump's latest failure could kill 6 million Americans.Adrian Shelley, Director of Public Citizen Texas joins Thom on the hazards of methane pollution and wasted energy under Trump's rollback regulations.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump refuses to take responsibility for doing nothing to stop climate change that is leading to things like the massive fires on the west coast. Conservatives try to claim that environmentalists are to blame, but is it really more to do with clear-cutting by timber companies? Is it possible to harvest trees profitably without clear cutting in a way that makes the forest more fire-resistant?And did Trump undermine the existing Forest Service regulations that were helping to limit the fires? Plus- good ideas and bad ideas for filtering air... and the #1 thing we must do in November to fight climate change.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.